从迷惘到信靠
五个祸
「为本家积蓄不义之财……有祸了！」（6、9节）
经文
哈巴谷书二5-11
5迦勒底人因酒诡诈，狂傲，不住在家中，扩充心欲，好像阴间。他如死不能知足，聚集万国，堆积万民都归自己。
6这些国的民岂不都要提起诗歌并俗语讥刺他说：祸哉！迦勒底人，你增添不属自己的财物，多多取人的当头，要到几时为止呢？
7咬伤你的岂不忽然起来，扰害你的岂不兴起，你就作他们的掳物吗？
8因你抢夺许多的国，杀人流血，向国内的城并城中一切居民施行强暴，所以各国剩下的民都必抢夺你。
9为本家积蓄不义之财、在高处搭窝、指望免灾的有祸了！
10你图谋剪除多国的民，犯了罪，使你的家蒙羞，自害己命。
11墙里的石头必呼叫；房内的栋梁必应声。
信息分享
我们要继续来思想「从迷惘走向信靠」必须采取的步骤。现在我们来到第七个步骤：要记得不管情况多么黑暗和艰难，都是掌管在神的手中。
哈巴谷书二章5-20节提到「五个祸」，今天我们要看这「五个祸」中的第一个。这些「祸」不单说出迦勒底人的毁灭，也说出所有选择犯罪的人的结局。所有邪恶的事情都要受神的审判。虽然迦勒底人会兴起和繁盛，但他们繁盛的界限已经由神清楚划下。
第一个祸（6-8节）是关于迦勒底人如何企图没收神百姓的财产，结果自己经历财产被掠夺的报应。第二个祸（9-11节）指出迦勒底人剥削穷人而致富后所得到的惩罚。他们以不义手段所建成的房屋，向他们发出反对的呼声，而他们罪恶的生活最终导致他们走向死亡。
迦勒底人吸取了教训，其他民族也因他们而领悟到：最终得胜的是公义。我曾经听过一个年青人在电视上说：「我希望这一代的人能认识一个名叫『踢』的人，因为他会给你们带来很多的刺激。」我很想回应他说：「年青人，我建议你认识另一个名叫『回踢』的人。他总是站在那个名叫『踢』的人较为后边的地方，而且总是踢最后一脚。」
「最终得胜的永远都是公义」
进深研究
约翰五1-30；诗一零三6；罗二2
1. 对于祂的审判耶稣宣告了甚么？
2. 是甚么在管辖神的审判？
祈祷
天父，我知道您以我们的行为来回应我们，或得着结果、或是承担后果。服从您的律法将得着结果，破坏它们的必须承受后果。我决意要得着结果，求您帮助我。奉耶稣的名祈求，阿们。
From Confusion to Confidence
"The five woes"
Bible reading:
Habakkuk 2:5-11
5 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.
6 "Will 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!
7 Will not your creditors suddenly arise? Will they not wake up and make you tremble? Then you will become their prey.
8 Because you have plundered many nations, the peoples who are left will plunder you. For you have shed human blood; you have destroyed lands and cities and everyone in them.
9 "Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, setting his nest on high to escape the clutches of ruin!
10 You have plotted the ruin of many peoples, shaming your own house and forfeiting your life.
11 The stones of the wall will cry out, and the beams of the woodwork will echo it.
Message
We continue examining the steps we must take in order to move from confusion to faith, and now we come to the seventh: keep in mind that no matter how dark and difficult things may appear, God is always in control.
The verses before us today are the first of "the five woes" (2:5-20). These "woes" spell out not only the doom of the Chaldeans, but the end of all those who choose the way of sin. Everything that is evil is under God's judgment. Though the Chaldeans would rise up and flourish, the boundaries of their prosperity were clearly drawn up by God.
The first woe (vv.6-8) has to do with the way in which the Chaldeans will find their attempts at the sequestration of God's people flung back in their faces as they themselves experience what it means to be stripped of their possessions. The second woe (vv.9-11) spells out the punishment the Chaldeans will receive for getting rich at the expense of the poor. The very houses they have built through unjust gain will cry out against them and the eventual cost of their sinful lifestyle will be the forfeiture of their own lives.
The Chaldeans would learn - and through them the other nations - that righteousness always has the last word. I once heard a young man say on television: "I would like to get this generation acquainted with this guy called 'Kick' - he gives you lots of thrills." I felt like saying: "Young man, I suggest you get acquainted with another guy called 'Kick Back'. He is always a little behind the first guy - and always has the last kick."
"Righteousness always has the last word"
Prayer
O Father, I know You have designed the universe to respond with either results or consequences. When I obey Your Laws I get results, when I break them I get consequences. I am determined to get results. Help me. In Jesus' Name. Amen.
Further study
John 5:1-30
Psalm 103:6
Romans 2:2
1. What did Jesus declare about His judgment?
2. What governs the judgment of God?
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