The judgment of God.

"How long, O Lord, will I cry, and you will not hear, and I will cry out to you because of violence, and you will not save?"

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Habacuc, in fact, was telling God that he was refusing to answer his prayers. In a night of despair, he cried out when he saw the violence around him, in the village. And it seemed to him that God was not doing or saying anything to that problem. This was Habacuc's lament. As we will see later, the book concluded with a hymn of praise and a note of joy.

Friends of steemit, if you have any questions, I think you should present it to the Lord through prayer, in the same way that the prophet did. If you are sincere in the question, you will surely receive an answer from God.

"Why do you make me see iniquity, and cause you to see trouble? Destruction and violence are before me, and strife and strife are raised, whereby the law is weakened, and judgment is not adjusted to the truth; the ungodly besieges the righteous, that is why justice is twisted. "

Why does God allow evil to continue and increase iniquity, injustice, litigation, strife, and violence among his own people?

Habacuc probably wrote sometime after the time of King Josiah, the last good king of the southern kingdom or Judah. He was followed by Joacaz, who was an evil king, whose reign lasted no more than three months. Then came Joaquin, who reigned eleven years, and was also a bad king. Its time was of disintegration, deterioration and decay of the kingdom. There was a breach of the law of Moses, and the people were turning away from God. The question then was this: Why was God allowing that evil?

On one occasion a believing university professor was conversing with another, also a believer, about the attitude of some university professors who were unbelievers, and who used a certain method to sow doubts in the minds of students who believed in God and thus destroy the faith of those young people, attacking the integrity of the Word of God. So they asked them questions, like, for example: Do you really believe that a God of love would allow evil in the world? Do you think that a God of love, a loving God, of a tender heart, would allow suffering in the world?

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The people of Judah apparently believed that their members were God's favorites and that He would not punish them for their sins. Probably, when they first committed an evil action they felt uneasy, wondering if God would punish them. But when they were aware that God had done nothing, they assumed that He had not realized or that He did not care. In this sense, the author of the book of Ecclesiastes wrote in his chapter 8:11, "If the sentence is not executed immediately to punish a bad work, the hearts of the children of men are prepared to do evil."

Human nature does not change. In other times, some sins committed covertly, in secret, are now committed openly, many of them practically before the eyes of others. Does this attitude change the fact that sin is a mistake in the sight of God and that He will judge or punish every sin? No. God has not changed his norms nor his procedures. And even when the execution of an action against an evil work is not carried out quickly, His punishment, with time, will surely come.

In our time, few people really believe in a judgment of God. Some of them believe the same thing that Habakkuk felt when he saw his nation getting worse and worse until the sin was flagrant and, apparently, God was not doing anything to prevent it. Friend listener, have you not believed the same before the conditions that appear in the panorama of today? Is God doing something about it? A superficial analysis would lead to the conclusion that it seems that he was not doing it. God even allowed, several years ago, a group of theologians to conceive the idea that He was dead.

What they really wanted to say was that there was no God, and that it had never existed. And what was it that brought them to such a conclusion? It was that they believed that He was not interfering in human affairs. But is not God intervening? Is not God rejecting the actions of men today? He has allowed us to enter a period of relative prosperity and people began to show a carefree, carelessness even among believers who profess to be Christians. However, now we have reached such a state that we wonder how much longer we will survive as a people.