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"He is a proud man"

Text: Habakkuk 2:5

THE PROUD CHALDEANS

The Lord began to show Habakkuk that He was well aware of the pride of the Chaldeans! The prophet need not be alarmed that God was not aware of the wicked intentions and activities of the Babylonians.

“Indeed, because he transgresses by wine,
He is a proud man,
And he does not stay at home.
Because he enlarges his desire as hell,
And he is like death, and cannot be satisfied,
He gathers to himself all nations
And heaps up for himself all peoples.”
Habakkuk 2:5

1. Some characteristic traits about the Chaldeans

a) He transgresses.

b) His transgressions are made worse by a drinking habit.

c) He is proud.

d) He has powerful and insatiable desires.

i) They are compared to “death”.

ii) Further compared to “hell”.

iii) Death and hell are never satisfied!

2. The ambitious plans of the Chaldeans

a) They desire to conquer “all nations”.

b) They desire to rule over “all peoples”.

c) They will conquer the Assyrians though that was a powerful empire at that time.

d) Their success in conquering the Assyrians would embolden them to conquer other nations.

e) They will then march to the Middle East and attempt to subjugate the nations there.

i) Egypt

ii) Philistia

iii) Moab

iv) Ammon

v) Syria

vi) Israel

vii) Judah

f) God was fully aware of the prideful Chaldeans. He was absolutely in control of every situation!