Study From the Book of Habakkuk 

                                          Study From the Book of Habakkuk

     Habakkuk is known as “the confused prophet.”  He was confused about what had been going on in Judah, so he got the courage to ask God questions. God did not get angry with him, instead He answered him.

     His name is derived from the Hebrew, “habag” which means to embrace or to cling, as Habakkuk chose at the end to cling firmly with God, regardless of what happened to him or to his nation.

     Habakkuk lived during the last days of  Josiah, the last righteous king of Judah  and witnessed the fall of Jerusalem during the reign of Jehoikim  when he wrote his book according to most of the bible scholars during the years of 609-598 B.C. . So he witnessed the sinful and lawlessness ways of Judah and then how God disciplined the nation by the brutal invasion of the Babylonians.

    So, the question of Habakkuk to God of why he allowed the sinful Jewish people passed without judgment. Then he asked God why He allowed the wicked people of Babylon with their king of Nebuchadnezzar to punish God’s people of Judah.

    The book highlights what has been going on in the mind of many Christians that why God keeps silent when He sees the persecution of Christians today, would that because of their sins to lead them to repentance or to lift them up to higher dimensions with their relationship with Him.