Habakkuk
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Habakkuk wrestles with God over the problem of evil and injustice, asking why the wicked prosper. God's answer reveals that the righteous shall live by faith, and judgment will come in God's timing.
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The prophet questions God about injustice and learns to trust God's timing.
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Did You Know?
- The only prophet who argues with God and gets answers
- Asks 'Why do the wicked prosper?' - a question still asked today
- Contains 'the just shall live by faith' (2:4) - quoted 3 times in the NT
- This verse inspired Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation
- Ends with one of the most beautiful faith declarations in Scripture (3:17-19)
- Habakkuk means 'embrace' or 'wrestler'
- Chapter 3 is a prayer set to music (like a psalm)
- God's answer: He will use Babylon to judge Judah, then judge Babylon
- Written just before Babylon's invasion (around 605 BC)
- One of the most theologically profound minor prophets