| Habakkuk
BOOK
: Habakkuk
Description
: A
prophet has questions about unrighteousness – God's failure to deal
with it, and even to use it.
Author:
an unknown Habakkuk
Date
written : Somewhere about
605BC
Chapters
: 3
Brief
Synopsis:
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Habakkuk complains, why does the evil
in Judah go unpunished?
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God answers, the Babylonians will punish
Judah
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Habakkuk complains, how can a just God
use wicked Babylon to punish a people more
righteous than themselves?
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God answers the Babylonians will be punished,
and faith will be rewarded
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Habakkuk prays closing with a confession
of trust and joy in God
1:1
Title
1:2-4
Habakkuk's First Complaint
1:5-11
God's Answer
1:12-17
Habakkuk's Second Complaint
2:1-20
God's Answer
3:1-
19 Habakkuk's Prayer
Key
Verses :
Holy
God tolerating wrong?
1:3
Why
do you make me look at injustice? Why do you tolerate wrong?
God
will use Nebuchadnezzar
1:6
I
am raising up the Babylonians
How
can you use an unrighteous man?
1:13
Why
are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than
themselves?
He
will receive his punishment
2:8
Because
you have plundered many nations, the peoples who are left will plunder
you.
Habakkuk
comes to a place of total trust in God
3:17-19
Though
the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though
the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are
no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice
in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior. The Sovereign LORD is
my strength; he
makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights.
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A short and simple book concerning a prophet's
ethical questions.
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The only difficulty with it is some of
the cultural language that is used, otherwise ot is very straight forward.
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