Habakkuk 2:15-17

Woe to those that seek pleasure at the expense of others Habakkuk 2:15-17: God told the Chaldeans, "You are doomed! You get your friends drunk, just to see them naked. Now you will be disgraced instead of praised. The LORD will make you drunk, and when others see you naked, you will lose their respect. You destroyed trees and animals on Mount Lebanon; you were ruthless to towns and people everywhere. Now you will be terrorized." (Habakkuk 2:15-17) At a party these people would get their neighbor drunk so they could exploit and use them as objects of pleasure. Observe the vivid picture of the sins of (1) Drunkenness, (2) Sexual perversion, and (3) Immodesty.

Drunkenness was one of the major things that led to the fall of Babylon. In Daniel five we see one such drunken party. “Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein. Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them. They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone. In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote." (Daniel 5:1-5) The message written on the wall for Belshazzar had three parts, (1) God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it, (2) Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting, and (3) Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians. (Daniel 5:25-28) Drunkenness opens the doors for many other evils.