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Week 25. Day 4. Habakkuk.

Habakkuk is unusual in that it consists of Habakkuk’s questions to God, along with God’s answers. Much of the message of Habakkuk is that God’s righteous people often have to wait—to trust in God. They have to live by faith (2:2-3, c.f. 3:17-19)

1:1-4 What is Habakkuk’s question to God?

1:5-11 What is the Lord’s answer? Is this what you expect?

God’s answer is that he will deal with Habakkuk’s problem (wickedness in the land) by sending the even more wicked Babylonians (also known as Chaldeans) to punish Israel

1:12-2:1 How does Habakkuk respond to the Lord’s answer?

2:1-20 What does the Lord say about the righteous?

What does he say about the wicked? What does this tell us about what God hates?

Ch 3 Habakkuk’s psalm - look how past, present and future relate

Habakkuk is very much a prophecy of waiting: of living by faith. The people in Habakkuk’s day didn’t see the full fulfilment of God’s promises—in fact things looked very bleak. In the language of the end of ch3, there was no blossom on the trees, no fruit on the vines. But this final chapter of Habakkuk looks back to the past—in particular to the Exodus. Gods power and faithfulness in the past is what enables Habakkuk to trust him for the future.

NOTE: Days 1-5 of each week contain the scripture reading for that week. Day 6 has just the 'key chapters'. If you want a briefer version of this plan that still takes you through the whole Bible, you could just read the key chapters featured on day 6. Day 7 has the podcast video where we discuss the week's reading.