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Habakkuk 1:5-10

Lesson # Habakkuk 1:5-10
Study Material - Habakkuk 1:5-10

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Habakkuk 1:5-10

5 ¶ Behold [ra'ah] ye among the heathen [gowy] , and regard [nabat] , and wonder [tamahh] marvellously [tamahh] : for I will work [pa`al] a work [po`al] in your days [yowm] , which ye will not believe [aman] , though it be told [caphar] you.
6 For, lo, I raise up [quwm] the Chaldeans [Kasdiy] , that bitter [mar] and hasty [mahar] nation [gowy] , which shall march [halak] through the breadth [merchab] of the land ['erets] , to possess [yarash] the dwellingplaces [mishkan] that are not theirs.
7 They are terrible [ayom] and dreadful [yare] : their judgment [mishpat] and their dignity [sa'eth] shall proceed [yatsa'] of themselves.
8 Their horses [cuwc] also are swifter [qalal] than the leopards [namer] , and are more fierce [chadad] than the evening [ereb] wolves [za'eb] : and their horsemen [parash] shall spread [puwsh] themselves, and their horsemen [parash] shall come [bow'] from far [rachowq] ; they shall fly [uwph] as the eagle [nesher] that hasteth [chuwsh] to eat [akal] .
9 They shall come [bow'] all for violence [chamac] : their faces [paniym] shall sup up [magammah] as the east wind [qadiym] , and they shall gather ['acaph] the captivity [shabiy] as the sand [chowl] .
10 And they shall scoff [qalac] at the kings [melek] , and the princes [razan] shall be a scorn [mischaq] unto them: they shall deride [sachaq] every strong hold [mibtsar] ; for they shall heap [tsabar] dust [aphar] , and take [lakad] it. KJV-Interlinear

5 'Look among the nations! Observe! Be astonished! Wonder! Because I am doing something in your days — You would not believe if you were told. 6 'For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, That fierce and impetuous people Who march throughout the earth To seize dwelling places which are not theirs. 7 'They are dreaded and feared. Their justice and authority originate with themselves. 8 'Their horses are swifter than leopards And keener than wolves in the evening. Their horsemen come galloping, Their horsemen come from afar; They fly like an eagle swooping down to devour. 9 'All of them come for violence. Their horde of faces moves forward. They collect captives like sand. 10 'They mock at kings, And rulers are a laughing matter to them. They laugh at every fortress, And heap up rubble to capture it. NASB

There are three spheres or environments within which mankind might live their life.

The first is the jungle. That place where no rules apply except what the strong design for themselves.

The second consists of the Laws of Divine Establishment (volition, marriage, family, nationalism, free enterprise, etc.) which were created by God in order to parallel and offset the jungle environment. Bringing some form of order or stabilizing influence to the chaos of the jungle.

The third set of laws exists within the sphere of fellowship and applies to positive believers only - that is, those who are in fellowship and are advancing toward spiritual maturity.

Within the first environment, the rules should be self explanatory. Visit the outback of Australia, or the deepest darkest jungle of Africa. Go there unarmed and alone, and at night and see just how much love for you exists in the jungle from the wild life that lives there. None How long do you suppose you would last. One night? Perhaps two? Sooner or later you would be invited to lunch. And it won't be what you expect. Nor will the preparation of lunch be very pleasant, but extremely violent and without mercy. By the way you are the lunch.

Within the jungle setting, God, through His permissive will, uses the power and passion of men to work out His designs even though man thinks that he is in control of his environment. He (man) is not in control.

1 Kings 11:14
14 Then the LORD raised up an adversary

1 Kings 11:23
23 God also raised up another adversary

Amos 6:14
14 'For behold, I am going to raise up a nation against you,

Astonishment and wonder are the only things that anyone has once they discover that they are not in charge of their own destiny. Man can drift away from God and believe, in his own imagination, that he (man) can do whatever is necessary in order to preserve and promote himself. But man often forgets that he does not control the laws of nature, or physics, or of anything for that matter. Man cannot cause his own birth, nor postpone or cancel his own death.

Within the jungle you might be a billionaire, but even the very rich cannot avoid a virus, a sickness, or their own death. Sooner or later time will catch you. No one is greater than the world. In this world today there are over six billion people and about 180 countries. No one can control them all.

When people drift away from God, they by default, embrace the jungle and its rules. He places negative people at the mercy of the jungle and it is always out there willing and ready to consume you.

God describes the power of the Chaldeans. Their horses, their attitude towards others (fierce), their lust (impetuous), their theft (seizing other places), their justice (according to whatever they wish), their tools of power (horses), their speed (galloping), their intent (violence), their objective (taking captives). Bitter and hasty. This epithet refers to their cruelty and relentless ferocity.

Many of these things are very similar to the attitude that people, who have turned negative, have adopted - selfishness, injustice, convenience, indifference, me first.

So negative people become the recipients of poetic justice. They reap exactly what they sow - unfairness, violence, cruelty, destruction, pain and suffering which is indescribable.

God does not allow a cruel foreigner to get off free, however. Again, history takes a turn and those who are oppressed, or those who would be allies with them, will rise up and retake back that which they lost. But only through a positive attitude toward God. The enemy (here it is the Chaldeans) will be destroyed by yet another power the Persians, and they will be destroyed by the Greeks, then the Romans, and so on through history.

Man (led by Satan - see our study in Daniel and Revelation) seeks power and empire building, but it is not to be. Empires come and go and they always revolve around mans attitude toward Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ controls history.

It is far better to have God apply discipline directly to you, than to have God allow mankind to apply discipline against you.

1 Chron. 21:13
13 And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.

Sooner or later God will apply the same judgment against the invader, as He allowed them to apply to His own people (believers who have been negative). In life, God will permit punishment to fall upon you for your errors, in order to bring your attention back to doctrine, and back to your spiritual growth. He will allow trials of testing to come into your life in order to strengthen your spiritual character.

As for unbelievers, the pressures of life are intended to bring them to the point of salvation, otherwise they are merely historical filler and useful only in applying testing and training for life, for others who would be positive toward God. Others who will benefit spiritually from the application of trouble in their life.

Now is the time to post a prayer.

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