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Two Prayers; Two Answers

Two Prayers; Two Answers. Habakkuk 1-2. Lament Prayers.

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Two Prayers; Two Answers

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  1. Two Prayers;Two Answers Habakkuk 1-2

  2. Lament Prayers • “There is nothing defiant in a true lament. …The topic of a complaint is some external wrong that is brought to God’s attention. …in a lament, someone pleads with the God of compassion to bring relief to the sufferer” (Anderson 2001: 124).

  3. Prayer #1 (1.2-4) • Habakkuk bemoans “injustice,” “wrong,” “Destruction and violence,” “strife and conflict” (1.3). • “Therefore, the law is paralyzed” (1.4aα). • “Habakkuk, blamed his situation on God’s slowness in executing divine judgment on his evil oppressors” (Roberts 1991: 90).

  4. Answer #1 (1.5-11) • Be “utterly amazed” at something “you would not believe even if you were told” (1.5). • For Habakkuk “the logic would be that God’s action in using the Babylonians as his tool is inconsistent with his character revealed in the name Yahweh or in his being as holy God” (Roberts 1991: 102).

  5. Prayer #2 (1.12-17) “Habakkuk’s point is that Babylon worshiped its military power because its military power brought such a high standard of living to Babylon” (Roberts 1991: 104).

  6. Answer #2 (2.2-4ff) • “Writing on huge wooden tablets for public display was a form of publication. Isaiah was commanded to write some of his oracles on large tablets (Isa 8:1; 30:8)” (Smith 1984: 106). • “Because the righteous person trusts in the reliability of God’s promise contained in the vision, he or she is free to live in the present, no matter how unjust or oppressive it may be” (Roberts 1991: 112).

  7. Quoting Hab. 2.4a in NT • Romans 1.16-17: “I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written [in Habakkuk]: ‘The righteous will live by faith.’”

  8. Quoting Hab. 2.4a in NT • Hebrews 10.35-39 So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. For in just a very little while, ‘He who is coming will come and will not delay. But my righteous one will live by faith. And if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him.’ But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved.

  9. “We live by faith, not by sight” (2 Cor 5.7) • “faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see” (Heb 11.1).

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