Habacuque 3

Habacuque 3

(Habakkuk Commentaries) Habakkuk 3:1 Commentary Habakkuk 3:2 Commentary Habakkuk 3:3 Commentary Habakkuk 3:4 Commentary Habakkuk 3:5 Commentary Habakkuk 3:6 Commentary Habakkuk 3:7 Commentary Habakkuk 3:8 Commentary Habakkuk 3:9 Commentary Habakkuk 3:10 Commentary Habakkuk 3:11 Commentary Habakkuk 3:12 Commentary Habakkuk 3:13 Commentary Habakkuk 3:14 Commentary Habakkuk 3:15 Commentary Habakkuk 3:16 Commentary Habakkuk 3:17 Commentary Habakkuk 3:18 Commentary Habakkuk 3:19 Commentary Chart from recommended resource Jensen's Survey of the OT - used by permission Habakkuk Drawn out in Pictures - Interesting HABAKKUK: THE RIGHTEOUS LIVE BY FAITH "From Worry to Worship" Problems of Habakkuk Hab 1:1 -2:20 Praise of Habakkuk Opens in Gloom: Begins with an Interrogation Mark? Closes in Glory: Ends with an Exclamation Mark! Faith Troubled Faith Triumphant What is God Doing? Who God Is From "Doubts" To "Shouts" Perplexity of the Prophet Hab 1:1-17 Perspicuity of the Prophet Hab 2:1-20 Pleasure of the Prophet Habakkuk Complains Hab 1:1-17 God Replies Hab 2:1-20 Habakkuk Sings Watch and See Stand and See Kneel and See Habakkuk Troubled Habakkuk Taught Habakkuk Triumphant The Prophet Wondering & Worrying The Prophet Watching & Waiting The Prophet Worshiping & Witnessing Habakkuk's First Question Hab 1:1-4 God's First Answer Hab 1:5-11 Habakkuk's Second Question Hab 1:12-2:1 God's Second Answer Hab 2:2-2:20 Habakkuk's Prayer of Praise Habakkuk Speaks: Why Does God not Punish Wicked Judah? God Speaks: Judah Will Be Punished! Habakkuk Speaks: Why Will God use Pagans to Punish Judah? God Speaks: Yes And Pagans Will Punish Babylon! Word of Praise Words of fear & faith Hab 3:16-19 Oracle Related to Judah ca 607BC Habakkuk moves from burden to blessing, from wonder/worry to worship, from restlessness to rest, from a problem to God’s Person, and from a complaint to consolation, from confusion to confidence! Beloved, only our great God and Savior can supernaturally turn sighing into singing so we must like Habakkuk take time to wait before Him in prayer and listen to His Word. It is always "worth the wait!" Timeline of Habakkuk BC 722: Northern Kingdom of Israel (10 tribes) falls & is exiled to Assyria 627: Jeremiah begins his prophetic ministry 621: Rediscovery of Book of Law which had been lost in House of God! Josiah's reformation (but not lasting revival) 612: Fall of Nineveh, capital of Assyria 609: Death of godly King Josiah 607: Habakkuk begins his prophetic ministry 605: Nebuchadnezzar defeats Pharaoh Necho of Egypt at Battle of Carchemish = "the turning point of world history" 605: First invasion of Judah by Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon; Daniel taken captive 597: Second invasion of Judah by Babylon; Ezekiel and 10,000 taken captive 592: Ezekiel begins his prophetic ministry to Babylonian exiles 586: Fall of Jerusalem, Destruction of Temple 538: Exiles return from Babylon to Judah (relatively small number return) Habakkuk 3:1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth.: Prayer: Ps 86:1-17 Ps 90:1-17 Habakkuk 3 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries A PRAYER A PSALM A SONG Kitto introduces this great section of Scripture... Language is at best an imperfect instrument of thought—still more imperfect as the vehicle of high inspirations from heaven. And, in the case of Habakkuk, we seem to see the prophet grasping to seize words worthy to express his great conceptions, and images which may adequately represent them. Sometimes he adopts the expressions of earlier prophets, but he does not imitate them; and all that he takes becomes his own, fused up in the solid and glowing mass of his golden prophecy. (Daily Bible illustrations) A prayer of Habakkuk - Hab 2:20 ends with God in His Holy Temple, which provides a natural transition into the prayer beginning in Hab 3:1-2. Imagine Habakkuk's worshipful reverence as he is made aware of Jehovah in His Holy Temple. While the tone of this chapter is distinctly different from the previous two, the author is clearly stated to be the same individual, albeit a man now supernaturally transformed by a "close encounter" with God, with His Word of Truth and Life and a vibrant trust in His Word (Hab 2:4-note). How ridiculous are those "experts" who reject Habakkuk's authorship of chapter 3! Recall that Habakkuk’s name means "the embracer" and as