The Just shall live by his Faith.

by Alejandro Roque Glez.

“…the just shall live by his faith… for the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.”

(Habakkuk 2:3-4, 13-14)

This is a prophecy that points into the future––now close––epoch that marks the establishment of the kingdom promised in the Holy Scriptures through the centuries, beginning with the Millenarian Kingdom of Jesus Christ.

All prophets over the centuries, and using their own language, announced the End Times, followed by the establishment of God’s Kingdom, ruled by the Messiah Christ, who should descend through the Davidic family tree.

At this time we write, the mediatic world––in addition to ignore the thousands of victims who annually die in this earthly globe, persecuted ones and annihilated others as Christians––is committed to a massive attack against Christianity and the true God. Why? This reminds us about the next century after Christ’s departure, when the devil was very active trying to divide the Church with treaties and gnostic groups, but once failed in his task, then exacerbated the Roman Empire to drive out all its fates and faults blaming on them the Christians and thus they could be cruelly murdered while protected by law. If a drought occurred or any social disaster, the incrimination was again delegated on the people of God, followed by a ruthless persecution, and where many innocent martyrs valiantly gave their lives.

Today the effusive and stunted religious-atheists of the media industry, ideologically blinded by the old Lucifer, firstly strive to ridicule us at every opportunity presented to them, either in a film, theater, television or newspapers. They show us like short-minded, bigoted, crazy people; and expect it soon, dear reader; it is coming so close when they will stamp us as dangerous to this world. Once we are cataloged within their assembly that is used to detail the terrorists, the doors will be ‘legally’ open to invisibly massacre us; but not before using their wiles and manipulations in the hope of publicly make us deny our faith.

So short and full of trouble is this life and has been the human history for those who have no hope. Many deny their faith: by their acts or verbal testimony, trying to avoid any temporary disadvantage, attracting their own eternal damnation. The reality is that the true Christian should not worry if ridiculed, because our faith is not based on any campaigns or ideological currents like these apologists of the New World Order at all levels; but as the apostle Paul said at the end of his apostolic career, in a letter to his beloved disciple Timothy: “I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed” (2 Tim 1:12). In the way of faith many stones fill the time; nonetheless on the horizon, clearly you can descry the cascade of light and source of eternal life.

The prophet Habakkuk assures us such revealed hope when he affirms that “the just shall live by his faith” (v.4). That is why we say to you: You are not and never be a fanatic, and do not try to sympathize with a world that forcefully rejects you, because even if you are not aware of it, you are like a mirror which snatches their ignorance.

So it is not worth any continence in proclaiming your faith to those requesting it, but you must continue announcing the Good Evangelical News and live with the certainty that such hope promised by Jesus is at the door; as you continue with the daily chores without rejecting your right to benefit from existence itself, and knowing that “faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” (Rom 10:17).

The just shall eternally live by faith in God and his Son Jesus Christ (v.4) and when it seems that such promise is getting late or disappearing, read the words of the prophet Habakkuk when he says that “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” (v.3). It is worth nothing every disposable effort in which this world has insisted while giving their backs to the Creator (v.13), because “the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea” (v.14). Their work has been for the fire: one devouring and another cleansing (2 Pet 3:10); and the earth will be filled with his glory and praises (3:3).

(What will life be on our planet once the Lord fulfills the promise of his coming? If interested you can read it in the form of a literary narrative, recreated in the author's book entitled: 'The King Victorino').

[These and other Old Testament prophecies are explicatively compiled in the author's book entitled: 'Minor Prophets of the Old Testament;' in print and digital editions]

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