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HABAKKUK: God’s Providence Puzzles His Prophet

This book explores Habakkuk's questioning of God's providence and his journey towards greater trust and understanding. It examines the themes of wickedness, punishment, and the just living by faith. Written by Ron Halbrook.

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HABAKKUK: God’s Providence Puzzles His Prophet

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  1. HABAKKUK:God’s Providence Puzzles His Prophet Hab. 2:4 [By Ron Halbrook]

  2. HABAKKUK:God’s Providence Puzzles His Prophet • Introduction: • Habakkuk puzzled over God’s providence • Why God tolerated Judah’s wickedness • Why God can use Babylon to punish Judah

  3. HABAKKUK:God’s Providence Puzzles His Prophet • Introduction: 2. God will punish all the wicked • In His own time & way • Hab. 2:4 The just trust God: all His promises & prophecies 4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

  4. HABAKKUK:God’s Providence Puzzles His Prophet • Introduction: 3. Habakkuk’s eyes opened & faith strengthened • Prayer for God’s mercy in judgment • Prayer of joy, faith, & praise

  5. HABAKKUK:God’s Providence Puzzles His Prophet • Introduction: 4. Learned greater trust in God’s providence without understanding all His ways • We grieve over our nation’s sins: • Violence • Immorality • Corruption • Numberless sins…known to God!

  6. HABAKKUK:God’s Providence Puzzles His Prophet • Introduction: 4. Learned greater trust in God’s providence without understanding all His ways • We grieve over our nation’s sins • Does God see? What is He doing? • Serve Him & trust His providence: He rules in justice & mercy to save a lost world!

  7. HABAKKUK:God’s Providence Puzzles His Prophet I. 1:1-11 Habakkuk Complains, God Answers A. 1:1-4 Why Does God Tolerate Judah’s Sins?

  8. 1 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. 2 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! 3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention. 4 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth. A. 1:1-4 Why Does God Tolerate Judah’s Sins?

  9. HABAKKUK:God’s Providence Puzzles His Prophet I. 1:1-11 Habakkuk Complains, God Answers B. 1:5-11 God to Use Babylon to Punish Judah

  10. 5 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you. 6 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs. B. 1:5-11 God to Use Babylon to Punish Judah

  11. 7 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves. 8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat. B. 1:5-11 God to Use Babylon to Punish Judah

  12. 9 They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand. 10 And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it. 11 Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god. B. 1:5-11 God to Use Babylon to Punish Judah

  13. HABAKKUK:God’s Providence Puzzles His Prophet II. 1:12-2:1 Habakkuk Complains, Waits to Hear A. 1:12-17 How Can a Holy God Use an Unholy Babylon?

  14. 12 Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction. 13 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he? A. 1:12-17 How Can a Holy God Use an Unholy Babylon?

  15. 14 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? 15 They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad. 16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous. 17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?

  16. HABAKKUK:God’s Providence Puzzles His Prophet II. 1:12-2:1 Habakkuk Complains, Waits to Hear B. 2:1 Habakkuk Waits for God’s Answer 1 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.

  17. HABAKKUK:God’s Providence Puzzles His Prophet III. 2:2-20 God to Punish Wicked Babylon A. 2:2-3 Habakkuk Must Write God’s Answer into Judah’s Heart 2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

  18. HABAKKUK:God’s Providence Puzzles His Prophet III. 2:2-20 God to Punish Wicked Babylon B. 2:4 Pride of Babylon VS Faith of God’s People 4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith. • FAITH: God ruled Israel & all nations • to bring a Savior to save sinners!

  19. HABAKKUK:God’s Providence Puzzles His Prophet III. 2:2-20 God to Punish Wicked Babylon C. 2:5-20 Woes on Wicked Babylon • Vv. 5-8 Nation built on greedy plunder 5 Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man, neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:

  20. 6 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with thick clay! 7 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them? 8 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein. • Vv. 5-8Nation built on greedy plunder

  21. C. 2:5-20 Woes on Wicked Babylon • Vv. 9-11 Political power by evil gain 9 Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! 10 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul. 11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.

  22. C. 2:5-20 Woes on Wicked Babylon • Vv. 12-14 Economic power by blood labor 12 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity! 13 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity? 14 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.

  23. HABAKKUK:God’s Providence Puzzles His Prophet III. 2:2-20 God to Punish Wicked Babylon C. 2:5-20 Woes on Wicked Babylon • Vv. 15-17 Intoxicated on power & passing the cup to conquered nations

  24. 15 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness! 16 Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD'S right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory. 17 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein.

  25. HABAKKUK:God’s Providence Puzzles His Prophet III. 2:2-20 God to Punish Wicked Babylon C. 2:5-20 Woes on Wicked Babylon • Vv. 18-20 Seek idols’ help in time of judgment

  26. 18 What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? 19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it. 20 But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him. • Vv. 18-20 Seek idols’ help in time of judgment

  27. HABAKKUK:God’s Providence Puzzles His Prophet IV. 3:1-19 Habakkuk Prays With Renewed Faith A. 3:1-2 Prayer for Mercy 1 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth. 2 O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.

  28. HABAKKUK:God’s Providence Puzzles His Prophet IV. 3:1-19 Habakkuk Prays With Renewed Faith B. 3:3-15 God Always Saves His People

  29. 3 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. 4 And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power. 5 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. B. 3:3-15 God Always Saves His People

  30. 6 He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting. 7 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble. B. 3:3-15 God Always Saves His People

  31. 8 Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation? 9 Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers. 10 The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.

  32. 11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear. 12 Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger. 13 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah. B. 3:3-15 God Always Saves His People

  33. 14 Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly. 15 Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the heap of great waters. B. 3:3-15 God Always Saves His People

  34. HABAKKUK:God’s Providence Puzzles His Prophet IV. 3:1-19 Habakkuk Prays With Renewed Faith C. 3:16-19 Total Trust in God 16 When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops.

  35. 17 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: 18 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. 19 The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

  36. HABAKKUK:God’s Providence Puzzles His Prophet • Conclusion: • Habakkuk puzzled over God’s providence • Why God tolerated Judah’s wickedness • Why God can use Babylon to punish Judah

  37. HABAKKUK:God’s Providence Puzzles His Prophet • Conclusion: 2. God will punish all the wicked • In His own time & way • Hab. 2:4 The just trust God: all His promises & prophecies 4 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

  38. HABAKKUK:God’s Providence Puzzles His Prophet • Conclusion: 3. Habakkuk’s eyes opened & faith strengthened • Prayer for God’s mercy in judgment • Prayer of joy, faith, & praise

  39. HABAKKUK:God’s Providence Puzzles His Prophet • Conclusion: 4. Learned greater trust in God’s providence without understanding all His ways • God rules in His own time & way: wait on Him (2:3) • God rules to perfectly fulfill His purpose: “it will surely come” (2:3) • We trust God when we do not understand His ways: the just live by faith (2:4)

  40. HABAKKUK:God’s Providence Puzzles His Prophet • Conclusion: 4. Learned greater trust in God’s providence without understanding all His ways • Rom. 1:16-17; Mk. 16:15-16 God rules in justice & mercy to save a lost world!

  41. HABAKKUK:God’s Providence Puzzles His Prophet • Rom. 1:16-17 God rules in justice & mercy to save a lost world! 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. 17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

  42. HABAKKUK:God’s Providence Puzzles His Prophet • Mk. 16:15-16 God rules in justice & mercy to save a lost world! 15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

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