Habakkuk
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The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear!
Even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance?
For spoiling and violence are before me:
And there are that raise up strife and contention.
Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth:
For the wicked doth compass about the righteous;
Therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
Penman (writer was a prophet.
He was divinely inspired, and commissioned.
What he saw was a concern for others, and the people.
He had a burden for iniquity of the times.
The Kingdom was broken into factions devouring one another.
Wicked men were being justified, and Godly men persecuted.
600 years before Christ.
400 years after David was ruling.
By this time the 12 tribes were split.
There was 10 in the north called Israel.
and 2 in the south called Judah.
The 10 in the north have been exiled by Syria.
Judah is steadily drafting away from God.
Solomon often complained about vexation of this kind.
Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men;
That I might leave my people, and go from them!
For they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Here he wants to flee and become a hermit away from the trouble.
You may feel like that at times today.
But what are we called to do as believers Matt 28: 19-20
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
So, we are not to hide from the world, we do not get caught up it it and become like them. But we are giving a standing order to go out and reach the lost.
Now Habakkuk is a prohpet of God, but you and I are not.
And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.
Question would you question God like he did, was he just asking God, or was he trying to tempt God to act?
tempt means to provoke or incite, was he trying to provoke God to act?
Look Habakkuk is trying to work through somethings here, but do not let injustice undermined your faith.
Do not let the world, during times of trouble weaken your faith and trust in God.
Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously:
For I will work a work in your days,
Which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation,
Which shall march through the breadth of the land,
To possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.
They are terrible and dreadful:
Their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
Their horses also are swifter than the leopards,
And are more fierce than the evening wolves:
And their horsemen shall spread themselves,
And their horsemen shall come from far;
They shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
They shall come all for violence:
Their faces shall sup up as the east wind,
And they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
And they shall scoff at the kings,
And the princes shall be a scorn unto them:
They shall deride every strong hold;
For they shall heap dust, and take it.
Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend,
Imputing this his power unto his god.
Now look at Acts 13:41
Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.
Paul quotes Hab 1:5 to say look be patient and watch what God is going to do.
Habakkuk did not get the answer he wanted.
But God gave him the answer that was needed, and divine.
Art thou not from everlasting,
O Lord my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die.
O Lord, thou hast ordained them for judgment;
And, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.
Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil,
And canst not look on iniquity:
Wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously,
And holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?
And makest men as the fishes of the sea,
As the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
They take up all of them with the angle,
They catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag:
Therefore they rejoice and are glad.
Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag;
Because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.
Shall they therefore empty their net,
And not spare continually to slay the nations?
Now God had replied, and Habakkuk answers back.
Notice Habakkuk answer back starting and ending with keeping his faith in God, even though he did not like the answer.
Yet he is not questioning God’s plan out right, he is asking for God to help him understand the plan.
Staying humble & Faithful will help you ask God for understanding, and not question God.
We should never question God.
I really want to leave you with one thing God showed me here.
In the last part of verse 12, Habakkuk uses the hebrew word sur, tsoor for God.
This is why KJV so other version translate it to rock here, which when they do they take God out of it.
does the Hebrew word sur mean rock, yes, but Habakkuk clearly means something bigger and the translators of the KJV gets it right.
See we know there are many names for God which they all are referring to God in a different manner.
Here Habakkuk is saying God is his rock, his foundation, his strong hold.
look at Deuteronomy 32:3-4
Because I will publish the name of the Lord:
Ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
He is the Rock, his work is perfect:
For all his ways are judgment:
A God of truth and without iniquity,
Just and right is he.
So, Moses here has a song referring to God as his rock, but wait a minute.
And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
upon this rock, Jesus will build His church, Jesus who we seen earlier proves He is God in Matt 4:7. Habakkuk and Moses both call God their rock hundreds of years before. The rock of ages, praise God is our all and all, a strong foundation everything is sinking sand.
