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Jerusalem in Revelation 21:1—22:5.
14. The Old Testament prophets spoke
more about the Messianic Kingdom of the
end times than about the earthly life of
Jesus. Can you think of reasons why this was
so?
15. Do you think it is possible that God
can raise up a modern “prophet” today to
in uence the course of a nation even as He
used Zephaniah to in uence Josiah and
Judah?
IV. SELECTED READING
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
Archer, Gleason L. A Survey of Old Testament
Introduction, pp. 342-43.
Ellison, H. L. The Old Testament Prophets, pp.
67-69.
Freeman, Hobart E. An Introduction to the Old
Testament Prophets, pp. 232-36.
Smith, George Adam. The Book of the Twelve
Prophets, 2:35-76.
COMMENTARIES
Carson, John T. “Zephaniah.” In The New
Bible Commentary.
Hanke, H. A. “Zephaniah.” In The Wycliffe
Bible Commentary.
Jamieson, Robert; Fausset, A. R.; and Brown,
David. A Commentary, Critical and
Explanatory on the Old and New
Testaments.
Laetsch, Theodore. “Zephaniah.” In Bible
Commentary, The Minor Prophets.
HABAKKUK: THE RIGHTEOUS LIVE BY
FAITH
Habakkuk was the last of the minor
prophets of Judah, called by some “a major
minor prophet.” J. Sidlow Baxter writes that
“the last two or three decades had set in for
Judah when Habakkuk took up his pen to
write; and it was perhaps to Habakkuk that
God first revealed how near the end was.”18
I. BACKGROUND
A. THE MAN HABAKKUK
The little we know about the man
Habakkuk is inferred from his short book.
The name Habakkuk means literally
“embracer.”19 Of this, Luther wrote:
Habakkuk has a right name for his
o ce. For Habakkuk means a
heartener, or one who takes another to
his heart and his arms, as one soothes
a poor, weeping child, telling it to be
quiet.20
The text of 1:1 identi es Habakkuk as a
prophet, which in itself reveals much about
his ministry. Some think his call to be a
prophet came while he was serving as a
Levitical chorister in the Temple.21 This is
suggested by the musical notations at 3:1
and at the end of the book: “For the choir
director, on my stringed instruments.”22
The prophecy of 1:6 points to the fact that
Israel, the Northern Kingdom, had already
gone into Assyrian Captivity, for now the
Chaldeans (Babylonians) were threatening
Judah. Thus, Habakkuk was a prophet of
Judah.
B. TIMES IN WHICH HABAKKUK MINISTERED
Refer back to Chart 108, which shows
Habakkuk to be a contemporary of
Jeremiah. There are various views as to
exactly when Habakkuk ministered as a
prophet and wrote his book, because the
Bible text does not give direct information
on this. The historical setting of Chart 112
suggests various possibilities of the book’s
