If redemption is the thread that links Genesis to Revelation, faith has to be the means to that redemptive end. Standing between Abraham's act of faith (Genesis 15:6) and Paul's identifying it as how we are saved (Ephesians 2:8-9), is a statement by God to the...

Greed
Woe to him who increases what is not his—how long? (2:6)

False Security
Woe to him who covets evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of disaster! (2:9)

Violence
Woe to him...

While the word Selah appears in the Psalms 71 times, it does not appear in any other book of the Bible except Habakkuk. Selah is likely a musical direction, which probably signals a pause to either elevate to a higher key or to simply reflect on what is...