Scripture Blog

This weblog is my personal online scripture journal. I try to read the scriptures each morning as I exercise on my cross-trainer. It has a great impact on my life and my testimony of the Savior and his restored church. The journal is really for my own benefit but I have set it up as a web log in hopes to benefit anyone else that may be interested. "For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost..." 1 Nephi 10:19

Monday, November 28, 2022

Habakkuk 1

 Habakkuk, who is obviously a righteous man, seems to think much like the rest of us wondering why the wicked seem to prosper as the Lord suggests that he will build up the Chaldeans to punish Israel, asking the Lord - 

"O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!"  (Habakkuk 1:2)

Much like the Prophet Joseph Smith, the Lord answers, you do not understand - 

"Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you."  (Habakkuk 1: 5)

The Lord then answers - 

"Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith."  (Habakkuk 2:4)