While becoming a Christian is personal, our faith isn't meant to be

private. Today on Truth For Life we'll explore Habakkuk's prophecy and see how our

beliefs ought to impact the way we live and our response to the world's

turmoil and suffering. Alistair Begg is teaching a message he's titled, let all the

earth be silent.

We'll begin reading at the second verse of Habakkuk chapter 2. Then the Lord replied,

write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with

it. For the revelation awaits an appointed time it speaks of the end and will not

prove false. Though it linger, wait for it. It will certainly come and will not delay.

See he is puffed up. His desires are not upright but the righteous will live by his faith.

Indeed wine betrays him. He is arrogant and never at rest because he is as greedy as

the grave and like death is never satisfied. He gathers to himself all the nations and

takes captive all the peoples. We'll not all of them taunt him with ridicule and

scorn saying, woe to him who piles up stolen goods and makes himself wealthy by extortion.

How long must this go on? Will not your debtors suddenly arise? Will they not wake up and

make you tremble? Then you will become their victim because you have plundered many nations.

The people who are left will plunder you. For you have shed men's blood. You have destroyed

lands and cities and everyone in them. Woe to him who builds his realm by unjust gain

to set his nest on high to escape the clutches of ruin. You have plotted the ruin of many

peoples shaming your own house and forfeiting your life. The stones of the wall will cry

out and the beams of the woodwork will echo it. Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed

and establishes a town by crime has not the Lord Almighty determined that the people's

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