Welcome to the 10 Minute Bible Hour Podcast.

Right now, we're going through the entire Bible to understand it is one big cohesive story.

We're covering one book each day, and this one's about Habakkuk.

Habakkuk is a prophet to the Southern Kingdom of Judah.

It looks like his job was to show up right at the end, the last little bit of time.

Before Nebuchadnezzar and the Babylonians would show up and topple Judah.

So I guess he would have been working at the same time that Jeremiah was.

And it looks like Habakkuk's job, even though we don't really know much about him at all,

was to say, hey, Babylon's coming, this thing is going to happen.

But instead of getting that oracle of judgment from Habakkuk, like we do in pretty much all of the other minor prophets,

instead what we get is a conversation between Habakkuk and God.

Because Habakkuk doesn't like it. He has some objections.

He has some problems with this strategy.

And it's just assumed that Habakkuk went and said what you would expect him to say,

given everything else we have here in this part of the Old Testament,

to his people about God's judgment against them and about Babylon and all of that.

But it's interesting because that isn't what's preserved. We get that in other places.

What's preserved is I think a fairly reasonable question that someone in his shoes,

or maybe anybody's shoes, could ask of God and it unfolds over the course of three chapters.

Chapters one and two are Habakkuk asking a couple of questions and God answering those questions.

And then in chapter three, we see Habakkuk get it.

So we're on a character arc, a character journey here for Habakkuk,

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