The Chosen Key Word in this Chapter is “Vision” it comes from the Hebrew Word “chazon” which means “vision.”
Habakkuk waits for God’s answer and receives the timeless declaration that the just shall live by faith. Welcome to Bible Life Basics Chapter Reviews, I am Chris and this is Habakkuk 2.
Habakkuk describes standing upon his watch, and setting himself upon the tower, watching to see what He will say to him, and what he shall answer when he is reproved, the Lord answering him, and saying, “Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it,” for the “vision,” “chazon” in Hebrew, is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie.
Habakkuk records the Lord’s magnificent declaration, “Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith,” a verse the apostle Paul would later quote three times in the New Testament as foundational to the doctrine of justification by faith, the Lord then pronouncing a series of woes against the proud, the greedy, and the violent, woe to him who increases what is not his, woe to him who covets an evil covetousness to his house.
Habakkuk pronounces further woes, woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity, woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, who puts his bottle to him, and makes him drunken also, woe to him who says to the wood, awake, to the dumb stone, arise, it shall teach, declaring that it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it, closing with the magnificent declaration, “But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him,” this remarkable chapter moving from the prophet’s troubled questioning toward genuine, settled confidence in God’s ultimate justice and sovereign presence.
Habakkuk’s foundational declaration, the just shall live by his faith, later quoted by Paul in Romans, Galatians, and echoed in Hebrews, became one of Scripture’s most theologically significant verses, anchoring the entire doctrine of justification by faith. His closing call for all the earth to keep silence before the Lord in His holy temple offers a fitting resolution, genuine reverent trust replacing anxious questioning once God’s sovereign character is truly grasped.
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