Habakkuk 2:12-14
“Woe to him who builds a town with blood
and founds a city on iniquity!
Behold, is it not from the Lord of hosts
that peoples labor merely for fire,
and nations weary themselves for nothing?
For the earth will be filled
with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea.
Truth: Knowledge of the Lord means recognition and honor for the Lord.
Habakkuk is the prophet who dares to ask of God that no one else will. God was going to discipline His people. Those people were His chosen people. Everything these people had been taught is that they were special in the eyes of God. However, they didn't learn the lessons about what happens if and when they sin. God is going to discipline them and He is going to use the wicked nation of Babylon as His tool to correct them. With this, Habakkuk has an issue. Habakkuk objects with a variety of questions. As God unfolds His answers, we have the above response of Habakkuk. Habakkuk now knows that even though God may use the wicked to discipline His children, God is to be honored, despite their power. To paraphrase his words, "Even if the wicked build a great city (or, nation) on the blood of innocent people they need to realize that it is God who gives that ability. Just like God gives them the ability to make a simple fire to stay warm, so too, He does, to make them strong. When God's knowledge comes through the land, His glory is contained in that knowledge and He should be honored and recognized for that glory." Today, men operate as though God does not exist and that He deserves no honor. Yet, when His knowledge swipes through the land, we too, are to give Him glory. Knowing God means to honor God. Recognition follows knowledge.
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