The Prophet Habbakkuk

Habakkuk (606-586 B.C.) "haba kuk" (embrace). Habakkuk asked two questions to God, first: Why He allowed such evil to continue in Judah for so long and go unpunished? And second: How could a holy God allow the cruel Babylonians to defeat His own people. In response to the first question God revealed to Habakkuk: "Look among the nations and watch-- be utterly astounded! For I will work a work in your days which you would not believe, though it were told you. For indeed I am raising up the Chaldeans (Babylonians), a bitter and hasty nation which marches through the breadth of the earth, to possess dwelling places that are not theirs. They are terrible and dreadful; their judgment and their dignity proceed from themselves. . . they fly as the eagle that hastens to eat. "They all come for violence; their faces are set like the east wind. They gather captives like sand. They scoff at kings, and princes are scorned by them. They deride every stronghold, for they heap up earthen mounds and seize it." And to the second He replied that Babylon has a big appetite so He`s gonna use them as an instrument of judgement but their time is gonna come: Hab 2:12-13 "Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed, who establishes a city by iniquity! Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the peoples labor to feed the fire, and nations weary themselves in vain?"