Jehovah Nakah

Amos 5:15 Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in

the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts

will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph.

God hates sin because He is holy

Ezekiel 7:1-9

The word “smiteth” means to slay,

strike, or to kill.

I. Jehovah-Nakah reveals God’s severity and

judgement upon sin.

Eph 4:26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the

sun go down upon your wrath:

Isaiah 1:4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a

seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have

forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away

backward.

A. God blesses for obedience and chastises

for disobedience

Deuteronomy 28:1-2 / 15-22 / 27-28

B. God hates the sin of idolatry to the point of

anger

I Kings 14:15

C. Israel was smitten for not harkening to the

voice of God

Leviticus 26: 14, 18, 21, 24, 27, 28

II. Jehovah-Nakah never smites until his mercy and longsuffering are

exhausted

A. God will judge but He is patient and

longsuffering with man

2 Peter 3:8-11

B. God will not always tolerate man’s

wickedness

Gen 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an

hundred and twenty years.

Gen 6:12 And God looked upon the earth,

and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon

the earth.

Gen 6:13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them;

and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

C. God smote the Egyptians because of Pharoah’s stubborn

heart

Exo 3:20 And I will stretch out my hand, and smite Egypt with all my wonders which I will do

in the midst thereof: and after that he will let you

go.

III. Jehovah-Nakah is to be greatly feared by

those who walk contrary to His word

A. The Lord chastises His people for their own

good

Hebrews 12:6-11

B. He does not chastise the unsaved when His

longsuffering is exhausted but rather

punishes

Ephesians 1:7-9

Rev 19:15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of

iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and

wrath of Almighty God.

God chastises His people, but punishes the

unsaved.

Micah 7:18 Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth

iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of

his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he

delighteth in mercy.