Number 8

Question 1

What is the subtitle of Habakkuk

Answer 1

The Doubting Thomas of the O.T.

Question 2

The sighs, the cries, and the whys, as uttered by the doubting Thomas of the O.T. It is a book of deepest doubt. His doubts centered around two painful problems. How could God allow the sins of Israel to go unpunished? God then tells him Judah would indeed be punished by the Babylonians. How then, he asks, could God justify allowing a godless nation to punish Judah, which at least believed in God and had some good men left?

Answer 2

The main content of Habakkuk

Question 3

Habakkuk looks around at the sin of his nation and the cruelty of wicked oppressors and asks the age old questions: Why does God allow the righteous to suffer and sinners to prosper? God answers these questions with His _____, His _____, and His _____.

Answer 3

Justice, timing and glory

Question 4

Key word of Habakkuk?

Answer 4

Why?

Question 5

Who is the author of Habakkuk?

Answer 5

Habakkuk

Question 6

What does Habakkuk mean?

Answer 6

Embrace

Question 7

Habakkuk was the final prophet called to the Southern Kingdom before its fall to Babylon. He was not only a prophet, but also a Levitical chorister in the Temple ______

Answer 7

Choir

Question 8

Habakkuk prophesied to the sole surviving kingdom of Judah during the ____ throes of a nation

Answer 8

death

Question 8

The final verse of Habakkuk reveals this book was actually a _____

Answer 8

song

Question 9

Habakkuk sees one of the greatest manifestations of God’s glory in Scripture, Habakkuk ___:___ thus turning his doubts into shouts

Answer 9

Habakkuk 3:1-16

Question 10

Habakkuk is the author of the great theological declaration, “The just shall live by his ____ (Habakkuk __-__)

Answer 10

Faith, Habakkuk 2:4

Question 11

Habakkuk was the _____prophet given to Judah before the Babylonian Captivity just as Micah (who ministered to both Kingdoms) had been the final prophet given to Israel before the Assyrian Captivity.

Answer 11

Final

Question 12

What are Habakkuk’s 4 questions to God?

Answer 12

1.) Why doesn’t God hear my Prayers
2.) Why doesn’t God solve my Problems
3.) Why does God allow the wicked to prosper?
4.) Why does God allow the righteous to suffer?

Question 13

What are Habakkuk’s two main questions and God’s answer?

Answer 13

1.)Why does God allow suffering and injustice? God has chosen to judge wicked men at the hand of wicked men
2.)How can God use the wicked? God will judge the wicked and correct all injustices according to His appointed Time, not according to ours.

Question 14

Habakkuk’s faith in the everlasting God. Habakkuk first proclaims his faith in the everlasting covenant of his Everlasting God, declaring that Israel will not be annihilated, but that Babylon is merely God’s Tool to discipline (not destroy) Israel for her sin.

Answer 14

TRUE

Question 15

For Habakkuk, the message was clear. Stop complaining! Stop doubting! God is not indifferent to sin. He is not insensitive to suffering…He is in control. In His perfect time, Yahweh will accomplish His divine purpose. Habakkuk was to stand in humble service.

Answer 15

TRUE

Question 16

For us the message is just as clear. There is a time to silence our questions and ____ our God

Answer 16

TRUST

Question 17

Once we have truly been in the _____of God, we can truly learn to have___ in the Lord in any circumstance! This is certainly one of the greatest passages of hope in the entire Bible!

Answer 17

Presence, JOY, Hab 3:17-18

Question 18

As was the case with Job, once we truly see God in His Glory, all of our questions are replaced with total _____ in His Power, His widsom, and His love!

Answer 18

Trust

Question 19

The ______ of Habakkuk. The Presence of God gives us the strength to _____ in the midst of the Valley or upon the mountain top!
Hab. 3:19 The Lord God is my strength, and He will make my feet like hinds feet, and He will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

Answer 19

Strength - stand