They both blind our judgement. We find so much turmoil in the land, with only a few people left in Israel after Babylon comes and wipes most everything out. Ishmael staged a coup and assassinated the Babylonian appointed leader, and now those that are left are...
We find the prophet Habakkuk in this situation. He was in the part of history where utter destruction was happening to his people and their land. We read in Habakkuk 3:17-18 Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the...
The prophet Habakkuk cries out to God, frustrated by what he sees, and it seems antithetical to who He knows God to be. Habakkuk 1:1-4 How long, O Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but you do not...
We see this with Israel and specifically Judah. 2 Chronicles 36:15–16 The Lord, the God of their fathers, sent word to them through his messengers again and again, because he had pity on his people and on his dwelling place. 16 But they mocked God’s messengers,...
Reading the last days of Jerusalem during its capture and destruction, even the very temple of God was destroyed. 2 Chronicles 36:21 The land enjoyed its sabbath rests; all the time of its desolation it rested, until the seventy years were completed in fulfillment of...
