June 2, 2023
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Reading along with us in Habakkuk? Here’s today’s reading:
Habakkuk 2 (NIV)
1 I will stand at my watch
and station myself on the ramparts;
I will look to see what he will say to me,
and what answer I am to give to this complaint.
The Lord’s Answer
2 Then the Lord replied:
“Write down the revelation
and make it plain on tablets
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What a cool opportunity Habakkuk is to hear the back and forth between he and God. I love God’s reply here to in essence stop your worrying, I got this! God has no intention of letting the evil go unpunished but rather in His time and His plan He will address the Babylonians sins. Their sins of greed, violence, drunkenness, and idolatry. These things have not and will not go unnoticed by God and He will bring judgement on them and all of us if these are the ways we choose instead of His perfect ways.
Habukkuk 2
So much to envision from Habakkuk 2, many disjointed statements, but generally, a tale of woeful peoples living very wicked lives.
2:4 memory verse, good to refresh it. Speaks to me that grace through our faith has always been the way to salvation, from Adam to present. Before, during and after the Law, God has wanted a tabernacle inside us where He can dwell. Isaiah 66.
Praise God for His mercy! -gy
So Habakkuk waits for a reply from God and he receives it. The main point, the righteous live by faith (v4) whether it is not knowing what God is doing or why He is doing it or seeing evil people apparently getting away with things…we can be still and know that He is God. Trusting in that is the key. Because God will always address the injustice and evil of the world. He has set down the principles of how He desires we treat each other and is there with correction when humankind defies it. Everyone will discover in the end that getting ahead by taking advantage of others will not work. It is best to follow the dictates that God lays down and it is down right silly to follow an idol. How ridiculous to take something you have made and then worship it or think that has wisdom to guide us. How good to have access to the person, power and guidance of our God in heaven….
Habakkuk 2
God answered Habakkuk and told him to write the vision down for people to read. God said the vision is for an appointed time. The scripture seems to speak not only the years that the Chaldeans conquer over a few years but also future events. For in verses 14 and 20 it seems to speak of the end times. [ Verse 14 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.] [ verse 20 But the Lord is in His holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before Him]. Sounds like the 1,000 reign to me. Unless I am mistaken. But scripture does this alot with prophesies. The other main verse of scripture is verse 4b. [ but the just shall live by his faith]. This is a verse that Paul brings up in his teaching when he is preaching about faith in Christ. That is faith in Christ that saves a person not works. [ Ephesians 2;8,9] And in so many of his epistles including the book of Galatians. Then when Martin Luther broke away from the catholic church this scripture was revealed to him by God. [ but the just shall live by his faith.] There was so much more that was revealed to him but this was a key verse. Because he sought the truth of God`s Word and not traditions of men. He realized that God`s Word was written for the common people not just for the priests. This is the same reason that we as believers should be reading and studying God`s Word. Also need to hear God`s Word through teaching and preaching. I thank God again for our church ; the pastor and our leaders. God bless everyone.
“Behold the proud,
His soul is not upright in him;
But the just shall live by his faith.
The proud are plundering the earth for their own wicked gain.
I like when we encounter the explanation of man’s relationship with God by faith in the old testament. It has always been by faith. Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness. Moses was faithful in all God’s house. Hebrews 11 reviews the faithful throughout generations. They live by faith, even though they didn’t live to see what they were faithful for.
God tells Habakkuk – “wait for it, it will surely come.”
“For the vision is yet for an appointed time;
But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie.
Though it tarries, wait for it;
Because it will surely come,
It will not tarry.”
It feels like the Lord is tarrying to us, but I do not doubt that it will come! That He will come!
Habakkuk is given an encouraging word from the Lord. In God’s perfect timing, the Babylonians will be destroyed. He stresses that this revelation is true, it will happen so wait for it, for when it comes it will come quickly. Even though the wicked are proud of their ways, the righteous person will live by his faithfulness. This is how we are all to live despite the goings on of the evil people of this world. For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed—a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” Romans 1:17