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Habakkuk 2:9-11

Lesson # Habakkuk 2:9-11
Study Material - Habakkuk 2:9-11

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Habakkuk 2:9-11

9 Woe [howy] to him that coveteth [batsa] an evil [ra] covetousness [betsa] to his house [bayith] , that he may set [suwm] his nest [qen] on high [marowm] , that he may be delivered [natsal] from the power [kaph] of evil [ra] !
10 Thou hast consulted [ya`ats] shame [bosheth] to thy house [bayith] by cutting off [qatsah] many [rab] people [am] , and hast sinned [chata] against thy soul [nephesh] .
11 For the stone [eben] shall cry out [za`aq] of the wall [qiyr] , and the beam out [kaphiyc] of the timber [ets] shall answer [anah] it. KJV-Interlinear

9 'Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house To put his nest on high To be delivered from the hand of calamity! 10 'You have devised a shameful thing for your house By cutting off many peoples; So you are sinning against yourself. 11 'Surely the stone will cry out from the wall, And the rafter will answer it from the framework. NASB

The second woe becomes an exaggerated extension of the first. As people move away from God, they develop a comfort zone. Nothing immediately happens to them, so they become indifferent to the warnings. They begin to believe that they are not in any real danger. They believe that they can control the flow or direction of their life, and that is their own self deception.

In life one never stands still. You either advance in life by means of consistent Bible study, or you spiral downward continually by means of not having a Bible study in your life. Think of negative volition as a rejection of God as the pilot of an airplane. You jump out without a parachute. You are in a thick fog but are falling continually. Your fall is the duration of your entire life.

Nothing happens to you, though you have been warned that you will hit the ground sooner or later. But, again, nothing happens immediately so you become numb to the idea, and think that life is fine. All the while you do not see your life falling further and further away from God. Where is the ground? There must not be any ground. Haven't seen it yet!

This feeling brings about a sense of false security, and false self confidence.

Prov. 8:36
36 'But he who sins against me injures himself; All those who hate me love death.' NASB

Rom. 8:22
22 For we know that the whole creation groans and suffers the pains of childbirth together until now. NASB

When there are no witnesses, then even creation (the beam and the stones of the wall), becomes a witness to the pains of being apart from God, and the works of the hands of the negative person.

Ones state of mind is set on self. This results in schemes to get rich quick, to get an advantage for ones self at the expense of someone else, and justifying it all the while. The drives of life become insatiable and relentless. And focus becomes centered on ones desires and securities and pleasures of life. God becomes a distant fairy tale. The unreal becomes the real, and the real becomes the unreal. A persons life is turned upside down.

You are still falling in a fog and you do not have any orientation as to what is up and what is down.

Those that cut off, or undermine others, to make room for themselves, that impoverish others to enrich themselves, these types of people, consult shame to their own houses, and make them in their own minds a focus of fame and honor, which in reality, is evil.

Prov. 18:11
11 A rich man's wealth is his strong city, And like a high wall in his own imagination. NASB

Negative people believe that they are safe in their own imagined beliefs. Many simply wish that what they are doing is the right thing. Or that life will work out for them. Many will take shortcuts in taking advantage of others in order to insure their own success.

As inanimate things (the rafter and the stone), know the difference between that which is right and that which is wrong, so negative people become dumber than a rock by comparison.

Now is the time to post a prayer.

End Of Lesson

Study to show thyself approved (mature) unto God, a workman that needs not to be ashamed, rightly dividing (studying/discerning), the Word of truth.