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Monday, January 18, 2021

Let’s continue to amplify the first point in our outline of the book of Habakkuk.  The authentic personal relationship the prophet had with God was being tested.  To answer his valid complaint, God told Habakkuk He was sending the Babylonian army to judge and punish His people. 

Habakkuk was having a hard time accepting this.  He appeals to God: “Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; you cannot tolerate wrong.  Why then do you tolerate the treacherous?  Why are you silent while the wicked swallow up those more righteous than themselves?” (Habakkuk 1:13). 

He is essentially confronting God with the argument that His strategy is inconsistent with His character.  He’s basically saying, “This is unfair.”  Having complained about his own people’s sin, he is now taking their side in what he considers to be unjust. 

After exhausting his complaint he determines to “stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; I will look to see what he will say to me, and what answer I am to give to this complaint” (Habakkuk 2:1). 

He was doing some “self talk.”  He wasn’t satisfied with God’s initial answer but he was confident He would give him more information if he was willing to wait and listen.  It’s not clear how long he waited, but he wasn’t disappointed. 

God replied, “Write down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald may run with it.  For the revelation awaits an appointed time; it speaks of the end and will not prove false.  Though it linger, wait for it; it will certainly come and will not delay” (Habakkuk 2:2-3). 

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