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Pamphlet 1687 Habakkuk kc 4-3

Let us now continue with God's answer to Habakkuk
concerning His purpose for allowing the unjust to triumph over the just.

Habakkuk 2:4
Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.
There is both a positive and negative part to God's plan even evidenced by the fact that God created both the day and the night. Think about it as we go through this study, for it is like the proverbial saying, "One who has never been through a storm cannot fully appreciate the sunshine."

Thus, "By his faith, by his believe and trust in the LORD, the just shall live (eternally)." However, the unrepentant proud who trusts in himself and whose soul is not upright (which means he is unjust), shall face His judgment and ultimately perish. Dr. Bullinger points out in the Companion Bible on page 1268 that "Behold" is the figure of speech (Asterismos, or Indicating) which emphasizes the contrast between the "twofold answer to the prophet's prayer: the fate of the wicked in the coming judgment, and the preservation and eternal lot of the righteous." There is also an Ellipsis (Omission of a word or words) which needs to be supplied following "Behold" as in "Behold [the proud one]".

Do you have faith in Him? Do you understand His marvelous plan, His wondrous work that He shall work in this final generation? Understanding that Plan and His purpose for allowing the unjust to "temporarily" triumph over the just both increases one's faith whereby he or she has the spiritual strength to stand and be patient and endure unto the end. One thing is for sure... when the time comes and God says that is enough, the wicked shall be cut off and those who wait on the LORD, AND keep his way, "thou shalt see it".

Psalm 37:34
Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.
Psalm 37:38
But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off.

[39] But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: He is their strength in the time of trouble.

[40] And the LORD shall help them and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

The just shall live by faith for they trust in Him, but the proud and the haughty who trust in themselves and in the false gods of gold and silver shall be brought to their knees before the King of kings... the hard way.
Habakkuk 2:5
Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
It is written that the proud one, i.e. the king of Babylon, i.e. antichrist, will gather all nations, both the ethnic and the kingdom nations, and enlarge the borders of spiritual death as all the "kings of the earth" commit fornication with the great whore and the "inhabitants of the earth" become drunk with the "wine of her fornication", i.e. her policies, her doctrine, her intoxicating religion.
Rev. 17:2
With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
But do not worry, trust in the LORD, for Babylon the great shall fall and the proud one, the son of perdition (Apollyon), i.e. death himself, shall ultimately be destroyed in the lake of fire following the Millennium. And those proud ones now who serve Satan and seek wealth and power through unrighteousness, through iniquity and ill-gotten means, shall heap judgment upon their own heads.
Habakkuk 2:6
Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay!
All these (transgressions) shall come back to haunt them which shall be an enigma, a conundrum to them. You see, the wicked write their own testimony against themselves and serve as their very own witness against themselves. That is why you should always do unto others as you would have them do unto you because that which you do unto others shall be done unto you, lest ye repent. Woe indeed to those who get rich from ill-gotten gain for they just keep heaping more and more judgment upon themselves as in piling more and more clay upon themselves. And the more clay they pile upon themselves the harder the blow will be when that clay hardens and our Father cracks it open exposing the naked soul encased within!
[7] Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?
The word "bite" is "nashak" in Hebrew and means to oppress with usury, i.e. interest. To wit, our people now pay over 55% of what they earn in various taxes, much of which goes to pay the interest on the national, state, and local municipal skyrocketing debts. When you add the interest our people pay on their mortgages and car loans, etc. you should be able to "see" the enormous BITE taken out of the backs of our hardworking brothers and sisters. Boy are we ever "booties" for those wicked ones, those "strangers" who have gotten high above us and have become our taskmasters.
nashak =  CLÛðˆ naòshak naw-shak' Strong's #5391
A primitive root; to strike with a sting (as a serpent); figuratively, to oppress with interest on a loan:—bite, lend upon usury.
Of course we are really without excuse, for we were WARNED long ago by our Father that if we strayed from His Word the locust would come and consume all that we produce.
Deut. 28:42
All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.

[43] The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high; and thou shalt come down very low.

[44] He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

Habakkuk 2:8
Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.
All nations have committed fornication with and been spoiled (looted) by the great whore and they shall reap what they have sown for it is written that Babylon the Great, the New World Order, is coming down hard with violence because of her violence.
Rev. 18:21
And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.
By the way, the word "men's" in Habakkuk 2:8 is "adam" in Hebrew.
Rev. 18:24
And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.
It is written in the great Book of Ecclesiastes that there is nothing new "under the sun", meaning there is nothing new in this flesh age that wasn't present in the "world that then was" (2 Pet. 3:6). You see, Satan (the proud and wicked one) has succeeded in filling this world with "violence", i.e. corruption and iniquity, just as he did the first earth age (Ezekiel 28), and unfortunately it is we Christians who have allowed that to happen, especially in our own nation. Though it is written that Jesus Christ has "given us power over all the enemy" (Luke 10:19), our people who possess that power (which is before them in the Word of God) have failed miserably to use it, thereby permitting Satan's liberalism to take hold and draw them away from His truth and His mercy seat. Again, it is the same old story from the beginning, even from the first earth age, even from the garden of Eden when Adam failed to "dress the garden and keep it" according to God's commands. You know what happened next.

To study the Bible is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.
We pray that with the guidance of the Holy Spirit, you accomplish both.


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