Monday, October 1, 2012

Stones and Timbers Talking Habakkuk 2:11 - Equipped for Battle

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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