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A troubling time.
Judah just like Israel was under judgment from the Lord because of ungodly choices and living.
They were looking like the world instead of being a light to the world.
This is a oracle addressed in similar fashion as:
Zephaniah and his prophesy to Judah (640-609 B.C.)
Nahum pronouncing the judgment on Nineveh (630-612 B.C.)
Now today we get to Habakkuk (612-606 B.C.)
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Habakkuk was a man filled with questions, troubling questions and he was not shy about bringing them to God.
This book is different than some of the others, this is Habakkuk taking his questions, his complaints to the Lord instead of the Lord to the people through the prophet.
Hence why title troubling questions to triumphant praise.
Author: Habakkuk which means “embrace”
Luther speaking of Habakkuk stated “As one who took his nation to his heart, comforted it and held it up, as one embraces and presses to his bosom a poor weeping child, calming and consoling it with good hope.”
Date: Between 612-606 B.C.
Babylon was rising world power and was marching toward Jerusalem taking countries along the way in world domination.
They had not yet reached Judah, but it was coming
The Message(s)
With Habakkuk this is an easy division into three sections that coincide with the chapters.
A burden (Hab1:1-2:1)
A vision (Hab2:2-20)
A prayer/song of praise (Hab3:1-19)
A Burden
A burden, in the New Testament you can find the equivalent called “take up your cross.”
(Lk9:23).
Habakkuk picked up his cross, his burden for his people.
A burden brings question (Hab1:1-4)
As mentioned a few minutes ago, Habakkuk is a little different then the other prophets.
He brings a lament to God instead of bringing God’s word to the people.
See our first part and see if you can see what the lament, complaint is about.
What is Habakkuk’s complaint, in your own words (vv.2-4)?
You do not hear
You do not save
You make me see iniquity, wickedness.
Justice is not upheld.
So the prophet is saying God how can you let this happen, how can You be indifferent to such things.
Go ahead Lord justify yourself!
A burden brings God’s answer (Hab1:5-11)
I think as we look at this next section that you will see that God is not indifferent, he is doing something that Habakkuk could not understand, something hard to fathom.
What did you see, notice, sticks out to you before we pull some info together?
What was God doing (v.6)?
Raising up the Chaldeans (which is the Babylonians)
Raising them up to seize the place (Jerusalem).
Scan the passage (vv.7-11) for some of the words used to describe them?
They are dreaded and feared (v.7)
Swift horses, they are keen
Horsemen fly like an eagle, swooping to devour (v.8)
Come in violence, collect captives (v.9)
Mock kings, laugh at rulers.
(v.10)
Will sweep through the land swiftly (v.11)
God was raising up the Chaldeans (Babylonians) to be His tool for judgment on the rebellious, covenant breaking people.
- - - - now they (the Chaldeans) think they are doing it on their own and do not understand they are God’s tool.
A burden brings more questions (Hab1:12-2:1)
Gleaning from the scripture:
What is the second question, in your own words (vv.12-13)?
Are you not God, the Holy One? How can you look on wickedness with favor?
Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up the more righteous than they? - - - -Hey God, what’s going on, you are using unrighteous people to bring judgment on Your people?
Look at the accusations from Habakkuk in (vv.15-17)?
The Chaldeans bring them up (meaning God’s people) (v.15)
They drag them away (take them into captivity) (v.15); they gather them and then they rejoice!
They think it is their net, but it is the God of Israel that is doing it through them.
They will continue with world domination without sparing anything, anyone.
Or facing judgment on their own.
Look at what Habakkuk said even in the midst of all this (2:1)?
I will stand my guard post, my station, my watch!
(Transition) Habakkuk wants answers and was not shy in asking the troubling questions and now he is going wait, wait for an answer and that answer comes in the form of a vision
A Vision
As you will see in this section.
Regardless of the circumstances stay to your faith, walk in your faith, trust your faith.
God answers Habakkuk's first question (vv.2-4)
Search this passage, find the answer (hint, check v.4).
The righteous will live by his faith
Back in (vv.2-3)
God tells him to write down what He tells him.
The proud are not right with him, but he just shall live by faith (v.4).
God answers the second question (vv.5-20) with a series of woe’s
What is the woe found in (v.6)?
This is a woe about pride and lust.
They desire, conquest and plunder to get more for themselves.
What is the next woe found in (v.9)?
Woe to the one who gets evil gain.
Is this not coveting?
Can you see the Woe in (v.12)?
Woe to the one who builds city on bloodshed and violence
We find our next woe in (v.15), what is it about?
Woe you took by violence and now you treat with cruelty.
It will be to their disgrace, shame (nakedness)
Our final woe in the vision is found in (v.19); can you see it, what is it about?
Woe to those who offer idol worship
(Transition) God is just, while yes God may use wicked people to bring judgment on Judah, they too will face the music for their own wickedness.
So, in the mean time, until that happens, the just, the righteous will live by faith.
This set’s us up for our last section.
The prayer/song of praise
Our last section goes from petition to profession and it is a great example for us when we go through hard, difficult, trying things.
A prayer, a psalm a praise, let’s look together
A petition for mercy (Hab3:1-3)
Notice in wrath, remember mercy (v.2)
Praise Him for His past deliverance (Hab3:3-15)
God’s splendor and His praise cover the heavens and fill the earth.
God’s way are everlasting (v.6)
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