Article October 25, 1975 Issue

Words of Current Interest

Related to the Lesson-Sermon for November 2, 1975, in the CHRISTIAN SCIENCE QUARTERLY Subject: Everlasting Punishment

I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower (Hab. 2:1)

The prophet Habakkuk (habak'-uk—first a as in sofa, second a as in add, u as in circus) wrote in the midst of the turbulent political events at the conclusion of the seventh century B.C., when the power of Assyria fell to Babylon and control of the Holy Land was shifting. Scholars sometimes imagine Habakkuk observing a battle from a watchtower within the city walls and asserting, in the face of the human turmoil around him, a vision of God's intervention and salvation for his people.

But judgment shall return unto righteousness (Ps. 94:15)

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