October 5

<p><a href= "http://traffic.libsyn.com/thehighroadshow/2797S1005.mp3" target= "_blank" rel="noopener">Download</a></p> <!-- END 1203 Download Link --> <p>Habakkuk 2:2-3:19 We are in the Exile Stream reading from the Good News Translation. 7streamsmethod.com | @7StreamsMethod | @serenatravis | #7Streams | <a href= "https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=YPPA8XGTQ2YHU">Donate</a></p> <!--more--> <p>Commentary by Dr. Drake Travis</p> <blockquote>Lord, fill us with your faith. You tell us that the righteous shall life by faith, so that is how we want to live - by the faith that you put in our hearts. Amen.</blockquote> <div>We remember, from last week, Habakkuk petitioning of the Lord in great anxiety because of the Babylonians bearing down on Judah. It was an invasion that came in three waves: 605 B.C. 597 B.C. and 586 B.C.  Habakkuk is writing his book right before the first invasion.  His desperate prayer is answered starting in Hab. 2:2</div> <div>2:2ff - Habakkuk is told to "have pen ready" to write down the prophecy that God gives.  First item to be assured of is that the evil will not live and the just/the righteous shall live by faith; by being faithful to God.  The Babylonians were wealthy, greedy, violent, armed, sneering, plundering - all taken by conquest v.s. building something and doing something positive.  The Babylonians had shed blood everywhere and were bent on destruction. All nations cowered and trembled in the presence of the Babylonians.  Well their time was coming and they were doomed to destruction; to the destruction they had inflicted on everyone else.  They were doomed to fall shortly after finishing this conquest of Judah.  However the Babylonians would <strong><em>not</em></strong> cover the earth.  They would go down just like all their victims.  And the people of God would, in time, be the ones who would cover the earth. The end of chapter two still echoes across the world: "The Lord is in His holy Temple. let everyone on earth be silent in His presence."</