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The Book of Habakkuk – Hab 2:1-20

[Aired March 22, 2025]

The first chapter of Habakkuk continues in chapter 2 with our Babylonian self-righteousness looking outwardly and down at other poor wretches devoid of knowing the Jesus we know, oblivious that he is the oft repeated term, ‘another Jesus’ (1Co 11:1-4). What we should have been doing is as Habakkuk, the emblematic Elect, pleads with Israel not to rely on the strength of the Chaldeans, similar to Job standing upon his righteousness. To Job’s later God-given credit for acknowledging his sins, he, like the other righteous prophets, begins to be aware that God’s power must somehow powerfully influence the individual than by his own works. 

Job 23:1  Then Job answered and said,
Job 23:2  Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.
Job 23:3  Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat! 
Job 23:4  I would order my cause before him, and fill my mouth with arguments.
Job 23:5  I would know the words which he would answer me, and understand what he would say unto me. 
Job 23:6  Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me. 
Job 23:7  There the righteous might dispute with him; so should I be delivered for ever from my judge. 
Job 23:8  Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him: 
Job 23:9  On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: 
Job 23:10  But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. 

Now we, like Habakkuk and John in Revelation, the watchmen within, standing on the walls of the New Jerusalem, watch, seek, and find our Lord’s revelations to be approved workmen worthy of the hope of glory. Our breasts are like watch towers over our city within, symbolising our Husband’s peace of a unified heart with His.

Son 8:10  I am a wall around a city, my breasts are towers, and just looking at me brings him great pleasure. (CEV) – Jerusalem means ‘peace’, and no greater pleasure is there for a husband than her unified heart of mind, body and spirit with his, signified by her breasts standing guard over his love for her (Pro 5:20). 

Significations

Hab 2:1  I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved [Rebuke; chastisement]. 

Our decreasing harlot ways were raucous in the streets of Old Jerusalem within and of our Babylonian churches, committing wholesale spiritual adultery with one another and encouraged by our first mother and father – the Orthodox Christian church and Satan.

When our alleged spiritual knowledge is unwittingly derived from those two sources, and our responses are like women and children in control, we speak as fools.

1Co 5:1  It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife. 
1Co 5:2  And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. 

Pro 29:11  A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards. 

Jas 1:19  Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 
Jas 1:20  For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God. 

Joh 8:44  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. 

The most honourable answer to the Lord’s chastisements is the simplicity of authentically acknowledging our sins.

Jer 3:12  Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the LORD; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you: for I am merciful, saith the LORD, and I will not keep anger for ever.
Jer 3:13  Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the LORD thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith the LORD. 

Hence, Habakkuk’s first complaint in chapter one, his lamenting of endless suffering and his second grievance of how slow the Lord appears to be in reproving his enemies are answered in the next verses of chapter two.

The Righteous Shall Live by His Faith

Hab 2:2  And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. 
Hab 2:3  For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry. 

The Babylonian ‘silly women’ churches brag about their visions and dreams, which most laity take with a proverbial grain of salt yet love the theatre. They are not equipped to prove if their visions are truthful. Just as women secretly love romantic lies, the Babylonian churches love emotionally driven spiritual delusions. Christ calls us to discern the truth accurately, testing the spirits of the visions against other scriptures, the “sum of his word” (Psa 119:160 YLT), for us to be reproved and approved upon the tables of our fleshy hearts left and right ventricles sending nourishment to our spiritual Temple.

2Ti 3:1  This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 
2Ti 3:2  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 
2Ti 3:3  Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent [racously proclaiming their visions and dreams], fierce, despisers of those that are good, 
2Ti 3:4  Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 
2Ti 3:5  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 
2Ti 3:6  For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women [40,000 splintered Christian denominations who can’t agree] laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 
2Ti 3:7  Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 

Eze 36:26  A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh.
Eze 36:27  And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

Hab 2:4  Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his [Christ’s] faith. 
Hab 2:5  Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people: 

All our self-righteousnesses is our self-styled faith piously portrayed in us, the man of perdition, sitting on God’s throne prematurely presenting himself as God, drunk on the blood (“wine”) of doctrinal lies, now paradoxically the Great Whore herself. Never satiated, death and the grave reside in her heart and soul.

Eze 33:13  When I shall say to the righteous that he shall surely live; if he trusts in his own righteousness and commits iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he has committed, he shall die for it.

Rev 1:18  I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death. 

Pro 7:10  And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot and subtle of heart. 
Pro 7:11  (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 
Pro 7:12  Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) 

Rev 17:4  And the woman [You and I while residing in Babylon] was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: 
Rev 17:5  And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 
Rev 17:6  And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration. 

Woe to the Chaldeans

The Chaldeans ruled as kings of Babylon from 626-539 BC and remain hidden, spiritually violent in the world, spilling the blood of doctrinal lies, decreasingly within Christ’s Elect, to this very day.

Hab 2:6  Shall not all these [The Lord’s Elect against themselves] take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay! [The weighty pledge of debt]
Hab 2:7  Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them? 

Still under the Old Covenant, unwittingly mostly kept by Orthodox Christianity, they deludedly think, as we once did, that they are free from sin, that Christ did it all for them on the cross, rich and increased with goods, “increasing that which is not his”, not knowing that it is only in this age since the cross, that it is his Elect who fill up behind the same destruction of our old man as did Christ, his. Consequently, that weighty pledge of clay representing our old man has alarmingly bitten us on our posteriors to alert us that its understanding is food, the spoils of plundering our old ways that the ‘booties’ of their destruction represent, to bite us no more.

Act 15:10  Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? 
Act 15:11  But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they. 

Col 1:24  Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church: 
Col 1:25  Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God; 
Col 1:26  Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: 

Babylon once kept us from seeing Christ’s truth, and now that the tables have turned, it is his little flock, the remnant, who, at Christ’s hand, take vengeance upon our old man. Woe, indeed, if we fail to be that watchman upon the wall of the New Jerusalem, the “nest” atop the towers of our hearts, causes Christ to be crucified over and over again.

Hab 2:8  Because thou hast spoiled [plundered] many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men’s blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein. 
Hab 2:9  Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! 
Hab 2:10  Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul. 

Since the cross, to this very day, Orthodox Christianity, driven by elements of the Old Covenant, has held Christ’s word unrighteously and thus “spoiled many nations” throughout the world. The remnant, the hidden Elect of God, spoils those same Babylonian lying doctrines within themselves by being alert to Babylon’s inhouse, her internal consulting shame comparing her doctrines with her harlot churches doctrines rather than from the sum of God’s word — not that she could have understood since she isn’t called to understand nor given the keys to the mysteries of heaven (Mat 16:19). She thus covers her evil as righteousness to her shame.

Pro 28:13  He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. 

Heb 9:22  And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. 
Heb 9:23  It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens [Christ’s Elect being made as he is] should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices [In Christ] than these [… the old man of sin]. 
Heb 9:24  For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands [The stone tablets of the Covenant] which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: 
Heb 9:25  Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; 
Heb 9:26  For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Heb 9:27  And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: 
Heb 9:28  So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. 

Dying once to our sins feels like an impossible task, and it truly is. Conflictingly, we read that “as often as we sin,” and the question of how many times our Lord forgives can lead the Babylonian within to throw his hands up in confusion over the paradox. However, our maker knows that we are created in weak, corruptible flesh, subject to replaying sins repeatedly. He guarantees the Saints to drink the cup of his wrath in chastisements, expectedly decreasingly until we are given of him to overcome.

1Co 11:26  For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.
1Co 11:27  Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. [We drink unworthily if we rely on our strength to overcome, consequently…]
1Co 11:28  But let a man examine himself, [if he is a sound watchman trumpeting for Christ’s power and might to kill the enemy within,] and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. 
1Co 11:29 [… and if we don’t…]  For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. 
1Co 11:30  For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. 
1Co 11:31  For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. 
1Co 11:32  But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world. 

We “consult shame in our house”, the temple we are, by concealing our sins, not seeking the truth of a matter through a multitude of Godly counsel, but rather excusing ourselves to continue pursuing our lusts, now an idol of the heart. That action indicts our conscience, enlivening the stones, even the gems — the jewels (Mal 3:17) of the Bride’s joints, her unified members to cry out, judging herself.

Accordingly, the very joints of the heavenly New Jerusalem, the Bride herself, cry out when wood, hay, and stubble are present in the construction of the Temple within when our works of sweat and blood are discovered and consumed by the chastising fire of God’s word. Accordingly, she has learned not to hold her tongue against her old man and as a witness against those without.

Luk 19:40  And he [Christ] answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these [his disciples chastised by the Pharisees] should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out. 

Hab 2:11  For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it. 
Hab 2:12  Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity! 
Hab 2:13  Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity? 
Hab 2:14  For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. 

When the Bride is fully repented in ravished unification and marriage to her Husband, Christ, it is time for Satan’s release as an occasion for God to destroy her brothers and sisters at the end of the One-Thousand Year reign, followed by the flood of fire baptising the sea of mankind in the Lake of Fire.

2Pe 3:3  Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
2Pe 3:4  And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 
2Pe 3:5  For this they willingly [by the counsel of Christ’s own will] are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 
2Pe 3:6  Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 
2Pe 3:7  But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment [The Lake of Fire] and perdition of ungodly men. 

Mat 3:11  I indeed baptise you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptise you with the holy ghost, and with fire: 
Mat 3:12  Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

Hab 2:15  Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness! 

To most females’ gratitude, paradoxical discomfort and intrigue, males are primarily visually sexually aroused, to which all women, particularly young women, to varying degrees of impropriety, easily manipulate to their advantage — to which equally dissolute males, abdicating their headship, eagerly consent. Likewise, women are visually stimulated outwardly for all ‘pretty things’ other than male sexuality. Satan was the first emblematic ‘male’ to put a bottle of lust to the woman, Eve, so that he could look upon her utterly innocent nakedness, mostly devoid of God’s spirit. God didn’t deem the graphically designed occasion too vulgar in Habakkuk 2:16 to deliberately illustrate the scene, nor should we with its interpretation. Correspondingly, the Serpent, uncircumcised of heart, not being ‘covered’ by God’s purity, unashamedly spiritually aroused, spewed his spirit of lies into Eve’s fertile mind, in turn inciting Adam to mutually bring forth bastard doctrines through his wife, signifying harlot churches.

The act of consciously inciting another person with alcohol or your effervescent (Scripturally, wine means to sparkle) conversation with the intention of sexual conquest directly corresponds to inflaming him with Christ’s word, knowing that he is unlikely to understand its potency and thus take on immature and rash understandings, him now adrift without a spiritual rudder. His spiritual nakedness is now evident; he relies on you, the perceived greater authority, to be aroused further, incapable without the holy spirit to flourish in truth, feeling compelled to pursue God’s word, possibly without Christ choosing him to endure to the end.

Deu 18:9  When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. 
Deu 18:10  There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, 
Deu 18:11  Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer [1. to resort to, seek, seek with care, enquire, require. Vivaciously engaging another person spiritually to incite him; you, now dragging him to Christ]. 

Joh 6:44  No one can come to Me unless the Father who has sent Me draw [G1670] drag him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

Sexual ravishment directly corresponds to the naturally glorious nature of being spiritually ravished by Christ’s word as the Bride is for him, and he, for her, is made clean with circumcised hearts.

The flesh is sin, meaning corruptible and unclean, just as the Old Covenant was and is without the holy spirit, depicted as ‘unclean’ when uncircumcised. Any moist, warm physical environment like the mouth, underarms and enclosed male and female privy biomes needs personal care for cleanliness; hence, and representative of mankind, the uncircumcised foreskin is intentionally designed to represent uncleanliness in the male — him (correspondingly to his wife as one in him) representing Jesus’ ceremonial circumcision and progression to purity in headship and authority. The male member also represents the means of spiritually disseminating Christ’s spirit and truthful doctrine, and while in the flesh, regardless of circumcision, remains ritualistically unclean in that it is responsible for the primary facilitation of creating more corruptible flesh.

Psa 51:5  Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. 

Luk 2:21  And when eight days were accomplished for the circumcising of the child, his name was called JESUS, which was so named of the angel [Christ] before he was conceived in the womb. 

Hab 2:16  Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD’S right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory. 

Joh 8:43  Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. 
Joh 8:44  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. 

Astonishingly seen earlier, Satan is the originator of desecrating every detail of what Christ created (Joh 8:43-44) as ‘good’, as good as flesh can be in its first state, beginning sexually. He reflects the intrinsic nature of women’s scheming (Eccl 7) endemic to mankind and Habakkuk 2:16’s outward representation of a male deliberately inventing means to sexually inveigle a female. His inevitable shameful emission upon looking on her nakedness is equal to Satan’s explosive enlivenment of beguiling lies exciting Eve, spiritually, him shamefully glorifying in steering Adam and Eve away from the Tree of Life. It reflects the nemesis of Christ’s “glory” of righteous insemination of truth in our circumcised hearts. It is the last thing the Zionists today want to hear since it destroys their power outwardly and, unwittingly, exceptionally inwardly since it is not their time to understand Christ’s word.

Php 3:2  Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. 
Php 3:3  For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. 

Rom 2:24  For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
Rom 2:25  For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. 

Rom 2:25  For circumcision [OF THE HEART] verily profiteth, if thou keep the law [the NEW COVENANT, CHRIST’S LAW]: but if thou be a breaker [As are Christ and his Christs are…], [and insist on being a keeper] of the [Old Covenant…] law thy circumcision [YOUR self-styled cleanliness] is made uncircumcision. [… in other words, if we insist upon doing our works by our faith, sweat and strength, we are unclean, depicted as uncircumcised]

The biblically definitive theatrics of exploiting an intoxicated person’s nakedness is, of course, Ham’s chance view of his father, Noah, who lay disrobed on his bed with the tent fly carelessly open for the air to cool his wine-wracked body (Gen 9:20-29). The occasion was incredibly opportunistic for Ham not to mock his father before his brothers. Spiritually, Ham’s actions are ours when we misuse our God-given righteous understanding of scripture to ‘spew’ Christ’s truth into the mind of a spiritually uncircumcised brother. 

The symbolism of physical circumcision has futile value due to the impossibility of its advocates adhering to every detail of the Old Covenant Law. Its inevitable failure of its benefactors of Old Israel fixated on circumcision being a necessity for salvation starkly highlights their inherent uncleanliness of depending upon that Law, and are thus considered uncircumcised, dead in your sins since by the Law without the holy spirit, it is impossible to please God.

Rom 2:26  Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? [… counted as righteousness?] 
Rom 2:27  And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law? 

Simply put, the Law was necessary to point out that the flesh can’t keep God’s Law. Circumcision was a highly expressive way for God to portray our transition from uncleanliness to a clean, spiritually circumcised heart.

Rom 2:28  For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
Rom 2:29  But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God. 

Returning to Habakkuk 2:16, an uncovered foreskin highlights two conclusions. Firstly, as we observed, it indicates the physical deliberate impairment of another’s and or your morality to voyeuristically or sexually take advantage, corresponding spiritual degradation of Christ’s word cast before symbolic swine. Secondarily, the natural honour and glory of male arousal is sanctified in marriage alone with one’s wife, and not the shameful vomiting of Christ’s word spiritually inseminating the minds of multiple women representing churches of Orthodox Christianity — the act of harlotry (Rev 17:5).

Accordingly, to keep the Old Covenant, it engenders violence and whoredom in the land, represented by an uncircumcised uncovered foreskin of beast-like men, barbarians, spreading the seed of the Serpent far and wide.

Col 3:8  But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication [uncircumcised, false doctrine] out of your mouth. 
Col 3:9  Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 
Col 3:10  And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: 
Col 3:11  Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.

Hab 2:17  For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee [as represented by the symbolic nature of a foreskin], and the spoil of beasts [of uncircumcised spewing of falsehoods], which made them afraid, because of men’s blood [representing uncleanness of the flesh], and for the violence of the land, of the city [you and me], and of all that dwell therein. 
Hab 2:18  What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

The worship of women and sex is an outstandingly dumb idolisation, indicting mostly men, yet probably more so insidiously women idolising women, them seeking the validation of other women more than they do from men. As such, what profits women (or men) from idolising women? (Act 19:24) Outwardly, it is a representation of Orthodox Christianity glorying ‘growing churches’ in other nations, going over land and sea to make a ‘twofold child of hell worse than themselves, their shameful ‘spewing’ the engraving of lies on the hearts and minds of ignorant babes. Such an idol-maker profits disastrously, amplifying personal ignorance. It all is initiated by the father of lies, Satan, our first father, when we, with an uncircumcised heart, trust in the dumb idols of our hearts.

Eze 14:4  Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;

Hab 2:19  Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. 
Hab 2:20  But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.

Accordingly, it is formerly we who are ravished by a dumb idol of false doctrines we all zealously pursued and taught to any who would listen when in Babylonian Christianity, defrauding our Lord of his gold and silver (Hag 2:8-9) twisted and engraved in smooth words for the consumption of the equally witless nations agape, violated in silence between the temple and the altar.

Mat 23:33  Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? 
Mat 23:34  Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: 
Mat 23:35  That upon you [the incipient Elect] may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar [… in our journey and transition in being recreated as Christs]. 
Mat 23:36  Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation [… the Elect alone!]

Next week, Lord willing, we will conclude the Book of Habakkuk on a far more positive note.