SPIRIT continue.....

Habakkuk 2 ..... 'Woe betide THE PERSON WHO HAS BUILT A CITY WITH BLOODSHED

and FOUNDED A TOWN ON INJUSTICE, so that NATIONS TOIL FOR A PITTANCE, PEOPLE WEARY THEMSELVES FOR a mere NOTHING!'

IS NOT ALL THIS THE DOING OF THE LORD OF HOSTS?  The  EARTH will BE FULL OF the KNOWLEDGE OF the LORD's GLORY as the WATERS FILL THE SEA.

'WOE betide the PERSON WHO MAKES HIS COMPANIONS DRINK the outpouring of GOD's WRATH, making them DRUNK TO WATCH THEIR NAKED ORGIES!'  You WILL DRINK DEEP DRAUGHTS, not of glory but OF SHAME, drinking in your turn UNTIL YOU STAGGER.

The CUP IN THE LORD's RIGHT HAND is PASSED TO YOU, and YOUR SHAME will EXCEED YOUR GLORY.   The VIOLENCE done TO LEBANON will OVERWHELM YOU, the HAVOC WROUGHT ON ITS BEASTS WILL SHATTER YOU, because of the BLOODSHED and VIOLENCE you INFLICTED on CITIES and all their INHABITANTS over the EARTH.'

WHAT USE IS an idol after its maker has shaped it? IT IS only an image, a SOURCE OF LIES!

WHAT USE IS it when the MAKER TRUSTS WHAT HE HAD MADE? He is only making DUMB IDOLS!

'Woe betide THE PERSON WHO SAYS TO A BLOCK OF WOOD, 'Wake up,' TO A LIFELESS STONE, 'Bestir yourself '!   Overlaid with gold and silver it may be, but THERE IS NO BREATH IN IT.'

The LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth be silent in His Presence.   

Compare to Revelation 12 and 13.    SEVEN VISIONS

Revelation 12   After THAT

 

(the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before GOD, prostrated themselves before HIM in adoration, saying: 'O LORD GOD, sovereign over all, YOU ARE and YOU WERE; we give YOU thanks because YOU HAVE ASSUMED FULL POWER AND ENTERED UPON YOUR REIGN. The NATIONS ROSE IN WRATH, but YOUR DAY OF WRATH HAS COME.  Now is the TIME FOR THE DEAD TO BE JUDGED; now is the TIME FOR REWARDS TO BE GIVEN TO YOUR SERVANTS THE PROPHETS, to YOUR OWN PEOPLE, and to ALL WHO HONOR YOUR NAME, both SMALL AND GREAT; now is the TIME TO DESTROY THOSE WHO DESTROY THE EARTH.'       GOD's SANCTUARY in HEAVEN was OPENED, and WITHIN his sanctuary WAS SEEN THE ARK OF HIS COVENANT. There came flashes of lightning and peals of thunder, an earthquake, and

a violent hailstorm).

THERE  appeared a great SIGN IN HEAVEN; a WOMAN ROBED WITH THE SUN, BENEATH HER FEET THE MOON, and ON her HEAD a CROWN OF TWELVE STARS.   

She was ABOUT TO BEAR A CHILD, and IN THE ANGUISH of her LABOUR she CRIED OUT TO BE DELIVERED.

THEN a SECOND SIGN appeared IN HEAVEN; a GREAT, FIERY RED DRAGON with SEVEN HEADS  and TEN HORNS. ON HIS HEADS were SEVEN DIADEMS, and WITH HIS TAIL he SWEPT DOWN A THIRD OF THE STARS IN THE SKY and HURLED THEM TO THE EARTH. The DRAGON STOOD in FRONT of the WOMAN who was ABOUT TO GIVE BIRTH, so that WHEN her CHILD was BORN he might DEVOUR IT. But WHEN she gave BIRTH TO A MALE CHILD, who is DESTINED TO RULE ALL NATIONS WITH A ROD OF IRON, the child WAS SNATCHED UP TO GOD and TO HIS THRONE.   The WOMAN herself FLED INTO the WILDERNESS, where she was TO BE LOOKED AFTER  for  TWELVE HUNDRED and SIXTY DAYS     IN A PLACE PREPARED for her    BY GOD.