Read Habakkuk 1-3; Zephaniah 1-2:7
Habakkuk and Zephaniah were prophets during a time like today. God sent a people like ISIS to discipline them and turn them back to him. They are coming to America and we need to be ready. He is doing this so that the earth will be filled with an awareness of the glory of the Lord. We will have to do what Habakkuk said and with quietly for the day when disaster will strike the people who invade us. We will learn to rejoice in the Lord and not our circumstances.
Two of the places God was coming to judge were Cushan and Midian. Cushion means “their blackness” which means their sin. Midian means “contention and strife”. We don’t have to look tot he Middle East to see that. It is in our own land. God says that these people will tremble in fear when God comes.
These verses are also a picture of the end of days when the earth will be destroyed. We who are God’s children are to seek to do what is right and live humbly and pray for God’s protection. God always preserves a remnant. Of them he says he will visit in kindness and restore their prosperity again.
In the midst of all the destruction, Habakkuk saw the Lord coming. He comes in splendor and majesty. His coming is salvation to His people but judgment and destruction to the people of the world.
Lord, help us to stand strong in the day we are living. We will not shrink back in fear but we will boldly crash the gates of hell.
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