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By J.N.Robles Olarte
There is a Christian teaching that say, “people who have not faith can not understand”, and many have believed that is the truth. In our Hebrew Scripcture –the Old Testament- we can find two references abou the word “faith”. They are in Deuteronomy 32:20 and Habakkuk 2:4.
The first one comes from the Strong´s Word H-29 and it is defined with these wpords, “EUWM” (hay.moon) from H-539, i.e.(fig) trusty, also (abst.) trustworthiness: faith (.ful)m truth”. About the Word H-539, “AMAN” (aw.man), a prim root, prop. to build up or support, to foster…to be certain or believe”.
The second word comes from Strong´s H-530 word and defined, “EMUWNAH” (em-oo-naw), or shoRt “EMUNAH” (em-oo-naw), femenine of H-529, lit. firmness, fig.security, mor.fidelity…estability, steady, truly, truth, verely.”
What Deut. 32:20 says is about the behaviour of Hebrew people, that “..see what happens to them! For they are a stuborn, faithless generation.”(TLB) It is speaking about the lacking of trusty of Hebrews, that they do not beleived Eternal´s word.
In Habakkuk 2:4 we read, “Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in Him: but the just shall live by his faoth,”(KJV). Habakkuk is speaking about the fidelity of the Hebrews and not of a “faith” without any support in Eternal´s Word. He speaks about the firmness that His people do not handle, and of a void faioth.
The book of Habakkuk was wroted in the sixth century BCE, shortly before tha babylonians destroyed Judah adn the temple were a mess. In that teime the priests were not dsoing like Eternal dicatates do and the people were worshiping other gods. Was the time when the wiorshiping of many “ba´als” Eternal decide send His peple to captivity and exile, the same that now we can see around in these end times, and His Gloery departed fro the Temple just before its destruction. The Glory will return to jerusalem in the millenea period. Since then no Temple in Jerusalem has been builded or knows the presence of the Glory of Eternal since 586 BCE.
You can read those news in Ezekiel 9:3, 10:4 y 11:23.(1)
Why I do say that ? Because now many Christian groups assert that Habakkuk is a prophecy that they are fulfilling ir ¡ If you read the Hebrew Scriptures with the sincere desire to learn Eternal´s words you will find another perpective. The real one! There you will know that since the same begining the Hebrew peoples has been of stiff-necked and that has been the reason we do live in a world of big problems and infringements.
Let us read what Habakkuk have for us:
HABAKKUK 1:1-5.-“The pronouncement made by the prophet Habakkuk: how long, O Eternal, shall I cry out, and YOU not listen, shall I shout to YOU, “violence!”, AND You not save? Why do YOU make me see iniquity, why do YOU look upon wrong? Raiding and violence are before me, strife continues and contention goes on. That is why decisión fails, and justice never emerges; for the villain hedges in the just man – therefore judgment emerges deformed. Look among the nations, observe well and be utterly astounded; for a work is BEING WROUGHT in your days which you WOULD NOT believe if it were told.”(2)
Eternals has used always peoples to punish His hebrew nation. One of them are the Chaldeans. Here, in these past few verses, Habakkuk is speaking of the Chaldean punishment and think they are doing the best.
Let us continue:
HAB.1:6/11. “For lo. I AM raising up the Chaldean, that fierce, impetuous nation, who cross the earth´s wide spaces to seize homes not their own. They are terrible, dreadful; they make their own laws and rules. Their horses are swifter that leopards, fleeter than wolves of the steppe, their stedds gallop their steeds come flying from afar. Like vultures rushing toward food, they all come, bent in rapine. The thrust of their van is forward, and the amass captives like sand. Kings they hold in desirion, and p´rincess are a joke to them; they laugh at every fortress, they pile up earth and capture it. Then they pass on like the wind, they transgress and incur guilt, for they ascribe their night to their god.”
There you can see it clearly! Chaldean thiinked that their god gave them their might and success! They were wrong at all! Babylon is gone, only what we have is ihis history. The same will happen in the next days of our future.
What we see in our countries is something terrific, atrocious: they have defiled the Ten Commandments and the Laws, Precepts and Statutes of Almighty One! There is not fear of HIM because they say He is dead and have take another false god to worship. Repetition of the human history!!
HAB. 1:12/17. “Your, oh Eternal, are from everlasting, my Holy SOVEREIGN…WE NEVER DIE. O Eternal, You have made them a subject of contention; O Rock, You have made them a cause for complaint. You whose eyes are so pure to look upon evil, who cannot countenace wrongdoing, why do You countenance treachery, and stand by iddle while the one in the wrong devours the one in the right? YOU have made mankind like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no rulers. He has fished them all up with a line, pulled them up in his trwal, and gathered them in his net. That is why he rejoices and is glad. That is why he sacrifices to his trwal and makes offering to his net; for through them his portion is rich and his nourishment fat.. Shall he kepps emptying his trawl, and slaying nations without pity?”.
Hdere we have the history of the enemies of the Hebrew people. In truth we read the same in Psalms 83:4 these words, “They plot CRAFTLY against Your people, take counsel againts Your treassured ones. They say , Let us wipe them out as a nation; Israel´s namre will be mentioned no more”
Yes, the nations has been unanimous in their counsel to destroy the Hebrew peole and their faith, and replace them by another false. But it is Eternal WHO handle ALL in this Cosmos of universes, and you can be for sure that He will not gives His Glory to another and that He will complete all His work!
HAB.2:1/4. “I will stand on my watch, take up my station at the post, and wait to see what He will say to me, what He will reply to my complaints. The Eternal answered me and said: Write the prophecy down,. Inscribe it CLEARLY on tablets, so that it can be read EASILY. For there is yet a prophecy for a set term, a truthful witness for a time that will come-. Even if it tarries, WAIT FOR IT still; for it will surely come, without delay. Lo, his spiriti within him is puffed up, not upright, BUT THE RIGHTEOUS MAN IS REWARDED WITH LIFE for his FIDELITY.”
Here Habakkuk speaks about what he is going to do in regard to Eternal´s orders and commandments! His personal fear and gratitude and love is so great that we must emulate his example. We must not forget that our reward for our fidelity to Him will be LIFE, Eternal Life, NOR DEAD ¡
HAB.2:5/8. “How much less then shall the defiant go unpunished, the treacherous, arrogant man who has made his maw as wide as sheol, who is as insatiable as dead, who has harvested all the nations and gathered in all the peoples! Surely all these shall pronounce a satire against him, a pointed epigram concerning him. They shall say: Ah, you who pile up what is not yours . how much longer? . and make ever heavier your load of indebtness! Right, sudenly will your creditors arise, and those who remind you will awake, and you will be despoiled by them. Because you plundered many nations, all surviving peoples shall plunder you - for crimes against men and wrongs against lands, against cities and all their inhabitants.”
These are the CURSES that will befall over all the nations that have plundered other nations and peoples, and giving them bad examples forgetting Eternal Creator ¡
HABA.2:9/13. “Ah, you who have adquired gains to the detriment of your own House, who are destroyed many peoples in order to set your nest on high tos cape disaster! You have plotted shame for your own house, and guilt for yourself; for a Stone shall cry out from the wall (peopkle says that walls has ears!) , and a Rafter shall answer it from woodworst.. Ah, you who have built a town with crime, and established a city with infamy, so that peopes have had to toil for the fires, and nations to weary themsleves for naught!”
Yes, what we have in our cities are fraud, violence, crimes, infamies and things we can not imagine. Our governors gives order to invade other natiuons, restrict the civil rights, foresee the esstablishment of internmet camp or centers or relocations camps and the suspensión of the national constitutions, etc.etc. Those are the simpe reason that Eternal is punishing His loved People: because they have been forgetting HIM ¡
HAB.2:14. “For he earth SHALL BE FILLED with awe for the GLORY of Eternal as water COVERS THE SEA.”
Here we have good news from our Almighty One that He will fulfill in these end.times that will be a reality ¡
Let us continue,
HAB.2:15/17. “Ah, you who make others to intoxication as you pour out your wrath, in order to gaze upon their nakedness! You shall be sated with shame rather that glory: Drink in your turn and stagged! The cup in the right hand of ETERNAL CREATOR shall come around to you, and disgrace to your glory nakedness! You shall be sated with shame rather that glory: Drink in your turn and stagged! The cup in the right hand of ETERNAL CREATOR shall come around to you, and disgrace to your glory nakedness! You shall be sated with shame rather that glory: Drink in your turn and stagged! The cup in the right hand of ETERNAL CREATOR shall come around to you, and disgrace to your glory nakedness! You shall be sated with shame rather that glory: Drink in your turn and stagged! The cup in the right hand of ETERNAL CREATOR shall come around to you, and disgrace to your glory nakedness! You shall be sated with shame rather that glory: Drink in your turn and stagged! The cup in the right hand of ETERNAL CREATOR shall come around to you, and disgrace to your glory nakedness! You shall be sated with shame rather that glory: Drink in your turn and stagged! The cup in the right hand of ETERNAL CREATOR shall come around to you, and disgrace to your glory nakedness! You shall be sated with shame rather that glory: Drink in your turn and stagged! The cup in the right hand of ETERNAL CREATOR shall come around to you, and disgrace to your glory nakedness! You shall be sated with shame rather that glory: Drink in your turn and stagged! The cup in the right hand of ETERNAL CREATOR shall come around to you, and disgrace to your glory nakedness! You shall be sated with shame rather that glory: Drink in your turn and stagged! The cup in the right hand of ETERNAL CREATOR shall come around to you, and disgrace to your glory Fort he lawlessness against Lebanon shall cover you, the destruction of beast shall overhelm you. For crimes against men and wrongs against k+lands, against cities and all their inhabitants.”
That is what we are looking now in our loved land, the Promised Land, and around the world! We have been doing all the contrary Eternal has ordered us through His Word, the Hebrew Scriptures, the Only One Scriptures ¡ Now, comes something this world has forgotten,
HAB. 2:18/20. “! What has the carved inmage availed, that he who fashioned it has carved it for an image and a false oracle – that he who fashioned his product has trusted in it, making dumb idols? Ah, you –peoples of world- who say, “Wake up” to the wood, ”Awaken”, to inner Stone! Can that give and oracle? Why, it is encased in gold and silver, but there is no breath inside it, but Eternal Creator in His Holy Abode – BE SILENT before HIM all the earth! “
Yes, the world has been blind to all warnings of our loving Father, the Almighty One of Israel, thinking they know better all the things of our future and hapiness. But behind all, these actions of men there is someone, Heylel –satan- our natural enemy, that has been working through the mankinf, knowinng that she is lost since the same begining when trying to replace Eternal her Creator. Habakkuk was a Prophet of Eternal. We do not know for sure if he was descendant of Levi, but we are sure that he was choosed by Eternal to announce his people, and manifest His oracles . When Hi decides something es for ever! He chooced the Levi Tribe for His service. He chooced Aaron and his descendants to serve like Priest (Exodo 28:40/43). He takes for Himself the rest of the Levi Tribe to work into the Temple and the Sanctuary.(Numbers 3:11/13 & 8:18/19). What we see now between Israel and all around the world is a lie. We must no accept because is contrary the Eternal´s teching and wish for our good and happiness¡ The Mashiach to come, David, in unión of the prophet Elias will restore ALL the Eternal´s orders.
HABA.3:1/7. “A prayer of the prophet Habbakuk. In the mode of Shigionoth (suplicaction): O Eternal ¡ I have learned of your renown, I am awed, O Eternal, by Your deeds, renew them in these years; Oh, make them know in these years! Though angry, may You remember compassion..Eternal is coming from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran.- .SELAH.-His majesty covers the skies, His splenmdor fills the earth: it is a brilliant light which gives off rays on every side – and therein His glory is enveloped. Pestilence marches before Him, and plague comes forth at His heels. When He stands, He makes the earth shake, when He glances, He makes nations tremble. The age-old mountains are shattered, the primeval hill sin low. His are the abncient routes: as a scebe of havoc I behold: the tents of Cushan; shaken are the pavillions of the land of Midiam ¡
The first portion of the prayer is what we need to do, return to Him that is the only Mighty One of Israel, and not other gods of the men, like the Man of Galilee. Eternal is going to revive ALL in this planet, and after that, all the universes of His Cosmos. Remember always the words of Isaiah 1:2/3 and Isaiah 1:18/20 ¡ Habakkuk intervenes bafore Eternal, and ask us these words,
HABA. 3:8/12 “Was Eternal DISPLEASED againts the rivers? Were you angry with Them? Was Your wrath against their sin that You rode upon Your horses? Your chariots were salvations. Your bow was pulled from its sheath and You put Your arrows to the string. You ribboned the earth with rivers. The mountains watched and trembled. Onward swept the ragin wáter. The mighty does cried our, annpouncing its surrender to Eternal. The lofty sun and moon began to fade, obscured by brilliance from Your arrows and the flashing of Your glittering spear. You marched across the land in awesome anger, and trampled down the nations in Your wrath.”(TLB)
What a wonderful words! There you see moulded the wrath and love of our Eternal Creator for His loved People, His creation ¡
HAB.3:13/18. “You have come forth to DELIVER Your people, to deliver Your anointed King (David). You will smash the roof of the villains´s house, raze it from foundation tio top –the Chaldean´s kingdom and his descendants in the end-times). You will crack his skull wirh Your bludgeon; blown away shall be his warriors, whose delight is to crush me suddenly, t devour a por man in an ambush. You will make Your steed the sea, stirring the might waters, that I mat have rest on a day of distress (Habakkuk speaking here), when a people come up to attact us. But this report made my bowels quake, these tidings made my lips quiver; rot entered into my bone, I trembled where I stood: that the fig tree does not bud, and not yields is on the vine; the olive crop has failed, and the fields produce no grain; the sheep have vanished from the fold and no cattle are in the pen.”.
All of that happens when Juda was taked captive but will come anew in the very new future. You can red about the first section in Aantiquities of the Jews by Josephus, Chapter VIII, Book X (3)
Knowing now the future, the days of the end.times, Habakkuk rejoices himself and sings with happines these words,
HAB. 3:18/19. “ Yet, under these circunstances, I will rejoice in Eternal Creator, exult in Eternal Who delivers me. My SOVEREIGN is my STRENGHT: He makes my feet like the deers´s and lets me stride upon the heights.”
COLOPHON: What we all need is believe, love and worship the Real and Unique Mighty One of Israel, creeator of His Cosmos and universes. He is our only Creator, Mediator and Savior. ¡THERE IS NOT OTHER EQUAL TO HIM! And sing like Habakkuk do it ¡
Let us remember those words and these ones too, “I AM Creator, YHWH, that is MY NAME; I will not YIELD MY GLORY to another, nor My RENOWN to IDOLS…In THAT DAY , men shal turn to their MAKER,their eyes look to the HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL; they shall not TURN to the altars that their hands made, or look to the sacred post amd incensé stands that their own fingers wrought.” (Isaiah 42: 8 & 17:7).
SO BE IT.
End notes, (emphasis mine throughout):
1) The Ezekiel book narrates about the “Judgment and Glory for all of Israel”, a prophecy that ISRAEL, formed by Israel and Judah, never heard because they were in captivity. B.C.E. = Before Common Era.
2) All verses of Habakkuk book has been taked from the Tanakh versión, 1985 editions, exfcept Habakkuk 3:8/12 ( Jewish Publication Society)
3) Josephus´s work, Book X, Chapter 8, 1 et al of the Antiquities of the Jews. Kregel Publications, Eleven Printing,1973
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