There are times when God seems silent or distant, and those times can be confused

The Old Testament prophet Habakkuk experienced this. He wondered why God was not intervening as the wicked were prospering and God's people were suffering.

That feels like a familiar question. And today on Truth for Life we'll see why

Seeking God's answer to a question like that can be painful but at the same time hopeful.

Alistair Begg is teaching from Habakkuk chapter 2, beginning with verse 2.

This revelation, which is the answer to Habakkuk's question, God tells him, is marked by four things.

Let me just point them out to you.

Number one, write down the revelation, make it plain so that someone can run and read it.

For the revelation, number one awaits an appointed time.

From Habakkuk's position, everything else is just going on as usual.

A time to be born, a time to die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die, die.

And so it goes on, and, from his perspective, it just seems as though history is entirely cyclical.

It looks as though it's going around and around and around.

God says, no, I want you to write this down, write it down, clear what I am doing has an appointed time.

I haven't disclosed the time to you, but I know what the time is.

Trust me.

Number two – it speaks of the end.

there in verse 3, it will not prove false, and though it apparently lingers, wait for

it, it will certainly come and will not delay.

Now in verses 4 and 5, he contrasts the righteous life, which is lived by faith, with the proud

boasts and the activities that mark those who are puffed up and live for themselves.

And this is a pretty difficult little section here as it turns out, but the best I can do

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