There is an old saying that
says, “If these walls could talk”, and the idea is that there are
walls surrounding some activities that if they were to come alive
they would bring some terrible indictments against those within them.
People often do things in secret which they believe are not seen by
anyone else, but the truth is that God sees everything. As God brings
forth His indictment against the Chaldeans through Habakkuk, He has
told of the shame and sin that shall come upon them. Today Habakkuk
shares with us the source of revelations of their actions in chapter
two and verse eleven. He wrote:
For the stone shall cry
out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer.
Moses wrote in the book of Deuteronomy in chapter twenty-nine and
verse twenty-nine:
The
secret [things belong] unto the LORD our God: but those [things which
are] revealed [belong] unto us and to our children for ever, that
[we] may do all the words of this law.
It is for certain that nothing is secret to God, and the case is the
same for the Chaldeans. Habakkuk wrote, “For the stone shall cry
out of the wall.” Can we imagine if stones were to begin
telling on us? The stones in the walls around Israel were used by God
as a reference to how abundant the disclosure against the Chaldeans
would be. If we think about this long enough, we may be very careful
what we say or do before any brick and mortar.
Next
Habakkuk wrote, “and
the beam out of the timber shall answer.”
There is a conversation going on between the stone and the beam in
Israel, and the subject is the injustice done by the Chaldeans. As
Paul the apostle wrote in the book of Romans chapter eight and verse
twenty-two:
For
we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together
until now.
When
people are not sufficient to bring accusations against evildoers,
creation itself will cry out to heaven. Such is the case against the
Chaldeans. The stone and the beam are crying out on the Israelites'
behalf.
We
are created to bring praise and glory to the Lord Jesus Christ, and
if we do not do so, the Earth will. As Jesus road into the city of
Jerusalem on Palm Sunday the people cried out, “Hosanna,
Hosanna, blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.”
Some of the religious leaders around them told them to be quiet to
which Jesus replied as recorded by Luke in chapter nineteen
and verse forty of his book:
And he answered and
said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace,
the stones would immediately cry out.
Today
may we learn the lessons from the stone and beam of Israel to cry out
to the Heavenly Father before they do, and may our lives be lived in
secret as they would be if we were standing in the physical presence
of God Himself.
Next
time we will look at another woe from God toward the Chaldeans, so
read ahead, and we shall join together then.
Until
tomorrow...there is more...
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