Last time we mention Nineveh ,and that God was going to judge them,for their wickedness, they conquered many nations among them the northern kingdom Israel.This had been a judgement on the northern kingdom of Israel for their sinfulness.But as Gordon Brown writes,' God uses Assyria to discipline Israel but she exceeded the mandate God gave her and acted with greed and arrogance'. The fact is they were an exceeding cruel people showing no mercy on those they conquered, a Julia Woods writes about an Assyrian relief showing,'bodies impaled on sticks,tongues being cut out,people being led out by lip rings,heads being piled up,dismembered bodies with scattered limbs and severed heads serving as ornamental decorations on walls and structures and totem poles made of human heads'. One Assyrian king boasted,'3000 captives I burned with fire....from some I cut off their hands and their fingers.from others I cut of their noses,their ears and their fingers. of many I put out their eyes'. They were also involved in witchcraft and the occult, all of these these things made them ripe for judgement. Julia Woods further comments,'Atrocities committed in the name of a nation appears to bring judgement on the whole nation'.The more I read history the more convinced I am of mankind's fallen nature,and the more convinced I am, of mankind's need of a Saviour called Jesus.
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