Title The Chaldeans (2012.1.8)
Contents
Date: January 8, 2012
Word: Habakkuk 1:6-11
Title: Chaldeans
Contents:
Why did God use the violent Chaldeans as instruments of judgment when he judged Israel?
Sometimes God disciplines His people or nations through unbelievers or nations.
What will happen to the Chaldeans who believe in their power as gods?
How is God dealing with God's chosen people in the end?
God is expressing the Chaldeans well through the text.
First of all, the Chaldeans are a ferocious and impatient people who live according to their own laws and live according to their own will and cannot stand it when they do not conform to their will.
Second, the Chaldeans are people who love to steal from others, and eat people's greed and unrighteousness as their food. They are those who want to get fruit without effort. They are those who want to steal honor and exploit material and happiness. In verse 8, the Chaldeans They are compared to 'eagles'. It is a bird nicknamed 'the corpse scavenger'. It was given such a nickname because it feeds on carcasses of animals and humans.
Third, the most serious of the idols of the Chaldeans who made these human powers as gods is the deification of their own power. That is the Babel civilization.
Those who live by believing in human power have a low and lowly life. Because their life itself is governed by human lust. Saints must always walk according to the Holy Spirit.
If we rely on human strength, everything we do goes against the will of God.
One of the evils of those who worship the power of man rather than the Word of God is the fact that everything goes against the law.
In verse 11, the Bible points out that we will drive swiftly like the wind and will go too far and will sin.
The proud who depend on human strength cannot leave it in God's hands.
After all, the characteristics of the Chaldeans were that they were vicious, exploited others, depended on their own strength, and did not believe in God.
We cannot do it unless we trust only the skills, talents, power, and health we have and rely on God's hand.
Those who rely on their own abilities will soon hit their limits.
Only those who serve the eternal God will enjoy a rational life and eternal life.
Let's live relying only on God who is in control of all life and death.