 Okay. Good morning to all of you. Okay. You were in the angelic sphere singing away. Now you've come to the battlefield of the Old Testament where there's a lot of judgment and wrath and you know, anger happening. So, okay, so we let's just get started. Today, hopefully we will be able to get a good look at Naahabakuk. Okay, so today we are dealing with Naahabakuk. So, the book of Naahabakuk talks about God's judgment against Nineveh. So, yesterday we looked at God wanting to show mercy to Nineveh, wanting to give them one more opportunity before his judgment comes and the people in fact took the opportunity but they did not remain in him. After about five to six years, they must have turned away from him because we see that after 10 years, Tiglath Pileser comes and takes control of the city and from then on the Assyrian kingdom regains its power and even the northern kingdom also is destroyed by them. So, all of these events occur and so we see that Nineveh's repentance was true but it did not last very long. The lesson that we could pick up from that is that it is good to repent. It's the best thing that we can do to come back to the Lord and confess our sins and renew our commitment to him but that alone is not enough. We also need to remain in him, continue in him and not get on back into the wrong things of the world. Although, that did not happen here with the people of Nineveh who went back to their old ways and so they did not continue to enjoy the blessings of Yahweh. So, we see that God gives Nineveh another 150 years to change their ways. God is never speedy with his judgment. So, whenever we see the judgment stories mentioned in the Old Testament, we need to remember that God did not act in haste. He waited. He allowed many, many opportunities and only when the appointed time had come, only then was the judgment released. So, God always gives every person, every nation enough time. So, here we see that God gives them another 150 years after the visit of Jonah to again change their ways if they wish to and so the destruction of Nineveh, it happens 150 years later after Jonah's visit. So, Nahum is the one who gives the prophecy about it. He was a contemporary of Zephaniah and Jeremiah. So, Zephaniah and Jeremiah also were ministering at this particular time. So, just to know a little bit of background, Nahum had the privilege of, you know, doing his ministry under a very godly pink because it was Josiah who was on the throne at this time and among all the kings that we, you know, come across here in this, you know, latter days of the kingdom, we see that Josiah is among the best. He's one person who really goes the entire way. You know, once he discovers that scroll in the temple and once he realizes that he is not really keeping all of the mosaic law, he really commits himself to changing himself, changing his people, going even into the northern portions of Israel and sending priests to their prophets over there to even teach to the people over there God's ways. So, here is one man who was really committed to the Lord and so in Nahum 1 verse 15, we see a reference to what was being done during the time of Josiah. If someone could read out Nahum chapter 1 verse 15. Okay, so here it mentions that the people are celebrating their festivals and fulfilling their vows. So, this was happening under the kingship of Josiah where people were actually had come back to God, they were following God and so the Lord says, because of this attitude of yours, you know, during this time, you would know enemy will come into this land and harm you. So, it says here no more will wicked invade you, they will be completely destroyed. So, because of the revival that had taken place in the land and because of the good attitude of the people, now God speaks hope. He says to them that ultimately judgment will have to come but those who are righteous, you know, they will be taken care of, they will be protected. So, that's the assurance that God is giving over here to those who are following him. So, during this time of peace which they were enjoying over here, there was however a threat because now Assyria had begun to regain its power. Now it was no longer under the previous dynasty. Now it was under Tiglal Pileser and he and his followers, not followers, his descendants, they were all very, very ambitious, cruel, powerful people and so Assyria was getting stronger and stronger and the people who are living in south, you know, Judah with their own eyes, they saw what Assyria had done to northern Israel. They had seen how that entire area was completely wiped out, all the people taken away, they saw all of that destruction and now they were worried and they were thinking, is something like that going to happen even to us? Okay, so in this time, God gives this assurance and he says in Nahum 1.15, no more will the wicked invade you because you are following my ways, you will enjoy my protection during this time, God assures them. So, around this time is when Nahum gives his prophecy of what actually is going to happen to Nineveh. So, shortly before the fall of Nineveh is when he writes down this prophecy, Nineveh actually falls in 612 BC. So, when Nahum gives his prophecy, he says that within 50 years, within 50 years of this prophecy, Nineveh will be completely destroyed and whatever he says, you know, is fulfilled. Let's just look at the structure of Nahum, chapter once where he talks about the judgment which will come, he talks about the greatness of God, the awesomeness of God, you know, if someone could read out chapter 1 verse 5. Heavens at his presence is the world and all who dwell in it. Yes, so it talks, he reminds of the power of God because the people are feeling scared, they're wondering what's going to happen, will Assyria come and attack them? So here, Nahum is giving the assurance that the mountains quake before the Lord. So, God is all powerful, he is in a position to take care of them. And then in chapters 2 to 3 is where he gives the judgment against Nineveh. That's described in great detail in those chapters. Maybe we could just look at Nahum chapter 3 verse 7. So, the destruction will be so bad that people will not even want to go anywhere near that territory because the enemy will come so powerfully and attack so badly that all the others stay away, nobody tries to help them, nobody tries to go near them. So, that will be the condition is what Nahum predicts. So, we learn that after that Nineveh kind of does not recover and nobody goes and resettles in that particular area and it was only in the 19th century that in the early 1900s that archaeologists in fact uncovered this place Nineveh and they discovered that there used to be a huge great city and it had beautiful palaces, it had large gardens, all that is something which they discovered only now recently in the 19th century because God wiped out that city so completely that nobody ever inhabited that place after that, that place was just left as ruins. That was the level of destruction which came upon Nineveh. Now, just to give a little background about Nineveh itself, at the time of Jonah it was an it was an influential provincial center but at that time it was just still a provincial center. It is Tiglath Pileser who later on makes Nineveh his capital. Once he makes it his capital he starts making that place very very grand and big. Nineveh was positioned in such a place that it's near the Tigris River actually goes through the city and the Tigris River is going through the city at a very important point where you know most of the ships will come for their trade. So, they have to take that particular route as they are taking their trade route they have to come near Nineveh and then from there they would you know go to other directions. So, which means these people can make a lot of money through taxation you know all the ships which are coming over there will have to pay something because they are the ones who have built the infrastructure over there for all the ships in order to come and dock and all of that. So, they were making a lot of money, they were in a very good position and they also tried to control the flow of the waters because you know Tigris is actually going to pass through their city and so they built some dam you know the what you call sluice gates. So, when you open up the gates the flow of the river increases. When you close up the gates it slows down. So, the idea was that during rainy season when the you know chances are that the river will flood they would close off the sluice gates so that the flow of the water will be controlled so that there's no damage inside the city. So, all these elaborate arrangements were done by Tigrat Pileser and his followers and also they built many cant palaces inside. This person Sena Sherab you know the one who actually comes and destroys northern Israel he builds a huge palace for himself. So, actually when the archaeologists first discovered these things it became really important news. I mean the news about spread everywhere and they had put photographs of it. It was early days long back in the early 1900s. So, this was a great finding because the palaces were so huge, so lavish and they had all these wonderful carvings done inside on the walls. Of course, that person Ashur Pani Palia especially his palace he had all these large stone panels on the sides in which they had done elaborate carving of battle scenes and the victories which he had you know achieved all of that. So, all of this proved that the Assyrians were a great and powerful nation and that they had achieved a lot. So, all these things the archaeologists discovered about them they also discovered what kind of a people these Assyrians were. So, I am not sure whether the earlier Assyrians were bad but this last dynasty Tigrat Pileser's dynasty were very violent and evil. So, in those carvings in those battle scenes you can see what kind of violence they were indulging in which is why Nahum 3.1 it says something about the city if someone could read out Nahum chapter 3 verse 1 says here it is a city full of blood it says that it is that it is never without any without victims always somebody is being tortured over there always somebody suffering over there. So, they are a very harsh and evil people just for us to know a little bit about them you know we have yeah we have in 2nd Chronicles 3311 where you have a description of you know Manasseh being dragged away in by the Assyrians they literally put a hook in his nose imagine a metal hook they didn't exactly have surgical instruments at that time so however they put that hook in there would have been very horrible and very painful and he's dragged like an animal so the idea was that you know they're trying to say oh this man is no longer a king now he's just a beast look at him crawling along the ground we are taking him like as if he is an animal okay they wanted to prove their greatness that was the kind of people they were and then you also see in the carvings that they would put the victims on the ground and then you know facing down they would be put flat on the ground facing with the face downward and from the back they would start cutting the skin so that they can open up the entire skin as like one single piece you know and they thought that is a very artistic thing to do absolutely no sense of mercy very evil probably demon possessed I mean I don't know I don't think normal people can indulge in that kind of things so very terrible evil people there's one particular scene where you have Ashur Bhanipal and the queen they're sitting at the royal table and they're celebrating the victory which they have won over over a place called Elam okay and the Elamites so you have the Elamites kings cut off head hanging from the tree next to the you know like a decoration piece they're sitting over there and having their feast so these were extremely evil people that is why finally when the destruction comes upon them the city is wiped out to such an extent nobody even lived over there again you know it says that's what we read right it says the earlier verses no one is even coming near you where was that chapter 3 verse 7 it says and it will come about that all who see you will shrink from from you and say they will not even want to come near you know they will all try to move away from that area and so maybe just got lost over the centuries nobody even knew that it existed anymore because that was God's judgment against this very very evil people so how does God bring about the judgment we don't get any historical details over here but just some specifics which are mentioned if someone could read out Nahum chapter 2 verses 4 to 6 okay so we just get these few phrases and we wonder what is the story behind it what exactly was happening what are they talking about when they're saying there were chariots racing around the streets looking like flames uh flaming torches and all of that and the the only reason we know more details about this is because the Greek historian ancient Greek historian Theodorus Siculus however on earth you pronounce the poor man's name he wrote the bibliotheca Historia so in his bibliotheca Historia he also gives an account of the fall of Nineveh and that is from there we get details of what actually happened over there how Nineveh falls so we see that actually the attack happens in three stages when they first come to that place what Sennacherib had done during his time it was that he you had the normal you know city with its fortification walls which was there even in the time of Jonah that was already there but he builds another extra outer wall with many hectares of land in between so you have an inner city where you have the actual city walls you also have an outer city wall which you know with a lot of distance between the inner and the outer walls and in that space you know he built gardens and he had irrigation projects and whatnot so it was this elaborate setup so when the Babylonians first come over there they didn't come on their own they come along with the Medes so the Medes and Babylonians together they come over there and they attack the outer wall because they want to get in and they're unable to so all the soldiers who are standing on the on the battlements they're able to you know throw their arrows and I don't know what else they threw maybe boiling water whatever so they used you know weapons to defeat them and the enemy could not get through because the walls which had been built by Sennacherib was that strong and the entire fortification had been run in such a excellent manner and so after this great victory the enemy sitting out there you know wondering how are we going to get inside how are we going to you know bring down the emperor house inside so while that is going on the soldiers begin their celebration you know they have had a tough battle they have won the battle and so now they start their celebrations they all properly drink and they're not no longer in their senses some of the people are escaping from the city you know the deserters who have escaped they come and inform the Babylonian soldiers that you know what inside the Ninevites are all fully drunk you can actually attack so they decide to attack during the night time so during the night time they are able to form an opening somewhere in the wall and they're able to get inside so now they are in that in between space you still have the central city inside with its own fortification but now they are inside the outer space so that is basically the you know account mentioned over here the chariots have now finished coming inside and they are racing around you know and you can the metal on them is shining like you know it's phoetic language is being used the metal on these you know chariots is shining in the sunlight and now Nineveh is like panicky you know because now they realize they have come inside so now the next wall will be the inner wall already the main thing you know main damage has been done so they are very scared and it says over here in chapter two verse five Nineveh summons her picked troops yet they stumble on their way they dash to the city wall the protective shield is put in place because now they have to defend the inner thing outer one is gone but the inner one they could still you know try to do something about it and so then these Babylonians and Meads they come up with a plan on how to destroy this inner wall so what they do is now that they're already inside the you know the outer thing they're inside the periphery how they do is they open up the sluice gates Tigris River and already during the heavy because of the heavy in that particular time you know that particular season northeastern part of the wall inner wall had become weak so once the sluice gates of the Tigris River was fully opened up and the water starts flooding against the walls that portion of the wall is completely weakened they're able to break through and the waters gush into the thing city in fact flooding a lot of it and even the news comes to the emperor you know the king who is sitting in his palace he realizes it's finished they're going to be you know they're going to be captured so he thinks I should not fall into the hands of these Babylonians they will disgrace me they will mock me you know so he doesn't want anyone in his royal family touched either he literally on his own he burns he puts fire all around the palace so everyone inside the palace literally gets you know burnt they all you could say like maybe it's a mass so I would say it's a mass murder because he initiates it he murders his entire family which is there inside and he dies over there and that is basically how this you know Assyrian kingdom comes to an end you still of course have a small batch of people they move to another place and they try to start over over there in Haran I think you know so all that there's still a more story but basically the Assyrian kingdom is finished I know so yeah so that is God's judgment upon them maybe we could get into the book of aba because over there we have a little bit of continuation of this story what happens to those who are still left over you know some of the small bunch of Assyrians who have survived this attack so we we we get details of that when we will when we are going through the Habakkuk book so we have you know very briefly looked at the prophet Nahum and his judgment on Leneve moving into the book of Habakkuk we see that he talks about the judgment which will come upon Judah but he is also asking God a series of questions so mainly Habakkuk is more like a dialogue between God and him he asks questions and God answers and sometimes what the answer which God gives is not directly the with regard to the question which he asked so there's a lot of you know analysis that can be done regarding that but we will just very briefly look at the structure overall structure of Habakkuk so in the first section maybe we could divide Habakkuk into three sections the first section would be chapter one up to chapter two verse five okay so chapter one and chapter two up to verse five so one to two five okay is where Habakkuk is asking questions these are the questions which he asks Habakkuk is looking at the evil which is increasing in Judah the people are becoming more and more sinful the poor people are being deprived of even the most basic rights okay it's the the evil leather the rich people are getting richer and nobody cares about justice and there's a lot of corruption and Habakkuk says Lord look at the look in fact in one verse he says Lord why do you make me look at evil because he's unable to bear what is being done in the land when I was going through this book I was thinking oh my it almost sounds like India you know so because our lower strata of society is in a very bad shape we middle class we manage for the ones who are nobody even seems to care about their rights and privileges and the people in power they're so rich they don't know what to do with the helicopters way to park them you know so it's like a very very bad state of affairs so Habakkuk says Lord why are you delaying justice why are we not seeing justice come and God's answer is yes there will be justice I will send the Babylonians and the Babylonians will punish them when God says that Habakkuk is horrified he says Lord already so much injustice is happening now we are going to use people who are even more sinful than the Judahite people to come and punish them Lord how can you use evil to to do something you know good like bring judgment how Lord so then God says God does not give a direct answer to that all of the Lord says is the righteous will live but it's the arrogant who will perish that would be in chapter two versus one to five so basically you have two questions first question Lord when will justice come and God says yes justice will come if you come through the Babylonians then Habakkuk immediately asked how Lord how can you use somebody so evil to bring up justice wouldn't that be almost like a greater injustice and then God says no the righteous will be spared but it's the arrogant who will perish and then in fact you know this is true right because you have people like Daniel you know going into exile you have godly people like you know this Nehemiah and you have Ezekiel and you have all these godly people who are spared so we see the Lord does take care of his own so in the second section of Habakkuk that would be chapter two versus six to 20 okay so chapter two versus six to 20 is where God declares five judgments against the arrogant what will happen to them okay so the details of that are given in your second section coming to the third section that would be chapter three so in chapter three after listening to what God has to say Habakkuk in fact very openly he says I've not quite understood all the things that you have said Lord you know I asked a question and you have answered but I haven't really understood all that you have said but one thing I have realized you're very powerful nothing can stop you once you decide to do something it will be accomplished he talks about God's greatness God's awesomeness and then he says Lord I will wait upon you okay so I have not fully understood what you're going to be doing because it sounds very horrifying to me that you're going to bring an evil nation to judge my people and that sounds terrible to me but he says Lord I will just wait upon you because I know that you are an awesome and great God and so he ends Habakkuk with you know verses 17 to 19 where he says I will rejoice in the Lord I will trust him and stay confident in him I don't understand what's going on I don't quite understand what the Lord is going to do but I choose to rejoice in him and trust him because he is someone who is worthy of our full complete trust so there are many times we don't really understand what God is doing and why he is doing things a particular way but one thing we can be sure of that he can be fully trusted so if someone could read out Habakkuk chapter 3 verses 17 to 19 they're very famous you know verses Habakkuk 3 17 okay so he says a stage will come when no longer will the crops grow the way they are meant to you know there will be poverty there will be financial struggle yes all of those things will happen to my nation but even on that day when that day arrives I will trust in God I will rejoice because God said that he will take care of the righteous he will bring justice to those who are following him and trusting in him so he says in spite of all that's going to happen I will continue to exercise my confidence in the Lord so the book basically ends in that way where Habakkuk has not fully understood what God is saying but he has chosen to place his trust in the Lord now regarding you know the things that God says about how he's going to use Babylon to bring judgment on Judah unfortunately we see that Judah also had a small role in helping the Babylonians become strong if they had listened to the Lord and if they had been more careful then maybe the Babylonians would not have become as strong as they did okay so this is mistake which happens on Judah's side to be more specific a mistake which Josiah makes a very very godly man loved the Lord did all that he could to bring revival in his land but when one particular instruction was given by the Lord he fails to follow the guidance which God is giving and because of his mistake actually in the process Babylon becomes stronger than they were before so we'll just look at that very briefly like you know we saw Nineveh fell in 612 BC so then those who are left over you know some of the survivors they and the soldiers they go to a place called Haran and they start you know trying to rebuild their kingdom over there for a few years they try but then you have the next Babylonian dynasty which you know which you have one particular dynasty of the Babylonians they come and they defeat them so from there they leave that place and they go to one more place called Karshemish so Karshemish is basically in the land of Egypt so the Egyptian king the Egyptian Pharaoh gives them shelter he gives the leftover Assyrians shelter and he says I will help you in you know in rebuilding yourselves so these people are now sitting in Karshemish and Babylon keeps coming now and then and attacking the Assyrian people living over there and then the Pharaoh says I am going to go and help them in Karshemish you know because there's a battle which is going to happen between the Babylonians and the Assyrians the leftover Assyrians who are over there and I want to go and you know from my palace wherever his capital is from there he wants to go to Karshemish and help the Assyrians in fighting against the Babylonians for him to come from his capital city to Karshemish he has to go through the Philistine land and all these Philistine lands had been reclaimed by Josiah Josiah who was faithful to the Lord he was able to win back all these territories so now these Philistine territories are no longer under Philistine control they are under the hand of Josiah and Josiah rises up and says how dare Pharaoh Nikko goes through my territory and so he you know he raises up an army and he comes to fight against Pharaoh Nikko and Pharaoh Nikko this you have an account of this in 2nd Chronicles chapter 35 versus 20 to 24 where the Pharaoh says I don't have any quarrel with you maybe you could actually read that 2nd Chronicles chapter 35 and verse 21 yeah if you could read out verse 21 so here he says this Pharaoh says I don't have any battle with you I'm just passing through this territory because I need to go to Karshemish because I want to you know control this Babylonians who are getting too strong so something needs to be done so just allow me to pass through and he makes a statement over here he says God also has given me permission to do this God wants me to go there as quickly as possible and help these Assyrians to no control the Babylonians and then in if you could also read the next verse verse 23 2nd Chronicles 35 verse okay okay sorry yeah 22 Josiah however yeah okay so it looks like as if God actually urged and motivated the Pharaoh to go and help the Assyrians against the Babylonian power and so Josiah should have just stepped aside and said okay let God do what God wants to do but Josiah is determined for some reason this very very godly man decides to take matters into his own hands and he thinks no no I should not allow this Pharaoh to go through my territory so he actually disguises himself you know so that no one will recognize that the king is actually going into battle he disguises himself and he goes to fight in the plains of Megiddo when he does that he gets badly wounded you know one of the arrows hits him and so he's pleading to death so they bring him back to Jerusalem and he dies over there very sad way for such an amazing man to die but so unnecessary if he had just listened to you know whatever God is telling him if he had consulted God and found out God this Neko is saying that it's your will you know he should go to Karchimish is that true you know if he had at least consulted but it looks like Josiah did not consult the Lord regarding this matter and so he basically gets killed in this unnecessary battle and what happens is that even though he gets killed you know his soldiers are able to fight Neko to such an extent that Neko's army gets badly damaged they were in a good state they could have made an impact on the Babylonians and kept them under control but after this battle they are no longer strong enough to fight against the Babylonians so indirectly Judah contributed to strengthening the Babylonians making them extra strong and of course like we know you know finally the Babylonians they come in three stages and they attack Judah so because of a little bit of deafness on the part of the king because he was reluctant to kill what God is saying because he was reluctant to consult God before taking action you know something unfortunate happened okay so that's one thing that we see over here so Habakkuk you know the law says I will use this instrument of Babylon to bring judgment upon Judah and so this is basically how God does it he allows foolishness of the king to work against you know the people of Judah and Babylon is unnecessarily strengthened because of you know Josiah's lack of an OPDS so just coming to another one point that you know one or two things that we can look at in Habakkuk one one thing which we see in Habakkuk is that Habakkuk asks a lot of questions and he asks them very openly very keenly you know he says why Lord are you making me watch all this evil why are you delaying why are you not answering his questions are very direct and we have this teaching you know which is taught by people saying never question God just accept what is happening do not ask God questions if you ask God questions that's a sin and you'll be punished so how do we approach this whole issue can you ask God questions are you not supposed to ask God questions what about some people who asked questions and nothing bad happened to them but then there are also examples of some people who asked questions and God was very angry and you know he punished them so are we supposed to ask God questions are we not supposed to ask God questions so here in this case Habakkuk when he was asking questions it looks like God was not angry with him at all in fact you know God answers him God tries to explain things to him and so here it seems to be quite alright and when Mary she asks God how will this thing be you know when she's told that she is going to give birth to a child even though she's not married so she says how will this be and God is not angry Zechariah on the other hand you know when God says him in your old age you're going to have a child and then you know he says how can I be sure God makes him dumb he can't talk anymore so why what happened what was wrong so is there a correct way to question God and is there a wrong way to question God yeah that conference going on over there if it can wait till later so yeah so what is the correct way to ask a question and what is the wrong way to ask a question we see that in Habakkuk's case and in Mary's case they are very very clear about who God is about the character of God whether he can be trusted or not no doubt about that they know that God is fair God is just God is compassionate and that God is all powerful they have no problems with that all they're asking is God oh why are you using the strategy doesn't make any sense so Habakkuk says why are you taking such an evil nation and using them to judge my people Judah who are actually not that wicked they are wicked but not as wicked as that nation and so God tries to explain to him why he is using Babylon as an instrument so Habakkuk is very clear in his heart about how he is asking the question he's not questioning God's character is not questioning God's name he's just trying to ask for clarification Lord I want to know I want to know why you're doing it in this particular way could you please explain to me okay so there's a right attitude when he's asking his questions what are you people discussing if it's a question you ask me I shall help you so in the same way Mary does not say no I don't want to do your will you see she does not even make a statement like that all she says is how will this be because you see now she's not married so what is she supposed to do where is she supposed to go what what procedure all she's asking is for details for clarity on what to do God has said something she wants to submit to God but she doesn't know and then the Lord explains and says I don't have to do anything the Holy Spirit will come upon you and you know you will bear the child so here too she's asking with the right attitude she just wants clarification on the other hand Zechariah after being told that this great little pairing a child is going to happen he says how can I be sure he says in Luke chapter 1 verse 18 and it says in Luke 1 18 he was rebuked because it says we're here you did not believe my words so in Zechariah's case the question he asked you know he's like he's basically like saying oh you're saying it's possible how is it possible he's questioning God's power he's questioning God's ability to do something great so he is questioning the character of God in the way he is asking his question so when you have a question to the Lord with what attitude are you coming to him with that question are you just seeking an explanation because it seems very beyond understanding and you just want a lot to explain to you because of your child and God sometimes doesn't mind giving you the details so you come and say Lord I know your character I know who you are I know you're capable I know you're loving I know you're fair I just could you give me an explanation of why things are going this particular way while you are allowing your will to work in this particular way and God may choose to give you an explanation on the other hand God may choose not to give an explanation like in the case of Job that is up to the Lord but your approach is right on the other hand if you come to him questioning the way the Israelites tended to do you know in the in the in um Exodus and all where they would be like ha so you care about us is it you're brought so we kill us for this desert is it see the way questioning being done they're literally questioning his character and his motives do you have good motives in doing what you are doing or are you really you know someone who doesn't care about us so you see the entire questioning is being done in a way where there's no faith there is no trust there is no that that sense of trust is not there that faith is missing so ask your questions with the attitude of faith fully trusting him fully knowing that he's very very fair and just and he may in fact be willing to give you an answer you know for those questions or he may just say you know the current time it's not for you to know you know one day later you'll be told about why it happened in this particular way so that's up to the Lord whether he chooses to answer or not but we need to question him in the with the fact attitude to the right kind of approach so yeah that just I wanted to touch upon do we have any questions otherwise maybe yeah we could just conclude no or let's close the word prayer Lord we just thank you so much for your great faithfulness towards your people Lord you said that you will watch over your righteous even in the day of judgment even when everything around us is breaking down we can be sure that if we are holding on to you and if we have kept our heart right with you if we are following you sincerely you will help us and you will cause your will to be done in our lives so we thank you a lot that you never fail and you never betray the trust that we place in you because you are an amazingly faithful God you are righteous you are just for good and so Lord even when we are going through struggles and stripes when we have so many questions in our minds and when we want to bring those questions before you help us to know that you are good help us to come there with that assurance that you are good and you are very faithful and you will never let us down help us a lot to have the kind of attitude that Habakkuk did even though he did not quite understand all the explanation that you gave he said that he will patiently wait on you and see whether he would understand things further and he would continue to rejoice even when things break down because he trusted in you to that level help us a lot to be like that thank you Lord in Jesus name amen so thank you so much for those of you who are online and you know the assessment is posted so you can start working on it even if you are able to cover maybe 10 questions per day you know 10 ticks tick marks you will be able to finish it you know in time so that should be all right so all right thank you