As Chapter 2 commences, God again answers Habakkuk. The argumentative prophet is told that he must faithfully await the outworking of Divine justice. He had presumed to question God’s justice without full knowledge of His will and had drawn wrong conclusions in chapter 1:12-17. He had not believ…
The description of Israel’s devastation was so terrifying that Habakkuk is faced with a new problem. The punishment for one evil was creating an even greater evil and the problem of reconciling this with Yahweh’s character was perplexing. From the fact that there is no mention of Israel survivin…
1:6 For, lo, I raise up (RSV ‘I am rousing up’) the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation (Roth ‘bitter and headlong nation’) which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling places that are not theirs.
“For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans”- It is possible …
The Lord is not slack concerning His promise as some men count slackness, but the vision awaits its time; it hastens to its end—it will not lie. If it seems slow wait for it, it will surely come, it will not delay. With this assurance before him, Habakkuk had come to learn as we all must do, that,…
With the commencement of our own School (God willing) it is good to be fully aware of the conditions which have
so urgently driven this proposal forward. It is well that we take a close and careful look at the present school system that we may all realise that, whatever our circumstance, “there …
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Our title is taken from Amos 6:5 incorporating the marginal rendering. The same prophet records, “Take away from me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols” (ch 5:25). There is a spirit in our society, described by Paul as “the course of this world … the prince…
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3:8 Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation? The question of this verse is hypothetical. It is asked by an uninformed imaginary spectator of the terrible slaugh…
The opening series of articles under this caption will expound the prophecy of Habakkuk. It is hoped that the series will become a basis for Bible study and marking. It is easy to “flip over” expositional articles because they are “heavier” reading, and you may not have kept up with previous…
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