The Apocalypse in Nahum.

Nahum saw Israel oppressed by Nineveh; and predicted its over­throw, because its monarch was wicked, and imagined evil against Jehovah. But Israel’s deliverance from the Assyrian by the fall of Nineveh was only the type of a greater deliverance at the apocalypse of Messiah. The prophet, therefore, looking forward to this, concerning which Micah’s testimony is already before the reader, says, “Behold upon the mountains the feet of Him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows; for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off’— ch. 1 : 15. This must be future, because the wicked are not yet cut off, but are in possession of the Holy Land.