English Romantic painter John Martin - is known for his apocalyptic landscapes depicting the destruction of civilizations In these fantastic scenes humans are overwhelmed by the magnitude of the destruction and powerless against the approaching doom One painting The Fall of Nineveh depicts people fleeing the coming destruction of mounting waves under dark rolling clouds nbsp More than two thousand years before Martin rsquo s painting the prophet Nahum prophesied against Nineveh foretelling its judgment The prophet used images of mountains quaking hills melting and the earth trembling Nahum to symbolize God rsquo s wrath on those who rsquo d
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