ACCURATE
BIBLE
KNOWLEDGE!
EXPLANATION:
This
prophecy
belongs to just before the Babylonians, also called the Chaldeans, take
Judah
captive in 606 BC. The Babylonians were coming Westward … they were on
a
mission from God … although unbeknown to them (Habakkuk 1:3) but had not arrived
yet at
Judah (Habakkuk 3:16 )
639
– 608 BC King Josiah with a great reformation
with the prophet Zephaniah
626
BC Assyria greatly weakened by the Scythian
invasion
625
BC Babylon declares its independence for Assyria
608
BC Jehoahaz
reigns for 3 months, then taken to
Egypt.
608
– 597 BC HABAKKUK
to King Jehoiakim, a very wicked king.
607
BC Babylon
destroys Nineveh
606
BC Babylon invades Judah and takes captives
605
BC Babylon
defeats Egypt at Carchemish
597
BC Jehoiachin
reigns 3 months and taken to Babylon for 37 years.
597
- 586
BC Zedekiah,
a weak and wicked king, taken to
Babylon
586
BC Jerusalem
burned. The land made desolate.
Habakkuk
complains to God that Judah is to be destroyed for its wickedness, by
the
Babylonians who are even more wicked than Judah, and he can’t see any
justice
in that.
God
answers
Habakkuk and says he has a purpose in the whole thing that Babylon
should
invade and capture Judah.
Chapter
2:12 – 2:20 Habakkuk’s 2nd
complaint
Habakkuk
acknowledges that Judah needs punishment for her sins, and should be
punished,
and asks God for further clarity and enlightenment on the matter. God
answers
by saying that although the Babylonians are filled with the blood of
other
nations, she shall in turn, be destroyed herself and Israel will
rule,
filling the earth.
Martin
Luther
became converted when he saw that men should live by faith (Habakkuk 2:2-4 ), and
this is
the gift of God, that, no matter how dark things seem and are, we can
be so
sure of God as to the outcome.
So
for God’s
people, Israel, and indeed Christians, there is a wonderful future.
Although it
may be a way off, it is absolutely sure. THIS IS TO LIVE BY FAITH! In
the midst
of gloom and despair, Habakkuk was extremely confident in God’s ways.
Habakkuk
cries out to God to do his wonders as of old. He is quietly resigned,
and
confident of the fact, that God has Israel’s eternal security at heart
(v16-19).
Babylon to be destroyed
& Israel
to fill the earth 2:12-2:20
THE INVASION
OF JUDAH
THE DOOM OF
THE
CHALDEANS
THE MILLENNIUM
3:1-19
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Harley Hitchcock
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