Mon.’s Devo - Victroy is the Lord’s

Read: Habakkuk 1:1-3:19; Revelation 9:1-21; Psalm 137:1-9; Proverbs 30:10 Habakkuk means “to embrace a struggle for the country’s good”. We could say that about what we are called to do right now in America. *** The law had become perverted and there was no justice in the courts. God was raising up the Babylonians to come and bring his judgment. They have no fear of kings and princes. They are strong and their strength is their god. Their arrogance will hurt them in the future but right then, God would use their strength for his own plans. Habakkuk asked God if he would let the wicked Babylonians destroy people who were not as wicked as they were. Would they succeed forever? The Lord answered Habakkuk and told him that what he saw would surely happen soon. Then he described the sins of the Babylonians. They were proud and arrogant. They were greedy and had built their houses on murder and extortion. They swindled their own neighbors and gloated over their downfall.They would not go unpunished. In due time, they would receive payment for their sins also. They had trusted in silly idols made of stone and overlaid with gold and silver. These lifeless objects would not be able to help them. *** Habakkuk sang a son about what he had heard about the Lord. He was awesome and his works amazing. Habakkuk saw the Lord coming with salvation. In the day of the exodus, God judged the world with plagues and pestilence but he delivered his people with his power. God crushed the heads of the wicked and stripped them of their weapons. When Habakkuk saw this revelation he shook in fear of God. He rejoiced in the Lord who is the God of his salvation. *** In Revelation, John makes sure that the people reading it realize that these horrible things were against the people who didn’t have God’s seal on their hearts. With the fifth angel the bottomless pit was opened and all sorts of locusts descended on the earth to harm God’s enemies. O’bama opened the bottomless pit at Cern, Switzerland in his presidency. He assured an order saying that the media would not be prosecuted for saying lies. This opened up lying locusts to devour the people with fear, intimidation and lies. He and his cronies are now going to reap the result of God’s judgment. Their finances and wealth is being eaten away by the things they brought upon themselves. These locusts look like the United Nations police. Everything they are doing will backfire on them. *** The sixth angel sounded and a voice was heard from the four horns of the gold altar that stands in the presence of god. This is the altar of incense… our prayers. It called for the release of the four angels who were bound at the great Euphrates River. I wonder if these aren’t the four living creatures who were guarding the gate to the Garden of Eden. Genesis tells us there were two angels but they have four sides. They come to our rescue against this one world government we have been fighting. They are joined with 200,000,000 warriors or Christian fighters. If there are 7.7 billion people on the earth right now, this sounds more like Gideon’s army. *** In spite of all that came against the wicked people of the earth, they still refused to repent and turn to God. *** Lord, I thank you that victory is ours through your might and power. We will not bow to a government that is wicked and not of you. Thank you that the nations are yours and all you have created will one day worship you.