Sermon Title: The only reason Christians rejoice in the corrupted world without justice and truth
Like other prophets, prophet Habakkuk was a prophet who prophesied at the time when Israel had completely apostatized from God and found no one to do justice and seek the truth.
With a sad heart he cried out to God for a long time and prayed:
Even in this age we live, justice in all countries, including the United States and Korea, has collapsed, and it is difficult to find people who practice justice and seek the truth.
When prophet Jeremiah gave an ultimatum to the kingdom of Judah and foretold that they would soon be completely destroyed by Babylon, at the very end of the kingdom of Judah, God told prophet Jeremiah about how corrupt the kingdom of Judah had been. He spoke of how righteous his judgment was:
Even in the days when prophet Habakkuk prophesied, there were few who did justice and sought the truth. Moreover, even in the last days we live in, the rule of law and justice cannot be found not only in Israel but also in the all nations, and even the churches have abandoned God’s law of justice and united with the religions of the world forsaking the only truth, the Lord Jesus Christ. Not only that, without knowing the judgment of God, they are uniting with the Principalities, Powers, the rulers of the darkness of the world, and the evil spirits on high places even though churches of God have to fight against them., leading the flock of God’s church to destruction.
Through Apostle Paul, the Holy Ghost testified of what the Churches of God must fight in the spiritual warfare:
That’s right! This is because God’s promise of doing justice and judging with the truth to accomplish His will may seem slow to human eyes, but it is not slow because it will surely come true in his day. So, the just have to have his own faith. Apostle Peter testified of this:
Finally, God heard the prayer of Habakkuk, and Habakkuk fearfully witnessed in the Holy Ghost of the dreadful sight of God’s appearing to judge the world in the fullness of time to come:
Habakkuk’s visions of God’s judgment coincide with the scene of Apostle John when he saw the heavens opened as the Lord Jesus Christ appeared to judge the world as well as prophet Isaiah’s vision of the Lord dividing the heavens coming to revenge the world. And we can see the Lord casing the Antichrist, the wicked man into the lake of fire to bruise his head. As another thing shown to our generation suffering from Corvid 19 is the verse saying ” Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet.” This verse implies that the plagues of pestilence, volcanoes and wildfires shall happen before the Second Advent of Jesus Christ.
Upon seeing the dreadful judgment, Habakkuk confessed, when he heard, his belly tremn bled; his lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into his bones, and trembled in himself. At that time he confessed in fear that no difficulties in the short time living in the world, no one could take away the hope given him by God, and that he would rejoice looking forward the day of salvation: