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Habakkuk 1:1

Lesson # Habakkuk 1:1
Study Material - Habakkuk 1:1

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Habakkuk 1:1

1 The burden [massa] which Habakkuk [Chabaqquwq] the prophet [nabiy] did see [chazah] . KJV-Interlinear

1 The oracle which Habakkuk the prophet saw. NASB

The words for oracle and burden are often used interchangeably in the Bible. The burden reflects the heaviness of the truth revealed on the soul of the recipient, and the heaviness of the repercussions on the subject of the message revealed, which is Judah.

Habakkuk refers to himself as a prophet. There is no other background on Habakkuk other than this description. Since this book was included in the ancient scriptures, and since this title is only used in three other books as such (Jeremiah, Haggai, and Zechariah), then it is implied that Habakkuk was well known to his contemporary generation.

Being a prophet, then Habakkuk was the recipient of Gods word directly in a vision, 'the prophet saw.' Past tense. He saw a vision and is now communicating it to any and all who are interested. The events are still future. The book then is the entire 'burden' which Habakkuk saw. He saw it with his own eyes. He heard the voice and sounds with his own ears. He is certain of its source, the one whom he communicated with, namely God.

And now Habakkuk will lament the iniquity (the breakdown in society), in his country (Judah), of his day. Given the magnitude of the spiritual decay, Habakkuk will issue a complaint to God, asking why He (God) does not do something about it.

God will reply, 'I am doing something about it.' Then proceed to explain.

Habakkuk was perplexed. Wickedness and violence just seemed to be going unchecked. No one seemed to care, and there seemed to be no end to the rising tide of evil in Judah, the southern kingdom.

God was raising up a people to the north, the Babylonians, who would come down and bring strong discipline and judgment against the wickedness of Judah. But the Chaldeans (Babylon) were no better than the wicked Israelites.

This was even more perplexing to Habakkuk. Why use a wicked people to discipline a wicked people? And here we will be introduced to the permissive will of God.

Jesus Christ is God. God the Father is God. God the Father authored the divine plan and Jesus Christ executes that plan in all its detail. God controls history. And He exercises that control in three ways.

First, God controls history directly. He utilizes His power to cause some kind of event directly. He created the universe.

Second, God controls history indirectly. In this, He uses His wisdom which is learned by positive people, and or influences society in a moral sense, and people will do that which is right in order to obtain justice or defeat evil. An example of that is the allies fighting Hitler, etc. in World War II.

Third, God controls history permissively. In this capacity He will allow the free function of mans volition to choose his own course, even if that course is wrong. One evil group is allowed to rise up and bring judgment against another evil group. Again we can turn to history and see Hitler rising up to power among a very negative society. Lots of judgment was brought against many peoples at the hand of Hitler and others.

By the way this third option never goes unchecked. As Europe and Asia fell into degeneracy, the powers of Japan and Germany rose up as a result. After a number of years, the west rose up to offset and defeat those evil powers, but not until after many millions of people had died. In a way this sort of serves as a cleansing device in history in order to prevent the take over of the world by negative people. The book of Judges gives many examples of Israel's falling away from God, resulting in having their neighboring nations come in and sack them, until they returned to God, and then are able to regain their freedom.

By the way, the take over of the world by negative people is reserved for only one time in history, and that time is the Tribulation.

Anyway, this is a common cycle in history as people fall away from God, fall down into the pit of evil, suffer hardship and loss as a result, see the light and error of their ways, change their attitude (repent) toward God, change their ways, call on God and recover their freedom and prosperity. Then this happens all over again as people go negative again and so forth.

There is a chart covering this cycle at the top of the Daily Bible Study home page.

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