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God's Foundation When the World Trembles | Harvest of Asher

  • Guy Cohen
  • 11 minutes ago
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God’s foundation


We are not speaking today about something distant or theoretical. We are living this reality. We are in Israel, in a time of war. There is fear, there is uncertainty, there is pain, and the questions are real: what holds us, and what do we stand on when the world around us is shaking?


The World’s Values vs. God’s Foundation


The world we live in is driven by one thing, power. Power expressed through money, gold, oil, and resources. Nations fight for control, economies are built on profit, and people build their lives on material success. It looks strong, it looks stable, but deep inside we begin to understand that all of these things are temporary. As it is written: “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal;  but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.  For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." (Matthew 6:19–21). If our heart is tied to what is temporary, then our stability will also be temporary.


The prophet Habakkuk saw a reality not so different from ours. He saw a world full of violence, injustice, and the power of the wicked. And he did not remain indifferent. He says: “When I heard, my body trembled…” (Habakkuk 3:16). He trembled, he was afraid, and this is important for us to understand, faith does not mean the absence of fear. True faith is formed in the midst of fear.


But in the midst of all this, Habakkuk receives a sharp and clear revelation about the world: “Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain…” (Habakkuk 2:9).“Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by injustice” (Habakkuk 2:12).

There are people, there are systems, there are even nations that build themselves on greed, exploitation, and violence. They build cities, they build houses, but their foundation is corrupted. They may succeed for a time, they may appear strong, but within their foundation already lies the seed of their fall. A city built on blood will fall and a house built on unjust gain will collapse; this is a spiritual principle. And when we look at the world today, we see how relevant this is. Wars over resources, struggles for control, systems that seem strong but can collapse in a moment. And this is not only “out there.” It asks us a personal question: what are we building our lives on? Are we also leaning on temporary things, or do we have a different foundation?

 

What does it mean to stand on God’s foundation?

 

In the midst of all this, Habakkuk reaches a turning point. After the fear, after the understanding, after seeing reality as it is, he makes a choice. He says: “Though the fig tree does not blossom and there is no fruit on the vines… yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in the God of my salvation” (Habakkuk 3:17–18).


This is faith. Not faith when everything is good, but faith when everything is shaking. And this foundation is fully revealed in Yeshua:


 


Why Only God’s Foundation Cannot Be Shaken


Money does not save, power does not sustain, and the systems of this world cannot give true stability. Only the Messiah is the foundation that cannot be shaken. And when we look ahead, we see a powerful example: “And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.” (Revelation 11:3). They will stand in a hostile world, in a time of darkness and opposition. They will not be surrounded by security or protected by human power, and yet the world will not be able to overcome them. Why? Because they stand in the calling of God, not in their own strength, but in His.


And this brings us back to ourselves, here and now. We are in a real war but in this reality, something deep is being revealed. How unstable this world truly is, how quickly things can change, and how little we can rely on what seemed secure yesterday. So the real question is not only what is happening around us, but what is happening within us. What do we stand on? What do we rely on? What holds us when there is no external security?


The world builds cities on blood and they fall. The world builds houses on unjust gain and they collapse. The world runs after gold and oil but they will not save it. This world is temporary but the one who stands on the Messiah stands forever. And in all of this, we are not called to run away and not to fear, but to stand. Like Habakkuk who chose to rejoice even when there was nothing, and like the two witnesses who stand even when the world is against them. Not by our own strength, but by faith, by truth, and by our identity. Only those who build on God’s foundation will remain when everything else is shaken.

For even when the earth shakes, God has not changed. And He is our strength:


“The Lord God is my strength” (Habakkuk 3:19).

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