Jonah's Dream Job

Nahum

Like Jonah, Nahum prophesies about Ninevah, but unlike Jonah, Nahum was able to prophesy their demise... like Jonah wanted to do. Ninevah was the capital of the Assyrian empire in the time of Sennacherib and Nahum's message to Ninevah was that it would cease to exist. True to his word, Ninevah was overtaken by the Medes and razed to the ground... this was exactly the message that Jonah longed to preach, but the Lord still had plans for Assyria in bringing Israel back to Him, so this message had to wait for Nahum.