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 nations will serve him, his son, and his grandson until the time for his own land comes, and then many nations and great kings will enslave him.

and said, “I am here to tell you what will happen at the conclusion of the time of wrath, because it refers to the appointed time of the end.

Seventy weeks are decreed
about your people and your holy city—
to bring the rebellion to an end,
to put a stop to sin,
to wipe away 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. The message was true and was about a great conflict. He understood the message and had understanding of the vision.

The two kings, whose hearts are bent on evil, will speak lies at the same table but to no avail, for still the end will come at the appointed time.

He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or periods that the Father has set by His own authority.

From one man He has made every nationality to live over the whole earth and has determined their appointed times and the boundaries of where they live.

Instead, he is under guardians and stewards until the time set by his father.

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

But

At the end of 430 years, on that same day, all the Lord’s divisions went out from the land of Egypt.

You will rise up and have compassion on Zion,
for it is time to show favor to her—
the appointed time has come.

When the 70 years are completed, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation’—this is the Lord’s declaration—‘the land of the Chaldeans, for their guilt, and I will make it a ruin forever.

For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised.

It will surely

Will not God grant justice to His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay to help them?

They will exploit you in their greed with deceptive words. Their condemnation, pronounced long ago, is not idle, and their destruction does not sleep.

General references

This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: “Write down on a scroll all the words that I have spoken to you,

Jeremiah wrote on one scroll about all the disaster that would come to Babylon; all these words were written against Babylon.

And so, after waiting patiently, Abraham obtained the promise.

For yet in a very little while,
the Coming One will come and not delay.