Review
and Overview
1
Segway
Habakkuk
2
Background
A. Title - “an oracle” that was “a
burden” (1:1)
B. Timing Manasseh, Josiah, or Jehoiakim
Clues
(1:2, 5, 6 & 3:19)
1.5 a work, which you
will not believe…utterly astounding...
1.6 Chaleans, which
marches through the breadth of the earth
3.19 To the chief
Musician.
Geography
and History of Habakkuk’s Time
620 BC—Babylon (Chaldeans) becomes
independent
612 BC—Babylonians and Medes
destroy Nineveh
609 BC—Babylonians defeat
the Assyrians at Haran
605 BC—Babylonians defeat
Necho II of Egypt at Carchemish
605 BC—Jerusalem defeated and exile begins (Daniel)
597 BC—Jerusalem defeated (Ezekiel probably taken Ez
1.2)
588-86 BC—Jerusalem burned & temple
2. Early in the
Babylonian rise to power (625-612 BC)C. Overview of Habakkuk series
1.1-11 “The Prophet’s Plea” -
1st prayer & God’s response
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1.12-2.4 “The Prophet’s Puzzle” -
2nd prayer & God’s response
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2.5-20 “Prophet’s Pronouncement” -
The five “woes” pronounced
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3.1-16 “The Prophet’s Prayer” -
Prayer in response to God
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3.16-19 “The Prophet’s Praise” -
The chorus or closing hymn
D. Review
1.
1.1-11 “The Prophet’s Plea”
1st prayer and God’s response
Habakkuk: Why don’t You do
something about Judah’s
wickedness? (2-4)
God: I am going to use the
Chaldeans to punish Judah.
(5-11)
Application: Acts 13.40-41“Beware therefore”
Paul uses Habakkuk to warn
against presumption and complacency.
2.
1.12-2.4 “The Prophet’s Puzzle”
2nd prayer and response
Habakkuk: Why do You look and hold
Your tongue?
God: The appointed time is
coming. The Just shall live by faith.
Application: “The just shall live by faith.”
Romans 1:17; Galatians 3:11;
Hebrews 10:38
3.
2.5-20 “Prophet’s Pronouncement” The five
“woes” pronounced
Introduction
Woe #1
- Ambition
Woe #2
- Greed
Woe #3
- Violence
Woe #4
- Contempt for others
Woe #5
– Idolatry/Self trust
Big Idea: God will certainly
punish the sins of unbelief and pride.
3.
Overview
3.1-16 “The Prophet’s Prayer” -
Prayer in response to God
1.
Title
2.
Prayer
3.
Theophany
A.
Display of God's Glory 1-6
B.
Demonstration of God's Wrath 7-11
C.
Deliverance of God's People 12-15
Big Idea:
The God Who worked in
history is not finished .
44.
Stand, Read text, and Pray
Habakkuk 3:1-16 (nkjv)
1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, on Shigionoth.
2 O LORD, I have heard
Your speech and was afraid;
O LORD,
revive Your work in the midst of the years!
In the
midst of the years make it known;
In wrath
remember mercy.
3 God came from Teman,
The Holy
One from Mount Paran.
Selah
His glory
covered the heavens,
And the
earth was full of His praise.
4 His brightness was
like the light;
He had
rays flashing from His hand,
And there
His power was hidden.
5 Before Him went
pestilence,
And fever
followed at His feet.
6 He stood and measured
the earth;
He looked
and startled the nations.
And the
everlasting mountains were scattered,
The
perpetual hills bowed.
His ways
are everlasting.
7 I saw the tents of
Cushan in affliction;
The
curtains of the land
of Midian trembled.
8 O LORD, were You
displeased with the rivers,
Was Your
anger against the rivers,
Was Your
wrath against the sea,
That You
rode on Your horses,
Your
chariots of salvation?
9 Your bow was made
quite ready;
Oaths were
sworn over Your arrows.
Selah
You divided the earth with
rivers.
10 The mountains saw You and trembled;
The overflowing of the water passed by.
The deep uttered its voice,
And lifted its hands on high.
11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation;
At the light of Your arrows they went,
At the shining of Your glittering spear.
12 You marched through the land in indignation;
You trampled the nations in anger.
13 You went forth for the salvation of Your people,
For salvation with Your Anointed.
You struck the head from the house of the wicked,
By laying bare from foundation to neck.
10 The mountains saw You and trembled;
The overflowing of the water passed by.
The deep uttered its voice,
And lifted its hands on high.
11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation;
At the light of Your arrows they went,
At the shining of Your glittering spear.
12 You marched through the land in indignation;
You trampled the nations in anger.
13 You went forth for the salvation of Your people,
For salvation with Your Anointed.
You struck the head from the house of the wicked,
By laying bare from foundation to neck.
Selah
14 You thrust through with his
own arrows
The head of his villages.
They came out like a whirlwind to scatter me;
Their rejoicing was like feasting on the poor in secret.
15 You walked through the sea with Your horses,
Through the heap of great waters.
The head of his villages.
They came out like a whirlwind to scatter me;
Their rejoicing was like feasting on the poor in secret.
15 You walked through the sea with Your horses,
Through the heap of great waters.
1. Title
1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, on Shigionoth.
& the term Selah
prophet ...that is may not be regarded as a lyrical
effusion of the subjective emotions, whishes, and hopes of a member of the
congregation, but may be recognized as a production of the prophets,
enlightened by the Sprit of Jehovah, the name of the author is given with the
predicate "the prophet"
—C.F. Keil in Commentary of the OT in
Ten Volumes
Shigionoth
ylt—concerning erring ones; nlt—was sung;
all others—Shigionoth
kjv—upon; nasb,
esv—according
to; nkjv, niv—on;
“probably
denotes an emotional, passionate hymn from the word shgh, “to go astray,
err, sin” (Lev. 4:13), “be intoxicated with love, reel with emotion: (Prov.
5:19-20).
——Merrill Unger in Unger’s Commentary on the OT
a song
delivered in the greatest excitement, or with a rapid change of emotion
——C.F. Keil in Commentary of the OT in
Ten Volumes
The precise meaning of the phrase are uncertain;
its characteristics in Psalm 7 suggest that, as a musical genre, it constitutes
a vehement cry for justice against sin.
——Carl Armerding in the Expositor’s Bible Commentary
after the manner of a stormy, martial, and
triumphal ode ——Schmieder
Selah
seventy-one
times in thirty-nine Psalms
Its meaning
has been obscure to translators since early times; its exclusive
association with psalmic literature suggests that it had a liturgical
function, possibly relating to music or prayer in the temple worship.
——Carl Armerding in the Expositor’s Bible Commentary
"The word
probably signified elevatio, from sâlâh=sâlal, and was
intended to indicate the strengthening of the musical accompaniment…"
——C.F. Keil in Commentary of the OT in
Ten Volumes
Selah is to
call attention to what has been said.
J.V. McGee
2. Prayer
2 O LORD, I have heard
Your speech and was afraid;
O LORD,
revive Your work in the midst of the years!
In the
midst of the years make it known;
In wrath
remember mercy.
a. He was moved by God's Words
was afraid ary 03372 TWOT -
907,908 Yare' yaw-ray'
— (Qal) 1. to fear, be afraid 2. to stand in awe of, be awed 3. to fear, reverence, honour, respect "am alarmed" ——C.F.Keil
ylt, kjv, nkv—afraid; nasb, esv—fear; niv, nlt—stand in/filled with) awe
We are so
unmoved today often because we have not taken time to really take in God's
words and reflect on them as Habakkuk did.
Notice how he was affected by what God had said.
b. He desired to see God work
revive Your work חיה H2421 twot 644 chayah khä·yä' to live, to be restored to life or health
Habakkuk
longs that God's powerful work in the past should be seen in his own day… —Jonathan Lamb in From Why to Worship
— “O Lord,
revive thy work [Thy work of grace to Thy people, Israel, and
judgment upon their enemies] in the midst of the years [of disaster that
we face under Thy chastening hand and at the hand of the cruel Chaldean]”
In wrath
(envisioning the years of the Exile in Babylon)
remember mercy
(răhēm, “compassion” Num.14:19; 2 Sam. 24:15-17; Isa. 54:8).
——Merrill Unger in Unger’s Commentary on the OT
c. He understood God's character
and God's will
The balance between mercy and wrath.
Wrath and
mercy are found right at the heart of the Christian gospel. —Jonathan Lamb in From Why to Worship
The essence of prayer is to plead God's character…
—Jonathan Lamb in From Why to Worship
Exodus 34
6 And the LORD passed
before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious,
longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, 7 keeping
mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no
means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
Romans 11
22 Therefore consider the goodness
and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you,
goodness, …
APPLICATION:
to know God’s
character
to know God’s
will
to pray for His
will
instead
of our wants.
Luke 22:24
Luke 22:42 ...not My will, but Yours, be done.”
When it comes to knowing God we are a culture of
the spiritually stunted. So much of our religion is packaged to address our
felt needs—and these are almost uniformly anchored in our pursuit of our own
happiness and fulfillment. We are not captivated by his holiness and love; his
thoughts and words capture too little of our imagination, too little of our
discourse, too few of our priorities."
——D.A. Carson in A Call to Spiritual Reformation p. 15
Theophany:
Theophany:
a
visible (but not necessarily material) manifestation of a deity to a human
person
"theophany." WordNet® 3.0. Princeton University.
3. Theophany
A. Display of God's glory 1-7
B. Demonstration of God's Wrath 8-11
C. Deliverance of God's People 12-15
"...the
prophets generally were accustomed to describe the divine revelations of the
future under the form of imagery drawn from the acts of God in the
past."
——C.F. Keil in Commentary of the OT in
Ten Volumes
God is
spoken of in third person. verses 3-6
The giving
of law at Mt. Sinai and Egyptian plagues are pictured.
3 God came from Teman,
The Holy
One from Mount Paran.
Selah
His glory
covered the heavens,
And the
earth was full of His praise.
4 His brightness was like
the light;
He had
rays flashing from His hand,
And there
His power was hidden.
5 Before Him went
pestilence,
And fever
followed at His feet.
6 He stood and measured
the earth;
He looked
and startled the nations.
And the
everlasting mountains were scattered,
The
perpetual hills bowed.
His ways
are everlasting.
7 I saw the tents of
Cushan in affliction;
The
curtains of the land
of Midian trembled.
Display of God's glory 1-7
1. God's glory recalled (at Mt. Sinai)
3 God came from Teman,
The Holy
One from Mount Paran.
Selah
His glory
covered the heavens,
And the
earth was full of His praise.
3.3
Terman
The name
of a district and town in the land of Edom, named after Teman the grandson
of Esau, the son of his firstborn, Eliphaz (Genesis 36:11; 1 Chronicles 1:36).
In Ezekiel 25:13 desolation is denounced upon Edom: "From Teman even unto
Dedan shall they fall by the sword." Dedan being in the South, Teman
must be sought in the North ...
The manner
in which the city is mentioned by the prophets, now by itself, and again as
standing for Edom, shows
how important it must have been in their time.
——W. Ewing in [Orr, James, M.A., D.D.
General Editor. "Entry for 'TEMAN'". International Standard Bible
Encyclopedia. .
1915.]
Mount Paran
The hilly country between Edom and Sinai
(Deut. 33:2)
The similarity between Habakkuk 3.3 and
Deuteronomy 33.2 makes a connection in the language between
Deuteronomy
33.2
1 Now this is
the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before
his death. 2 And he said:
“The LORD came from Sinai,
And dawned on them from Seir;
He shone forth from Mount Paran,
And He came with ten thousands of saints;
From His right hand
Came a fiery law for them.
“The LORD came from Sinai,
And dawned on them from Seir;
He shone forth from Mount Paran,
And He came with ten thousands of saints;
From His right hand
Came a fiery law for them.
3 Yes, He loves
the people;
All His saints are in Your hand;
They sit down at Your feet;
Everyone receives Your words.
All His saints are in Your hand;
They sit down at Your feet;
Everyone receives Your words.
4 Moses
commanded a law for us,
A heritage of the congregation of Jacob.
A heritage of the congregation of Jacob.
As Moses depicts the appearance of the Lord at
Sinai as a light shining from Seir and Paran, so does Habakkuk also make the
Holy One appear thence in His glory: but apart from the other difference, he changes the
preterite [past]— (Jehovah came from Sinai) into the future — , He will come,
or comes, to indicate at the very outset that he is about to describe not a
past, but future revelation of the glory of the Lord.
——C.F. Keil in Commentary of the OT in
Ten Volumes
The recognition of the
presence of Chiastic structures in texts enable the interpreter to appreciate
the comparisons and contrasts, to apprehend the emphasis of the textual unit
defined by the chiasmus, to understand the point being made, and to determine
the point or purpose of a composition (Man 1984).
——The Westminster Dictionary of New Testament and
Early Christian Literature and Rhetoric By David Edward Aune p. 94
A. Display of God's glory 1-7
2. God's power hidden (in light)
3.4
4 His brightness was
like the light;
He had rays
flashing from His hand,
And there
His power was hidden.
The
picture is most likely of the sunrise which shines on the whole earth.
According to Hebrew notions, flashes of lightning
do not proceed from the hand of God …: and — does not occur either in Arabic or
the later Hebrew in the sense of flashes of lightning, but only in the sense of
the sun's rays.
——C.F. Keil in Commentary
of the OT in Ten Volumes
Psalm 104
– 1
Bless the LORD, O my soul!
O LORD my God, You are very great:
You are clothed with honor and
majesty,
2 Who cover Yourself with light as with a
garment,
Who stretch out the heavens like a
curtain.
rays flashing
kjv "horns"
Interestingly the Hebrew verb "to send our
rays", related to the Hebrew noun for "horns." was used to
describe Moses' countenance after he had come down from Mount
Sinai: "his face was radiant" (lit., "his face sent
our rays of light", Ex. 34:29-30, 35).
——Ronald Blue in The Bible Knowledge Commentary
Exodus 34
29 Now it was so, when
Moses came down from Mount Sinai (and the two
tablets of the Testimony were in Moses’ hand when he came down from the
mountain), that Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone while
he talked with Him. 30 So when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw
Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near
him.
Some
commentators see this as picturing the thunder and lightning on Mt. Sinai,
but the language here does not seem to support that view as well.
A. Display of God's glory 1-7
God's hand is a picture of His
strength.
Exodus 13.14 & 16
14 So it shall be, when your
son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ that you shall say to
him, ‘By strength of hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the
house of bondage. 15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh was stubborn
about letting us go, that the LORD killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the
firstborn of beast. Therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all males that open the
womb, but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.’ 16 It shall be as a sign on
your hand and as frontlets between your eyes, for by strength of hand the
LORD brought us out of Egypt.”
3.5
5 Before Him went pestilence,
And fever
followed at His feet.
pestilence דבר h1698 twot 399b
deber deh'·ber —1)
pestilence, plague 2) murrain,
cattle disease, cattle-plague
fever רשף H7566 twot 2223a resheph
reh'·shef —-1) a flame; 2)
lightning; 3) a burning fever, a
plague; —Gesenius's Lexicon
ylt—a burning flame; kjv—burning coals;
nasb, esv, nlt—plague; nkjv—fever; niv—pestilence
"The view
has been expressed that rešep in Job 5:7 refers not to literal
sparks but to Reshep the god of fever and pestilence (see Pope, M., Job, AB, in loc.)." —twot
The former
going before Him as a shield-bearer (1 Sam. xvii. 7)… the latter coming after
Him as a servant (1 Sam. xv.1)
——C.F. Keil in Commentary of the OT in
Ten Volumes
Accompanying
Him in the context of Sinai, they refer particularly to the plagues that
devastated Egypt (Exod 9:3.15; Ps 78:50) and which attended Israel's disobedience to the
covenant given at Sinai (Exod 5:3, Lev 26:25; Num 14:12 …)
——Carl Armerding in the Expositor’s Bible Commentary
3. God's presence feared (
3.6
6 He stood and measured the
earth;
He looked and startled the
nations.
And the everlasting
mountains were scattered,
The perpetual hills bowed.
His ways are everlasting.
measured dwm 04128 TWOT - 1157 Muwd mood (Polel) to shake
"The verb "shook" (yemōded)
is derived either from
a root
cognate with the Arabic "to be convulsed" (mûd; KB p. 501;
cf. LXX, Targ.) or
from the
Hebrew "to measure" (mādad, cf. Vul., kjv, asv, rsv).
The first
etymology emphasizes the effects of God's action, whereas
the second
stresses the motive of judgment underlying it (cf. Isa 65:7; Dan
5:25-28).
There
seems to be little basis for choosing between them (cf. asv, nasb). The repercussions of such judgment and physical
upheaval are reflected among the "nations," the verb
"tremble" (nātar) implying both emotional turmoil (cf.
Job 37:1) and abrupt physical dislocation (eg. Pss 105:20, "release";
146:7 "sets free').
——Carl Armerding in the Expositor’s Bible Commentary
ylt, kjv, nkjv, esv—measured; nasb—surveyed
niv, nlt, mess—shook, shakes
everlasting mountains
pictures how
God disrupts even the things which never seem to change and are too big to be
moved.
prophetic
symbolism for kingdoms, Dan. 2:35; 44-45; Rev. 17:9-11) ——Merrill Unger in Unger’s Commentary on the OT
His ways are everlasting EMPHASIZE THIS
This phrase
speaks of God's immutability. His was
are the same through eternity.
This
passage see God as past, present, future all at once.
3.7
7 I saw the tents of Cushan
in affliction;
The
curtains of the land
of Midian trembled.
Midianites were localized in
Transjordan, ranging southward from the regions of Moab
and Edom.
"Cushan"
in uncertain… This close parallelism suggests the "Cushan" was a
nation related or even identical to "Midian"—in inference
corroborated by the identification of Moses' wife as both Midianite and
Chushite (Exod 2:18-22; 18:1-5; Num 12:1).
These
countries or area referred to here were close to Egypt and would have heard of what
God did with the plagues.
trembled רגז
H7264 twot 2112 ragaz rä·gaz' (Qal) to quake, be disquieted, be excited,
be perturbed
ylt, kjv, nasb, nkjv, esv,
nlt—tremble
(ed) (ing); niv—anguish;
3-A APPLICATION: A. Display of God's glory 1-7
Don’t let the
truths about God in the Scriptures become trivia.
Fear the
Lord.
Psalm 111
6 He has
declared to His people the power of His works,
In giving them the heritage of the
nations.
7 The works of His hands are verity and
justice;
All His precepts are sure.
9 He has sent redemption to His people;
He has commanded His covenant
forever:
Holy and awesome is His name.
10 The fear of the LORD is the
beginning of wisdom;
A good understanding have all
those who do His commandments.
His praise endures forever.
Proverbs 23:17-18
17
But be zealous for the fear of the LORD all the day;
18
For surely there is a hereafter,
And your hope will not be cut off.
Proverbs 16:6b
And by the fear of the LORD one
departs from evil.
3.
Theophany
A. Display of God's Glory 1-6
B. Demonstration of God's Wrath 8-11
C. Deliverance of God's People 12-15
8 O LORD, were You displeased with the
rivers,
Was Your anger against the
rivers,
Was Your wrath against the
sea,
That You rode on Your
horses,
Your chariots of salvation?
9 Your bow was made quite ready;
Oaths were sworn over Your
arrows. Selah
You divided the earth with rivers.
10 The mountains saw You and trembled;
The overflowing of the water passed by.
The deep uttered its voice,
And lifted its hands on high.
11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation;
At the light of Your arrows they went,
At the shining of Your glittering spear.
——————————————————
10 The mountains saw You and trembled;
The overflowing of the water passed by.
The deep uttered its voice,
And lifted its hands on high.
11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation;
At the light of Your arrows they went,
At the shining of Your glittering spear.
——————————————————
In verse
eight Habakkuk changes from talking about God in third person (He, His,
Him) to talking to God in second person
(You, Your).
This section
features images from the exodus and conquest.
It pictures
God as the Lord of Hosts in a military role.
It also
contains several allusions to rivers, sea, and water which remind us of God's
control over the waters of the earth.
1. The Red
Sea remembered
3.8
8 O LORD, were You
displeased with the rivers,
Was Your
anger against the rivers,
Was Your
wrath against the sea,
That You
rode on Your horses,
Your
chariots of salvation?
This is a reference to the children of Israel crossing the Red Sea and crossing the Jordan River.
… It is Hebrew poetry, and it
speaks of the fact that God was not angry with the rivers because they blocked
the way; rather, He merely opened up the Red Sea
and …" ——J.V. McGee in Thru the Bible with J. Vernon
McGee
chariots of salvation
h[wXy H03467 TWOT 929b Y@shuw`ah yesh-oo'-aw
salvation, deliverance
2. God's faithfulness remembered
3.9
9 Your bow was made quite
ready;
Oaths were sworn over Your
arrows. Selah
You divided the earth with rivers.
Made quite naked free and entirely unencumbered,
drown forth from its cover and ready to be directed at its target (v.11; Psalm
7:12-13). ——Merrill Unger in Unger’s Commentary on
the OT
This second
phrase "is an enigma in Hebrew."
It contains three words.
oaths h[wbX H7621 TWOT - 2319a Sh@buw`ah sheb-oo-aw' —oath
or (could mean seventh, group of seven) —-C.F. Keil
sworn httm H4294 TWOT 1352b matteh
mat·teh' —staff (rod/shaft), branch, tribe
arrows rma H0562 TWOT - 118a 'omer o'-mer
—utterance,
speech, word, saying, promise, command
kjv—according to the oaths of the
tribes
nkjv—oaths were sworn over
Your arrows
esv, niv—calling for many
arrows
If you follow
the nkjv that corresponds to Deut
33:39-44,
the meaning would be that
Your bow was taken out of its
sheath;
a promise was sworn over Your
arrows.
"The idea would be that his militant
intervention is perceived as fulfilling the commitment sworn to Moses."
——Carl Armerding in the Expositor’s Bible Commentary
3.10
10 The mountains saw You and trembled;
The overflowing of the water passed by.
The deep uttered its voice,
And lifted its hands on high.
The overflowing of the water passed by.
The deep uttered its voice,
And lifted its hands on high.
trembled lwx 02342 TWOT -
623 Chuwl khool (Qal) 1. to dance
2. to twist, writhe 3. to whirl,
whirl about
ylt—pained; jkv, nkjv, nlt—trembled; nasb—quaked;
esv, niv—writhed; m—twisted
"writhed" depicts a person twisting or
turning while seized with pangs ——Ronald Blue in The Bible Knowledge
Commentary
The last three lines here seem to picture the Red Sea
Lifted up its hands in mighty waves ——Merrill Unger in Unger’s Commentary on the OT
B. Demonstration of God's Wrath
3. God's control over nature
remembered
3.11
11 The sun and moon stood
still in their habitation;
At the light of Your arrows they went,
At the shining of Your glittering spear.
At the light of Your arrows they went,
At the shining of Your glittering spear.
The sun and moon stood still compare with Joshua 10 (esp
13-14) when the sun stood still when Israel
fought with the kings of the Amorites at Gibeon
and on to Azekah and Makkedah.
Joshua 10
8 And the LORD said to
Joshua, “Do not fear them, for I have delivered them into your hand; not a man
of them shall stand before you.” 9 Joshua therefore came upon them
suddenly, having marched all night from Gilgal. 10 So the LORD
routed them before Israel, killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, chased
them along the road that goes to Beth Horon, and struck them down as far as
Azekah and Makkedah. 11 And it happened, as they fled before Israel
and were on the descent of Beth Horon, that the LORD cast down large
hailstones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died. There were
more who died from the hailstones than the children of Israel killed
with the sword.
12 Then Joshua spoke to the
LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel:
“Sun, stand still over Gibeon;
And Moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.”
“Sun, stand still over Gibeon;
And Moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.”
13 So the sun
stood still,
And the moon stopped,
Till the people had revenge
Upon their enemies.
And the moon stopped,
Till the people had revenge
Upon their enemies.
Is this not
written in the Book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven,
and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day. 14 And there
has been no day like that, before it or after it, that the LORD heeded the
voice of a man; for the LORD fought for Israel.
15 Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal.
15 Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal.
At the light of Your arrows they went,
At the shining of Your glittering spear.
At the shining of Your glittering spear.
Apparently poetical references
to the fierce lightning and the deadly hail stones that accompanied the storm
that the Lord sent to defeat the Canaanites.
——Merrill Unger in Unger’s
Commentary on the OT
3-B APPLICATION: Demonstration of God's Wrath
Jeremiah 32
26 Then the word of the LORD
came to Jeremiah, saying, 27 “Behold, I am the LORD, the
God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?
44 Men will buy fields for
money, sign deeds and seal them, and take witnesses, in the land of Benjamin,
in the places around Jerusalem, in the cities of Judah, in the cities of the
mountains, in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South; for I
will cause their captives to return,’ says the LORD.”
Genesis 18:13-15
13 And the LORD said to
Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I surely bear a child, since I am
old?’ 14 Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed
time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have
a son.”
15 But Sarah denied it, saying, “I did not laugh,” for she was
15 But Sarah denied it, saying, “I did not laugh,” for she was
afraid.
And He said, “No, but you did laugh!”
And He said, “No, but you did laugh!”
Hebrews 11
11 By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised. 12 Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead, were born as many as the stars of the sky in multitude—innumerable as the sand which is by the seashore.
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Count Him
able.
Count Him
faithful.
Act in faith
and receive strength.
Jeremiah 32:27
Gen. 18:14 & Heb. 11:11
3.
Theophany
A. Display of God's Glory 1-7
— B. Demonstration of God's
Wrath 8-11
C. Deliverance of God's People 12-15
12 You marched through the land in
indignation;
You trampled the nations in anger.
13 You went forth for the salvation of Your people,
For salvation with Your Anointed.
You struck the head from the house of the wicked,
By laying bare from foundation to neck. Selah
You trampled the nations in anger.
13 You went forth for the salvation of Your people,
For salvation with Your Anointed.
You struck the head from the house of the wicked,
By laying bare from foundation to neck. Selah
14 You thrust through with his
own arrows
The head of his villages.
They came out like a whirlwind to scatter me;
Their rejoicing was like feasting on the poor in secret.
15 You walked through the sea with Your horses,
Through the heap of great waters.
The head of his villages.
They came out like a whirlwind to scatter me;
Their rejoicing was like feasting on the poor in secret.
15 You walked through the sea with Your horses,
Through the heap of great waters.
1. God the conqueror
3.12
12 You marched through the land
in indignation;
You trampled the nations in anger.
You trampled the nations in anger.
Indignation ~[z Strong's 02195 TWOT - 568a Za`am zah'-am
Ylt, kjv, nasb, nkjv—indignation; esv—fury; niv—wrath; nlt—anger
Trampled Xwd 01758 TWOT -
419 Duwsh doosh
—(Qal) to tread on, trample on, thresh /
1. to beat, to pound, especially by trading, hence
to trample on, especially enemies 2. to thresh corn, which is done by oxen
treading it out with their feet. ——Gesenius’s
Lexicon, blueletterbible.org
nasb, nkjv, nlt—trampled; ylt, kjv, esv, niv—thresh(ed);
2. God the savior
3.13
13 You went forth for the
salvation of Your people,
For salvation with Your Anointed.
You struck the head from the house of the wicked,
By laying bare from foundation to neck. Selah
For salvation with Your Anointed.
You struck the head from the house of the wicked,
By laying bare from foundation to neck. Selah
salvation of Your Anointed
In light of the parallelism with “your people” in
the preceding line this could refer to Israel, but elsewhere the Lord’s
anointed one is always an individual.
The Davidic king is the more likely referent
here.
——NET Bible note for Hab 3.13
with your anointed
anointed would refer to a leader and ultimately to
Christ
head from the house of the wicked
A general reference that can encompass Pharaoh
from the exodus allusions,
Babylon from the larger context
of the book,
and looks forward to the end times Day of the Lord
and the anti-Christ.
3. God the Rescuer
3.14
14 You thrust through with his
own arrows
The head of his villages.
They came out like a whirlwind to scatter me;
Their rejoicing was like feasting on the poor in secret.
The head of his villages.
They came out like a whirlwind to scatter me;
Their rejoicing was like feasting on the poor in secret.
me (lit., "me," denoting
the prophet as the representative of the godly remnant; Dan. 11:40; Zech. 9:14)
——Merrill Unger in Unger’s Commentary on the OT
ylt, kjv, nkjv, esv—me; nasb, niv—us; ylt—Israel;
15 You walked through the sea
with Your horses,
Through the heap of great waters.
Through the heap of great waters.
3-C APPLICATION:
Look back to
the victory of the cross.
Look forward
to the fulfillment in Christ’s return.
Live
confident of the ending.
Hebrews 10:35-38
Heb 10
35 Therefore do not cast
away your confidence, which has great reward. 36 For you have need
of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the
promise:
37 “ For yet a little while,
And He who is coming will come and will not tarry.
38 Now the just shall live by faith;
But if anyone draws back,
My soul has no pleasure in him.”
37 “ For yet a little while,
And He who is coming will come and will not tarry.
38 Now the just shall live by faith;
But if anyone draws back,
My soul has no pleasure in him.”
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