Tuesday, December 16, 2014

DBRP_Dec17_2014 Hab1-2 Is55a Rev8


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The book of Nahum ended with these words about Nineveh:

19There is no healing for your wound;

your injury is fatal.

All who hear of your destruction

will clap their hands for joy.

Where can anyone be found

who has not suffered from your continual cruelty?

And now we turn to the book of Habakkuk. Habakkuk preached at the time when it was clear (through prophecy and conquest taking place) that Babylon would defeat Judah. This was between 627 and 605 BC, which would have been at the same time as Jeremiah, Nahum, Zephaniah were living, and Daniel may have been a young boy.

We often hear people questioning how God could be good and loving and allow various disasters or evil things to happen. And Habakkuk asks that question, and another: “Why do You, God, use a nation that is more sinful than we are to punish us?”

Mears gives this neat outline of the three chapters of Habakkuk:

  1. Watch and see

  2. Stand and see

  3. Kneel and see

https://www.bible.com/bible/116/hab.1.nlt

 


 

At the beginning of Isaiah 54, we heard words quoted by Paul in Gal. 4:27:

1“Sing, O childless woman,

you who have never given birth!

Break into loud and joyful song, O Jerusalem,

you who have never been in labor.

At that point Paul was quoting this, he was using Sarah as a metaphor for the New Jerusalem, which, he says, is our ‘mother’.

Also perhaps you noticed another interesting thing in Isaiah 54: In just a few days in our reading of Revelation we will hear about precious gems used in building the New Jerusalem.

11“O storm-battered city,

troubled and desolate!

I will rebuild you with precious jewels

and make your foundations from lapis lazuli.

12I will make your towers of sparkling rubies,

your gates of shining gems,

and your walls of precious stones.

https://www.bible.com/bible/116/isa.55.nlt

 


 

We turn now to Revelation 8. Remember that in Rev. 7 we saw first the 144,000 from the tribes of Israel. 144,000 = 12 x 12,000. Remember, numbers in Revelation have symbolic meanings! Now the question is whether the next group that John sees is the same group or a different one. He says that they were “a vast crowd, too great to count, from every nation and tribe and people and language.”

Look closer at God’s Word and you will always see that it is very deep. Look closely at the names of the 12 tribes! Notice that the list has been altered from the normal list repeated in the Old Testament. Which tribes are missing? Which tribe is doubled up? Note that the answers to this may hold a clue as to whether the 144,000 is made up only of ethnic Jews. There is gold to dig for here!

https://www.bible.com/bible/116/rev.8.nlt

 


 

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