{"id":386,"date":"2022-03-08T16:45:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T16:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moradortemporal.com\/celc\/?page_id=386"},"modified":"2022-03-31T14:10:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T14:10:01","slug":"habacuc-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/moradortemporal.com\/celc\/habacuc-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Habacuc"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Habakkuk is the prophet of faith. His name means \u201cEmbrace,\u201d or \u201cone who strongly enfolds.\u201d Through all the mystery of sin and its apparent success, through the mystery of suffering and of God\u2019s judgments, he lays hold of God\u2019s promises, and clings to Him with faith triumphant.<\/p>

He tells us nothing about himself except that he was a prophet, and we may infer from Habakkuk 3, which is evidently a Psalm for the Temple, that he had to do with arranging its services, and was probably a Levite, as he speaks of \u201cmy stringed instruments.\u201d<\/p>

Habakkuk opens his prophecy with the cry, \u201cO Lord, how long shall I cry and Thou wilt not hear?\u201d as he looks round upon the iniquity which prevailed in Judah.<\/p>

The Lord\u2019s answer is that He is about to bring a punishment upon this sinful nation in the form of the terrible Chaldean invasion.<\/p>

The Chaldeans were noted for their cavalry (Habakkuk 1:8<\/a>); they were noted also for scoffing at their captive kings (Habakkuk 1:10<\/a>). Jeremiah\u2019s prophecy was fulfilled that Jehoiakim should be \u201cburied with the burial of an ass,\u201d that is, \u201ccast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem,\u201d as food for the vultures (Jeremiah 22:19<\/a>).<\/p>

Having seen in vision the destruction of his people, Habakkuk again brings his questionings in confidence to God (Habakkuk 1:12<\/a>): \u201cArt Thou not from everlasting, O Lord, my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cThe Just shall live by Faith.\u201d Habakkuk\u2019s next question is, How is it that He who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity will execute His vengeance upon Judah by a people even worse than themselves? He then resolves to wait for God\u2019s answer to his complaint.<\/p>

As he waits upon God on his watch-tower God speaks again, and tells him to make plain, so that he that runs may read it, this glorious message for all time, \u201cThe just shall live by faith.\u201d \u201cThis motto became the center of Paul\u2019s teaching (Roman 1:17;\u00a0Galatians 3:11<\/a>; Hebrew 10:38). In Romans just is the emphatic word; in Galatians faith; in Hebrews live\u201d (Dr. Pierson). Habakkuk speaks of an immediate vision, but he looks on to the end. \u201cAt the end it shall speak … though it tarry wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.\u201d In Hebrews the quotation, \u201cThe just shall live by faith,\u201d is preceded by the words, \u201cFor yet a little while, and He that shall come will come, and will not tarry.\u201d \u201cSurely I come quickly\u201d are our Savior\u2019s last words in the Bible.<\/p>

Then God shows Habakkuk that the Chaldeans will be destroyed themselves for their iniquity. God had used Babylon as His hammer to punish the nations, and He was about to break the hammer itself in pieces (Jeremiah 50:23<\/a>). And He points forward to the Day of Christ when the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea (Habakkuk 2:14<\/a>).<\/p>

Habakkuk\u2019s Prayer. Then follows the prayer of Habakkuk. His description of the majesty of God is as fine as any in the whole Bible. He describes the wonderful history of God\u2019s dealings with His people in bringing them into Canaan. Here again there are foreshadowings of a greater salvation yet to come, as we catch glimpses of the working of Him who is the brightness of His Father\u2019s glory.<\/p>

Three times in this prayer he uses the exclamation Selah, found elsewhere only in the Psalms. It is a call to pause and be silent that the soul may \u201clisten to the divine illuming,\u201d as in\u00a0Habakkuk 2:20<\/a>, \u201cThe Lord is in His holy temple, let all the earth keep silence before Him,\u201d and the words of\u00a0Habakkuk 2:1<\/a>, \u201cI will watch to see what He will say unto me.\u201d How much we need this silence of soul before the Lord in these days, that we may give Him time to speak to us, that we may \u201clisten to the divine illuming.\u201d As we saw in studying the book of Job, the rays of light are vocal, but it needs a finely-tuned ear indeed to hear them.<\/p>

Though the prophet trembles at the revelations of the Lord, yet he stays himself upon Him in quiet confidence, knowing that he can rest in the day of trouble. He sums up in the finest poetical language the failure of everything of earth, and when all nature and every seeming hope is dead, he adds, \u201cYet will I rejoice, as with exulting joy, in the God of my salvation.\u201d It is almost the name of Jesus, for Jesus is \u2018Jehovah\u2014Salvation,\u201d or \u201cJehovah is Salvation,\u201d whence the words are here rendered, even by a Jew, \u201cin God the Author of my redemption,\u201d and by Augustine, \u201cIn God my Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Cronolog\u00eda de Habacuc<\/span><\/b><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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722<\/span><\/b>\u00a0: El Reino del Norte de Israel (10 tribus) cae y es exiliado a Asiria (\u00a0<\/span>2 Reyes 17:22-23<\/span><\/a>\u00a0)<\/span><\/p>

640<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Jos\u00edas se convierte en rey de Jud\u00e1 (\u00a0<\/span>2 Reyes 22:1-2<\/span><\/a>\u00a0)<\/span><\/p>

627<\/span><\/b>\u00a0: Jerem\u00edas comienza su ministerio prof\u00e9tico (\u00a0<\/span>Jr 1,1-3<\/span><\/a>\u00a0)<\/span><\/p>

626<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 El pr\u00edncipe babilonio\u00a0<\/span>Nabopolassar<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0(\u00a0<\/span>Enciclopedia jud\u00eda<\/span><\/a>\u00a0) restablece Babilonia como ciudad independiente.\u00a0Los babilonios, tambi\u00e9n conocidos como\u00a0<\/span>caldeos<\/span><\/a>\u00a0, son uno de los estados vasallos de Asiria y amenazan con rebelarse.<\/span><\/p>

621<\/span><\/b>\u00a0: \u00a1Redescubrimiento del Libro de la Ley que se hab\u00eda perdido en la Casa de Dios!\u00a0La reforma de Jos\u00edas (pero no un avivamiento duradero) (\u00a0<\/span>2 Reyes 22:8-20<\/span><\/a>\u00a0)<\/span><\/p>

612<\/span><\/b>\u00a0: Nabopolassar forma una alianza con los medos y busca dominar Asiria saqueando\u00a0<\/span>N\u00ednive<\/span><\/a>\u00a0, la capital de\u00a0<\/span>Asiria .<\/span><\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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609<\/span><\/b>\u00a0: Muerte del piadoso\u00a0<\/span>rey Jos\u00edas<\/span><\/a>\u00a0en\u00a0<\/span>Meguido<\/span><\/a>\u00a0cuando trat\u00f3 de impedir que el fara\u00f3n Neco, rey de Egipto, formara una alianza con el rey de Asiria (\u00a0<\/span>2 Reyes 23:29-37<\/span><\/a>\u00a0).<\/span><\/p>

607<\/span><\/b>\u00a0: Habacuc comienza su ministerio prof\u00e9tico<\/span><\/p>

605<\/span><\/b>\u00a0: Nabucodonosor derrota al fara\u00f3n Necao de Egipto en la\u00a0<\/span>batalla de Carquemis<\/span><\/a>\u00a0= \"el punto de inflexi\u00f3n de la historia mundial\"<\/span><\/p>

605<\/span><\/b>\u00a0: Primera invasi\u00f3n de Jud\u00e1 por Nabucodonosor rey de Babilonia;\u00a0Daniel llevado cautivo<\/span><\/p>

597<\/span><\/b>\u00a0: Segunda invasi\u00f3n de Jud\u00e1 por Babilonia;\u00a0Ezequiel y 10.000 llevados cautivos<\/span><\/p>

592<\/span><\/b>\u00a0: Ezequiel comienza su ministerio prof\u00e9tico a los exiliados de Babilonia<\/span><\/p>

586<\/span><\/b>\u00a0: Ca\u00edda de Jerusal\u00e9n, Destrucci\u00f3n del Templo<\/span><\/p>

538<\/span><\/b>\u00a0: Los exiliados regresan de Babilonia a Jud\u00e1 (regreso de un n\u00famero relativamente peque\u00f1o)<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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COMENTARIOS, ILUSTRACIONES Y NOTAS EN HABACUC<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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NOTAS DE BARNES SOBRE LA BIBLIA<\/p>