HABAKKUK BIBLE STUDY CHAPTER TWO

Write down the revelation
In chapter 2 God gave Habakkuk an answer to his questions about why evil seemed to dominate (control) the world and if it could be allowed to wipe out those who do what is good and right. The Lord revealed that a time was coming when all the wicked would be destroyed and the only people not shaken would be those who trust God and do what is right by His standards. Such people are related, or connected, to God by their faith (Verse 4).

AWAITS AN APPOINTED TIME
The final solution to Habakkuk’s dilemma would come only in the future, at God’s “appointed time.” 

1. Though the time was well in the future (539 B.C., about 66 years after Habakkuk’s prophecy), Babylon would suffer its own punishment. 
2. There will come a time when all evil in the world will be put to an end - destroyed completely. God’s faithful people must “wait for it,” even though it may seem to take a very long time. In the last days, Christ will take His church (His faithful followers) from the earth and then execute (carry out) His judgment on the world (1 Thessalonians 4:16-17). 
3. The time will come when Christ will return to earth to destroy all evil and establish a kingdom of truth, justice and righteousness that will close out history and usher in God’s eternal kingdom (Revelation 20-21)

​THE RIGHTEOUS WILL LIVE BY HIS FAITH

In light of God’s revelation about how (and when) He is working, His people are to be patient and live by faith. 

1. It is “the righteous” - those who entrust their lives to God and do what is right according to His standards - who will come through victorious in the end. 
2. The righteous are contrasted with the proud and the ungodly, whose life choices and direction oppose God. The hearts of the righteous are devoted to God; they want to be His children, to have close fellowship with Him and to obey His plans and desires. 
3. The righteous must rely on God to accomplish His purposes for them in this world. This kind of “faith” implies an active and lasting trust in God. It is evidence of a personal loyalty to Him as Savior and Lord (the Leader and authority over their lives) and a moral commitment to follow His plans. 
4. This phrase, “the righteous will live by his faith,” or a form of it, is used throughout the New Testament to support the teaching that people are saved by grace (God’s undeserved favor) through faith in Christ (Ephesians 2:8). Paul develops the theme in Romans 1:17 and Galatians 3:11, and the writer to the Hebrews emphasizes that God’s people must continue to live by faith in order to please God (Hebrews 10:38;11:6). 

WOE TO HIM
These versus represent a “taunt,” or statement of ridicule, that will be used one day by Babylon’s enemies. So certain is the doom of Babylon that Habakkuk is assured that future victims will be able to say these same words. This two-part taunt brakes down further into a series of five woes (pronouncements of sorrow or consequences for ungodly actions) describing the judgment that would come on all those whose “desires are not upright” (Verse 4). Such people will be punished because of their aggression (Verse 6-8), violence and crime (Verse 12-14), immorality (Verse 15-17) and idolatry (Verse 18-20).  All the stolen goods and forced labor that Babylon used to build its empire will finally “cry out” against it (Verse 11-12). The Lord will shame Babylon and do to that nation what it did to others (Verse 16). The future destruction of this once proud and mighty nation will bring even greater glory and honor to God, whose great power will become known throughout the world (Verse 15).

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