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*Habakkuk 2:1-5*
 
I.
Introduction
A.    /Waiting or Godot/
1.      Written by Samuel Beckett in 1952 is a play set in two acts.
a.       Main characters, nicknamed Didi and Gogo meet at a desolate roadside place to meet up with Godot later on that night.
b.      Reason is not given to us as to why they are waiting for Godot, but several times they remark how much their life will change once he shows up.
c.
In the meantime, they engage in many mini-conversations about boots, bladders, belts, poetry, slavery and God.
All these conversations are meant to emphasize the agony of waiting.
B.     Waiting can be hard
1.
The outcome is in doubt
a.
You don’t know if your blind date is going to be as good looking as your friend described.
b.
You don’t know if your bride to be is actually listening to her father as he tells her it’s not too late to run.
c.
You don’t know what the doctor will say when he calls with the test results.
d.      Imagine being one of the 14,000 members of New Life Church in Colorado Springs, CO who’s senior pastor and president of the 30 million member National Association of Evangelicals just resigned from both of these positions to make way for an investigation to look into the allegations of a prostitute who said that they had a 3-year relationship.
You don’t know what going to happen to your pastor or to the church.
2.      Feel helpless because you don’t have control or don’t understand what’s going on.
a.
We all like to have answers or reasons
C.     God wants to help us in our waiting.
D.    Transition
1.
This is what He’s done for Habakkuk
a.
When Habakkuk asked why God wasn’t doing anything (1:2-3), God answered He was, and God told Habakkuk that He was raising the Chaldeans (1:5-6).
b.      Habakkuk didn’t understand this because Chaldeans were wicked and were destroying the people that God had created (1:14-15).
c.       Raising wicked Chaldeans seemed to go against God’s character of holiness (1:13).
d.      Habakkuk was having hard time understanding, which made the waiting difficult.
II.
Exposition
A.    Habakkuk watching (2:1)
1.
This is where we find Habakkuk in 2:1; watching and waiting.
2.      God answered Habakkuk’s first question with a “look and see” answer (1:5), so Habakkuk does exactly that.
3.
He positions himself at a prime viewing point in order to get the best view of God’s response.
4.      Note that Habakkuk fully expects God to answer.
5.      Yet, I don’t think Habakkuk was all too excited about what God was going to do.
He fully believed God would answer, but I believe he was a bit anxious about it.
a.       Like the first day at a new school or new job, or the first time you put $20 worth of fireworks under a bucket with a brick on top.
b.      You’re excited for it to happen, but at the same time you’re backing up and taking cover.
c.       Habakkuk is looking to see what God will reply, but he’s fully expecting something negative.
1.)    Better word for “complaint” is “rebuke”
2.)    Already getting his defense ready.
d.
Why anxious?
Habakkuk has been hitting God pretty hard.
1.)    He’s told God that He didn’t care that people who loved Him were suffering.
2.)    That He wouldn’t save them.
3.)
Even worse, that He couldn’t save them.
Why else wasn’t He acting?
6.      Question of theodicy.
a.       Theodicy is a defense of God’s goodness and justice in light of the existence of evil.
b.      Job was the first person to really wrestle with this.
1.)
He cried out to God that it wasn’t fair that all his belongings, possessions, servants and children were taken from him.
What kind of God would allow this to happen?
2.)    He took God to task and told Him that he wanted a little face time to get some answers.
3.)    Remember what happened?
God showed up and gave Job a little face time.
4.)    God answered Job out of a terrifying whirlwind and basically said to Job, “What idiot is questioning Me?
You want answers?
First give me some answers!” (38:1-30)
5.)    Then God proceeded to remind Job which of the two was God, and which wasn’t.
6.)    Perhaps Habakkuk was thinking about this and was waiting for his rebuke, waiting for God to come after him in the same way.
B.     God instructing (2:2-3)
1.
What does God tell Habakkuk?
That this answer is going to be very important, so write it down clearly and plainly so that everyone will read it.
a.
It seems Habakkuk dodged a bullet.
Instead of being angry with Habakkuk, God simply tells him to write down God’s answer.
b.      Why?
So all can see it and be sure.
When things would start to get tough around them, they could go back to the tablets to see God’s answer written down.
2.      God underscores the message’s importance by telling Habakkuk not to worry if it seems like it’s taking a long time to fulfill.
It will definitely come to pass.
3.      The language of surety is overwhelming: it won’t fail, it will certainly come, it won’t delay, it has an appointed time.
4.      We’ve already talked about the fact that we don’t like to wait.
a.
God is instructing Habakkuk, and all those who would read the words of this vision, including us, that this will not be done on our timetable, according to our desires.
b.
This is a work of God that will be done in God’s way on Hs timing.
Our job is to wait expectantly for it to happen.
C.     God revealing (2:4-5)
1.      Habakkuk’s last question to God (1:17) was essentially, “Will they always get away with what they’re doing?”
2.      The first part of God’s answer is to take a good look at the proud Chaldeans and their leader.
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Because of their pride their souls within them are not right.
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They follow after their own lusts and desires.
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They are not godly desires, but base, human, fleshly desires.
3.)    1:7 says that their sense of justice and authority originates from within themselves.
4.)    They say, “I want what I want, when I want it, how I want it.”
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He is greedy
1.)    His greed consumes him so that he is never satisfied with what he has, it is never enough.
2.)    He is like death – there will never be a point where the grave will cry out and say, “I’ve had enough!
From now on no more people die!”
3.)    His greed knows no bounds, it goes into all areas of life and into all the nations and people groups around him.
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Everything he sees or thinks about, he wants for his own, and he will step on or destroy anyone who attempts to get in his way of pursuing his own agenda.
3.      God goes on to say in vv.
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