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Habakkuk 2
1. What is your reaction when God seems slow to answer your prayers?
. What effect does prolonged silence from God’s have on our prayer life
and our sense of God’s care?
2. Read Habakkuk 2
3. Review Habakkuk 1.
. What was Habakkuk’s initial complaint against God? What was God’s
response?
. What problem did he have with God’s response?
4. There are five “woes” given to the Babylonians in chapt. 2 (vs. 6, 9,
12, 15, & 19). Look at each “woe” and describe the Babylonians’ evil.
. Against whom do they commit evil?
. Describe their attitude in destroying surrounding nations.
5. What does this passage say about the spiritual life of the Babylonians?
. What spiritual assumptions emboldened their actions?
. How did they view God?
6. Can you think of evil doers in our world today that seem to step over,
without thought, the commands of God, assuming they won’t account for
their actions? Think in terms of:
. Individuals
. Organizations
. Political groups or nations
7. What view(s) regarding God enable evildoers today?
8. How is God contrasted to the Babylonian idols?
. Contrast God’s glory to the Babylonians.
. How does evil in our world tempt Christians to forget God’s intention
to spread His glory throughout the earth?
9. What have we learned about God’s revelation to Habakkuk mentioned in
2:2?
. When will this revelation come to pass?
. How does God reassure Habakkuk in this chapter?
10. How does having a hearty view of God’s glory and justice affect living
for God?
. Why do you think preaching about God’s justice is so central in many
urban churches and not in many suburban churches?
11. Ask God to strengthen your understanding of His glory and His justice.
. Pray about ways that your fellowship could consciously wrestle with
those two truths.
. Pray for Christians suffering because of evil done by individuals,
organizations or nations in our world.
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