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Introduction 1 2 3 Nahum Zephaniah
Habakkuk 1
The
prophet's complaint of evil
First of all, the prophet
complains that the evil which exists among the people is
insupportable. This is the natural effect of the working
of the Spirit of God in a heart jealous for His glory and
detesting evil. The heart of the prophet, formed in the
school of the law, speaks perhaps of the evil in the
spirit of the law. The Spirit of God does not bring him
out of this position, which was properly that of a
prophet before God, and he judges the evil in a holy
manner, according to a heart that was faithful to the
blessings of Jehovah.
Jehovah's
revelation of His chastisement
Thereupon Jehovah reveals
to him the terrible judgment by which He will chastise
the people who thus gave themselves up to evil. He would
raise up against them the Chaldeans, those types of pride
and energy, who, successful in all their enterprises,
sought glory only in the opinion they had of themselves.
Their head, forsaking the true God who had given them
their strength, would worship a god of his own. [
1]
The wicked
established in power by Jehovah for correction
But all this awakens in
the prophet a different sentiment from that which he
before experienced. Here was his God denied by the
instrument of vengeance, and the beloved people trodden
down by one more wicked than themselves. But faith knows
that its God, the true God, is the one and only Lord, [
2] and (already a profound
consolation assuring the heart of salvation) that it is
Jehovah who has established the wicked in power for the
correction of His people. But shall they continue to fill
their net with men, as though they were but fish?
[1] Sad effect of
pride, which, unknown to itself, is the parent of
weakness! Man cannot sustain himself; and the pride which
rejects the true God must and does make one for itself,
or adopts what its fathers have made, for pride cannot
stand in the presence of the supreme God. Man makes a
god: this, too, is pride. But he cannot do without one;
and after all, the natural heart is the slave of that
which it cannot do without.
[2] To Habakkuk of course Jehovah; to
us the Father is revealed in the Son, and so one Lord,
Jesus Christ.
Chapter 1:
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Introduction 1 2 3 Nahum Zephaniah
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