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Lessons from the Prophet Habakkuk
Episode 2519th September 2023 • Truth of God Podcast • Fred Coulter
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Lessons from the Prophet Habakkuk -

Russell Kemp—September 2, 2023

This is a short book; Habakkuk lived in a period of time very similar to ours today. • Have you ever been discouraged when you turn on the news and you hear of the violence, the injustice, and a total disregard for God’s way of life? • Do you ever wonder why God isn’t doing something about it? This is what Habakkuk was facing in the nation of Judah. We’ll probably spend most of our time in the book of Habakkuk. The Prophet probably lived in Judah—just a little background knowledge there—during the reign of the Godly King Josiah. But he wrote his prophecy during King Josiah’s successor, Jehoiakim. Now, this fits the description of the life of the collapse [inaudible] and the anarchy during the reign of Jehoiakim. The time would be somewhere between when Babylon actually conquered Nineveh, the Assyrian Empire, in 612B.C.. and when Babylon conquered Jerusalem in 587B.C.. We read about the nation's moral decline from the transition from Josiah to Jehoiakim (2-Kings 23). Let me just briefly read the difference between these two kings:

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