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| Listen to The Prophet |
Man is full of self, but Soul-Empty
And then God answered: Write this. Write what you see. Write it out in big Block Letters so that it can be read on the run. This vision message is a witness pointing to what's coming. It aches for the coming.....it can hardly wait! And it doesn't lie. It seems slow in coming, wait.Its on its way. It will come right on time.
Look at that man, bloated by self importance.....full of himself but soul-empty. But the person in right standing before God through loyal and steady believing is fully alive, really alive.
Note well, money deceives. The arrogant rich don't last. They are more hungry for wealth than the grave is for cadavers. like death, they always want more, but the more they get is dead bodies. They are cemeteries filled with dead nations, graveyards filled with corpses. Don't give people like this a second thought. Soon the whole world will be taunting them.
Who do you think you are......getting rich by stealing and extortion? How long do you think you can get away with this? Indeed how long before your victims wake up, stand up and make you the victim? You've plundered nation after nation. Now you'll get a taste of your own medicine. All the survivors are out to plunder you, a payback for all your murders and massacres.
Who do you think you are.....recklessly grabbing and looting, living it up, acting like king of the mountain, acting above it all, above trials and troubles? You've engineered the ruin of your own house. In ruining others you have ruin yourselves. You've undermined your foundations, rotted out your own soul. The bricks of your home will speak up and accuse you. The woodwork will step forward with evidence.
Who do you think you are....building a town by murder, a city with crime? Don't you know that God-of-the Angel-Armies makes sure nothing comes of that but ashes, make sure the harder you work at that kind of thing, the less you are? Meanwhile the earth fills up awareness of GOD's glory as the waters cover the sea.
Who do you think you are.....inviting your neighbors to your drunken parties, giving them too much to drink, roping them into your sexual orgies? You thought you were having the time of your life, wrong! its a time of disgrace. All the time you were drinking, you were drinking from the cup of God's wrath. You'll wake up holding your throbbing head hung over.....hung over from Lebanon violence, hung over from animal massacres, hung over from murder and mayhem, from multiple violations of place and people.
What's the use of a carved god, so skillfully carved by its sculptor, what good is a fancy cast god when all it tells is lies? What sense does it make to be a pious god maker, who makes god's that can even talk? Who do you think you are.....saying to a stick of wood "wake up"or to a dumb stone "get up"? can they teach you anything about anything? There is nothing to them but surface, there is nothing on the inside. But Oh, God is in His Holy Temple! Quiet everyone, a holy silence.....Listen.
Did you read this? This writing was estimated to be written around (640 - 608 BC). The point is that man has not changed, he is still bloated up with himself, he is still today what he was in the past.
Man needs to re-focused and place his trust in Yahweh (The creator GOD). Turn your life around before it's too late.
Reference:
copied directly from Habakkuk 2:2-20
Eugene H. Peterson: The Message//REMIX: The Bible in Contemporary Language: 2003
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