Prophet Exegesis: Habakkuk

After conquering the northern part of Israel in 722 BC, Assyrians built centuries of political conspiracy and foundations for idolaters 1 Habakkuk began when the Babylonian Empire beat the king of Judah It was. Write a prophecy and ask about how God is. Most importantly, Habakkuk can not understand why "evil bypasses justice" 2; he believes that the piousness of the world has nothing to do with the so-called God 3 In his story, the Bible The Prophet begins to understand. The righteous should live because of his faith "(Hb 2, 4).

During 25 years between the collapse of Nineveh (612 BC) and the collapse of Jerusalem (586 BC), the Prophet Habakke apparently wrote Habakkuk. Habakkuk may grow during the reign of Josiah. He could have witnessed much of the reform he had taken during the reign of Judah. But Josiah was the last righteous king to sit on the throne of Judah. People who obey him are evil people. When Josiah died, all his reforms died with him. Judah has few traces of religion. The prophet Jeremiah told the evil of Judah before Jerusalem was beaten by the Babylonians (or the Chaldeans).

God changed his view of Habakkuk. Habakkuk has always watched through his eyes, even his god, even his situation. Prophets worship evil and injustice in Judah correctly, but he erroneously accuses God "to drive" and does not act so as not to make it in time. It changed when he saw himself and his situation from a holy point of view. Does Habakkuk think that God does not know anything about Judah's crime? He is wrong! God has already worked to raise Babylonians into his purgatory. They will punish the Jews, which brings forth quick and powerful justice.

Have Haba Valley successfully changed the idea of ​​God about using Babylonians to judge Judas? It is completely different! Despite protests by the prophets, God strongly announced that his plan is moving forward. Indeed, people can mostly explain this in Section 2: "Please write these words on Habakkuk's signs so that people passing by will be able to read." Prophet is to declare the vision revealed by God. It happens as planned and predicted. It happens when God says it happens. There is no turn back. The day of judgment of Judah will come. The tools of the Juda trial are on standby.