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 must serve him and his son and grandson until the time comes for his own nation to fall. Then many nations and great kings will in turn subjugate Babylon.

Then he said, "I am going to inform you about what will happen in the latter time of wrath, for the vision pertains to the appointed time of the end.

"Seventy weeks have been determined concerning your people and your holy city to put an end to rebellion, to bring sin to completion, to atone for iniquity, to bring in perpetual righteousness, to seal up the prophetic vision, and to anoint a most holy place.

In the third year of King Cyrus of Persia a message was revealed to Daniel (who was also called Belteshazzar). This message was true and concerned a great war. He understood the message and gained insight by the vision.

These two kings, their minds filled with evil intentions, will trade lies with one another at the same table. But it will not succeed, for there is still an end at the appointed time.

He told them, "You are not permitted to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.

From one man he made every nation of the human race to inhabit the entire earth, determining their set times and the fixed limits of the places where they would live,

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

And so you know what holds him back, so that he will be revealed in his own time.

But

At the end of the 430 years, on the very day, all the regiments of the Lord went out of the land of Egypt.

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

"'But when the seventy years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation for their sins. I will make the land of Babylon an everlasting ruin. I, the Lord, affirm it!

For you need endurance in order to do God's will and so receive what is promised.

It will surely

Won't God give justice to his chosen ones, who cry out to him day and night? Will he delay long to help them?

And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.

General references

"The Lord God of Israel says, 'Write everything that I am about to tell you in a scroll.

Jeremiah recorded on one scroll all the judgments that would come upon Babylon -- all these prophecies written about Babylon.

And so by persevering, Abraham inherited the promise.

For just a little longer and he who is coming will arrive and not delay.