The American Wisdom Series
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Presents
 The book of Habakkuk

Do you realize that we live during the most exciting "Biblical times"
in the history of the world?

That's right!

Habakkuk Introduction:

This final generation, the generation of the fig tree that began on May 15, 1948, is the generation that will see the fulfillment of "all these things" Jesus Christ foretold His disciples about when they asked Him what signs there would be just prior to His second coming (Mat. 24, Mk. 13, Luke 21).

Not only that, but we of that Baby Boomer generation who are still alive which you are!  Well! Your family may call you a Dead Beat, but you are still alive and so you have ALREADY witnessed many of those signs come to pass including the "rising up out of the sea" of the multi-headed political system we call the New World Order,  which is none other than the multi-headed "beast" of Rev. 13:1. (the sea is symbolic of all peoples and nations) 

Here is part of Jesus Christ's reply to His disciple's question regarding the signs to look for in the final generation:  Mark 13:5 And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you:  [6] For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

The number one sign and warning to His disciples of this final generation is to "take heed",  i.e. be alert and on guard, lest any man claiming to be a Christian minister or priest or rev., etc., deceive you, as in "lead you astray" from the truth of God's Word!

You see, the great tribulation of these end times is "spiritual warfare"
which is why Paul tells us to put on the whole Gospel Armor in Eph. 6:13,
that ye may be able to withstand that evil day.

[7] And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.
The world wars and the cold wars, i.e. threatening reports of another world war and the global nuclear annihilation of mankind, would take place to bring about the alignment of the nations and the conditioning of the people's minds;  
"but the end shall not be yet".

No, it is when you begin to see the breakdown of the economic and political "walls  that separate the free nations and the communist nations" (symbolized by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989)  and you see the "Iron Curtain" come down and "mix with the miry clay"  that the labor pangs (sorrows) signaling the birth of a new age would begin!

And so they have begun!

You see, the political and economic "Globalization"  of both the Christian (kingdom) nations and the ethnic nations would begin to take rise.

In other words the "beast" of Rev. 13:1 would begin to rise up from the sea, from among all peoples and nations!

Did you know that Jesus Christ foretold us about globalization. Of that "rising together"?

Here are His words:

[8] For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
If you look up the word against in this verse in your Strong's Concordance
it will help you to understand more clearly what Christ is saying.
Matthew 24:7 For nation [ethos, i.e. ethnic nations] shall rise [stand up] against [means along side of, beside] nation, and kingdom [properly royalty, i.e. the nations of the true house of Israel] against kingdom...
It has come to pass!

Below is a picture of the largest gathering of kings, presidents and leaders of nations in the history of mankind!

word summit picture
Millennium Summit 2000

The Kingdoms and the Nations at the Millennium Summit 2000 
America's president, Bill Clinton, standing just left of center. front row.

"AP News, Sat. Aug. 19, 2000 UNITED NATIONS --- ... More than 150 world leaders to meet at the United Nations..The Millennium Summit from Sept. 6-8 - billed as the largest gathering of heads of state and government in history - focuses on the role of the United Nations in the 21st century."

When you begin to see globalization, the rising of the New World Order,
the "beast" with all it's ensnaring tentacles (WTO, IMF, World Court,
Peace Keeping troops, etc.) then... "there shall be earthquakes in divers places,  and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows."

And that brings us to this great Book of Habakkuk.

How so?

Because God's elect who have eyes to see and ears to hear  shall witness (even are witnessing) the captivity and oppression of their people  and all the injustice and corruption and iniquity in divers places, meaning in all areas of society (education, economics, politics, religion), that is already accompanying the emergence and stranglehold of the beast as described in the Book of Revelation!

Though it is God's Plan that "all these things come to pass" exactly as it written in His Word.  "Seeing" all "these things" and the ensuing injustice take place day after day after day  can become quite wearisome at times for those who know and love the Word of God,  who see such "iniquity abound and the love (of truth, i.e. God's Word) of so many wax cold"!

Matthew 24:12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. [13] But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.  
How is it that we "endure" unto the end
and "see" our way through that darkest hour of the night?

Unlike the "foolish virgins" of Mat. 25, we must be "wise virgins"
and remain focused on our Father's Word by filling our lamps daily with that illuminating oil of His Spirit, His Word.

In other words, we must be patient and hold fast and "embrace" our loving Father  through prayer and through prayerfully studying His Word.
 
He is so good to us and just like He gave us the great Book of Job to help us remember to "stand up" when we are persecuted (and not sit) seeing and knowing and trusting in His great power and His great purpose, He likewise gave us this great Book of Habakkuk to "embrace" when we mourn and lament the evil and oppression during that darkest hour (for it grows darker and darker with each passing day) and to help us also to remember His great power and His great purpose, ESPECIALLY the "wonderful work" He is accomplishing in these last days!

So if you have never studied this Book of Habakkuk, whose name means "to embrace",  you will find it to be most informative and inspiring and uplifting as our Father tells it like it is  in His response to Habakkuk's (and your) crying out,
 "How Long, O Lord?"

In fact, after listening to the LORD's "speech" Habakkuk declares his profound "awe"  at understanding His Father's words and then gives one of the most powerful, yet simple and sublime prayers in all of God's Word, concluding with such rejoicing as to bring tears of joy to one's seeing eyes and melt one's heart with gladness.

We will also document as we study this Book of Habakkuk, the Book of Embracing, that his "vision" was given to him for these end times, for the appointed time (2:3), for the time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation (Dan. 12:1).

Even historically, Habakkuk's vision "was given to him just before the fall of Nineveh, which placed Babylon at the head of the Gentile world"

Therefore, as a "type" this places his vision during that dark hour of the reign of Satan as the false-christ, the king of Babylon of Revelation.

Let us begin the Book of Habakkuk. #1.  First click on to Studies on Books of the Bible<<<, to your left, <<< on this <<< screen. #2. Then click open Habakkuk from the new "Table of Contents" that appears. #3. Then click unto the study or chapter you want to see.