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35 Habakkuk

35 Habakkuk. # 1. HABAKKUK. Judah (Northern Kingdom already in Assyrian exile). Est. Year BC Prophet From / To Period Address Obadiah 848 / 841 Pre-Exile Edom Joel 835 / 835 Pre-Exile Judah Jonah 782 / 753 Pre-Exile Assyria Amos 760 / 753 Pre-Exile Israel

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35 Habakkuk

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  1. 35 Habakkuk # 1 HABAKKUK Judah (Northern Kingdom already in Assyrian exile)

  2. Est. Year BC • ProphetFrom / ToPeriodAddress • Obadiah 848 / 841 Pre-Exile Edom • Joel 835 / 835 Pre-Exile Judah • Jonah 782 / 753 Pre-Exile Assyria • Amos 760 / 753 Pre-Exile Israel • Hosea 755 / 715 Pre-Exile Israel • lsaiah 740 / 680 Pre-Exile Judah • Micah 735 / 700 Pre-Exile Judah, Israel in Exile Judah • Nahum 664 / 654 Pre-Exile Judah, Israel in Exile Assyria • Zephaniah 632 / 628 Pre-Exile Judah, Israel in Exile Judah • Jeremiah 627 / 580 Pre-Exile Judah, Israel in Exile Judah • Habakkuk 609 / 605 Pre-Exile Judah, Israel in Exile Judah • Daniel 605 / 535 Judah also In Exile Judah • Ezekiel 593 / 571 Judah also In Exile Judah • Haggai 520 / 520 Post-Exile Returned Jew • Zechariah 520 / 480 Post-Exile Returned Jew • Malachi 432 / 424 Post-Exile Returned Jew # 2

  3. The Prophets: # 3 The pre-exilic prophets are simply those that were given to these nations before the children of Israel were taken into captivity into the land of Babylon - before it, 'pre-'. The exilic prophets are those that were written by the children of Israel, and to the children of Israel, in the land of Babylon during their captivity. Then the post-exilic prophets are written after that, when the children of Israel have been delivered and have come out of their captivity in Babylon.

  4. OT Prophets # 4 • There were many nations, many empires, in the days of the minor prophets. • In the time of the prophets, Major and Minor, the Israelites had three main enemies. • The Edomites, • The Assyrians, and • The Chaldeans (who were the Babylonians).

  5. OT Prophets # 5 • Habakkuk delivers a pre-exile message concerning Babylon and ultimately of their judgment and their doom. • The Hosea and Amos were written to the northern Kingdom of Israel. • Lamentations, Micah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Joel, Zephaniah, and Habakkuk were written to the southern Kingdom of Judah. • Jonah and Nahum were written to Assyria ; • Obadiah was written to Edom, Israel's enemy. • During the exile from Babylon, Daniel and Ezekiel were written. • After Judah came out of exile in the land of Babylon, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi were written to the city of Jerusalem. • The Assyrian Empire and the Babylonian Empire are the two main empires that we think about as we study the book of Habakkuk.

  6. OT Prophets # 6 • Pre Exile: • To Israel (Ephraim) • Hosea, Amos • To Judah • Lamentations, Micah, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Joel, • Zephaniah, Habakkuk • To Assyria • Jonah, Nahum • To Edom • Obadiah • In Exile from Babylon • Ezekiel, Daniel • Post Exile to Jerusalem • Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi

  7. The Kingdoms of Israel and Judah # 7

  8. Habakkuk 1:1 - ESV • (1:1) The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet saw. • (2) O LORD, how long shall I cry for help, and you will not hear? • Or cry to you "Violence!" and you will not save? • (3) Why do you make me see iniquity, and • why do you idly look at wrong? • Destruction and violence are before me; • strife and contention arise. • (4) So the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. • For the wicked surround the righteous; • so justice goes forth perverted.

  9. Habakkuk 1:5 - ESV • (5) "Look among the nations, and see; wonder and be astounded. • For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told. • (6) For behold, I am raising up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, who march through the breadth of the earth, to seize dwellings not their own. • (7) They are dreaded and fearsome; • their justice and dignity go forth from themselves. • (8) Their horses are swifter than leopards, • more fierce than the evening wolves; • their horsemen press proudly on. • Their horsemen come from afar; • they fly like an eagle swift to devour. • (9) They all come for violence, all their faces forward. • They gather captives like sand. • (10) At kings they scoff, and at rulers they laugh. • They laugh at every fortress, for they pile up earth and take it. • (11) Then they sweep by like the wind and go on, • guilty men, whose own might is their god!“

  10. Habakkuk 1:12 - ESV • (12) Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? • We shall not die. O LORD, you have ordained them as a judgment, • and you, O Rock, have established them for reproof. • (13) You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong, • why do you idly look at traitors and remain silent when the wicked swallows up the man more righteous than he? • (14) You make mankind like the fish of the sea, • like crawling things that have no ruler. • (15) He brings all of them up with a hook; • he drags them out with his net; • he gathers them in his dragnet; • so he rejoices and is glad. • (16) Therefore he sacrifices to his net and makes offerings to his dragnet; for by them he lives in luxury, and his food is rich. • (17) Is he then to keep on emptying his net and mercilessly killing nations forever?

  11. Habakkuk 2:1 - ESV • (2:1) I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint. • (2) And the LORD answered me: "Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. • (3) For still the vision awaits its appointed time; • it hastens to the end -- it will not lie. • If it seems slow, wait for it; • it will surely come; • it will not delay. • (4) "Behold, his soul is puffed up; • it is not upright within him, • but the righteous shall live by his faith.

  12. Habakkuk 2:5 - ESV • (5) "Moreover, wine is a traitor, an arrogant man who is never at rest. • His greed is as wide as Sheol; • like death he has never enough. • He gathers for himself all nations and • collects as his own all peoples.“ • (6) Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, • with scoffing and riddles for him, and say, • "Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own-- for how long?-- and loads himself with pledges!“ • (7) Will not your debtors suddenly arise, • and those awake who will make you tremble? • Then you will be spoil for them. • (8) Because you have plundered many nations, • all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you, • for the blood of man and violence to the earth, • to cities and all who dwell in them.

  13. Habakkuk 2:9 - ESV • (9) "Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house, • to set his nest on high, to be safe from the reach of harm! • (10) You have devised shame for your house by cutting off many peoples; • you have forfeited your life. • (11) For the stone will cry out from the wall, and • the beam from the woodwork respond. • (12) "Woe to him who builds a town with blood and • founds a city on iniquity! • (13) Behold, is it not from the LORD of hosts that peoples labor merely for fire, • and nations weary themselves for nothing? • (14) For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.

  14. Habakkuk 2:15 - ESV • (15) "Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink • -- you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, • in order to gaze at their nakedness! • (16) You will have your fill of shame instead of glory. • Drink, yourself, and show your uncircumcision! • The cup in the LORD's right hand will come around to you, and utter shame will come upon your glory! • (17) The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, • as will the destruction of the beasts that terrified them, • for the blood of man and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell in them.

  15. Habakkuk 2:18 - ESV • (18) "What profit is an idol when its maker has shaped it, • a metal image, • a teacher of lies? • For its maker trusts in his own creation when he makes speechless idols! • (19) Woe to him who says to a wooden thing, • Awake; to a silent stone, Arise! • Can this teach? • Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, • and there is no breath at all in it. • (20) But the LORD is in his holy temple; • let all the earth keep silence before him.“

  16. Habakkuk 3:1 - ESV • (3:1) A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth. • (2) O LORD, I have heard the report of you, and your work, • O LORD, do I fear. • In the midst of the years revive it; • in the midst of the years make it known; • in wrath remember mercy. • (3) God came from Teman, and • the Holy One from Mount Paran. • His splendor covered the heavens, • and the earth was full of his praise. Selah

  17. Habakkuk 3:4 - ESV • (4) His brightness was like the light; • rays flashed from his hand; and • there he veiled his power. • (5) Before him went pestilence, and • plague followed at his heels. • (6) He stood and measured the earth; • he looked and shook the nations; • then the eternal mountains were scattered; • the everlasting hills sank low. • His were the everlasting ways.

  18. Habakkuk 3:7 - ESV • (7) I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; • the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. • (8) Was your wrath against the rivers, O LORD? • Was your anger against the rivers, • or your indignation against the sea, • when you rode on your horses, • on your chariot of salvation? • (9) You stripped the sheath from your bow, • calling for many arrows. Selah • You split the earth with rivers. • (10) The mountains saw you and writhed; • the raging waters swept on; • the deep gave forth its voice; • it lifted its hands on high. • (11) The sun and moon stood still in their place • at the light of your arrows as they sped, • at the flash of your glittering spear.

  19. Habakkuk 3:12 - ESV • (12) You marched through the earth in fury; • you threshed the nations in anger. • (13) You went out for the salvation of your people, • for the salvation of your anointed. • You crushed the head of the house of the wicked, • laying him bare from thigh to neck. Selah • (14) You pierced with his own arrows the heads of his warriors, • who came like a whirlwind to scatter me, • rejoicing as if to devour the poor in secret. • (15) You trampled the sea with your horses, • the surging of mighty waters.

  20. Habakkuk 3:16 - ESV • (16) I hear, and my body trembles; • my lips quiver at the sound; • rottenness enters into my bones; • my legs tremble beneath me. • Yet I will quietly wait for the day of trouble to come upon people who invade us. • (17) Though the fig tree should not blossom, • nor fruit be on the vines, • the produce of the olive fail and • the fields yield no food, • the flock be cut off from the fold and • there be no herd in the stalls, • (18) yet I will rejoice in the LORD; • I will take joy in the God of my salvation. • (19) GOD, the Lord, is my strength; • he makes my feet like the deer's; • he makes me tread on my high places. • To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments.

  21. Habakkuk Introduction # 22 • Habakkuk is among the last of the “minor” prophets to preach in Judah before the Babylonian captivity. • NT quotes: • Hab 1:5 Acts 13:40-41 • Hab 2:4 Rom 1:17; Gal 3:11; Heb 10:38 • Hab 3:17-19 Phil 4:4, 10-19 • Habakkuk probably lived about the 12th or 13th year of the reign of Josiah. • The book was probably written about 609 b.c., during the reign of Jehoiakim. • Those were dark, troubling times. • Babylon formed an axis with the Medes to overthrow the Assyrians; would continue to rise under the generalship (and later kingship) of Nebuchadnezzar.

  22. Jehoram 8 Ahaziah 1 Athaliah 6 Joash 40 Amaziah 29 Uzziah 52 Jotham 16 Ahaz 16 Hezekiah 29 Manasseh 55 Amon 2 Josiah 31 Jehoahaz (3 mos) Jehoiakim 11 Jehoiakin (3 mos) Zedekiah 11 Jehoram 12 Jehu 28 Jehoahaz 17 Jehoash 16 Jeroboam II 41 Zechariah½ Shallum (1 mo) Menahem 10 Pekahiah 2 Pekah 20 Hoshea 9 Assyrian Captivity Assyria falls to Babylon Post-Exile Ezra Zerubabel (400 “Silent Years”) & The New Testament Nehemiah Esther The Southern Kingdom The Northern Kingdom 2nd Kings & 2 Chronicles 2nd Kings Elisha Minor Prophets Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Nahum Habakkuk Zephaniah Haggai Zechariah Malachi Joel Nineveh Jonah Hosea Amos Isaiah Micah Zephaniah Northern Kingdom Hosea Amos Gentiles Obadiah Jonah Nahum Southern Kingdom Joel Micah Zephaniah Habakkuk Post-Exile Haggal Zechariah Malachi Jeremiah Nahum Habakkuk Obadiah Daniel Babylonian Captivity Ezekiel Haggai Zechariah Malachi

  23. Decree of Cyrus Babylon 1st Siege Decree of Artaxerxes 2nd Siege 3rd Siege Triggers the 70 Weeks of Daniel “Servitude of the Nation” “Desolations of Jerusalem” Ezra 2nd Chronicles Nehemiah Persian Empire Jeremiah Zephaniah Habakkuk Esther Daniel Ezekiel Haggai Zechariah Malachi

  24. Habakkuk a Priest and a Prophet ? # 25 • Habakkuk was probably a priest before he was called as a prophet. (“my stringed instruments...” cf. Hab 3:19) , as was also Jeremiah, and at about the same time. • Habakkuk’s book is not being initiated by God into the ministry of a Prophet, but rather Habakkuk is initiating a dialogue with God about the ministry. • Habakkuk is the initiator and God is the responder. • Habakkuk’s little book indicates that he knew the Scriptures well, was a competent theologian, and had great faith in God. • Because chapter 3 is a psalm some scholars think he may have been a priest who led worship in the temple. • If so, then like Jeremiah and Ezekiel, he was a priest called to be a prophet — a more difficult ministry.

  25. Habakkuk Introduction # 26 • Habakkuk means “to embrace” or “to wrestle”. He does both. • He wrestles with God concerning the problem of how a holy God could use a wicked nation like Babylon to chasten the people of Judah. • Then by faith, he embraces God and clings to His promises. • Habakkuk wrestles with the spiritual decline of the nation and why God wasn’t doing something about it. • Habakkuk wanted to see the people revived (3:2), but God wasn’t answering his prayers. • Habakkuk’s main theme (like Ps 37, 49, 73, Job, et al.) is God’s consistency with Himself in view of permitted evil; • the affliction of the godly and the prosperity of the ungodly. • Why do bad things happen to good people? • “theodicy”: a defense of God’s goodness and omnipotence in view of evil.

  26. Habakkuk 1 The Prophet’s Questions # 27 • When you trust Jesus Christ, you don’t get rid of all your problems. • Your basic spiritual problem — your relationship with God — has been solved, but with that solution comes a whole new set of problems and questions: • “Why do good people suffer and evil people prosper?” or • “Why isn’t God answering my prayer?” or • “When I’m doing my best for the Lord, why do I experience the worst from others?” • Christians who claim to be without problems or questions are either not telling the truth or just not growing and experiencing real life.

  27. Habakkuk 1 The Prophet’s Questions # 28 • Like Job’s uncomfortable comforters, we often mistake shallow optimism for the peace of God and “the good life” for the blessing of God. • Habakkuk wasn’t that kind of a believer. • Even David and Jesus asked, • “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” • (Ps. 22:1; Matt. 27:46). • Paul often expressed his concerns for his countrymen and fellow believers and felt deep despair himself. • As Habakkuk surveyed the land of Judah and then watched the international scene, he found himself struggling with some serious problems. • But he did the right thing: he took his problems to the Lord.

  28. Habakkuk in His Time # 29 • Habakkuk was a contemporary of Nahum, Zephaniah, and Jeremiah, during the reigns of Josiah (640–609 BC) and Jehoiakim (609–598). • Assyria was off the scene; • Babylon (“the Chaldeans”) was in power. • Shortly before King Nebuchadnezzar came and ravaged the cities of Assyria, he went through Nineveh as Jonah had warned them. • By this time Nebuchadnezzar had defeated Egypt in 605 and was about to attack Judah. • Jeremiah had announced that Babylon would invade Judah. • Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the temple and the city and carried many of the people of Judah into the land of Babylon where they remained for 70 years in captivity.

  29. Habakkuk Historical ContextKing Josiah # 30 • Josiah was one of the better kings of Judah: • He began to reign at age 8; • Sought the Lord at age 16 (2 Chr 34:3). • At 26, he ordered the temple to be remodeled; • A copy of the law was found by Hilkiah the priest in a corner of the Temple. • Apparently there was not another known copy in the land. • Josiah had it read aloud to the people who were amazed. • Josiah realized how far they had drifted from God’s commands. • He wept before the Lord and called the people to seek the Lord and institute the festivals and feasts of Israel once again.

  30. Habakkuk Historical ContextKing Josiah # 31 • After the death of Josiah (in a battle with Pharaoh Necho of Egypt on the plain of Megiddo in 609 b.c.), disillusionment with the reforms set in. • Judah reverted to its former ways. • Jeremiah and Ezekiel describe this period in detail. • The reign of Josiah (640-609 b.c.) had allowed the people to enjoy a greater degree of prosperity than had been possible in previous years. • Ignoring the spiritual dimensions, they thought the new era would last indefinitely. • The realities that faced them, however, could not have been anticipated by either the political liberals or the religiously minded conservatives.

  31. Habakkuk Historical Context # 32 • By this time, the power of Assyria had collapsed. • Political supremacy belonged to Egypt. • Strong political ties, however, had been established with the emerging kingdom of Babylon. • Judah being a vassal of Egypt and a friend of Babylon seemed to be secure with no serious threat to their prosperity. • As in most times of relative peace and prosperity, the leaders and the people ignored the spiritual reasons for their material prosperity. • Then (as now): • The rich exploit the poor. • Greed and avarice characterize the times. • Perversions of all kinds are openly promoted and protected by law. • Real power is increasingly concentrated among an elite few... • Then Habakkuk, Zephaniah, and Jeremiah were on the scene — calling the people to true spirituality.

  32. Habakkuk Historical Context King Jehoikim # 33 • After Josiah came Jehoikim (609-598 b.c.), an evil king. • Between was Jehoahaz, who only lasted three months. • Jehoikim’s reign was characterized by injustice and bloodshed. • He burned an initial scroll by Jeremiah; • Jeremiah then prophesied an even bleaker future for Judah (Jer 36:29). • Habakkuk wonders: “Lord, why don’t you judge your people?” • Jer 22:3, 13-17; alsoJer 12:1; 20:8; and Job 19:7. • Habakkuk starts out wrestling with God and ends up worshiping Him.

  33. Habakkuk Chapter 1 Outline # 34 • I. THE PROPHET WONDERING AND WORRYING • A. God is indifferent — 1:2–4 • God’s reply: I am working — 1:5–11 • B. God is inconsistent — 1:12–17

  34. Habakkuk Chapter 2 Outline # 35 • II. THE PROPHET WATCHING AND WAITING • A. Write God’s vision — 2:1–3 • B. Trust God’s world — 2:4–5 • “The just shall live by faith” 2:4 • C. Declare God’s judgment — 2:6–20 • 1. Woe to the selfish — 2:6–8 • 2. Woe to the covetous — 2:9–11 • 3. Woe to the exploiters — 2:12–14 • “God’s glory will fill the earth” — 2:14 • 4. Woe to the drunkards — 2:15–17 • 5. Woe to the idolaters — 2:18–20 • “God is still on His throne” — 2:20

  35. Habakkuk Chapter 3 Outline # 36 • III. THE PROPHET WORSHIPPING AND WITNESSING • A. He prays to God — 3:1–2 • B. He ponders God’s ways — 3:3–15 • C. He praises God — 3:16–19

  36. The Book of Habakkuk # 37 • A Burden: An agony of perplexity • The ostensible silence, inactivity, and apparent unconcern of God • Why would God use a people far more wicked than Judah themselves? • A Vision • “The Just Shall Live By Faith” 2:4 • A Prayer • “Rest in the day of tribulation” 3:16

  37. Habakkuk # 38 • The first chapter deals with a burden: sighing, • Chapter 1: faith - this man's faith, and our faith, grappling with problems • The second chapter deals with a vision: seeing, • Chapter 2 we find: faith grasping at the solution, • The third chapter deals with a prayer: singing. • Chapter 3: faith glorifying in its assurance.

  38. Key verse / The Theme: Habakkuk 2:4 # 39 The Just Shall Live By Faith Romans 1:17 The Just Shall Live By Faith Galatians 3:11 The Just Shall Live By Faith Hebrews 10:38 It takes three New Testament books to explain and apply this one verse!

  39. Habakkuk # 40 • Habakkuk is a lament, • especially chapter 3 is a Psalm, • it is a weeping Psalm • it's not a public address, • it's not specifically a message of preaching that was given by this prophet Habakkuk to the nation of Judah, • This little book is a discourse, • it's a dialogue, a speech, a debate between this man and God. • It seems that there was no one else speaking within the book.

  40. Habakkuk Assurance amidst Woe # 41 • God’s statements are the assurances that God gave to Habakkuk in the midst of the “woes.” • They remind us that, no matter how difficult life may become: • God’s promises can be trusted (v. 4), • His glory will one day prevail (v. 14), and • He is on His holy throne in complete control of people and events (v. 20). • When Habakkuk realized this, he broke out into singing (chp 3)

  41. Habakkuk # 42 • The God-Bound Man Of Burden • Watching And Waiting • Doing It God's Way • The Welcome Woes • Revive Thy Work • When God Works

  42. BEWARE THE LAMB Habakkuk 1

  43. Habakkuk 1:1-5 # 44 • 1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. • 2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! • 3 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. • 4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth. • 5 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you. • Three things to notice from the five verses of the first chapter. • 1st : a man, the embracer of God. • 2nd : a burden. That burden is the silence of God. • 3rd : a hope, the promise of God.

  44. Habakkuk 1:1 The Embracer Of God # 45 • 1:1 The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw. • Habakkuk's closeness to God was the reason why he was burdened. • Such closeness is not always without its questions and always brings its burdens. • Being a perceptive man, Habakkuk knew the kingdom of Judah was rapidly deteriorating. • Since the death of King Josiah in 609 BC, his religious reforms had been forgotten and his son and successor Jehoiakim had been leading the nation closer to disaster. • If you want to know what God thought about Jehoiakim, read Jer. 22:13–19.

  45. Habakkuk 1:1 The Burden # 46 • 1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. • We don't know much about Habakkuk. • We don't know who his family was. • We don't really know what tribe he was from. • We don't know where he was born, or where he lived. • The people of his day may have known him very well • which may be why he didn't need to give any info about who he was. • We do know that the name Habakkuk means: • 'The embracer of God‘ • He hugged God tight, • He clung onto God, • He was one who held onto God staying close to Him.

  46. Habakkuk 1:1 The Burden # 47 • 1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. • Habakkuk was burdened because he was so close to God, • It's almost as if he felt in some small way what God was feeling. • God was imparted to him His feelings, His convictions, His viewpoint of the nation of Judah at that particular time. • To be an embracer of God, to hold onto God no matter what. • What burdens God, will burden you. • What saddens God, will sadden you. • What angers God, will anger you. • What pleases God, will please you.

  47. Habakkuk 1:1 The Burden # 48 • The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. • Every Old Testament book within the Hebrew Bible begins and is titled with the first few words of the book. • In the Hebrew Bible the book of Habakkuk is actually entitled: • 'The Burden Of Habakkuk‘ • Which is the first few words of the book. • “...burden”: massah, a load to be lifted; heavy judgments

  48. Habakkuk 1:1 The Burden # 49 • 1 The burden H4853 which Habakkuk the prophet did see. KJV • 1 The oracle H4853 which Habakkuk the prophet saw. NASB • H4853 משּׂאmaśśâ‘= “burden” • 1) load, bearing, tribute, burden, lifting (noun masculine) • 1a) load, burden • 1b) lifting, uplifting, that to which the soul lifts itself up • 1c) bearing, carrying • 1d) tribute, that which is carried or brought or borne • 2) utterance, oracle, burden (noun masculine) • 3) a son of Ishmael (noun proper masculine) • It's used of the Levites when they carried the Ark of the Covenant • Deu 1:12, Job 7:20, use this word as a burden of the soul • As if the burden that they bear is something that they have been given, not to chide, not to harm, but as a responsibility given for them to steward and for them to use - they are responsible for it.

  49. Habakkuk 1:1 The Burden # 50 • 1 The burden H4853 which Habakkuk the prophet did see. KJV • The oracle H4853 which Habakkuk the prophet saw. NASB • The idea here is that it's not something to be hidden • Mat 5:15-16 [Mar 4:21; Luk 11:33] • 15 nor does anyone light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house. • 16 "Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven. • When Paul testified to Festus, he said to him: • Act 26:26 “....I am persuaded that none of these things escape his notice; for this has not been done in a corner. • The burden, the message, the oracle of the Gospel that we have for souls (or ought to have), we have been given by the Lord Jesus Christ is not something to be kept within oursleves. • It's something to be lifted up that the world may see it and fear, and that many may trust in the Lord!

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