Commentary on Habakkuk 2:1-2 - Warren Wiersbe on the timeliness of God´s Word.

Written and posted by Jean-Louis
Blogger´s note: I wanted to make sure that this vision by Habakkuk was applicable to our times as often times, prophecies have double timing layer. I used Warren Wiersbe for his contemporaneity as the other quotes from teachers in the previous post are dated from centuries past.  This is a continuation of that previous post titled "The Package". This commentary is to me a further confirmation that the time is short and that the Lord´s return is very close. Be encouraged my brothers and keep watching, praying, guarding your heart and looking up for Jesus, our hope of glory. (Bold Italics used by for emphasis.)

 

 Photo taken in Rio de Janeiro. Bairro Urca

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I will stand on my guard post
And station myself on the rampart;
And I will keep watch to see what He will speak to me,
And how I may reply ^[a]when I am reproved.
² Then the Lord answered me and said,
“Record the vision
And inscribe it on tablets,
That ^[b]the one who ^[c]reads it may run.
³ “For the vision is yet for the appointed time;
It ^[d]hastens toward the goal and it will not ^[e]fail.
Though it tarries, wait for it;
For it will certainly come, it will not delay. Habakkuk 2:1-3

Write God’s Vision (2:1–3) (Warren Wiersbe)

The prophet saw himself as a watchman on the walls of

Jerusalem, waiting for a message from God that he

could share with the people. In ancient days, the

watchmen were responsible to warn the city of

approaching danger, and if they weren’t faithful, their

hands would be stained with the blood of the people

who died (Ezek. 3:17–21; 33:1–3). It was a serious

responsibility.

The image of the watchman carries a spiritual lesson

for us today. As God’s people, we know that danger

is approaching, and it’s our responsibility to warn people

to “flee from the wrath to come” (Matt. 3:7). 

If we don’t share the gospel with lost sinners, then their

blood may be on our hands. We want to be able to say

with Paul, “Therefore I testify to you this day that I am

innocent of the blood of all men” (Acts 20:26 nkjv).

You get the impression that Habakkuk was fearful

of what the Lord might say to him because of His servant’s

“complaint.” But the Lord graciously answered

Habakkuk and gave him the vision he needed to turn

his worrying into worshiping. 

This vision included not only the words in Habakkuk 2, but also the revelation

of God’s glory recorded in 3:3–15. When you

behold the glory of God and believe the Word of God,

it gives you faith to accept the will of God.

We wouldn’t be studying this book today had

Habakkuk 1—2

Habakkuk not obeyed God’s orders and written down

what God had told him and shown him. This writing

was to be permanent so that generation after generation

could read it. It was also to be plain, written so

that anybody could read it, and it was to be public so

that even somebody running past the tablets on display

could get the message immediately.

1 Habakkuk wasn’t the only person in Judah who needed this message, and

it was his obligation to share it.

The revelation God gave was for a future time and

about a future time. While the immediate application

was to the end of the Babylonian captivity, the writer

of the Epistle to the Hebrews interpreted it to refer also

to the return of Jesus Christ. Led by the Holy Spirit, he

changed “it” to “he” and applied it to our Lord. “For

yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and

will not tarry” (Heb. 10:37).

 Along with the scoffers Peter wrote about, some readers might ask, “Where is

the promise of his coming?” (2 Peter 3:3ff.), and God’s

reply is, “Wait for it! It will surely come!” A discouraged

Jew in Babylonian exile might ask, “Will the Lord

come and deliver us?” and the answer is, “Yes! Wait for

Him!”

Amen! Maranatha, come Lord Jesus

 

Shocking Passover Blood Moon Predictions by Israeli Rabbi

By Ahuva Balofsky April 2, 2015 , 4:29 pm

Reblogged from www.breakingisraelnews.com         

 

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“The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of the LORD come.” (Joel 3:2)

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(Photo: אדם אליוא)

A mystic rabbi living in southern Israel is urging all Jews to pray and repent as the third Blood Moon of a tetrad cycle approaches.
Rabbi Amram Vaknin, who similarly predicted the events of the Gaza flotilla and the Carmel forest fire in 2010, and Operations Pillar of Defense (2012) and Protective Edge (2014), warns that Israel is facing great judgment and potential danger at this time.
One of Rabbi Vaknin’s students, Gil Nachman, spoke to Breaking Israel News and, quoting the sage, explained that the numeric value of the Hebrew word for blood, dam, which is 44, alludes to the 44th president of the United States.

WATCH: Rabbi Vaknin Calling for Jewish Repentance

Vaknin predicted that the 44th president would bring bloodshed (dam) to the Jewish people. It should be noted that the rabbi made this prediction before President Barack Obama’s election to office.
Vaknin believes that only 44 plus one, or 45, can counter the danger represented by the blood moons. This, he says, is Adam, or Man, which in this case refers to the Messiah.

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The mystical sage Rabbi Amram Vaknin with his student Gil Nachman, praying for the Messiah at the Western Wall, April 1, 2015. (Photo: Yehudis Schamroth)

Rabbi Vaknin called for a day of prayer at the Western Wall this past Wednesday to encourage the arrival of the Messiah and the redemption of the Jewish people and the world.
According to their Facebook page, “In these critical times, Am Israel must join together to pray to Hashem to send us Mashiach Ben David!!!”
The repeated number four is also noteworthy, as in addition to the value of 44 and the four Blood Moons of the tetrad, this will be the shortest total lunar eclipse of the 21st century, lasting a mere four minutes, 44 seconds.
Rabbi Vaknin is not alone amongst Jews in associating the current tetrad with Jewish redemption. With the first and third Blood Moons in this current tetrad cycle coinciding with Passover, and the second and fourth with the Feast of Tabernacles, the connections to times of redemption run deep.

Read more at http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/35128/shocking-passover-blood-moon-predictions-by-israeli-rabbi-jewish-world/#ZQUEVQMHw7lOCQPG.99

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The diplomatic track to war

Friday, April 3rd, 2015 

Reblogged from http://carolineglick.com/the-diplomatic-track-to-war/  

The world powers assembled at Lausanne, Switzerland, with the representatives of the Islamic Republic may or may not reach a framework deal regarding Iran’s nuclear program. But succeed or fail, the disaster that their negotiations have unleashed is already unfolding. The damage they have caused is irreversible.

US President Barack Obama, his advisers and media cheerleaders have long presented his nuclear diplomacy with the Iran as the only way to avoid war. Obama and his supporters have castigated as warmongers those who oppose his policy of nuclear appeasement with the world’s most prolific state sponsor of terrorism.

But the opposite is the case. Had their view carried the day, war could have been averted.

Through their nuclear diplomacy, Obama and his comrades started the countdown to war.

In recent weeks we have watched the collapse of the allied powers’ negotiating positions.

They have conceded every position that might have placed a significant obstacle in Iran’s path to developing a nuclear arsenal.

They accepted Iran’s refusal to come clean on the military dimensions of its past nuclear work and so ensured that to the extent UN nuclear inspectors are able to access Iran’s nuclear installations, those inspections will not provide anything approaching a full picture of its nuclear status. By the same token, they bowed before Iran’s demand that inspectors be barred from all installations Iran defines as “military” and so enabled the ayatollahs to prevent the world from knowing anything worth knowing about its nuclear activities.

On the basis of Iran’s agreement to ship its stockpile of enriched uranium to Russia, the US accepted Iran’s demand that it be allowed to maintain and operate more than 6,000 centrifuges.

But when on Monday Iran went back on its word and refused to ship its uranium to Russia, the US didn’t respond by saying Iran couldn’t keep spinning 6,000 centrifuges. The US made excuses for Iran.

The US delegation willingly acceded to Iran’s demand that it be allowed to continue operating its fortified, underground enrichment facility at Fordow. In so doing, the US minimized the effectiveness of a future limited air campaign aimed at significantly reducing Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

With this broad range of great power concessions already in its pocket, the question of whether or not a deal is reached has become a secondary concern. The US and its negotiating partners have agreed to a set of understanding with the Iranians. Whether these understandings become a formal agreement or not is irrelevant because the understandings are already being implemented.

True, the US has not yet agreed to Iran’s demand for an immediate revocation of the economic sanctions now standing against it. But the notion that sanctions alone can pressure Iran into making nuclear concessions has been destroyed by Obama’s nuclear diplomacy in which the major concessions have all been made by the US.

No sanctions legislation that Congress may pass in the coming months will be able to force a change in Iran’s behavior if they are not accompanied by other coercive measures undertaken by the executive branch.

There is nothing new in this reality. For a regime with no qualms about repressing its society, economic sanctions are not an insurmountable challenge. But it is possible that if sanctions were implemented as part of a comprehensive plan to use limited coercive means to block Iran’s nuclear advance, they could have effectively blocked Iran’s progress to nuclear capabilities while preventing war. Such a comprehensive strategy could have included a proxy campaign to destabilize the regime by supporting regime opponents in their quest to overthrow the mullahs. It could have involved air strikes or sabotage of nuclear installations and strategic regime facilities like Revolutionary Guards command and control bases and ballistic missile storage facilities. It could have involved diplomatic isolation of Iran.

Moreover, if sanctions were combined with a stringent policy of blocking Iran’s regional expansion by supporting Iraqi sovereignty, supporting the now deposed government of Yemen and making a concerted effort to weaken Hezbollah and overthrow the Iranian-backed regime in Syria, then the US would have developed a strong deterrent position that would likely have convinced Iran that its interest was best served by curbing its imperialist enthusiasm and setting aside its nuclear ambitions.

In other words, a combination of these steps could have prevented war and prevented a nuclear Iran. But today, the US-led capitulation to Iran has pulled the rug out from any such comprehensive strategy. The administration has no credibility. No one trusts Obama to follow through on his declared commitment to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power.

No one trusts Washington when Obama claims that he is committed to the security of Israel and the US’s Sunni allies in the region.

And so we are now facing the unfolding disaster that Obama has wrought. The disaster is that deal or no deal, the US has just given the Iranians a green light to behave as if they have already built their nuclear umbrella. And they are in fact behaving in this manner.

They may not have a functional arsenal, but they act as though they do, and rightly so, because the US and its partners have just removed all significant obstacles from their path to nuclear capabilities. The Iranians know it. Their proxies know it. Their enemies know it.

As a consequence, all the regional implications of a nuclear armed Iran are already being played out. The surrounding Arab states led by Saudi Arabia are pursuing nuclear weapons. The path to a Middle East where every major and some minor actors have nuclear arsenals is before us.

Iran is working to expand its regional presence as if it were a nuclear state already. It is brazenly using its Yemeni Houthi proxy to gain maritime control over the Bab al-Mandab, which together with Iran’s control over the Straits of Hormuz completes its maritime control over shipping throughout the Middle East.

Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Eritrea, and their global trading partners will be faced with the fact that their primary maritime shipping route to Asia is controlled by Iran.

With its regional aggression now enjoying the indirect support of its nuclear negotiating partners led by the US, Iran has little to fear from the pan-Arab attempt to dislodge the Houthis from Aden and the Bab al-Mandab. If the Arabs succeed, Iran can regroup and launch a new offensive knowing it will face no repercussions for its aggression and imperialist endeavors.

Then of course there are Iran’s terror proxies.

Hezbollah, whose forces now operate openly in Syria and Lebanon, is reportedly active as well in Iraq and Yemen. These forces behave with a brazenness the likes of which we have never seen.

Hamas too believes that its nuclear-capable Iranian state sponsor ensures that regardless of its combat losses, it will be able to maintain its regime in Gaza and continue using its territory as a launching ground for assaults against Israel and Egypt.

Iran’s Shiite militias in Iraq have reportedly carried out heinous massacres of Sunnis who have fallen under their control and faced no international condemnation for their war crimes, operating as they are under Iran’s protection and sponsorship. And the Houthis, of course, just overthrew a Western-backed government that actively assisted the US and its allies in their campaign against al-Qaida.

For their proxies’ aggression, Iran has been rewarded with effective Western acceptance of its steps toward regional domination and nuclear armament.

Hezbollah’s activities represent an acute and strategic danger to Israel. Not only does Hezbollah now possess precision guided missiles that are capable of taking out strategic installations throughout the country, its arsenal of 100,000 missiles can cause a civilian disaster.

Hezbollah forces have been fighting in varied combat situations continuously for the past three years. Their combat capabilities are incomparably greater than those they fielded in the 2006 Second Lebanon War. There is every reason to believe that these Hezbollah fighters, now perched along Israel’s borders with Lebanon and Syria, can make good their threat to attack and hold fixed targets including border communities.

While Israel faces threats unlike any we have faced in recent decades that all emanate from Western-backed Iranian aggression and expansionism carried out under a Western-sanctioned Iranian nuclear umbrella, Israel is not alone in this reality. The unrolling disaster also threatens the moderate Sunni states including Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates. The now regional war in Yemen is but the first act of the regional war at our doorstep.

There are many reasons this war is now inevitable.

Every state threatened by Iran has been watching the Western collapse in Switzerland.

They have been watching the Iranian advance on the ground. And today all of them are wondering the same thing: When and what should we strike to minimize the threats we are facing.

Everyone recognizes that the situation is only going to get worse. With each passing week, Iran’s power and brazenness will only increase.

Everyone understands this. And this week they learned that with Washington heading the committee welcoming Iran’s regional hegemony and nuclear capabilities, no outside power will stand up to Iran’s rise. The future of every state in the region hangs in the balance. And so, it can be expected that everyone is now working out a means to preempt and prevent a greater disaster.

These preemptive actions will no doubt include three categories of operations: striking Hezbollah’s missile arsenal; striking the Iranian Navy to limit its ability to project its force in the Bab al-Mandab; and conducting limited military operations to destroy a significant portion of Iran’s nuclear installations.

Friday is the eve of Passover. Thirteen years ago, Palestinian terrorists brought home the message of the Exodus when they blew up the Seder at Netanya’s Park Hotel, killing 30, wounding 140, and forcing Israel into war. The message of the Passover Haggada is that there are no shortcuts to freedom. To gain and keep it, you have to be willing to fight for it.

That war was caused by Israel’s embrace of the notion that you can bring peace through concessions that empower an enemy sworn to your destruction. The price of that delusion was thousands of lives lost and families destroyed.

Iran is far more powerful than the PLO. But the Americans apparently believe they are immune from the consequences of their leaders’ policies. This is not the case for Israel or for our neighbors. We lack the luxury of ignoring the fact that Obama’s disastrous diplomacy has brought war upon us. Deal or no deal, we are again about to be forced to pay a price to maintain our freedom.

Originally published in The Jerusalem Post. 

The package -- An essay on waiting with patience, endurance and trust in the Lord´s promises

Written and posted by Jean-Louis. April 2, 2015.

• More on the topic with a commentary from Warren Wiersbe HERE

Dear readers, 
I would like to share an interesting and encouraging  experience with you.

This might not seem like a big deal, a great revelation from the Lord, there was no vision, no dream, but the soft voice of the Holy Spirit teaching one that needed encouragement as David in Psalm 25 who wrote:
 
Make me know Your ways, O Lord;
Teach me Your paths.Lead me in Your truth and teach me,
For You are the God of my salvation;
For You I wait all the day. 

Further on: 

 Who is the man who fears the Lord?
He will instruct him in the way he should choose.
¹³ His soul will abide in ^[e]prosperity,

Here goes the story: About a month ago, I ordered a Hebrew course book from the Zola Levitt ministries. I knew it would take about 2 to 3 weeks to arrive because the mail delivery here has been slow lately. Since they didn´t send me a tracking number, all I could do was wait.

2 days ago, about 3:30 PM, I had to go downtown to the bank. As I was approaching the neighborhood  super market where we usually shop, I saw a big yellow van parked on the side and a mailman coming out of the SM (they were yellow T.shirts). I tapped on the window and introduced myself as a foreigner inquiring about package delivery procedures in Brazil. I wanted to know if they leave a notice as they do in the US. 

I told him I was living close by and if he had anything for me I would be home around 5:00 PM everyday. I gave him my street address and he said; Humm,  Remulo Zoppi .... yes, I have your package in the back. So I exclaimed, Hallelujah, the Lord my God is good and faithful. He replied: What do you mean he is MY God too. So we laughed and praised the Lord together.  

He said that he would be at my house around 5:00 PM the very afternoon. I had one of my English students until 5:30 PM, so I waited for the mailman but he never came. I told my wife the story and thought he probably would come the following day. 

Yesterday while I was taking a nap, I heard the door bell ring. I knew it was the package delivery. He explained that he had been swamped with delivery and still had not finished his route for the day.

What caught my attention in this series of propitious, providential God directed events is that the man didn´t come at the time he said he would, but still I had his word and I could wait confidently that he would come the next day. He must have had a good reason for the delay. 

Also meeting him in the way the encounter happened was a confirmation to me but the delay was to get my attention to the need the believer had of waiting on the Lord for his will and purposes to be accomplish. I am amazed at the way the Holy Spirit works in teaching us the important lessons at different levels.

And of course, he was at my door the next day at 6:00 PM the very next day. Sometimes, the Lord gives us a test to show to ourselves where we are on the faith, endurance, patience and if our behavior and inner attitude match our words of promise to him.

A few days before, I was telling the Lord that I had not had a word from him and that I was missing that part of our relationship. But I had not  asked either and my heart had been kind of cold lately and I felt tired, depressed and isolated. My Bible reading  had been less than regular and my  prayer life also and less than fervent.. He had to remind me that we don´t have because we don´t ask. Back to "Relationship 101"

This morning, April 2nd, while I was drinking my coffee, I had part a of this verse running through my head (it is not uncommon for me to wake up with a verse or a hymn in my head), "though the vision tarries, wait for it" . I looked it up and found it in Habakkuk 2:3:
"For the vision is yet for the appointed time; It hastens toward the goal and it will not fail. Though it tarries, wait for it; For it will certainly come, it will not delay."

Well, we have to put this into context. Although the vision and the prophecy in Habakkuk relate to a coming invasion, what was presented to me was relevant and pertinent because of the personal reminders of eternal truths in the broader context of our present situation world wide. Without a doubt, we are living in the context of the last days and waiting for deliverance from a relentless enemy just as Habakkuk was and without God´s help, we will not survive the global overwhelming convulsions awaiting us   This is what Matthew Henry and Spurgeon´s  Commentaries say:

Commentary on Habakkuk 2:1-4

(Read Habakkuk 2:1-4)

When tossed and perplexed with doubts about the methods of Providence, we must watch against temptations to be impatient.

When we have poured out complaints and requests before God, we must observe the answers God gives by his word, his Spirit, and providences; what the Lord will say to our case. 

God will not disappoint the believing expectations of those who wait to hear what he will say unto them. All are concerned in the truths of God's word. Though the promised favour be deferred long, it will come at last, and abundantly recompense us for waiting. 

The humble, broken-hearted, repenting sinner, alone seeks to obtain an interest in this salvation. He will rest his soul on the promise, and on Christ, in and through whom it is given.

Thus he walks and works, as well as lives by faith, perseveres to the end, and is exalted to glory; while those who distrust or despise God's all-sufficiency will not walk uprightly with him. 

The just shall live by faith in these precious promises, while the performance of them is deferred. Only those made just by faith, shall live, shall be happy here and for ever.

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Spurgeon´s Sermon Notes:

Habakkuk 2:1-4 Watching, Waiting, Writing

I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved. (2) And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon the tables, that he may run that read-eth it. (3) For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. (4) Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. — Habakkuk 2:1-4

THE promise of God tarried, and the ungodly triumphed.
Here was the old problem of David in another form.
"Wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously?" (Hab. 1:13) is but a repetition of "I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked" (Ps. 73:3).
This same problem occurs to ourselves, and this text may help us. Observe with understanding—

I. THE SENSE IN WHICH THERE IS A DELAY IN THE PROMISE.

It is not every apparent delay which is real. Our time and God's time are not measured upon the same dial.

1. Each promise will bide its due season for fulfillment: "For the vision is yet for an appointed time."
2. Each promise in the end will prove true: "At the end it shall speak, and not lie."
3. Each promise will repay our waiting: "Though it tarry, wait for it."
4. Each promise will really be punctual to its hour: "It will surely come, it will not tarry)"

The word of the Lord is as true to the time as to the thing.
To him its time of ripening is short: only to us is it long.

II. THE ATTITUDE OF A BELIEVER WHILE THE PROMISE DELAYS.

We should watch for the appearing of the Lord in fulfillment of his promise, and should be prepared to receive reproof as well as blessing.

The prophet took up—

1. A determined and thoughtful attitude: "I will stand, and set me."
2. An attentive attitude: "and will watch to see what he will say unto me." He is engrossed in this one pursuit: he only desires to be taught of the Lord.
3. A patient attitude: "I will set me upon the tower." It is as if he had been set as a sentinel, and would remain at his post.
4. A solitary position if need be. He speaks of himself alone.
5. A humble and submissive frame of mind: "what I shall answer when I am reproved."

In all respects the man of God is ready for his Lord.
The delay is evidently a blessing to him.
The blessing will be the greater when it comes.

III. THE WORK OF THE LORD'S SERVANT WHILE THE PROMISE DELAYS

1. By faith set the vision. Realize the fulfillment of the divine word in your own soul. "Watch to see what he will say."
2. Declare it as certain: record it in black and white, as a fact not to be questioned. "Write the vision upon tables."
3. Declare it plainly, so that the runner may read it.
4. Declare it practically, so that he that readeth may run in consequence of it.
5. Declare it permanently: write down the matter for a record to be referred to: engrave it on tablets for perpetuity.

Sham faith prudently declines to mention her expectations.

It is deemed presumptuous, fanatical, and imprudent to be positive that God will keep his promise; and still more to say so.

The real believer thinks not so, but acts with the Lord's promises as he would deal with engagements made in business by honest men: he treats them as real, and would have others do the like.

IV. THE DIFFERENCE SEEN IN MEN WHEN THE DELAY OF THE PROMISE TESTS THEM.

l. The graceless man is too proud to wait on God as the Lord's servant will do. "His soul is not upright in him."

He is himself dishonest, and so suspects his God.

This prevents his finding comfort in the promise.

2. The just man believes the word of a holy God.

He waits serenely, in full assurance; and

He lives in the highest sense by his faith.

"My soul, wait thou only upon God" (Ps. 62:5).

What can he do who has no faith in his Maker? (Heb. 11:6)


From Our Tablets
It was a custom among the Romans for the public affairs of every year to be committed to writing by the pontifex maximus, or high priest, and published on a table. They were thus exposed to public view, so that the people might have an opportunity of being acquainted with them. It was also usual to hang up laws approved and recorded on tables of brass in their market-places, and in their temples, that they might be seen and read (Tacitus). 

In like manner, the Jewish prophets used to write, and expose their prophecies publicly on tables, either in their own houses, or in the temple, that every one that passed by might go in and read them. — Burder

And though it linger till the night,
And round again till morn,
My heart shall ne'er mistrust thy might,
Nor count itself forlorn.
Do thus, O ye of Israel's seed.
' Ye of the Spirit born indeed;
Wait for your God's appearing!— Martin Luther

Good old Spurstow says that some of the promises a like the almond tree — they blossom hastily in the very earliest spring; but," saith he, "there are others which resemble the mulberry tree — they are very slow in putting forth their leaves:' Then what is a man to do, if he has a mulberry-tree promise, which is late in blossoming? Why, he is to wait till it does blossom; since it is not in his power to hasten it. If the vision tarry, exercise the precious grace called patience, and the appointed time shall surely bring you a rich reward. — C. H. S.

God's promises are dated, but with a mysterious character; and, for want of skill in God's chronology, we are prone to think God forgets us; when, indeed, we forget ourselves in being so bold as to set God a time of our own, and in being angry that he comes not just then to us. — Gurnall

If we were more humble, we should be more patient. A beggar, who is worn with hunger, will wait at the rich man's gate for many an hour with the hope of getting broken victuals; but my lord, who is in no need, will soon be gone if the door does not open to his knock. We have kept the Lord waiting long enough, and we need not wonder if he tries our faith and patience by apparent delays. In any case, let us settle this in our hearts, that he must and will fulfill his promises. 

Our text shows us a punctual God, a patient waiter, and a published confidence; but it finishes up with a proud unbeliever. Or, if you will, it is man uttering a brave resolve, and the Lord answering to his faith; reasons presented to patient faith, and rebukes to impatient pride.

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Resuming the study: 
I will study Habakkuk in he coming day as I know this is so pertinent to our situation anywhere in the world. 
But right now, it is clear to me; The Lord has already spoken in his Word and what he wants from us is patience, faith, faithfulness, endurance, standing firm in the grace we have received.

The visions of the end times has already been given to the great prophets of the OT. and the great revelations of things to come in the near future to Paul and John in the Epistles and Revelation.

We need to:

•   Understand what has been given for our instruction and heed the words of warning.
•  Share with others what insight the Lord in his grace gives us.
•   Ask for more Holy Spirit ability to discern the times as it concerns our Christian  brothers and sisters,
•  Fight against the lies and wiles of the devil. 
•  Keep from being distracted by the world and lured by its empty, noxious appeals to our own lusts. 
•  Submit to the Lord and resist the devil fully clothed by the Light of Jesus. 
•  Share the truth  with others, anyone that the Lord will show us whose heart he has prepared.
•  Walk in the light, in the truth of the revealed word,        
  
•  Trust that he will keep this promises,

              o   waiting patiently though it hurts as faithful    servants obedient to their good master and friend,
              o   displaying meekness and humility and lifting the cross of Jesus,

              o   keeping our eyes upon the resurrected Savior, our hope and Salvation.

I heard and my ^[m]inward parts trembled, At the sound my lips quivered. Decay enters my bones, And in my place I tremble. Because I must wait quietly for the day of distress, ^[n]For the people to arise who will invade us. ¹⁷ Though the fig tree should not blossom And there be no ^[o]fruit on the vines, Though the yield of the olive should fail And the fields produce no food, Though the flock should be cut off from the fold And there be no cattle in the stalls, ¹⁸ Yet I will exult in the Lord, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation. ¹⁹ The Lord ^[p]God is my strength, And He has made my feet like hinds’ feet, And makes me walk on my high places. Habakkuk 3: 16-19. 

I hope that you have been blessed and encouraged by the words above.
May the Lord bless you and keep you as you stand firm in his grace and in the power of his might

Here is a little didactic story I wrote on patience we need in these last days while waiting for the Lord´s wedding banquet soon to come. Jean-Louis. 

http://thelightseed.blogspot.com.br/2012/04/wisdom-of-patience-plese-pass-cheese.html

The Days of Noah - Billy Crone