Book of Habakkuk

Habakkuk

Summary: The world is dark, injustice is rampant and evil seems triumphant. This was the time Habakkuk lived in. Like any man he had questions about it all and instead of lamenting why he took them start to God. The book that Habakkuk wrote begins with what he calls an oracle. The best translation is the burden his soul carries. As he puts his burden before God, he gets a stark reply from the Lord that is to be written plainly. The response is that though the wicked have their time, just as the sunsets so does their ambitions, for they will be judged and the righteous shall prevail.

Things I Noticed:

1. The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet saw.

2. God has purer eyes to see evil and cannot look at the wicked

3. For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end-it will not lie. If it seems slow wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay. (Really this is a great verse to meditate on about Revelation or any other promise of God.)

4. The righteous shall live by the faith. 

5. Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own and loads himself with pledges (It is reminds me of what happens when one take to many loans or credit.)

6. Woe to him who gets evil gains for his house.

7. You devise shame for your house by cutting off many peoples.

8. For the Earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord. 

9. Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink in order to gaze at their nakedness. (Yep getting someone va-snockered to get into their pant is vile to the Lord.)

10. God's brightness was like a light; rays flashed from his hand and there he veiled his power.

11. Hab 3:17-19  though the things seem to gone hell in a hand basket I will rejoice in the Lord.  

Well,  I finished reading our brave and bold prophet. The journey continues through Matthew the tax collector who Jesus called friend and wrote a really long book, while the next prophet I will visit will be Zephaniah. Till then, Read up, Post up, and Shalom.