How to Live in the Days of Evil – New Beginnings Christian Fellowship

Today we live in an evil world where right is wrong and wrong is right and the more the righteous pray for God’s healing the worse it seems to get! If we follow what God’s Word has to say we can confirm that we are indeed in the end times! FYI… it will only get worse before it gets better! But, there are some things that we can do to overcome! We join join Pastor David Crespo as he first shares with us some thoughts on this matter and then we get into the book of Habakkuk and learn what the Bible has to say about the title of this message “How to Live in the Days of Evil! We look at the life of a frustrated prophet and the struggles that He had, when it came to the evil he had to deal with during his day, which is a lot like the days that we are living in! We listen in to learn more!

Habakkuk 1 New King James Version

The Prophet Questions God’s Judgments

1 The [a]burden which the prophet Habakkuk saw.

The Prophet’s Question
2 O Lord, how long shall I cry,
And You will not hear?
Even cry out to You, “Violence!”
And You will not save.
3 Why do You show me iniquity,
And cause me to see [b]trouble?
For plundering and violence are before me;
There is strife, and contention arises.
4 Therefore the law is powerless,
And justice never goes forth.
For the wicked surround the righteous;
Therefore perverse judgment proceeds.

The Lord’s Reply
5 “Look among the nations and watch—
Be utterly astounded!
For I will work a work in your days
Which you would not believe, though it were told you.
6 For indeed I am raising up the Chaldeans,
A bitter and hasty nation
Which marches through the breadth of the earth,
To possess dwelling places that are not theirs.
7 They are terrible and dreadful;
Their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves.
8 Their horses also are swifter than leopards,
And more fierce than evening wolves.
Their [c]chargers [d]charge ahead;
Their cavalry comes from afar;
They fly as the eagle that hastens to eat.

9 “They all come for violence;
Their faces are set like the east wind.
They gather captives like sand.
10 They scoff at kings,
And princes are scorned by them.
They deride every stronghold,
For they heap up earthen mounds and seize it.
11 Then his [e]mind changes, and he transgresses;
He commits offense,
Ascribing this power to his god.”

The Prophet’s Second Question
12 Are You not from everlasting,
O Lord my God, my Holy One?
We shall not die.
O Lord, You have appointed them for judgment;
O Rock, You have marked them for correction.
13 You are of purer eyes than to behold evil,
And cannot look on wickedness.
Why do You look on those who deal treacherously,
And hold Your tongue when the wicked devours
A person more righteous than he?
14 Why do You make men like fish of the sea,
Like creeping things that have no ruler over them?

15 They take up all of them with a hook,
They catch them in their net,
And gather them in their dragnet.
Therefore they rejoice and are glad.
16 Therefore they sacrifice to their net,
And burn incense to their dragnet;
Because by them their share is [f]sumptuous
And their food plentiful.
17 Shall they therefore empty their net,
And continue to slay nations without pity?

Footnotes
a. Habakkuk 1:1 oracle, prophecy
b. Habakkuk 1:3 Or toil
c. Habakkuk 1:8 Lit. horsemen
d. Habakkuk 1:8 Lit. spring about
e. Habakkuk 1:11 Lit. spirit or wind
f. Habakkuk 1:16 Lit. fat

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