I don’t know about you, but I know how many times I have desired that the rapture would come so that I could be caught up with Jesus and escape my present petty problems. But where is the love others? Should I wish that the world go through such horrific times so that I can be set free from my uncomfortable time of discipline from God? No, I realized that this was not love.

How many times have we all quoted this passage, Habakkuk 2:4 ”but the righteous will live by his faith.” but let the context of the passage amaze you.
Hab 2:2 Then the LORD replied: Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it.
Hab 2:3 For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.
Hab 2:4 See, he (the antichrist) is puffed up; his desires are not upright—but the righteous will live by his faith—
Hab 2:5 indeed, wine betrays him; he is arrogant and never at rest. Because he is as greedy as the grave and like death is never satisfied, he gathers to himself all the nations and takes captive all the peoples.
Hab 2:6 Will not all of them taunt him with ridicule and scorn, saying, Woe to him who piles up stolen goods and makes himself wealthy by extortion! How long must this go on?’
Hab 2:7 Will not your debtors suddenly arise? Will they not wake up and make you tremble? Then you will become their victim.
Hab 2:8 Because you have plundered many nations, the peoples who are left will plunder you. For you have shed man’s blood; you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them.
Hab 2:9 Woe to him who builds his realm by unjust gain to set his nest on high, to escape the clutches of ruin.
Hab2:10 You have plotted the ruin of many peoples, shaming your own house and forfeiting your life.
Hab 2:11 The stones of the wall will cry out, and the beams of the woodwork will echo it.
Hab 2:12 Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by crime!
Hab 2:13 Has not the LORD Almighty determined that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing?
Hab 2:14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
Hab 2:15 Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin till they are drunk, so that he can gaze on their naked bodies.
Hab 2:16 You will be filled with shame instead of glory. Now it is your turn. Drink and be exposed! The cup from the LORD’S right hand is coming around to you, and disgrace will cover your glory.
Hab 2:17 The violence you have done to Lebanon will overwhelm you, and your destruction of animals will terrify you. For you have shed man’s blood: you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them.
Hab 2:18 “Of what value is an idol, since a man has carved it? Or an image that teaches lies? For he who makes it trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
Hab 2:19 Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Come to life’ Or to lifeless stone, ‘Wake up’ Can it give guidance? It is covered with gold and silver; there is no breath in it.
Hab 2:20 But the LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth be silent before him.”
(Parenthesis added)

Wow, what a descriptive passage on the antichrist. First of all the LORD clearly puts this revelation in the End Times.

Hab 2:3 For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false. Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay.

Also our Lord tell us that the tribulation is not going to happen when we think. “Though it lingers, wait for it; it certainly will not delay.”

Mt 24:6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come.
Mt 24:7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Mt 24:8 All these are the beginning of birth pains.

MI 24:48 But suppose that servant is wicked and says to himself! My master is staying away a long time,’

Mt 25:5 The bridegroom was a long time in coming, and they all became drowsy and fell asleep.

Mt 25:19 “After a long time the master of those servants returned and settled accounts with them.

2Pe 3:3 First of all, you must understand that in the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following their own evil desires.
2Pe 3:4 They will say, “Where is this ‘coming he promised? Ever since our fathers died, everything goes on as it has since the beginning of creation.”

Copyrighted 2007 James Wood

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