All of this is prophecied beforehand by Nahum. And it serves as comfort to Judah. A few years back, when Romania was still under communist rule, a Christian pastor there commented on the favorite book of the Bible for his people. It was Revelation . They loved the book of Revelation because, he said, it was written by John, pastor of the church in Ephesus, when he was exiled.
Romanian christians know what it is to be exiled and imprisoned.
They suffer as the early Christians suffer. Desperately abused and subjected to cruelty. They read Revelation and hear the clear message God is God, and He is committed to seeing that good is ultimately rewarded. He is committed personally to seeing that evil will not finally triumph. This, said the Romanian pastor, is very different from how you North American christians look at Revelation .