Habakkuk & Haggai

Question 1

What is Habakkuk’s message?

Answer 1

God will not allow evil to continue unchecked

Question 2

What is God portrayed as in Habakkuk?

Answer 2

a “divine warrior” taking vengeance on evildoers (Habakkuk 2:1-17)

Question 3

What is Haggai’s message?

Answer 3

Encourage the builders of God’s new temple, especially the leaders Zerubabbel and Joshua.

Question 4

What did the older men and women of Judah realize in regards to the new temple?

Answer 4

They had seen Solomon’s Temple (“baptized in gold”) and realized that this new temple seemed very insignificant in comparison to the previous temple

Question 5

How did the older men and women react to the new temple?

Answer 5

They wept at the laying of its foundation (Ezra 3:12-13)

Question 6

How did God encourage the people?

Answer 6

God encouraged the people that their work on
this second temple was “a type” of a “greater temple” to come – Christianity