Habakkuk For Today
Chapters 1 to 3
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Towards the end of the seventh century Habakkuk was active in JUDAH. His book is unique as a dialogue between the prophet and God. Habakkuk observes the injustice prevailing in Judah and wonders how a just God could tolerate such evil. When told that the godless Chaldeans will invade Judah, the prophet is again perplexed. This heathen nation will ultimately be destroyed and God's people will prosper. Habakkuk concludes with a prayer of praise (From my old KJV Study Bible). I HAVE SHOUTED STRONG AND CLEAR ON MY WEBSITE AND BLOG THAT ANOTHER HOLOCAUST IS COMING ON JUDAH, THE JEWS, BUT THIS TIME AROUND, THE BRITISH NATIONS AND THE USA WILL BE PART OF THAT HOLOCAUST! THE BEAST BABYLON OF EUROPE WITH THE WOMAN WHORE CHURCH THAT RIDES IT, SHALL PREVAIL OVER THE PEOPLES OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH, AS IS FORETOLD IN MANY PASSAGES OF THE PROPHETS. BUT ONLY FOR A SHORT TIME. THE BABYLON MYSTERY RELIGION BEAST WILL BE DESTROYED. JESUS WILL COME AND DELIVER JUDAH AND JERUSALEM FROM CAPTIVITY, AND ESTABLISH THE KINGDOM OF GOD ON EARTH. From The New Living Translation CHAPTER 1 1 This is the message that the prophet Habakkuk received from the Lord in a vision. Habakkuk's Complaint 2 How long, O Lord, must I call for help? But you do not listen! "Violence!" I cry, but you do not come to save. 3 Must 1 forever see this sin and misery all around me? Wherever I look, I see destruction and violence. I am surrounded by people who love to argue and fight. 4 The law has become paralyzed and useless, and there is no justice given in the courts. The wicked far outnumber the righteous, and justice is perverted with bribes and trickery. ...... Judah is today a violent people who live in violence daily, and are in the main a very SECULAR Godless society- Keith Hunt ...... The LORD's Reply 5 The Lord replied, "Look at the nations and be amazed! Watch and be astounded at what I will do! For I am doing something in your own day, something you wouldn't believe even if someone told you about it. ...... Most today in will NOT BELIEVE what is told you on this Website/Blog. They will not believe the "theology" or the "prophecy" I proclaim. Most secular leaders will not even take the time to read it though it be pointed out to them, most theology leaders will call it wrong as they try to hold their jobs and the views of popular Christianity. Both of them want and even love the praise of men. But God will DO A WORK, He will MAKE IT KNOWN, the truths of His word and His prophecies WILL BE DECLARED! Keith Hunt ...... 6 I am raising up the Babylonians to be a new power on the world scene. They are a cruel and violent nation who will march across the world and conquer it. 7 They are notorious for their cruelty. They do as they like, and no one can stop them. 8 Their horses are swifter than leopards. They are a fierce people, more fierce than wolves at dusk. Their horsemen race forward from distant places. Like eagles they swoop down to pounce on their prey. ...... The ASSYRIAN GERMAN BABYLON of Europe has proved over the centuries all that God says about them. The German EAGLE has flow HIGH and POWERFUL in TWO WORLD WARS; IT WILL DO SO FOR A THIRD TIME! Keith Hunt ...... 9 "On they come, all of them bent on violence. Their hordes advance like a wind from the desert, sweeping captives ahead of them like sand. 10 They scoff at kings and princes and scorn all their defenses. They simply pile ramps of earth against their walls and capture them! 11 They sweep past like the wind and are gone. But they are deeply guilty, for their own strength is their god." ...... Such has been the history of the Holy Roman Empire in Europe as it rose to terrible power in the last SIX resurrections that are recorded in history. One more resurrection is yet to come; it is forming NOW in Europe. If you have not yet done so you need to study the study of mine called "The Beasts of Revelation." Keith Hunt ...... Habakkuk's Second Complaint 12 O LORD my God, my Holy One, you who are eternal - is your plan in all of this to wipe us out? Surely not! O LORD our Rock, you have decreed the rise of these Babylonians to punish and correct us for our terrible sins. 13 YOU are perfectly just in this. But will you, who cannot allow sin in any form, stand idly by while they swallow us up? Should you be silent while the wicked destroy people who are more righteous than they? ...... In many ways it is true that Israelites have been in the human perspective, more righteous than the Gentiles in Europe. Keith Hunt ...... 14 Are we but fish to be caught and killed? Are we but creeping things that have no leader to defend them from their enemies? 15 Must we be strung up on their hooks and dragged out in their nets while they rejoice? 16 Then they will worship their nets and burn incense in front of them. "These nets are the gods who have made us rich!" they will claim. 17 Will you let them get away with this forever? Will they succeed forever in their heartless conquests? ...... To be sure when the Babylon Beast of Europe rules the Western world it will be VAIN and POMPOUS! It will under its false prophet, declare it is God's instrument to bring the world peace and Christianity, albeit, Babylon Rome style. Keith Hunt ...... CHAPTER 2 I will climb up into my watchtower now and wait to see what the LORD will say to me and how he will answer my complaint. The LORDS Second Reply 2 Then the Lord said to me, "Write my answer in large, clear letters on a tablet, so that a runner can read it and tell everyone else. 3 But these things I plan won't happen right away. Slowly, steadily, Surely, the time approaches when the vision will be fulfilled. If it seems slow, wait patiently, for it will surely take place. It will not be delayed. ...... Oh, how many today will laugh at the prophecies of God. They will say such is not happening, nothing like it is taking place. They put their heads into the sand, cover their eyes, and simply do NOT SEE the picture set before them. They are WILLFULLY IGNORANT! MANY YEARS (in the 1950s) AGO THERE WAS NO UNITED EUROPE! IT HAS UNITED AS SOME WERE SAYING IT WOULD. IT IS STILL FORMING. ALL IS IN GOD'S HANDS, THE TIME FACTOR IS HIS. PEOPLE MAY SCOFF AT IT ALL, BUT THE ETERNAL SAYS IT WILL COME TO PASS, IT IS JUST A MATTER OF TIME. WHEN GOD SAYS THE ENDS OF THIS AGE IS TO COME, IT WILL NOT BE DELAYED, IT WILL COME QUICKLY AND SPEEDILY, AND IT WILL SHOCK MOST OF THE WORLD! IT WILL CERTAINLY TAKE ISRAEL AND JUDAH BY SURPRISE! DESTRUCTION AS NEVER BEFORE EXPERIENCED ON EARTH WILL COME TO BE, IT WILL SURELY TAKE PLACE! Keith Hunt ...... 4 "Look at the proud! They trust in themselves, and their lives are crooked; but the righteous will live by their faith. ...... This is the well known verse that says the JUST OR RIGHTEOUS WILL LIVE BY FAITH, THE FAITH THAT THE APOSTLE JAMES SAUD WAS THE TRUE LIVING FAITH. Keith Hunt ...... 5 Wealth is treacherous, and the arrogant are never at rest. They range far and wide, with their mouths opened as wide as death, but they are never satisfied. In their greed they have gathered up many nations and peoples. 6 But the time is coming when all their captives will taunt them, saying, 'You thieves! At last justice has caught up with you! Now you will get what you deserve for your oppression and extortion!' ...... Truly the day will come when in Israel and Judah all the wealth of the often well overpaid film stars, ceo people, sports stars, and others that have gained their wealth from extortion and lies, will be taken away, gone, blown to the dust of destruction. Keith Hunt ...... 7 Suddenly, your debtors will rise up in anger. They will turn on you and take all you have, while you stand trembling and helpless. 8 You have plundered many nations; now they will plunder you. You murderers! You have filled the countryside with violence and all the cities, too. 9 "How terrible it will be for you who get rich by unjust means! You believe your wealth will buy security, putting your families beyond the reach of danger. 10 But by the murders you committed, you have shamed your name and forfeited your lives. 11 The very stories in the walls of your houses cry out against you, and the beams in the ceilings echo the complaint. 12 "How terrible it will be for you who build cities with money gained by murder and corruption! 13 Has not the Lord Almighty promised that the wealth of nations will turn to ashes? They work so hard, but all in vain! ***14 For the time will come when all the earth will be filled, as the waters fill the sea, with an awareness of the glory of the Lord.*** ...... The GREAT VERSE of Habukkuk that tells us one day the earth will be filled with the knowledge of God as the waters cover the sea beds! True riches and true wealth will be viewed in a different perspective. Certainly physical wealth will not be obtained by extortion or lies or based upon a false value system, i.e. who on earth is good enough in anything to be given 20 or 30 MILLION DOLLARS for acting in just one film out of Hollywood, as some do get? It is OBSCENE! The day is coming when true knowledge and true values will be holy and just. It is hard in today's world to imagine a world so filled with the knowledge of God as the waters cover the sea beds. Yet, the Eternal One has PROMISED IT! Keith Hunt ...... 15 "How terrible it will be for you who make your neighbors drunk! You force your cup on them so that you can gloat over their nakedness and shame. 16 But soon it will be your turn! Come, drink and be exposed! Drink from the cup of the Lord's judgment, and all your glory will be turned to shame. 17 You cut down the forests of Lebanon. Now you will be cut down! You terrified the wild animals you caught in your traps. Now terror will strike you because of your murder and violence in cities everywhere! 18 "What have you gained by worshipping all your man-made idols? How foolish to trust in something made by your own hands! What fools you are to believe such lies! 19 How terrible it will be for you who beg lifeless wooden idols to save you. You ask speechless stone images to tell you what to do. Can an idol speak for God? They may be overlaid with gold and silver, but they are lifeless inside. 20 But the LORD is in his holy Temple. Let all the earth be silent before him." ...... Any nation that serves anything but the way of the true God is following idolatry! All nations are over-flowing with false idols, even if some on the outside look nice, look good, look as if righteous. The coming Babylon Beast of Europe will be filled with false idols, even in their churches of worship, for Babylon Mystery religion even has many literal statutes they idolize. All nations who have set up idols of various kinds (and all nations have done so) will one day be cut to the ground. All will suffer destruction in one way or another, as the Lord gets ready to come to this earth to set up the Kingdom of God upon all nations. ...... CHAPTER 3
Habakkuk's Prayer 1 This prayer was sung by the prophet Habakkuk: 2 I have heard all about you, Lord, and I am filled with awe by the amazing things you have done. In this time of our deep need, begin again to help us, as you did in years gone by. Show us your power to save us. And in your anger, remember your mercy. ...... Habakkuk is in the time of the destruction of Judah (also Israel, as we have seen, BOTH will fall together at the time of the end) and so is crying out for the MERCY of God, to save the Israelites. Keith Hunt ...... 3 I see God, the Holy One, moving across the deserts from Edom and Mount Paran. His brilliant splendor fills the heavens, and the earth is filled with his praise! What a wonderful God he is! 4 Rays of brilliant light flash from his hands. He rejoices in his awesome power. 5 Pestilence marches before him; plague follows close behind. 6 When he stops, the earth shakes. When he looks, the nations tremble. He shatters the everlasting mountains and levels the eternal hills. But his power is not diminished in the least! 7 I see the peoples of Cushan and Midian trembling in terror. ...... The Middle-East, the area of Jerusalem, will be the focal point of the last days of this age. When Jesus comes the might of His power to shake the earth will be as told here and as in the book of Revelation. Habakkuk was indeed transported in vision, to the last 42 months of this age, when all this is written will come to pass, and the POWER of the Eternal God will end the age of man and sin and bring in the new age; the age of the knowledge of God covering the earth as the waters cover the sea beds. Keith Hunt ...... 8 Was it in anger, LORD, that you struck the rivers and parted the sea? Were you displeased with them? No, you were sending your chariots of salvation! 9 You were commanding your weapons of power! You split open the earth with flowing rivers! 10 The mountains watched and trembled. Onward swept the raging waters. The mighty deep cried out, lifting its hands to the LORD. 11 The lofty sun and moon began to fade, obscured by brilliance from your arrows and the flashing of your glittering spear. 12 You marched across the land in awesome anger and trampled the nations in your fury. 13 You went out to rescue your chosen people, to save your anointed ones. You crushed the heads of the wicked and laid bare their bones from head to toe. 14 With their own weapons, you destroyed those who rushed out like a whirlwind, thinking Israel would be easy prey. 15 You trampled the sea with your horses, and the mighty waters piled high. ...... Oh YES! How MIGHTILY did the Lord God save Israel from Egyptian slavery. What MIRACLES He did perform! Habakkuk remembers them, calls them to mind. In so doing He knows the POWER of God can ONCE MORE deliver Israel from the destruction of the enemy they are under at the end time of this age. Keith Hunt ...... 16 I trembled inside when I heard all this; my lips quivered with fear. My legs gave way beneath me, and I shook in terror. I will wait quietly for the coming day when disaster will strike the people who invade us. 17 Even though the fig trees have no blossoms, and there are no grapes on the vine; even though the olive crop fails, and the fields lie empty and barren; even though the flocks die in the fields, and the cattle barns are empty, 18 yet I will rejoice in the LORD! I will be joyful in the God of my salvation. 19 The Sovereign LORD is my strength! He will make me as surefooted as a deer and bring me safely over the mountains. (For the choir director: This prayer is to be accompanied by stringed instruments.) ...... Habakkuk SEES the end of the matter. Though he is taken in vision to the end of the age and to a time when the people of Israel and Jerusalem are in desolation, captivity, slavery to their enemies; he is given vision BEYOND all that sorrow and destruction. Habakkuk sees that the LORD is SALVATION, STRENGTH, AND DELIVERANCE! What a SONG OF PRAISE, no wonder Habakkuk said it should be a song of prayer to be accompanied by stringed instruments! SING ALOUD OH PEOPLE OF THE EARTH, FOR IN THE LORD'S DESTRUCTION OF THE NATIONS, COMES SALVATION; THE TIME WHEN GOD WILL COME TO EARTH AND WILL RULE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS ALL PEOPLES!! HE IS INDEED GREATLY TO BE PRAISED!! Keith Hunt .................... |
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