The morning Manna will be provided at 6am.
Thanks. Studying In the Crucible with Christ in the SSnet.org series Lesson 7, may
the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart. The Topic today is: "Habakkuk like
you have never seen it before”. The Opening Hymn will be 229 "Spirit
of the Living God" The Sabbath School Quarterly, downloadable
from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on page 86 and for the laymen
edition or Standard Edition, on page 57. The SSnet.org site allows anyone, anywhere
to read the lesson in their own language. Choose your own language to see God
speaking also to your heart. ---I wish our Sabbath School Net writers
would pay attention to past Sabbath School Quarterlies by great believers in
our denomination. Instead of picking up Fortress Press, or Moody Press, or any
of these preteristic commentaries of Reformed theologians. Ellen White and other
Habakkuk writers in our denomination did connect Habakkuk 2:1-4 to 1844!
Download past Sabbath School Quarterlies on Habakkuk or the Prophets at www.ssnet.org at archive. ---Because Habakkuk lived in the same time
as Daniel, he would have been familiar with the material of Daniel. It was his
colleague. Ezechiel already finished his book and Jeremiah was far developed in
his. Habakkuk do not operate in isolation. ---That is Preterism. They think that it is
the Babylonian exile and Habakkuk is focused only on his own immediate history.
That is the primary application. But they do allow for pockets where his
thinking is thinking of the First coming of the Messiah in future [31 AD] because
Hebrews 10:37 cites Habakkuk. ---Note to readers: Below are
opinions that is just this writer’s. It is not Classical Adventism. You need to
know that. If you get emotional about what is written below, you need to attach
your emotion to this writer and not against the Seventh-day Adventist church
who never officially said anything like this. ---I once wrote on Second Coming
pockets in the Prophets. Just a few prophets. But the same should be done in
your reading of Habakkuk. ---Here is the example or template: Second
Coming Sketches from the Prophets Mic 2:12 “I will surely gather the
remnant of Israel together” “I will assemble, O Jacob, all of you.” “As
a flock within a stall” [stall is Zion Psalm 46] (Micah 2:12). Mic 4:7c the Lord shall reign over them on
Mount Zion “from now and forever” Mic 5:2b invisible will join the visible
remnant Mic 5:3 Lord will be great around the
world Mic 5:4 There will be peace around the
world Mic 7”10 The feet of the righteous will
step on the evil like mire in the streets Mic 7:20 Abraham and the faithful received
inheritance Joel 2:1 Darkness and thick
clouds Mountain and a shofar will sound Joel 2:3 Fire before and after Christ Joel 2:5 Angels will be like chariots and
horses and big sounds will be heard Joel 2:6 Mountains and the evil people
will quake and shake Joel 2:8 Angels come in order not touching
each other Joel 2:9 Angels climb the walls, houses
roofs and windows. Joel 2:10 Before this time the sun will
darken in 1780, the stars will fall in 1833 and the moon will not shine. Joel 2:11 Voice of God will be great Isa 2:10 evil wants to hide under rocks Isa 2:11a Proud is surprised Isa 2:13a Lebanon the cedars will be
shaken Isa 2:16a-b Tarshish ships will be
destroyed Isa 2:17a-b Pride will be removed Isa 2:19c earth will tremble Isa 64:1-2 pray that Second Coming will be
earlier – rend the heaven and come down Isa 64:10c Jerusalem desolate Isa 64:2 fire and trees will burn Isa 64:3 mountains will quake Isa 3:24 remnant will be holy Isa 3:26a-b evil will be killed by the
sword Isa 5:26b-c God whistles and will come
with speed Isa 5:26a Standard is lifted up. Christ
is that Standard Isa 5:27a No one with Him is weary or
stumbles Isa 5:27b He does not nap or sleep Isa 5:27c He does not undo his belt Isa 5:27d His sandal strap is not broken Isa 5:28a His arrows are sharp Isa 5:28b The angels as horses are fast Isa 5:29a He makes roaring sounds Isa 5:29b He makes growling sounds Isa 5:29c He carries off the righteous
away from the evil with no one to deliver Isa 5:30a Christ growl like the roaring of
the sea Isa 60:1a Arise and shine for your light
has come Isa 60:1b for the glory of the Lord is
upon you Isa 60:2a darkness will cover the earth Isa 60:2b peoples are in deep darkness Isa 60:3a resurrected remnant is light and
nations will come to the light Isa 60:3b kings (maybe of unfallen worlds
will come to see Isa 60:3-4 Unfallen worlds are coming to
see what is happening. The whole universe wants to see. Isa 60:4c-d sons will come from afar and
daughters will be carried in the arms Isa 60:5a-b Then you will see and be
radiant and your heart will thrill and rejoice. ---Let us get back to Habakkuk. ---There are prophetic long periods of
time allocated to a year-day principle where one year consists of 360 years.
That is how the long period of 490 years ended exactly to the time of Christ,
thus foretold and exactly fulfilled in Daniel 9:24-27. ---But there are other exact long periods
in prophecy given (Distanzangaben) like 1260 years (Daniel and Revelation)
and 2300 years as well as 1290 and 1335 at the end of Daniel. ---They are the “appointed times of God”
shown to the prophet of coming events spread out in the corridors of past and
future history. Remember these words because Habakkuk is coming below. ---So far Adventists could recognize with
a host of Jewish, Christian and Protestant scholars from various denominations
(see Le Roy Froom, The Prophetic Faith of our Fathers) this aspect
in the history of interpretation. These conclusions cannot be just overlooked
and shelved. ---For this reason, the Habakkuk 2 notes
written in 2008 initially, has such a contextualization for today that they are
presented untouched for others to see how close the understanding of 2008
(below on Habakkuk, then composed) is touching the reality of our day today. ---In 2008, this writer [me] understood
from Habakkuk 2 that: ---“God gave Habakkuk a vision for the
appointed time of 1798 and when this finished another World-Order of a secular
kind will be. "For there shall be another vision for the appointed
time" (Habakkuk 2:3). This is 1798. ---"It shall not fail, though it
tarry, wait for it, for it shall surely come, it shall not delay". The
pope in captivity for the deadly wound in 1798 will be "puffed up his soul
is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by faith"
(Habakkuk 2:4). ---Then Habakkuk describes the
Anglo-American western forces from verse 5, the new World-Order after the Holy
Roman Empire: "he whom wine betrays, a haughty man whose dwelling shall
not remain, who widened his desire like the netherworld, and he is like death
and shall never be sated, and he gathered all the nations to himself and
collected to himself all peoples (as one can see in the poem of the Statue of
Liberty). ---Daniel expects the USA to fall(?) in
Daniel 11:45 last part "and he shall come to his end and no-one for
him". A parable will be against them "Woe to him who increases what
is not his. How long? And who loads himself with a beam of mud" (Habakkuk
2:6). ---Why mud? Daniel saw in Nebuchadnezzar’s
dream that the last empire will be a mixture of clay and iron, democratic and
autocratic ruler styles mixed. It appears that "those who bite you [USA]
arise suddenly and those who startle you awaken". ---"And you shall
become plunder for them" (Habakkuk 2:7). ---"Since you have cast away many
nations all remaining peoples shall cast you away" (Habakkuk 2:8a). ---The day [I am interpreting in 2008
here] the USA shall reverse its policy of global involvement, the world will
think that they are cast away and that will trigger the casting away of the
USA. ---USA isolationism or homeland focusing
will inaugurate their downfall [written in 2008. What about Afghanistan?]. ---The USA will be rejected "because
of the blood of man and the violence done to the land, the city, and all its
inhabitants" (Habakkuk 2:8). ---The war with East is still ahead and
also that northern power of Daniel 11:44. ---A woe is then spoken about the
future USA "woe to him who gains evil gains for his house to place his
nest on high [space station] to be saved from the hand of an evil one"
(Habakkuk 2:9). There are military objectives to the space-station project. [What
did Elon Musk say he wants to do about Mars?] ---Isolationism and moving the focus from
global interests to homeland interests means "to cut off many
peoples" (Habakkuk 2:10). ---"Woe to him who builds a city with
blood and establishes a city with injustice" (Habakkuk 2;12). ---Nations shall be restless [written in
2008] with vanity (Habakkuk 2:13). [Ukraine and Russia?] ---Because of the Latter Rain the
"earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord"
(Habakkuk 2:14). [We have to prepare right now] ---Perverted actions made them a disgrace
(Habakkuk 2:15-16). [People need repentance immediately] ---Alcohol was used for the perversion and
he became full of disgrace instead of honor (Habakkuk 2:16). ---The cup of the right hand of the Lord
shall be turned upon him (Habakkuk 2:16) and disgrace upon his glory. [It comes
from the Lord, the events of our time] ---Syria and Lebanon shall be violent and
there shall be blood of man and violence in the land, a city, and all its
inhabitants (Habakkuk 2:17). [Has it been?] ---What is the value of a graven image
(Habakkuk 2:18). The USA will make an image for the first beast says Revelation
13. ---Woe to one who speaks to metals and
stone and wood as if it is living (Habakkuk 2:19). ---Icon worship is the downfall. ---The Lord is in his Holy Temple and the
whole world is to be silenced before Him (Habakkuk 2:20). [It is the last
scenes in the Heavenly Sanctuary of the Most Holy according to the Book of
Hebrews] Note: This is not a standard
Adventist interpretation but the private thinking of this writer.