2. BOOK OF HABAKKUK Background
Likely written a short time after 612 B.C. when Babylon defeated Assyria and destroyed.
B.C. Assyria’s power was at its zenith.
625 B.C. Babylon threw off the yoke of Assyrian domination.
609 B.C. Judah was controlled by Egypt.
605 B.C. Babylon decisively defeated Egypt at Carchemish
This whole time Judah was caught in the middle and had formed alliances with or had been subjugated by all of the world powers at various times.

3. BOOK OF HABAKKUK Survey THE PROPHET’S FIRST QUESTION (1:1-4)
“How long will it be until God punishes the evil in Judah?”
GOD’S ANSWER (1:5-11)
“I will send the Chaldeans (Babylonians) to punish Judah.”
THE PROPHET’S SECOND QUESTION (1:12-17)
“Is it right to use a wicked nation to punish a nation less wicked?”
GOD’S ANSWER (2:1-20)
“The wicked will destroyed, but the righteous will live by their faith”
THE PROPHET’S RESPONSE (3:1-19)
“I accept whatever happens since God is all-powerful and all-good.”

4. BOOK OF HABAKKUK Lessons Learned
Worship the One who gives strength rather than strength itself (1:11)
(Phil. 4:13; Ps. 46:1; Nah. 1:7)
The just shall live by faith (2:4)—Heb. 11:6
Help another help yourself, hurt another hurt yourself (2:10)
Fill the earth with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord (2:14)
1 Tim. 2:4; Hos. 4:6
Submit reverently to God (2:20)—Eccl. 12:13
God is both wrathful and merciful (3:2)—Ex. 34:6-7; Rom. 11:22