CLAIM: Habakkuk sees a vision of Jesus’ Second Coming procession, both in the sky and on land as He executes judgment upon the Antichrist and his armies. A prophetic foreshadowing of this occurred when God, through Moses and Joshua, marched into the promise land destroying the enemy nations along the way. God’s brightness was like the light in the pillar of fire, and He “walked through the sea” when he parted the Red Sea. God led Israel through on dry ground and the sun stood still for Joshua. However, this passage will only be fulfilled when Jesus returns and the “plague goes before Him” (v. 5) as depicted in the seventh bowl (Ezek; 38:22; Zech. 14:12-18; Rev. 16:21). A plague did not go before the armies of Israel as they entered Canaan. Jesus will also trample the nations in anger at the time of the Second Coming (Hab. 3:12; Rev. 19:15). The phrase in verse 8, “You rode on Your horses” will be fulfilled in Revelation 19:11-14 when Jesus returns on a white horse with the armies of heaven on horses. The Israelites did not have chariots when they entered Canaan, but the armies of heaven will (2 Kings 6:17).
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Describes the fall of Rome, from Nero with his self-inflicted head-wound (Domition was regarded as Nero back from the dead), to the destruction of Rome. Revelation 12-19 describes the slow decline of Rome, including the finality of God’s wrath upon it in the “crisis of the third century”, after which, while Rome had many military leaders, it never again regained its status and dominence. So, this chapter instructs those who wait for the fall of Rome after its destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD, and that though it tarry, to wait for it, for it would come at its appointed time. And, in due course of time, it did, and from the 6th century onward, Rome was scattered to the wind and no great beast ruled over the course of men for a thousand years.