Habakkuk

Which of the following is NOT a part of the Lord's description of the Chaldeans? 1. The invaders would scoff at kings 2. deride strong holds 3. they were a dreadful people 4. they served a god named Dagon 5. they would gather the captivity as sand.

Dagon was a god of the Philistines and not the Babylonians.

What profession (way of living) does Habakkuk use to describe the impending invaders? What analogies does he use?

Fishermen, that the invaders would take them with the angle (fishhook), catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag.

What was Habakkuk's second complaint v. 12-17?

God's use of the wicked Chaldeans to punish Judah was excessive because the Chaldeans were more wicked than Judah.

Which one of the following were not sins of Judah that Habakkuk declared before the Lord? 1. Justice was perverted, 2. the law was slacked, 3. the people were eating meat offered to idols 4. the wicked surrounded the righteous.

Habakkuk listed all of these offenses except that people were eating meat offered to idols.

The third and final chapter ends with Habakkuk speaking to God again. What is Habakkuk doing this time?

He prays, trembling at God's majesty.

According to verse 2:1, what will Habakkuk do in response to the outrages that will be visited on his nation as it suffers at the hand of the Chaldeans?

He would stand watch and sit upon the tower to hear the Lord's response to his second complaint regarding the Chaldean's wickedness.

What was Habakkuk's first question of God?

How long was God going to put up with Judah's wickedness?

God responded to Habakkuk's complaint of Judah's wickedness that He would "work a ________ in your days which ye will not _______ though it be _______ to you."

work, believe, told

How does God answer Habakkuk's concern about Babylon's wickedness being victorious over Judah?

God is only using them as a tool for punishment. God does not condone the Babylonians' actions. God tells Habakkuk, don't worry they are going to be judged too; even worse than you are.

Habakkuk 2:4 says that the just shall live by _________?

faith

What does Habakkuk say that God has shown him in V. 3?

iniquity - violence that causes him to grieve.

Habakkuk tells us that God is in His Holy Temple and therefore the earth should do what?

Let all the earth keep silence before Him.

How does Habakkuk describe the law in V. 4?

Slacked. In other words, the Judahites had gotten away from God's law and were corrupt.

Who was the bitter and hasty nation that God said He would raise up?

The Chaldeans

What are the five "Woes" given to Babylon in chapter 2?

Woe to those who says to wood, 'Awake." Woe to him that steals Woe to him that builds a town with blood Woe to him that covets evil Woe to him who gets their neighbor drunk to look upon their nakedness

The book closes saying that God is Habakkuk's strength. He makes his feet "like ____ ______" enabling him "to walk upon mine high places." What type of animal goes in the blank?

hind's feet, female mountain deer

Habakkuk asked God to do something during his wrath against Judah. What does he ask God to do?

in wrath, remember mercy

God desribed the Chaldean's horses as swifter than ________, more fierce than the ______-______, and that they shall fly like an _________

leopards, evening wolves, eagle that hasteth to eat.

Even though Habakkuk knows of the coming punishment - he ends his prayer with "Yet I will _______ in the Lord, I will ____ in the God of my ______"

rejoice, joy, salvation

What is Habakkuk written about?

the burden (a vision or oracle) which Habakkuk saw

Habakkuk describes God's eyes as this

too pure to look upon evil

Habakkuk demonstrates great faith in God even though it is recorded that the prophet is scared to death ("rotteness entered into my bones"). Following that he says, "That I might rest in the day of _________?

trouble

Who does God identify as the nation invading Judah? The King James Version identifies them as the Chaldeans.

Babylon