Habakkuk 2

Grace Bible Chapel

Sunday School

November 2, 2008

Lesson 3 on Habakkuk

Habakkuk 2

I. Background – the kings

A. Jewish – Manasseh (686-642 B.C.); Amon (642-640 B.C.);

Josiah (640-609 B.C.); Jehoiakim (609-597 B.C.)

B. Gentile – Nabopolassar (626-605 B.C.); Assyria (612 B.C.);

(cf. 722 B.C., 701 B.C.); Nebuchadnezzar (605, 597, 586 B.C.)

II. Habakkuk’s first set of questions (Habakkuk 1:1-4)

III. God’s answer to the first questions (Habakkuk 1:5-11)

IV. Habakkuk’s second questions (1:12-17)

V. God’s answer to the second set of questions (2:1-20)

A. Habakkuk’s readiness for the answer (2:1-3)

B. The foundation of the answer (2:4-5)

C. The answer concerning Babylon (2:6-20)

1. Woe for her cruel greed (2:6-8)

a. Babylon’s sin

b. Babylon’s judgment

2. Woe for her unjust gain (2:9-11)

a. Babylon’s sin

b. Babylon’s judgment

3. Woe for her violent aggrandizement (2:12-14)

a. Babylon’s sin

b. Babylon’s judgment

4. Woe for her debauched subjugation (2:15-17)

a. Babylon’s sin

b. Babylon’s judgment

5. Woe for her futile idolatry (2:18-20)

a. Babylon’s sin

b. Babylon’s judgment

c. The contrast

VI. Conclusion and application

A. Daniel 5 (539 B.C.) (5:30-31)

B. Revelation 17:1-19:6 (17:1-5; 18:2-3, 10, 16-17; 19:1-6)

C. Romans 1:17

D. Job 38-42 (40:3-5; 42:1-6)

E. Psalm 115; 135

F. The United States of America