A Nation and a people given over to sexual sins and abominations are governed by this spirit of harlotry. Look at Nahum 3:4 “Because of the multitude of harlotries of the seductive harlot, the mistress of sorceries, who sells nations through her harlotries, and families through her sorceries.”
Nations and families are sold into spiritual bondage by the witchcraft of the spirit of harlotry. When we play around with sexual sin, we open ourselves to this demonic spirit. We must battle this principality that dominates our nation's.
Are you better than No Amon That was situated by the River, That had the waters around her, Whose rampart was the sea, Whose wall was the sea?
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, And it was boundless; Put and Lubim were your helpers. Yet she was carried away, She went into captivity; Her young children also were dashed to pieces At the head of every street; They cast lots for her honorable men, And all her great men were bound in chains. (Nahum 3:8-10)
Thebes was captured by the Assyrians in 663 BC. The fathers of these very Ninevites had descended on her and destroyed her, even though she was a great city, protected by surrounding water and strong walls, and had powerful allies. Her king was Sudanese, who at this time ruled Egypt. Yes, Nineveh had destroyed her, and taken away her finest people into captivity (a particularly nasty trait of the Assyrians and Babylonians), and had slaughtered her innocent children, and had made slaves of her nobles and had bound in chains her finest warriors.
And now what she had done to Thebes was to be done to her. She too would be shamed. And why should she see herself as any different? We must remember that how we treat others is the measure by which we should expect to be treated.
Sleepy Leaders
Your shepherd's slumber, O king of Assyria;
Your nobles rest in the dust.
Your people are scattered on the mountains, (Nahum 3:18)
Because the shepherds slumber, the people are scattered on the mountains