THE WOES OF HABAKKUK'S VISION

My Dear Precious Child,
   The prophet Habakkuk who spoke for Me to the nation of Judah prophesied the capture of Jerusalem as a result of the political rebellion and idolatry that was widespread.  My struggles with the nations of Judah and Israel were constant because of their kings and priests constantly building idols to worship and also putting their political endeavors above My will.  Their love for war, conquest and killing was notorious to other nations.  The capture of their political and religious capitol was the deepest fear of the kings and religious leaders. Habakkuk demanded an answer from the officials but first he lamented that he was going to wait for an answer from Me, as long as it took.  I answered him because of his patience and faith and I knew that he could hear from Me. (Habakkuk 2:1-4)  I told him that a person of faith would live through the woes that were coming upon Judah and Israel because of their sins against me.
   I first affirmed to the prophet that wealth is treacherous and must be avoided because its insatiable, never satisfied thirst for money until it even takes money from the poor, and that eventually wealth will take up a never ending taunt against greedy people.  I said that WOES were coming upon the king and people of Judah because they had loaded themselves down with wealth that was not theirs and so the many woes because of the sins were being accrued as debts and creditors, and that they, themselves, would be the spoils of other nations in return for yielding to the greed for wealth.  I told Habakkuk to tell the people of Judah  that because they took wealth from other nations that they would suffer the same fate, that other nations would take from them because of their bloodshed and violence done to the lands, the cities and everyone who lived in them.(Habakkuk 2:6-8)
   There were other WOES that the prophet spoke to Judah that would also come from hell to them for their sins of people pursuing evil gain for their own household at the expense of the households of other people, then trying to set their political positions on high in an effort to escape punishment, as if their elevation of their own wealth would be enough to escape punishment for yielding to the devil's spirit of greed.  It wouldn't.  It just increased their woes.  I told them that they had brought shame upon their households, cutting off many people from blessings and they forfeited their own lives to the demon of greed which tempted people to love money. (Habakkuk 2:9-11)
   Subsequent WOES that were to come upon the people of Judah from hell for their sins were as a result of their building their cities on the bloodshed of other nations and building their towns by acts of wickedness.  Habakkuk told the kings and people of Judah that those evil ways are not from Me; instead that it's My desire that people of the earth would be filled with the knowledge of Me just as the waters cover the sea. (Habakkuk 2:12-14)
   Adding to those WOES from hell, I told Habakkuk to prophesy to Judah that other WOES would come to the people of Judah who make their neighbor drink their wrath until they make them drunk with anger and expose their own nakedness, saying that they will be filled with shame, instead of being filled with their former glory which they inherited from Me, because they had brought other nations into their being drunk with wrath.  I told the people of Judah that the violence that they had done to Lebanon would return to them and cover them and that the destruction would be so terrible that bloodshed and violence would be done to their own cities and all who lived there as result of the bloodshed they had done to other cities and countries.(Habakkuk 2:15-17)
    The final WOES that I told Habakkuk to prophesy to the nation of Judah that were coming to them was because of their building idols and then telling the idols of wood, jewels, gold and silver to awake and rise and take care of them, even through there was no breath in the idols.  He reasoned with them that how could the idols do anything good for them when the people themselves had carved them, asking how could they trust in something that they had made which were dumb idols?  He reminded the people that all the time while they were building idols that I was in My temple ready for them to be silent before Me in repentance.  Until they destroyed the idols and returned to Me, the woes of calamity, distress, troubles, problems, griefs and distress would overtake them because of their refusing to keep the laws which I told them would keep them from sowing evil and thus reaping evil.(Habakkuk 2:19-20)
    Habakkuk's faith in Me is professed in his final words to Me.  He said that even if the fig tree did not blossom, and if there was no fruit on the vines, if the yield of the olives failed and the farms produced no food, and even if the foul disappeared and there was no herd in the stalls, "YET, I WILL REJOICE IN THE LORD AND GLORY IN THE GOD OF MY SALVATION, FOR HE IS MY STRENGTH, MAKING MY FEET AS HINDS' FEET, MAKING ME TO WALK AND NOT STAND IN TERROR, PROGRESSING TOWARD THE HIGH PLACES ABOVE TROUBLE AND SUFFERING." (HABAKKUK 3:17-19)
    That kind of faith is rewarded when you have prayed and prayed but you do not see the results of your prayers, yet you continue to praise Me for the answers, realizing that it takes time to facilitate the answers to your prayers, desires, needs and wishes because I am working through other human beings to bring the answers to your prayers to you.  That is why I said that it is with faith and patience that you will receive My promises.
    Heed the truth about the woes that I told you about that come to every person who sheds blood in war or in anger at his neighbor, also to the wealthy person who has made money his or her idol at the expense of the poor, and remember the woes that come to people who worship idols that they have made with their own hands.  
    The woes that come upon people for what they have done to other people are legendary.  Don't make them part of your legacy.  Learn from Israel and Judah's mistakes under the old covenant.  Make My Holy Spirit your guide, your protector, your provider, your wisdom, your knowledge, your healer, your Truth and your always present help.  (I Corinthians 3:16; II Corinthians 3: 17-18)
    Your Father of Constant Provisions