The days of dedication and feasting for the Temple are now over, and Solomon has sent the people back home, but the Lord appears to him that very night. God indicates that He will bring testings and rebukes upon His people. This is doubtless very applicable to our own days, where we have suffered the direct and indirect effects of the Coronavirus pestilence, we are still suffering a great spiritual drought, and the financial locusts in government and elsewhere are looking to eat us out of house and home. These and many other matters are evidence of God's wrath against the Church, and against Society in general. Habakkuk's prayer (3:2) includes the plea for mercy in the time of God's wrath, and in our verse (vs 14) helps us to understand how we may do our part to encourage God to remember such mercy:
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Rev. Paul A. Backhurst grew up in Liverpool, England. He was educated at Liverpool Blue Coat School, and later studied Classics at King's College London. In 2002, he relocated to Nijmegen in the Netherlands, where the Lord saved him in 2004. He met his wife and was married....