How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

Welcome to Through the Bible.

I'm your host Steve Schwetz, and we're traveling through the Old Testament

Book of Habakkuk, a minor prophet who had a major conflict with God. That's right, when other people

only think when God allows difficult things to happen, Habakkuk actually says something. And you know what?

God didn't strike him down. In fact, God bent down and listened.

To set the stage, here's a special introduction by our teacher, Dr. J. Vernon McGee.

And we saw last time that there were four covenants that God made with the nation Israel.

And those covenants that God made with the nation Israel were unconditional

covenants. The covenants actually depended upon the integrity of God, upon the word of God.

And there was one, however, that was a conditional covenant. We'll see that when we get to it,

the Mosaic covenant. But we were talking last time about the covenant with Abraham, and God

had promised him a land, a nation would come from him, and actually nations, and he would become

a blessing to all nations.

Now, the covenants that God made were eternal covenants, absolute covenants,

and nothing could break these covenants at all.

Now, God has made two-thirds of this covenant good.

He promised him he'd make a nation from him. Well, he certainly

did that. They're scattered now in every nation under the sun, and many of them are back in the

land of Israel right now. It's a very tenuous, sort of a living that they are enjoying, or I should say maybe not enjoying.

God also promised to make them a blessing to all nations.

And it was through Abraham that God sent the Lord Jesus Christ into the world and through this nation.

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