thisisfoster (@thisisfoster)

Our God is a jealous God. Nahum 1 says: "A jealous and avenging God is the Lord; The Lord is avenging and [b]wrathful. The Lord takes vengeance on His adversaries, And He reserves wrath for His enemies." This is at the core of the first two of the ten commandments In Exodus 20, God says: “You shall have no other gods before me...You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God..." All attributes of God are praiseworthy. And that is hard for us because we only think of jealously in negative terms. But it can be a positive attribute... a good thing. God’s jealousy is of the sort which fervently protects a love-relationship and will avenges it when it is broken. Husbands and wives, you get this right? Would you not be disgusted by a man or woman who is at ease with their spouse cheating on them with another? It’s right to be jealous for the love of the one who has vowed to be yours. Throughout His word, God presents of idolatry and covenant-breaking through the lens of spiritual adultery and vow-breaking. God, as in the God of Bible, is the only God. There is no other. Worshipping any other is idolatry. And this idolatry is made all the worse when it involves the breaking of a covenant. It is one thing to have sex outside of marriage. It’s entirely another to have sex with someone besides your spouse when married. Nineveh broke its vow and now will face the vengeance of God. This is justice.