Habakkuk 1-2
A. HABAKKUK’S FIRST COMPLAINT: “HOW LONG, O LORD?” (1:2-4)
B. THE LORD’S RESPONSE: “RIGHT NOW!” (1:5-11).
“Look among the nations and see; wonder and be astounded.
For I am doing a work in your days that you would not believe if told!” (1:5).
C. HABAKKUK’S SECOND COMPLAINT: “WAIT A MINUTE, LORD!” (1:12-2:1).
1. Habakkuk’s Subdued Confidence (1:12).
“Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die” (1:12).
2. His Burning Questions & Objections (1:13-17).
3. Waiting for an Answer (2:1).
D. THE LORD’S RESPONSE: “THE RIGHTEOUS SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.” (2:2-20).
1. The Vision’s Certainty (2:2-3).
2. The Vision’s Central Point (2:4-5).
“Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him,
but the righteous shall live by his faith” (2:4).
3. The Vision’s Content: “Five Woes – A Taunt Against Babylon” (2:6-20).
“For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD
as the waters cover the sea” (2:14).
“But the LORD is in his holy temple; let all the earth keep silence before him” (2:20).
HABBAKUK’S MESSAGE TO US IN 2020 U.S.A:
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