Habakkuk 2:3

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Summary

For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

The vision

But

It will surely

Luke 18:7

2 Peter 2:3

General references

Bible References

The vision

All the nations shall serve him and his son and his grandson until the time of his own land comes; then many nations and great kings will make him their servant.

He said, “Behold, I am going to let you know what will occur at the final period of the indignation, for it pertains to the appointed time of the end.

“Seventy

weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place.

In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a message was revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar; and the

message was true and one of great conflict, but he understood the message and had an understanding of the vision.

As for both kings, their hearts will be intent on evil, and they will speak lies to each other at the same table; but it will not succeed, for the end is still to come at the appointed time.

He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority;

and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,

but he is under guardians and managers until the date set by the father.

And you know what restrains him now, so that in his time he will be revealed.

But

And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, to the very day, all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.

You will arise and have compassion on Zion;
For it is time to be gracious to her,
For the appointed time has come.

‘Then it will be when seventy years are completed I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares the Lord, ‘for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it an everlasting desolation.

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

It will surely

now, will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to Him day and night, and will He delay long over them?

and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

General references

“Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘Write all the words which I have spoken to you in a book.

So Jeremiah wrote in a single scroll all the calamity which would come upon Babylon, that is, all these words which have been written concerning Babylon.

And so, having patiently waited, he obtained the promise.

For yet in a very little while,

He who is coming will come, and will not delay.