SPIRITUAL DIARY FOR 2/21/2016
9:43 PM
My Worship Time Focus:
God Came in Splendor
Bible Reading & Mediation Reference: Habakkuk
3:3-5
Message of
the verses: “3 God comes from Teman, And the Holy One from Mount
Paran. Selah. His splendor
covers the heavens,
And the earth is full of
His praise. 4 His
radiance is like the sunlight; He has rays flashing from His hand, And there is
the hiding of His power.
5 Before Him goes
pestilence, And plague
comes after Him.”
Dr. Wiersbe states that according to some scholars
Mount Paran is another name for the entire Sinai Peninsula, or it could be just
for Mt. Sinai itself: “2 He said,
"The LORD came from Sinai, And dawned on them from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran,
And He came from the midst of ten thousand holy ones; At His right hand there was
flashing lightning for them (Deut. 33:2).”
He also states that Teman is usually identified with Edom and Edom were
the descendents of Esau the twin brother of Jacob. Now it is possible that Habakkuk is retracing
the march of Israel to Mt. Sinai and then to the Promised Land.
We have a stanza in this Psalm, or Hymn and all of
it reveals the glory of God. Just follow
the highlighted areas of the verses from above as see that they do reflect the
glory of God. The phrase “the Holy One”
is seen some thirty times in the book of Isaiah, so this phrase is not just
seen in Habakkuk. Dr. Wiersbe writes “God’s
appearance was like the lightening that plays across the heavens before the storm
breaks. All of creation joined in
praising God’s brightness was like the sunrise only to a greater degree (Matt.
17:2). ‘Horns’ means ‘rays’: ‘rays flash
from His hand (Hab. 3:4, NIV) where His power was hidden.”
When we look at verse five we see what the Lord did
to Egypt in the ten plagues that He gave to them before Pharaoh decided to let
Israel leave Egypt.
Dr. Wiersbe concludes: “In Old Testament times, God often revealed
His glory through such judgments, but in this present dispensation, He reveals
His glory through Jesus Christ. ‘And the
Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of
the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth’ (John 1:14 NKJV).
Pharaoh wouldn’t ackinwledge the truth, so he couldn’t experience that
grace. The first plague of Moses in
Egypt was the turning of water into blood (Ex. 7:14-25), while our Lord’s first
recorded miracle was turning water into wine.”
2/21/2016 10:07 PM
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