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[928.32 --> 928.98] Habakkuk says, |
[929.46 --> 931.50] Lord, I have heard of your fame. |
[931.70 --> 933.96] I stand in awe of your deeds. |
[934.34 --> 935.10] Oh, Lord. |
[935.38 --> 935.56] Right? |
[935.60 --> 938.40] I've heard of your fame and I stand in awe of your deeds. |
[938.70 --> 942.28] Habakkuk is remembering what God has done. |
[942.28 --> 955.82] He is learning to look at part of what God has done in the past through the lens of a worldview and a theology that says God is sovereign over all creation. |
[955.82 --> 959.84] That he is big enough to handle our anger and our frustration. |
[959.84 --> 965.52] But also, that he is big enough to have a purpose beyond our comprehension. |
[965.52 --> 968.78] That's what it means to remember rightly. |
[969.40 --> 969.60] Right? |
[969.64 --> 974.82] That even as we see part of the picture, we know that there are details beyond our sight lines. |
[975.60 --> 975.80] Right? |
[975.84 --> 981.96] Even if we could see those details, right, we wouldn't understand them or be able to make sense of them. |
[981.96 --> 986.54] But what we can see, what we can remember is enough. |
[986.54 --> 996.96] What we can rightly remember is proof enough, is cause enough to drive us to the virtues that we'll outline in a moment. |
[997.74 --> 1002.48] Now, quickly, let's look at what Habakkuk is remembering. |
[1003.42 --> 1005.92] In verse 3, he prays, |
[1005.92 --> 1009.56] God came from T-Man, the Holy One from Mount Peren. |
[1009.96 --> 1013.88] Now, T-Man is a city or a region in southern Edom. |
[1013.88 --> 1020.40] Mount Peren, the location is not precisely known, but based on the stories and the general references, |
[1020.88 --> 1022.88] we know that it is to the southeast of Israel. |
[1023.72 --> 1030.60] Actually, we have a map that we can put up on the screen for you that will help you see these place names |
[1030.60 --> 1035.36] and the purpose, once you see them all together, of mentioning them. |
[1036.50 --> 1039.14] So with that map, you can see in verse 5, |
[1039.14 --> 1044.28] quickly, Habakkuk mentions plagues and pestilence that go before him. |
[1044.28 --> 1049.36] It's probably recalling of Egypt, right, and the ten plagues in the Exodus story. |
[1049.94 --> 1052.54] Verse 7 mentions Cushan and Midian. |
[1053.22 --> 1058.54] Cushan is a part of the southern Transjordan region, same with Midian. |
[1058.54 --> 1067.54] In fact, Midian, or at least two certain Midianites, is where Moses flees from Pharaoh |
[1067.54 --> 1070.42] when God speaks to him in the burning bush. |
[1071.72 --> 1077.78] Now, take that all together, and what Habakkuk is seeing, what he is remembering, |
[1078.34 --> 1083.12] is God coming from the region that on your map there is in that little circle, right? |
[1083.12 --> 1086.88] The region where Mount Sinai is located. |
[1088.06 --> 1090.70] All right, Sinai, if you remember the story, if you know the story, |
[1090.76 --> 1094.18] is where God meets Moses, where God meets the people. |
[1094.36 --> 1097.32] Sinai is the climax of the story of the Exodus. |
[1097.56 --> 1102.74] Sinai is the place where, for the first time in generations upon generations, |
[1102.74 --> 1108.56] the people see the glory of God, where the glory of God descends and dwells with its people, |
[1108.56 --> 1113.72] where it did so and affected the face of Moses every time that he came into God's presence, |
[1113.78 --> 1117.66] such that he radiated God's glory and had to wear a veil, right? |
[1117.66 --> 1128.62] These place names in the prayer situate Habakkuk in a historical reality of God's redemption before his people. |
[1128.62 --> 1136.42] And then, as if buoyed by remembering rightly, |
[1137.60 --> 1143.66] Habakkuk switches almost into this beautiful poem in verses 8 through 15 |
[1143.66 --> 1145.62] that we're not going to look at line by line, |
[1145.74 --> 1148.44] but I encourage you to come back to it sometime this week. |
[1148.84 --> 1153.88] And it comes across as a sort of description of reality |
[1153.88 --> 1161.18] as Habakkuk is almost seeing the world and world history through God's eyes, right? |
[1161.20 --> 1165.14] It's a poetic and theological account of God's working in the world |
[1165.14 --> 1169.70] to deliver Israel from Egypt and from the armies of Pharaoh who chased them. |
[1170.42 --> 1173.62] Now, in this, Habakkuk might also be seeing, |
[1173.62 --> 1178.16] as history sort of layers on itself when God stands above time, |
[1178.56 --> 1183.62] is also seeing God carrying David through battles against the Philistines |
[1183.62 --> 1187.68] or God securing victory for the Israelites in the time of Hezekiah |
[1187.68 --> 1190.78] and the advancing armies of Sennacherib, |
[1190.90 --> 1193.62] who marched through Israel towards Jerusalem |
[1193.62 --> 1196.82] only to be utterly destroyed by an angel of the Lord |
[1196.82 --> 1199.44] coming into their camp as they gathered around the walls |
[1199.44 --> 1202.78] such that 185,000 soldiers were killed. |
[1203.54 --> 1209.38] And Sennacherib eventually went back to his home city of Nineveh |
[1209.38 --> 1213.40] where he was a leader and he was killed by his sons. |
[1213.62 --> 1215.56] As he worshipped in a temple. |
[1216.32 --> 1220.18] And that could be the referent for verse 14 of our text, right? |
[1220.44 --> 1221.18] Where it says, |
[1221.40 --> 1224.16] With his own spear you pierced his head. |
[1225.28 --> 1225.52] Right? |
[1225.56 --> 1227.68] An enemy of God killed by his own sons. |
[1227.84 --> 1230.20] With his own spear you pierced his head. |
[1230.64 --> 1231.56] Either way, |
[1231.74 --> 1234.12] what you see in the grand scheme of things |
[1234.12 --> 1236.40] and the big drama that is redemption |
[1236.40 --> 1238.72] focused here through the people of Israel |
[1238.72 --> 1241.26] Israel is that Pharaoh received justice. |
[1241.46 --> 1243.90] God protected and provided for David |
[1243.90 --> 1246.06] and Sennacherib knew punishment. |
[1246.50 --> 1246.62] Right? |
[1246.70 --> 1247.68] And so, too, |
[1248.04 --> 1250.06] will Judah in Habakkuk's day. |
[1250.60 --> 1250.76] Right? |
[1250.80 --> 1253.00] The unjust leaders of Judah |
[1253.00 --> 1254.96] and from the temple and religious system |
[1254.96 --> 1257.58] will face justice from God |
[1257.58 --> 1259.38] in the form of exile to Babylon. |
[1259.38 --> 1260.76] And then greater still, |
[1260.92 --> 1261.28] Babylon, |
[1261.56 --> 1262.88] used as an instrument of God's tool, |
[1262.98 --> 1266.40] will face justice in the form of Cyrus the Persian. |
[1266.86 --> 1267.12] Right? |
[1267.20 --> 1269.48] Down and down it goes through history. |
[1269.62 --> 1271.18] God guiding the way |
[1271.18 --> 1274.80] to reveal his plan and purpose of redemption. |
[1275.20 --> 1275.44] You see, |
[1275.54 --> 1277.24] we may not know the details, |
[1277.24 --> 1280.48] but we have it even better |
[1280.48 --> 1283.20] because we know the God |
[1283.20 --> 1284.90] who controls the details. |
[1286.58 --> 1288.54] I think about the story, right? |
[1288.74 --> 1289.76] Consider Joseph. |
[1290.12 --> 1290.84] Joseph, who, |
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