This harlot Nahum tells about is said to "sell nations through her whoredores, and families through her witchcrafts." Certainly she is well-favoured as she accomplishes her devious designs. The reference is to Nineveh, that great city of evil. But who can deny that it is akin to "Babylon the great, the mother of harlots" (Rev. 17:5)? This woman is "drunken with the blood of the saints" (v.6). Here is the abominable religion of man as it is today and has always been, the deifying of the human will.

The Lord God speaks to this harlot, "Behold I am against thee. I will cast abominable filth upon thee" (vv 5,6). One of the clearest marks of harlot religion is found in v. 13. "Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women." If women of today would take their honorable place that God has given them, that of "Keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the Word of God be not blasphemed," this vile harlotry would largely disappear. When the women "learn in silence with all subjection" (1 Tim.2:11) it will help get rid of this harlot.

Then if the false prophets, the great successful mega-church builders could be swallowed up in a pit somewhere, it would greatly diminish the size of this "well-favoured harlot," and stop this making merchandise of souls (2 Peter 2:3).

Yes, we do look forward to that day when our God will "set thee as a gazingstock. And all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee" (Nahum 3:6,7). Now this whore is well-favoured, huge, impressive. But the day hastens when "their place is not known where they are" (v.17).

Good-bye well-favoured harlot. And good riddance.