Habakkuk 1:1-3:19, Revelation 9:1-21, Psalms 137:1-9, Proverbs 30:10
Today is the 18th day of December, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it’s great to be here with you as we reach the conclusion of another one of our weeks together. And it’s been getting customary that we’re moving really rapidly through territory, especially in the Old Testament. Now that we’ve reached Revelation in the New Testament we’re…we’re…we’re in the last book. So, we’ll carry that all the way through the end of the year, but in the Old Testament we’re moving rapidly through the minor prophets. Seems like we’re reading a book a day. And that’s pretty close to true and that will be true today as we close out this week.
Introduction to the book of Habakkuk::
We have the eighth book of the 12 books in the grouping known as the minor prophets and our book today is called Habakkuk. And since we will be reading the whole thing today. Let’s just talk about what we’re going to read. This person named Habakkuk, it’s almost as if there’s less known about who Habakkuk was than any other biblical writer practically. There are some traditions. There’s a Jewish tradition that associates Habakkuk as the son of the Shunamite woman that was resurrected in Elisha’s ministry. And that’s found in the book of second Kings. You probably remember that story. It’s a tradition. We read that story. There’s nothing about Habakkuk in that story and second Kings, but that’s a long-running tradition. There’s an apocryphal tradition about Habakkuk, which means he’s written of in books that may have been contemporary with the…the biblical narrative and maybe even books that were revered but didn’t end up in the canon of Scripture. And Habakkuk is mentioned in one such book as almost like a minister to Daniel while he was in the…the lion’s den. I don’t know if that would make him a spiritual being…like it's…the thing is most…most scholars find these kinds of traditions to be legendary like this last one we just talked about with Habakkuk being in the lions den with Daniel. I guess anything is possible. It’s just not in the Bible in the book of Daniel when we read the story of Daniel and the Lion’s den. So, they’re traditions and…and…and probably legends, but that doesn’t mean that Habakkuk wasn’t important. It has been preserved as a biblical prophecy. We are about to read it out of the Bible right now and there are passages in Habakkuk that are very famous. So, for example we have read all of the letters of the apostle Paul, we have read the book of Hebrews and in those letters and in the book of Hebrews we would hear things like the just shall live by faith. This is like a central core Christian doctrine that is repeated in the writings of Paul, especially, but that idea, that saying, it comes from Habakkuk, but the righteous will live by their faithfulness to God. So, we could probably say with pretty good assurance, Paul being a studied Pharisee was familiar with the prophecy of Habakkuk. And actually what we’ll read in Habakkuk is a…a bit of a conversation that is fairly direct. Habakkuk doesn’t like what’s happening around him. He doesn’t understand the way that the Lord allows things to happen. And, so, we kind of move from that place of frustration and confusion and watch the whole thing move toward worship in the end. And, so, we begin and end today the three chapter book of Habakkuk.
Prayer:
Thank You, Father for another week in Your word, a busy week indeed. We have covered so much territory in so many different books and we are grateful, and we rely on You Lord. We rely on You to plant what we have heard into…into our hearts, into the field of our heart, that in due season the fruit of the Spirit might be born in us. We thank You for the gift of Your word. We thank You for the gift of salvation that we cannot earn. It is a gift. We thank You for the opportunity to have the gift of life that we are conscious, that we are aware that You exist. And may we become more and more aware of Your presence on a continual basis because You never leave or forsake us. And, so, as we continue forward from this point into Christmas week which is one week from today we invite Your Holy Spirit to lead and guide us. May we stay in alignment with You. May we pay attention through this season to all that You are leading us to and all that You are leading us away from. We pray this in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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Hey DAB fam this is Sparky. Hey y'all. Brian was reading through Revelation today and it really kind of struck a chord. And pardon me, I don’t have it in front of me but when he was addressing the fact that you say that you’re rich and I don’t need any help pretty much to paraphrase him. But you’re stubborn. And it really rung a bell with me because I’m a working man. I keep a roof over the…a roof over the kids head. You know, that’s all my kids. And when things are going right I feel pretty rich and I don't…I don’t necessarily push so hard for God ehen I feel like I’ve got what I want. And man. that that just stoned. It really did. DAB fam that…that stoned to where I think God said don’t just come to me when you’re poor. When things are going good don’t lose sight of me. Don’t quit looking for Me. Don’t quit listening to you DAB. And got to thank Brian. Revelations the tough one to get through for me because it came up when it was fire and brimstone and then there’s a lot of good lessons in this. I love you DAB fam. I’m praying for you, all of your community prayers, especially Eyes of a Dove. My wife and I are praying so hard for you. We love you guys and I hope you all have an awesome week. I’ll be praying as I go through the community…
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Hi family today is Tuesday December 14th, and this is Robert P from Tennessee. I wanted to thank you all for your prayers and support. I’m on my way to the hospital this morning to see the status of my wife. The doctors tried a procedure yesterday to put a drain in her abdomen for ascites fluid from her liver failure and unfortunately, they perforated one of her intestines and that’s not gonna be very good. They cannot operate to fix it and basically, we’re just gonna bring her home. Please pray for my family and thank you for doing that. And just pray that we can send her to the arms of Jesus in peace and tranquility. And pray for my decision-making abilities as this is just difficult. Thank you, family. God bless you all. Robert P from Tennessee, subaruman.rt@gmail.com …
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