Shalom, everyone. God bless you. We are today going to continue to study in the book of Habakkuk, this wonderful prophecy that we have that had been given to us by divine inspiration, and how wonderful it is for us to be under the sound of the Word of God. And so, we would like to continue today, dear brothers and sisters, with the study of the prophet Habakkuk. The study of the prophet Habakkuk is an interesting study, and especially as we arrive to the third chapter of Habakkuk. I would like, if you don't mind, please, to turn with me to this third chapter, and I want to read the 15 verses of this chapter.

Let's actually have a few more verses. We're going to conclude it in another meeting later on. But at this point of time, please follow me as I'm reading Habakkuk chapter 3 and verse 1 to 15. A prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, upon Shigyonot. O Lord, I have heard thy speech and was afraid. O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years. In the midst of the years, make known. In wrath, remember mercy. God came from Teyman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran, Selah. His glory covered the heavens. And the earth was full of his praise. And his brightness was as the light. He had rays coming out of his hand.

And there was a hiding of his power. Before him went the pestilence. And burning coals went forth at his feet. He stood and measured the earth. He beheld and drove asunder the nations. And the everlasting mountains were scattered. Their perpetual hills did bow. His ways are everlasting. Verse 7. I saw the tents of Kushan in affliction. And the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? Was thine anger against the rivers? Was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation? Thy bow was made quiet naked, according to the oath of the tribes, even thy word Selah.

Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers. The mountains saw thee and they trembled. The overflowing of the waters passed by. The deep uttered his voice and lifted up his hands on high. The sun and the moon stood still in their habitation. At the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear. Thou didst march through the land in indignation. Thou didst thresh the heathen in anger. Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed. Thou woundest the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck Selah. Thou didst struck through with his staves the head of his villages.

They came out as whirlwind to scatter me. Their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly. Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses through the heap of great waters. This is the word of the Lord, dear friends. It's so wonderful as we study the word of God to come to this kind of a passage that helps us to understand better the plan of God. But you know, dear brothers and sisters, this third chapter of the prophet Habakkuk is not easy really to understand unless we connect with this various other passages. That is both from the prophets of Israel as well as from the Brit HaChadasha, the New Testament, the apostles' writings.

And together, Old Testament, the Tanakh, New Testament, New Covenant, the Brit HaChadasha, together to understand the ways in which God's plan and program will surely come to pass. Now, reading such a chapter, most of chapter 3 of the prophet Habakkuk, cause you to kind of wonder, what does Habakkuk tell us here in this third chapter? You notice that we read in chapter 3 and verse 1, a prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigyonot. Now let's pause here for a moment. The reason I would like you to pause is because if we are to understand the third chapter of the prophet Habakkuk, we must be clear as to the previous chapters that he already presented before us.

You remember, dear brothers and sisters, that when we started the study of the prophecy of Habakkuk, we immediately learned that this prophecy of Habakkuk, did not necessarily present before us a message that Habakkuk spoke to our forefathers, the Jewish people, the people of Israel. No, but rather, that in this prophecy of Habakkuk, we have a dialogue between the prophet, namely Habakkuk, and the Lord, the God of Israel. We also noticed that in this dialogue that Habakkuk had with Jehovah, with the Lord, he had a dilemma. He had a problem. He had a concern. You remember that his name, Habakkuk, comes from the Hebrew word Lechabek.

And Lechabek means to embrace. He is called the embracer of Israel because he loved his people Israel. He was concerned from them, not only when they were obedient, but also when they were disobedient. And especially in this prophecy, Habakkuk, in the first four verses of chapter one, had a problem. You remember, we read already, we looked at this. The burden which Habakkuk, the prophet, did see, O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou will not hear. But I cried out unto thee of violence, and thou will not save. You remember how it all started? This prophecy started with the cry of Habakkuk on behalf of his people who were fighting among themselves.

So Habakkuk had a dilemma. Why doesn't God respond to him? Why doesn't he change the manner of the behavior of Habakkuk's people Israel? And then, of course, as he was waiting on the Lord, the Lord came up with an answer. Now you would think that the Lord will come with an answer. And the answer would be that God will make the hearts of the people of Israel very quickly to return to him. But apparently, instead of doing that, God said to Habakkuk, wait a minute, Habakkuk. In verses five and six, he says, listen, behold, ye among the heathen, and regard and wonder marvelously. This is Habakkuk one, verses five and six.

For I will work a work in your days which ye will not believe, though it be told you. For lo, I raise up the Kaladins, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breath of the land to possess the dwelling place that are not theirs. So God came with an answer to Habakkuk and told him, Habakkuk, look, here's how I'm going to deal with my people Israel. I'm going to raise the Kaladins. These are the Babylonians. And these Babylonians, they are regarded as a terrible, bitter and hasty nation. And they're going to march through the land and they're going to discipline my people, the people of Judah, the people of Yehudah.

Now, we remember that Habakkuk, when he presented this prophecy, he was speaking sometime about 630 BC. The Jewish people were still in the land of Judah, Jerusalem. The northern kingdom was already taken by the Assyrians. And God, because of Judah's violation of his word, was ready to raise up a nation against them. And that was the Babylonian. Well, as we have already mentioned more than once, in 586 BC, finally the Babylonian came and took our people of Israel, the Jewish people, to Babylon and destroyed the temple in the city of Jerusalem, the Salomonic temple. And on the ninth day of the month of Av, and the Jewish people were taken to Babylon, the temple was destroyed, the walls were broken down, the city of Jerusalem was burnt with fire.

And our own Jewish people crying there by the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down and wept as we remembered Zion. Sad, sad, sad commentary, God gave to Habakkuk even before the Babylonian rose to power. So, God giving to Habakkuk is something to know about future events that were going to happen. So, now that God gave an answer to Habakkuk, Habakkuk had a second problem. And the second problem of the prophet Habakkuk was, from chapter 1, verse 12, all the way to the end of chapter 1, including verse 2, Habakkuk was praying to God and he said to him, "Thou art of a pure eye than to behold evil, and cannot look upon iniquity." He said to him in chapter 1 and verse 13, he said, "How is it, how is it that you allow the wicked to devour the men that are more righteous than he?" In other words, how is it that possible, God?

I don't understand. How do you allow the Babylonians who are more weaker than Israel to come and discipline Israel, the Jewish people, your own people? Well, Habakkuk, of course, had a second problem. And if you remember, in chapter 2 and verse 1, Habakkuk said, "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." So what did he do? He stood on a tower and he waited for God's answer. Well, it didn't take too long and God came with an answer to Habakkuk. And from chapter 2 and verse 2, all the way to the end of the chapter, God gave Habakkuk an answer as to what's going to happen in the future day.

Remember, the Babylonians will not yet have risen to power. And God is instructing Habakkuk. It's almost like a prayer between a dialogue between Habakkuk and the Lord of the God of Israel. He's sharing with Habakkuk what will happen in a future day and how eventually he will destroy the Babylonian. You remember, from chapter 2 and verse 6, all the way to the end of the chapter, he gave the fivefold woes against the Babylonian. How he eventually will destroy the proud, arrogant Babylonian, which really represents the whole, you might say, system, the godless system of this world, which deny the Messiah of Israel, the Savior of this world.

And deny God, deny his word. And so Babylon become, you might say, a kingdom that represents the godless world, those that reject God and his anointed. But at the same time that God promised the destruction of Babylon, he did give to Habakkuk an answer with respect to the godly from among the people of Israel. That you remember in chapter 2 of Habakkuk and verse 4, he says, behold, his soul, which is lifted up, is not upright in him, but the just shall live by his faith. In other words, God is saying to Habakkuk, when the judgment will come, and I will have to discipline now Babylon, the enemies of Israel who would come against Israel.

And he really takes Habakkuk all the way throughout the generation, to the latter days, not only to the time where Babylon will be destroyed by the Middle Persian, But he takes him all the way to the last days, and he promised Habakkuk that eventually, if you remember, two verses that we read in Habakkuk chapter 2, verse 14 and verse 20, which tells us that God was taking Habakkuk to the final days of the restoration of Israel, the second coming of the Messiah, and the restoration of the whole world. You remember what he said in Habakkuk 2, verse 14? For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea.

And then we read verse 20, but the Lord is in his holy temple, let all the earth keep silence before him. Now again, beloved brothers and sisters, if you're just in your mind, go back throughout history, Habakkuk is giving us this information about his dialogue with God at about 630 BC. The Jewish people were carried to Babylon. Babylon was destroyed by the Middle Persians. The Middle Persians were destroyed by the Greeks. The Greeks were taken over by the Romans. And the Romans reigned and ruled, the Roman Empire ruled during the time with the Messiah, the Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, was born. In fact, the Lord Jesus the Messiah was crucified on a Roman cross.

And since the time that the Messiah died at his first coming, up till today, that is about 2000 years that have passed by, we still live in that what is known to be as the times of the Gentiles. We cannot say today that the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the Lord, is filled with the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. It's not so. We can also don't say that the Lord is in his holy temple because the Lord is not in his holy temple. He is already rejected now for so many years. Since Yeshua the Messiah died on a Roman cross and was buried and rose again, and the assembly, the church, the ecclesia, was born while Israel did not receive the Messiah at his first coming, up till today, there were 2000 years passed by.

And we still cannot say that the earth is filled with the knowledge of the Lord, of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea. In fact, the earth is still rejecting the Lord and his authority. So now, beloved brothers and sisters, that's how we come into the third chapter of the book of Habakkuk. And in this third chapter, we learn very beautiful lessons that when God said to Habakkuk in chapter 2, when he said to him, write the vision in verse 2. Make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it, for the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak and not lie.

What we really learn that God is intending to fulfill the promises that he has shared with Habakkuk, but not only with Habakkuk, but with the nation of Israel in days of old, since the day of Abraham. Because eventually, God promised a kingdom where the whole earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, where the Lord himself will be in his holy temple in the Messianic kingdom. And so in the third chapter, Habakkuk received that vision. And now he is, you might say, receiving that vision and multitude of information with respect to the future day. And the day that God is eventually going to bring about all that which he had promised.

In fact, what we learned from the third chapter, that even though there are many promises that God has given to us, that at a time we do not get a hold of them, or maybe did not come yet to fruition, that ultimately, many of the challenges and the problems that we have in our life, eventually they are going to be finalized and dealt with when the Messiah is going to come at his second coming. Now, this is very interesting. We know that the Messiah has already come at his first coming to die and to pay for the sin of this world. You remember what Isaiah have already predicted?

Even before Habakkuk was preaching or speaking to Israel and even having this dialogue with God, Isaiah already predicted in Isaiah chapter 53 that the Messiah will come and that Israel will not accept him at his first coming. He said, Isaiah, all we like sheep have gone astray, we have turned everyone to his own way, and the Lord laid upon him the iniquities of us all. He was speaking about the suffering servant who will bear the iniquity of the nation of Israel and the nations of the world. In fact, earlier in Isaiah 53, we read what Isaiah predicted when Isaiah spoke about the coming Messiah who will be rejected at his first coming, and he will ultimately die, that he is despised, verse 3, and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and we hid, as it were, our faces from him, and he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows, and we did esteem him as stricken and smitten of God and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgression, he was bruised for our iniquity, the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and with his stripe, and that's the cross. One single stripe of the judgment of God, we are healed. So God had to punish the Messiah for the sin of Israel and the sins of this world, and the Messiah had already come, and of course we know that his name is Yeshua. You remember Matthew 1, 21? Thou shalt call his name Yeshua, Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.

And indeed the Messiah came, he was called Yeshua, salvation, and he died on a Roman cross to pay for the sin of this world. But again, beloved brothers and sisters, as we study the third chapter, bear with me, Habakkuk was not even at the time where the Babylonian rose, because he was now in this prophecy, he is receiving information about the future day when the Babylonian will come. We do not know exactly when Habakkuk passed away, but even if he was there when the Babylonian came and took the Jewish people captive in 605, the first deportation, 605 B.C., Yet, beloved brothers and sisters, what he heard from the Lord was 20, 30 years earlier before the rise of the Babylonians, so he was not even there.

He received prophetic ministry from the Lord. Neither was he there, neither you and I, when the Messiah came. At about 30 A.D. when he died on a Roman cross. We were not there, but all this is being presented before us by divine inspiration through the prophets. And Habakkuk is now receiving information that takes us beyond the days of Israel when the Babylonian came, beyond the time where the Messiah, Yeshua, came, was born and raised and died and rose again, beyond the church age, because as far as Habakkuk was concerned, there is no church age, because he doesn't know, it was not revealed to the Hebrew prophet of the age in which you and I live in today.

So we, he takes us, in other words, by the divine inspiration, he takes us over the ages and ages up till the time of the second coming of the Messiah. Not even the first coming of the Messiah, all the way to the second coming of the Messiah. You will notice in this third chapter that God revealed to Habakkuk the coming judgment, and that will happen at the second coming of the Messiah, and that fact that eventually he will restore his people Israel. So now notice that. First of all, in Habakkuk 3 verses 1 and 2 we read, a prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet, upon Shigionot, and notice what Habakkuk is praying.

He says, O Lord, I have heard by thy speech and was afraid. O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years, make known, in rest, remember mercy. So, whatever God has said to him in this vision, Habakkuk thought it necessary for him to cry to the Lord in prayer. He is now praying, and you notice it says, the prayer or a prayer of Habakkuk, the prophet. He is called Navi in Hebrew. Shigionot is interesting because it's like a passionate song of prayer that he is crying to the Lord passionately. He is so much concerned about what he saw in that visions that God has shown unto him.

By the way, the word Shigion, it's a singular, is mentioned in Psalm 7 and verse 1, where David gave a psalm that was placed into singing. And here we have Shigionot as well, that Habakkuk, a third chapter, will become like a song, a song of a cry to God and a praise to God for what is about to happen in the latter days. Remember that Habakkuk didn't know when will the day of God sending the Messiah at his second coming. You and I do not know either when Yeshua is going to come at his second coming. One thing we do know, that the Bible teaches us, the Hebrew Scriptures, the Tanakh, the Brit HaChadasha, the New Testament, teaches us that the Messiah will come.

Scripture is very clear. He that shall come will come and will not tarry. Hebrews chapter 10. Acts chapter 1, this same Jesus, this same Yeshua which is taken from you, shall come again. The prophets of Israel promised not only the first coming of the Messiah, but also the second coming of the Messiah. So notice what Habakkuk is now praying. In a sense, it was a prayer that he's put into singing, but with a passion, with a real burden for what is going to happen. On the one hand, the judgment of God, but also on the other hand, the restoration of Israel from those that will seek to harm the nation of Israel.

So he said, O Lord, verse 2, I have heard thy speech and was afraid. That word for afraid is Yeriti. Yira. It's not so much fear in the sense of being scared, but there is a reverential view towards God and God's promises to Habakkuk. And when God told him about coming days when judgment is going to come, so Habakkuk immediately asking the Lord in verse 2, he says, Lord, he says, Revive thy work in the midst of the years and in the midst of the years make known in wrath remember mercy. Now that word here in the midst of the years mentioned once here and the word in the midst of the years In other words, he's looking forward to the time in which the Messiah will come at his second coming and he's going to come in judgment.

And so he's asking that in the midst of the years when the judgment is coming, he says, God, Lord, he says, he says, revive your work in the midst of the years. In other words, he wanted the work of God, the work of restoration of Israel, the work of grace in the hearts of the nation will eventually that Israel as a nation will be revived and that God will restore his people. He continued, notice that in verse 2 and he said, in the midst of the years make known in wrath remember mercy. he's crying to the Lord in wrath remember mercy. In other words, he's asking the Lord to remember mercy in a time of wrath.

Isn't it true, beloved brothers and sisters, when problems come our way and when God had to deal with judgment, how we always long for mercy and forgiveness and that God will have mercy on us and to remember this is it is in every period of time in human history, we always we always are to look at the mercy of the Lord and to seek his mercy in every generation whether it was in the days of Habakkuk when he was having this dialogue with God and he asked for mercy upon Israel during the days of the tribulation period, you and I today during the days of the church age, the assembly age, we too need to

ask for God's mercy and how wonderful it is that God indeed is a merciful God, is a gracious God, we read in scripture by grace are ye saved, it is of the Lord's mercy that we are not consumed, God is a gracious God who loves to restore his people, so Habakkuk is turning to God in prayer and he asks him in the midst of these years and really in the midst of that tribulation period, you remember brothers and sisters that there will be seven years of Jacob's trouble, seven years of tribulation in which God is going to refine Israel and judge this world in righteousness, so Habakkuk is pleading with the Lord and asking him

that in mercy, in the midst of the judgment that he will have mercy upon the nation of Israel, and let me just remind you beloved brothers and sisters, that the prophets did say that there would be a day coming, that there would be a terrible, terrible day of judgment, you remember what Jeremiah said in chapter 30, we read in verse 5 of Jeremiah chapter 30 about this future event, for thus says the Lord, we have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace, asking now and see whether a man doth travail with a child, wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loyens, as a woman in travail, and

all faces are turned into paleness, alas, for that day is great, so that none is like it, it is even the time of Jacob's trouble, but he shall be saved out of it.

this is Jeremiah chapter 30 verses 5, 6, and 7, well the tribulation will come and we know very well that these terrible days of tribulation was also predicted by our Lord Yeshua himself, the Messiah in Matthew chapter 24 before he went to the cross to die for the sin of this world. Yeshua said in Matthew 24 there in verse, notice this verse 21, for then shall be great tribulation such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, no ever shall be and except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved, but for the elect sake those days shall be shortened.

You see beloved brothers and sisters, there is a day coming, Habakkuk is telling us about these days in the second and third chapter, the tribulation period, Daniel will say later on in Daniel chapter 9 about these days, Jeremiah in the 30th chapter said about this tribulation, Yeshua the Messiah have said about this tribulation, and in the book of the Revelation, we read in chapter 16 and chapter 19, all these chapters that deal with the tribulation period, seven years in which God will judge this world in righteousness, when he will come finally to deliver this world into judgment, restore the nation of Israel, lead the rest of the nations of the world who will believe in

the Lord Jesus, the Messiah unto salvation, and establish a messianic kingdom, the promise, a kingdom that he had promised in the Hebrew scriptures, well, now that Habakkuk, who saw that vision, who besieged the Lord in the midst of the years, known, and that in his wrath remember mercy, from here now on, from all the way from verse 3 to verse 15, now God again reveals to Habakkuk and Habakkuk displays this before us, in a sense in his dialogue with God he displays this, so you and I by the help of the Holy Spirit of God, by divine inspiration will be able to discern and to learn what will happen at now the second coming of

our Lord Yeshua the Messiah, again let me remind you, the Habakkuk do not know about the church age, he doesn't see the time in which you and I live in today, he doesn't see the ecclesia, or what he sees, that God will take Israel away captive by the Babylonian, and that eventually God will punish the Babylonian which really represent the system of this world which deny him, and eventually will restore and save his people Israel, it's like the two mountains, beloved brothers and sisters, mountains one is the first coming of the Messiah, mountain two is the second coming of the Messiah, and in between the two mountains we have the present day church age, Israel,

please remember that you cannot mix what God promised to Israel and what God promised to the assembly, the ecclesia, Israel the nation is Israel the nation, the church, the assembly, the ecclesia, is the assembly, the ecclesia, two distinct entities yet both are called by God and both are called to be an earthly company, an earthly nation, Israel, and a heavenly nation or heavenly people, the assembly, the church, the ecclesia.

So beloved brothers and sisters, now from verse 3 to verse 15 of this third chapter of Habakkuk, Habakkuk displays before us what God had shared with him about the future judgment, the future wrath and the future mercy that will come to pass at the second coming of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah who already came once to die to pay for the sin of this world. So you notice beloved brothers and sisters let me just read you a verse in Acts chapter 1 and I think this verse is good for us to read.

after Yeshua the Messiah finished the work of redemption he died he was buried and he rose again we read this very interesting two verses in Acts 1 verse 10 and 11 he was carried to heaven back to the father back to glory where he came from and we read while they looked this is the Jewish apostles from Jerusalem Jerusalem on Mount Olives when they looked steadfastly towards heaven as he went up behold two men stood by them in white apparel which also said ye men of Galilee why stand ye gazing up into heaven this same Yeshua Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as he has seen

him go into heaven in other words he going to come in the same manner he was carried to heaven and he will come from heaven down to earth at the second coming to deal with the enemies of Israel and to restore Israel back to himself and so you notice as we moving along in chapter 3 and verse 3 4 and 5 we see in these three verses that the Messiah this is God remember the Lord Yeshua God the Son who became a man he is coming now and we read here in verse 3 God came from Teiman and from Mount Paran and here God is presenting before us the glory of the Lord at his

second coming let me read verse 3 God came from Teiman and the Holy One from Mount Paran Selah his glory covered the heavens and the earth was full of his praise and his brightness was as delight feet he he he had rays it says his horns in the King James he had rays coming out of his hand and there was the hiding of his power before him went the pestilence and the burning coals went forth at his feet you see beloved brothers and sisters in verses 3 4 and 5 of this third chapter we see the second coming of the Messiah and you notice scripture says God came from Teman the holy one from Mount

Paran Selah and notice it says his glory covered the heavens and the earth was full of his praise in other words when God in the person of the Messiah gonna come at his second coming everyone will recognize who he is and will recognize the shekinah the authority and the and the glory of the person of the Lord Jesus of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah this is fascinating when we read this passage notice again and I'm reading this once again it says God came from Teman and the Holy One from Mount Paran Selah his glory covered the heavens and the earth was full of his praise notice the word glory and the word for glory is

coming from the Hebrew word hod and the word praise coming from the Hebrew Hada or Tehila Hodo Vetehilato all the glory of the Lord will be shining forth and he will be you might say coming in his power and his authority at the second coming it was the apostle John in Revelation chapter 1 who said in verse 7 behold he cometh with clouds and every eye shall see him and they also which pierce him and all the kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him all the kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him he is coming he is coming again but this time he is coming with power he is coming with

authority notice that the scripture tells us in this third chapter verse 3 and 4 he is coming with glory his glory covered the heavens in verse 3b it says that his praise will cover the earth the whole earth will be full of his praise this is a description of what ultimately the Lord Jesus the Lord Yeshua the Messiah will receive at his second coming but still it will only happen at the end of the tribulation rather than at the beginning of the tribulation because you notice what it says in verse 4 and verse 5 his brightness was the light and then it says was S the light and he says the rays and had rays

coming out of his hand and there was the hiding of his power in other words he is coming in power the hiding of his power in other words everything that he come with is presenting his authority and his power all these brightness and light and rays will exhibit the power of the Lord and remember beloved brothers and sisters that when the Lord Jesus the Messiah is going to come at his second coming he is coming to defeat the enemies of Israel he is coming to defeat the world that rejected him he is coming to deal with the enemies of God and enemies of God's people so this brightness and light and rays represent his power

and authority in verse 5 it says before him went the pestilence and the burning coals went forth at his feet pestilence and burning coals represent the judgment that he will pour upon this world that he so much rejected him and so much have gone against his people again if you see the context in the context we see Babylon taking the Jewish people to Babylon and in the context we see Babylon which is really representing Babylon the great the ones that are rejecting God they eventually will represent you might say the whole system of this world that reject God and while Babylon have taken Israel this you might say the kingdom of Babylon that took the

Jewish people to Babel initially here we come to the time where this Babylon is becoming Babylon the great the mystery Babylon this rejecting nations of the world that will reject the Messiah and inflict sorrow upon the people of God well if we move along in the next verses you will notice in verses 6 and 7 look at the results of the second coming of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah well when he going to come and he going come in power and in authority we learn in verses 6 and 7 that Israel's enemy will be defeated and that the Habakkuk see that the nations who afflicted Israel will eventually be afflicted themselves you you know as

it says in verses 6 and 7 he stood this is the Messiah this is God this is Yeshua the Messiah God the Son he stood and measured the earth he beheld and drove asunder the nations and the everlasting mountains were scattered the perpetual hills did bow his ways are everlasting I saw the tents of Kushan in affliction and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble see Habakkuk dear brothers and sisters looking forward by again divine inspiration as he see that vision by the Lord from the Lord he looked forward to the future then what does he see that the Lord that God in the person of the son the Messiah himself at the

second coming he measured the earth and he drove asunder the nations and as it says here the everlasting mountains the nation who thought that they will be for eternity here and there will be this perpetual hills that they will build these you might say these Babylon the great the nations of the world will build its own kingdom without God eventually he the Messiah the Lord Yeshua will destroy them and he will set them aside it says here at the end of verse 6 that his ways are everlasting not their not their ways they thought that they have these everlasting mountains they thought that there will be the perpetual hills but eventually they will bow and

they will have to be defeated by the Messiah God the Son Yeshua the Messiah then it says in verse 7 I saw the tens of Kushan in affliction Habakkuk sees some of the nations that are being afflicted and trembling from fear because the second coming of the Messiah what a sight it is beloved brothers and sisters to see as Habakkuk give us a description of the future day of the tribulation period where we continue to read in the next verses verses 8 on to all the way to verse 11 we see that Habakkuk can see by divine inspiration the reason whereby God have to act in such a way he is going to deal with

this world in righteousness and deliver his people Israel from their enemies and so notice that brothers and sisters in verse 8 in verse 9 all the way to verse 11 was the Lord displeased against the rivers was thine anger against the rivers was thy wrath against the sea that thou did ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation and the the question of the world is asked what is the reason that God came in such a severe judgment upon the rivers and the seas and so on and the enemies of of God's people well the answer comes in verse 9 no he did not come in such a severe way to deal with the

nations of the world just like that and especially not to deal with the rivers and the seas in such a way no but sin of course brought about the necessity to punish this world in righteousness but also beloved brothers and sisters God made a covenant God made an oath a promise to his people Israel he chose the nation of Israel to be a nation that through them he will bring the Messiah the Savior the Redeemer for the world and that ultimately through the nation of Israel blessings will flow to all the nations of the world so God made a promise it's not that Israel made a promise to God and kept it no God made

a promise to God to Israel and he's going to keep it he made the Abrahamic covenant with David he made a land covenant with Israel to give them the land he gave even he made a new covenant the with the household of Judah in Israel as it is written in Jeremiah chapter 31 God made promises and so verse 9 tells us it's all interesting thy bow was made quite naked according to the oath of the tribes even thy word selah notice that word for oath it's a very interesting word it's plural and it's shvu'ah is singular shvu'ot is plural in Hebrew God made a promise God swore meaning making a promise he made a promise

to Abraham and he made a promise to David let me read you the promise that he made to Abraham in Genesis chapter 22 and verse 15 very interesting promise that he made to Abraham if you remember when Abraham was offering his son Isaac seeking to obey the word of the Lord and he fulfilled the requirement of the Lord he was ready to offer his only son Isaac and you remember God did not allow him because God did not want Isaac God wanted Abraham but in Genesis the same place in Genesis 22 verse 15 God said to Abraham these words the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time and he

said by myself have I sworn sayest the Lord for because thou has done this thing and has not withheld thy son thine only son that in blessing I will bless thee and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is upon the seashore and thy seed shall possess the gates of his enemies in verse 18 God said and in thy seed this is the Messiah shall all the nations of the earth be blessed because thou has obeyed my voice God made an oath God nishba in Hebrew we say shvot he made plurality of promises to the people of Israel that he will ultimately bring blessings

to the nation of Israel and ultimately the nations of the world will enjoy the future restoration in the coming day he also beloved brothers and sisters made promises to David in 2nd Samuel chapter 7 I want to read to you a verse from the psalm psalm 132 verse 11 the Lord has sworn in truth unto David this time he will not turn it from it of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne if thy children will keep my covenant and my testimony that I shall teach them their children shall also sit upon thy throne forevermore for for the Lord have chosen Zion he has desired it for his habitation this is

my rest forever here will I dwell for I have desire it we read this in psalm 132 verse 11 to 14 this is God's desire this is not even Israel's desire this is God's desire though obviously anyone who have a heart for God desire this any of the nation of Israel desire this to be fulfilled because God made it promised it and will bring it to pass in due time so we continue beloved brothers and sisters we go back to Habakkuk chapter 3 as Habakkuk prayer for mercy in the midst of the coming judgment of the tribulation and so Habakkuk 3 presents before us the tribulation time when judgment will come upon the nations of

the world and so we read beloved brothers and sisters now in the next verses in verses 10 and 11 the mountains saw thee and they trembled the overflowing of the water passed by the deep uttered his voice and lifted up his hands on high the sun and the moon stood still in their habitation at the light of thine arrows they went and at the shining of thy glittering peer you see brothers and sisters when the messiah is going to come at his second coming things will occur here on earth it was not that God found displeasure with the rivers and with the seas not but there will be consequence that will affect the rivers and

the seas but not only that because the mountains saw the coming of the messiah and we'll see at the second coming the waters was overflowing water passed by the deep uttered his voice and lifted up his hand on high and even the sun and the moon stood still at their habitation at the light of thine arrows they went and at the shining of thy glittering spear notice that arrows and spear and we find here that God is coming in judgment through the person of our Lord Yeshua the Messiah at his second coming this same Jesus this same Yeshua will come again and when he is going to come in power and authority at his second

coming beloved brothers and sisters this is fascinating when we really think about the second coming of the Messiah when he is going to come in power and glory Daniel a little bit later on said this after he was taken to Babel with the Jewish people by the Babylonian he said I saw this is Daniel chapter 7 verse 13 I saw in the night visions and behold one like the son of man came with clouds of heaven and came to the ancient of day and they brought him near before him and there was given him dominion and glory and a kingdom that all people nations and languages should serve him his his dominion is an everlasting

dominion which shall not pass away and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed Daniel the Hebrew prophet have looked forward by again by divine design by revelation from the angel of the Lord through the visions that he received concerning the second coming of the Messiah he's called the son of men in Daniel 7 13 ben ha adam this is one of the messianic titles that was given concerning the person of the Lord Yeshua the Messiah we read revelation 1 verse 7 behold he cometh with cloud and every eye shall see him and they also which pierce him and all the kindles of the earth shall weigh because of him even so amen I am

the alpha and omega the beginning and the ending say as the Lord which is and which was and which is to come the almighty this is the second coming of the Messiah beloved brothers and sisters we read in revelation chapter 19 also in verse 11 and I saw heavens open and behold a white horse and he that sat upon he was called faithful and true and in righteousness does he judge and make war his eyes were the flame of fire and on his hand were many crowns and he had a name written that no man knew but he himself and he was clothed with vesture dipped in blood and his name was called the word

of God this is Yeshua HaMashiach Jesus the Messiah who was coming in his second coming to reign and rule but first of all during the tribulation he will pour the wrath of God and at the end of the tribulation he will come in power and glory and defeat the enemies of the people of Israel I would like you just to notice now and now these last verses verses 12 to 15 you notice that he will come and he will eventually defeat the false Messiah the counterfeit Messiah we call him the anti Christ anti it's not only against the Messiah against Mashiach but but but the one that seek to be like the Messiah and to

take the place of the Messiah to take the place of Christ listen to these last verses for this ministry today verses 12 13 14 and 15 and here Habakkuk the embracer of Israel describe the total victory of the Messiah over the false Messiah the counterfeit Messiah when he's going to come at his second coming look at these verses we read in verse 12 to 15 really you will notice that the word you you you or thou thou thou it is all of him it is all of God it is all of of God and the Messiah himself not man not Israel nobody it's all of God notice how many times Habakkuk used the word you

or thou I'm reading verse 12 thou didst march through the land in indignation thou didst thresh the heathen in anger thou wentest forth for salvation of thy people even for salvation with thine anointed thou woundest the head out of the house of the wicked by discovering the foundation unto the neck cellar thou didst strike strike through with his stave the head of his villages they came out as whirlwind to scatter me their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses through the heap of great waters beloved brothers and sisters in these last verses we see how when the Messiah gonna come the Lord Yeshua the Messiah

gonna come at his second coming he will totally destroy the counterfeit Messiah and those that follow after him who came against the people of Israel his chosen people whom he came to save and so we read in verse 12 especially you notice that in this verse you can see thou didst march through the land in indignation thou didst thresh the heathen in anger it's like someone is passing through a field and threshing the whole field with the machine as if it were and here is the Messiah coming and he destroys all those heathen that the goyim the nation that came against the nation of Israel and notice verse 13 very interesting verse because he says

in verse 13 that the Lord is the one who came to save in Hebrew the word save salvation thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people notice who is thy people this is the people of Israel and God came through the person of the Messiah Yeshua who is now coming out of glory as we read in Revelation chapter 19 and verse 11 and I saw heaven open and behold a white horse and he that set up on him was called faithful and true and in righteousness he judged and make war here he is coming to save his people Israel he already provided his blood when he died on the Roman cross years earlier at

his first coming now he is coming to deliver his people Israel who will ultimately recognize that Yeshua is indeed that promised Messiah and so we find out it says that verse 13 is a beautiful verse you went forth for salvation of your people even the salvation was anointed Israel was anointed by God to become the chosen nation Meshichecha notice it doesn't say here Mashiach but Meshichecha the anointed ones in relation to the nation the nation of Israel was anointed by God to be his people and through them blessing will come to this world but Israel departed and God had to restore the nation and that's why it says that the Lord came out as if

it were from heaven and now to judge the world and its enemies the enemies of God and to restore the nation of Israel notice what it says in verse 13b thou woundest the head out of the house of the wicked this head is this counterfeit Messiah of whom we read in 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2 that God is eventually going to destroy him at his coming I want to read to you this verse in 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2 and verse 5 we read we read 2nd Thessalonians 2 5 remember ye not that when I was with you I told you these things and now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time

for the mystery of iniquity doth already work only he who now letteth will let until he be taken out of the way and then shall that wicked be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming notice that he will destroy with the brightness of his coming even him this is that antichrist whose coming is after the working of satan with all power and signs and lying wonders satan will is a liar who will be the one that will influence the world to follow after the antichrist and when Yeshua the Messiah the true Christ the true Messiah will come it says here in

2nd Thessalonians chapter 2 and verse 8 then shall that wicked be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming and so beloved brothers and sisters once the head which is the antichrist the counterfeit Messiah will be destroyed we read in Habakkuk 3 and verse 13 it says by discovering the foundation unto the neck cellar in other word all the way from the head down to the foundation the rest of the enemies of God the enemies of Israel will be destroyed and then we read the last two verses of Habakkuk chapter 3 verses 14 and 15 thou didst strike through with his stave

the head of his village they came out of the whirlwind to scatter me the rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly but not as but thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses through the heap of great waters and so beloved brothers and sisters as Habakkuk is receiving that vision from God concerning the future day of the tribulation period he's looking and spreading as it were before us what he received from the Lord in the first 15 verses of this third chapter of Habakkuk and he described how he wanted God to provide mercy in the midst of the years of this tribulation period for the nation of Israel as he said in verse

2 oh Lord he says revive thy work in the midst of the years in the midst of the years make known in rest remember mercy and then from verses 3 all the way to verse 15 of this third chapter of Habakkuk Habakkuk is presenting you might say or displaying or presenting that which he had learned from the Lord by this vision that he received that eventually in the future God will come in final judgment and wrath during the tribulation but he eventually will provide mercy and grace for his people and so verse 13 of Habakkuk 3 is a beautiful verse thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people even for salvation with thine anointed

God have sought to have Israel as a people that will be restored and the people you notice the word for thy people is the Hebrew word your nation your people your nation and Habakkuk was concerned for the ultimate salvation of the people of Israel initially he was concerned for Israel because there was also the violence among people people people of Israel but now at the end of the book the third chapter is concerned for the salvation of Israel and the restoration of Israel that God showed mercy and grace to the nation of Israel and sure and sure enough we know that from other passages of scripture the day that Israel eventually will recognize that Yeshua

indeed is the Messiah and if you remember beautifully and I going to finalize this message with Zechariah chapter 12 and verse 10 and I will pour upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and supplication and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for him as one mourners for his only son and shall be in bitterness for him as one that is in bitterness for his first born in that day shall be a great morning in Jerusalem as the morning of Hadad Rimon in the valley of Megiddo and the land shall mourn every family apart the family of the house of David

apart and their wives apart the family of the house of Nathan apart and their wives apart the family of the house of Levi apart and their wives apart the family of Shimi apart and their wives apart all the families that remain every family apart in and their wives apart chapter 13 and verse 1 in that day Zechariah 13 verse 1 there shall be a fountain open to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness it is then and there beloved brothers and sisters at the end of the tribulation period that Israel will recognize that Yeshua is indeed the Messiah the Redeemer and day as we read through the

apostle Paul in Romans chapter 11 and verse 26 and all Israel shall be saved as it is written there shall come out of Zion the deliverer and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob what a wonderful future is waiting but not before the time of Jacob's trouble the tribulation period when there will be a sad experience here in this world but if you are a believer in the Lord Yeshua the Messiah today you and I who belong to the heavenly company will be taken out of here before the tribulation period will begin and I trust that as you listen to this message on Habakkuk chapter 3 verses 1 to 15 you will pause and consider your

need of the Lord Yeshua Jesus the Messiah who loved us and gave himself for us may the Lord bless his word can you say amen to these