Habakkuk 1:12 - 2:1
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The Prophets Second Question: Why Do it this way Lord?
The Prophets Second Question: Why Do it this way Lord?
In Week 1 we talked about the burden Habakkuk had for his country and as time went on and God remained silent that burden became heavier and heavier.
Week 2 we talked about the Lord’s reply and that God’s way are not our ways and God’s thoughts are not our thoughts. His way is rgiht, always.
-Now we are in week 3 looking at verse 1:12-2:1
-Habakkuk wonders why God would use a nation more wicked than Judah to bring judgement on Judah.
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O Lord my God, my Holy One, you who are eternal—
surely you do not plan to wipe us out?
O Lord, our Rock, you have sent these Babylonians to correct us,
to punish us for our many sins.
But you are pure and cannot stand the sight of evil.
Will you wink at their treachery?
Should you be silent while the wicked
swallow up people more righteous than they?
Are we only fish to be caught and killed?
Are we only sea creatures that have no leader?
Must we be strung up on their hooks
and caught in their nets while they rejoice and celebrate?
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.
Will you let them get away with this forever?
Will they succeed forever in their heartless conquests?
I will climb up to my watchtower
and stand at my guardpost.
There I will wait to see what the Lord says
and how he will answer my complaint.
Habakkuk 1:12
Habakkuk has heard the Lord’s reply and now has some thinking to do. I imagine as he ponders on God’s reply he begins to ask himself; Do I really know God? Did I hear Him correctly? Did I misunderstand His answer?
Week 2 we talked about the Lord’s reply and that God’s way are not our ways and God’s thoughts are not our thoughts. His way is rgiht, always.
Now we are in week 3 looking at verse 1:12-2:1
Habakkuk wonders why God would use a nation more wicked than Judah to bring judgement on Judah.
I believe this questioning lead Habakkuk to explore his God. Let me ask you. Do you know your God? Do you really understand Him? Do you know how He works? Do you know His characteristics, His attributes?
I see that Habakkuk begins to explore his knowledge of God as we see inverse 12
O Lord my God, my Holy One, you who are eternal—
surely you do not plan to wipe us out?
O Lord, our Rock, you have sent these Babylonians to correct us,
to punish us for our many sins.
Are You not from everlasting,
O Lord, my God, my Holy One?
We will not die.
You, O Lord, have appointed them to judge;
And You, O Rock, have established them to correct.
He says that you are God! The God I know is eternal.
Psalm 90:
Before the mountains were born
Or You gave birth to the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.
Pslam
Lord, through all the generations
you have been our home!
God is bigger than anything and everything. Our fears, our problems, even bigger than us.
He is saying this because he know's that God knows what will happen when the babylonians come, what they will do.
I do not pretend to know what you are going through today, what you are thinking, if you are doubting yourself, or doubting God, whatever you do, do not lose he sense that you are God’s. You as a believer belong to God.
And have you forgotten the encouraging words God spoke to you as his children? He said,
“My child, don’t make light of the Lord’s discipline,
and don’t give up when he corrects you.
For the Lord disciplines those he loves,
and he punishes each one he accepts as his child.”
Hebrews 12:
Hebrews 12:5-6
And have you forgotten the encouraging words God spoke to you as his children? He said,
“My child, don’t make light of the Lord’s discipline,
and don’t give up when he corrects you.
Do not be like Habakkuk during times or darkness, times that are very tough, for you must see beyond discipline, to the providence of God, that He is a God of LOVE, has a compassionate heart, pours out mercy upon His children. Let me remind you of what is written in
What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? Since he did not spare even his own Son but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. Who then will condemn us? No one—for Christ Jesus died for us and was raised to life for us, and he is sitting in the place of honor at God’s right hand, pleading for us.
Can anything ever separate us from Christ’s love? Does it mean he no longer loves us if we have trouble or calamity, or are persecuted, or hungry, or destitute, or in danger, or threatened with death? (As the Scriptures say, “For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.”) No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.
And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Encourage yourself in God!!!
Remember that Jesus shed His blood for you, you are His!!!
I think that the question he had much like us today is WHY?
Why did that happen? Why?
I think Habakkuk’s question was the wrong question. You see the question is not who is more righteous, because scripture tells us that there is non righteous, not one.
As the Scriptures say,
“No one is righteous—
not even one.
Habakkuk is telling God in verses 14-17 how can you use the Babylonians an evil people to punish your people. I know we are a sinful nation, but look at them they are even more sinful.
God’s Word says there is no one righteous, not even one.
God is interested in Repentance. How repentant are you?
I do not have all the answers to your questions, and I cannot explain or cause you to have FAITH, all I know is this, what Scripture says,
Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand his decisions and his ways!
Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand his decisions and his ways!
For who can know the Lord’s thoughts?
Who knows enough to give him advice?
And who has given him so much
that he needs to pay it back?
For everything comes from him and exists by his power and is intended for his glory. All glory to him forever! Amen.
Romans 11:33
Habakkuk is not being assertive with God, or demanding from God, but praising God. He knew he had to be faithful.
Look at what he says next.
I will climb up to my watchtower
and stand at my guardpost.
There I will wait to see what the Lord says
and how he will answer my complaint.
He is saying he will be a watchman. What was a watchman. Read Ezekiel chapter 3 and chapter 33. You will see that if the watchman didn’t warn about the enemies coming the people would be slaughtered and their blood would be on his hands.
Ezekiel 3:33
A watchman was responsible, he had to be vigilant, be able to spot danger and alert the people.
Ezekiel
A watchman had to WAIT!!!
Habakkuk said he will go up and wait on the Lord.
But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength.
They will soar high on wings like eagles.
They will run and not grow weary.
They will walk and not faint.
Habakkuk didn’t quit believing in God, he didn’t become cold-hearted, he had questions, his faith was tested, but he remained on fire for God and that’s what mattered.
Do we wait on the Lord? We don’t wait on the Lord today.
John Calvin said this: 'All who indulge themselves in their own counsels, deserve to be forsaken by God, and to be left by Him to be driven up and down and here and there by Satan. For the only unfailing security for the faithful is to acquiesce in God's word'. akwēˈes - accept something reluctantly but without protest.
Do we wait in the Lord? We don’t wait until we get tired, until our knees get sore, until we grow weary, until we get hungry or thirsty, when is gets uncomfortable.
Leonard Ravenhill said: 'Men and women go into some room for one week, and eat only bread and drink only water, and read the word of God, and seek God's face and pray - and you'll either break down or you'll break through!'
J.D. Smith - 'Waiting, yes, trusting, trustfully waiting. I know though I've waited long, that while He withholds His purpose, His waiting cannot be wrong. Waiting, yes, waiting, still waiting - the Master will not be late. He knoweth that I am waiting for Him to unlatch the gate'.
God is doing a work in our day that you wouldn’t believe.