(The Revelation continued...)
The Lord God says, "I will revive My work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years I will make Myself known. In wrath remember mercy."
Habakkuk 3:2
How God is making Himself known:
God is aroused and risen from His holy habitation, He is moving among us.
The Lord will go forth like a warrior. He will arouse His zeal like a man of war. He will utter a shout. Yes, He will raise a war cry. The Lord arises to contend and stands to judge His people. He has kept silent for a long time. He has kept still and restrained Himself.
Now He speaks:
Woe to you rebellious children who take counsel and carry out a plan but not mine, who make a league and pour out a drink offering, but not of My Spirit, thus adding sin to sin. You set out to go down into Egypt and have not asked of Me. (How is it that you did not watch Me every moment for fear of losing sight of Me?)
The present state of affairs:
Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away, for truth has stumbled in the streets, and uprightness cannot enter. Yes, truth is lacking, and he who turns aside from evil makes himself a prey.
God's reaction to this:
Now the Lord saw and it was displeasing in His sight that there was no justice. And He saw there was no man, and was astonished that there was none to intercede; then His own arm brought salvation to Him, and His righteousness upheld Him. And He put on righteousness like a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation on His head; and He put on garments of vengeance for clothing and wrapped Himself with zeal as a mantle. According to their deeds, He will repay.
Thus says the Lord God:
Do not be deceived, I am not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh shall from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit shall from the Spirit reap eternal life.
I will kindle a fire in you, and it will consume every green tree in you, as well as every dry tree. I will destroy those who formerly worshiped Me, but now no longer do, and those who never loved me and never wanted to.
A curse shall go forth, says the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief and into the house of him who swears falsely by My name; and it shall abide in the midst of his house and shall consume it, both its timber and its stone.
For it is time for judgment to begin with the house of God.