That I May Know Him Journal

The book of Habakkuk is not a book that I have heard mentioned very often. I am going to use some other scriptures to bring us up to the time of Habakkuk who was the eighth minor prophet in the Old Testament believed to have been a paid prophet in the king's palace or king's court. His name meant "embracer." He lived during the time of a great revival in Judah under the reign of King Josiah who had discovered the Book of the Law.  Josiah's father and his grandfather reigned over Judah but worshipped idol gods and did not follow after the one true God. King Josiah was just eight years old when he became king as we are told in 2 Kings 22:1. The next verse lets us know that he did right in the sight of the Lord.  During his 18th reign he sent a message to the high priest to start repairs on the temple, The House of the Lord.  It was during this time that the high priest found the Book of the Law and sent it to King Josiah.  He had Shaphan read it to him and when King...

First, there is prophetic meaning in the number twelve all throughout the bible.  It symbolizes God's power and authority and perfect governmental foundation.  It may also symbolize God's completeness. God made a covenant with Father Abraham that he would have seeds that no man can number like the stars in the heaven and like the sand on the seashore.  Abraham's grandson that was naturally born named Jacob, and later renamed by God, Israel who had twelve sons, each son would come to represent a tribe of Israel that were God's Chosen People.  Exodus 24:4) says, "And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.  Moses constructed the twelve pillars of stone at the foot of the Mount Sinai as a memorial to God.  The stones represented the twelve tribes of Israel and signifies a new generation committing to a covenant as they establish t...

God established a nation for himself through his covenant with Abraham. Genesis 17 tells us that the Almighty God appeared to Abram who was 99 years old and said unto him, "I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. 2) And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly. 3) And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him saying, 4) As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations.  He changed his name from Abram to Abraham who he will make exceeding fruitful, "and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.  7) And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and they seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to they seed after thee.  8) And I will give unto thee, and to they seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God....