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Jesus in the OT :: Habakkuk

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On January 19, 2010

In Christian, Jesus in the O.T.

The book of Habakkuk gives us a glimpse of who Jesus is in the Old Testament (O.T).

The name ‘Habakkuk’ means the one who embraces (or) clings. Habakkuk was a contemporary of the weeping prophet, Jeremiah. If Hosea is the Prophet with a Prostitute, then Habakkuk is the Prophet with a Problem and the problem is phrased in a question, very much reflective of what we face today! How Long O Lord, How long will I have to cry and You will not hear or save us? For how much longer Lord, will the wicked prosper and your people perish? Not only is God’s promise of an answer stated in Habakkuk 2:3 which states slowly, steadily and surely the answer will come but his work that would truly be unbelievable is assured. Even if God was to say what he was going to do, the people would not have believed it (Habakkuk 1:5) is what the Bible records.

Habakkuk 1:12 states that God is an everlasting God, a Holy One. Jesus said, Before Abraham was, I AM (John 8:58). When the demons saw Jesus they declared He is the Holy One of God (Mark 1:24).

Habakkuk 3:13-14 has the redemptive act of Salvation (one that even if it was said, would not have been believed) beautifully hidden.

13 You came out to deliver your people, (Jesus’ birth)
to save your anointed one. (Jesus on the Cross)
You crushed the leader of the land of wickedness, (Satan crushed) you stripped him from head to foot. Selah
14 With his own spear [weapon or staves] you pierced his head

The Cross and Golgotha was Satan’s weapons against Jesus. With Satan’s own weapons (the cross), which looking like an inverted sword, wielded into Golgotha, Satan’s head was crushed as prophesied in Genesis 3:15.

In Habakkuk, Jesus is the one who embraces us and clings on to us, the one who is the everlasting God, the Holy One, the God of our Salvation.

The Name is Holy One of God

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On July 15, 2009

In Christian, The Name

Mark 1:23-25  records the story of Jesus ridding a man with unclean spirits. It reads as follows –
23 And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,
24 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.
This event is also recorded in Luke 4:33-35.

Acting collectively as one, the unclean spirits made a proclamation and confidently stated that they knew who Jesus was. Some of the listeners in the synagogue were from the band that was constantly trying hard to discredit Jesus. At one time some even accused Jesus, alleging that His exorcising power was from the devil (Matthew 12:24). If they were in the crowd this day, they must have inquisitively waited to hear what the spirits had to say about Jesus. They must have been waiting eagerly to get proof of their accusations, because even the unclean spirits, seemed to know who Jesus was. But the next declaration of who Jesus really was must have been mind blowing to these religious zealots and hypocrites. Jesus was declared to be the Holy One of God. This has serious implications. No one could have this name, except God God-self for the scriptures say that there is none holy as the LORD (1 Samuel 2:2). The unclean spirits were in fact affirming that Jesus was God because He was the Holy One of God.

Do we recognize Jesus for who He really is? Do we recognize that He is indeed God, a Holy God and the Holy One of God? What do we have to say His name is? The Name is Holy One of God.

1 Samuel 2:2 (KJV)
2 There is none holy as the LORD: for there is none beside thee: neither is there any rock like our God.

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