Summary of The Book of Habakkuk Essay

While most prophets focused on hearing the word of God and conveying it to the people (Tullock & McEntire, 2006, p. 289-290). Prophets rarely asked questions of God as they received his pronouncements. However, Habakkuk was different given how he frequently asked questions of God, such as, why are you taking action, or how will you accomplish this deed, after receiving God’s pronouncement. As a result, Habakkuk could be considered an early Jewish philosopher, given his propensity for asking important questions that ultimately clarified God’s pronouncements, intentions, and judgments.

Having dealt with generations of tyranny, the exhausted Judeans needed a quick answer; they did not want an explanation, but a promise. Habakkuk wrote to assure his compatriots that their patience deserved a reward. With a

The consequences of rebellion against the will of God are heavy. "For the wages of sin is death... Or know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, His servants ye are to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness?" (246). Mankind has chosen disobedience in life, and he will suffer, as Ahab suffered-"voicelessly as Turkish mutes bowstring their victims"-the humiliating end, the condemnation of God and all Creation for that disobedience: "For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die..." (248). Just as Ahab died a humbling, seemingly pointless death, so mankind will suffer the humiliation of a pointless and unsung fall. The coming result is predictable both in Ahab's case and in mankind's: "Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall" (936).

 "...and this is what will cause my condemnation if I am condemned;  not Meletus of Antyus either, but that prejudice and resentment of the multitude which have been the destruction of many good men before me, and I think will be so again.  There is no prospect that I shall be the last victim" (34).

In the early sixteenth century, scholars were studying the millennial expectations of the ancient worlds that had become such a radical component for the central institutions of Christendom. Advocates of this new millennial belief appeared after the completion of the New Testament. They argued diverse assumptions of this revolution, but found common roots in Revelation 20:1-10, which states that those who died for defending Jesus would sit at God’s right-hand with the power to judge and Satan would be released from his prison and thrown into a fiery lake of burning sulfur where he would be tormented.

Major Works Data Sheet Title: Night Author: Elie Wiesel Date of Publication: 1960 Genre: Autobiography, Narrative, and Memoir Biographical information about the author: Elie Wiesel, born on September 30, 1928, in Transylvania, lived with a bigger family.

The rapture of the church, will be an event that will attract the attention of the people of Israel. That day will be the end of the Church age and the beginning of the Tribulation. God had put Jacob’s offspring in zealous when gave a place into His kingdom to the Gentile-Christian world, because Israel had rejected the Messiah, the own Son of God, (John 1.11-12; Romans 11.11). Thus, the time of Jacob’s trouble will be a day, according to the prophet Jeremiah, in which still God deals with the people of Israel, allowing them to feel pain, as the result of His punishment over them. God allowed the suffering over them because they sought to fulfill the law, going behind the works of the law, rather than by faith. Then, Israel will call out to

Captain Anthony had three children, Andrew, Richard, and Lucretia, who was married to Captain Thomas Auld. They lived on the plantation home of Colonel Edward Lloyd. This was the home that Douglass describes in the previous summary. "It was here that I witnessed the bloody transaction recorded in the first chapter; and as I received my first impressions of slavery on this plantation, I will give some description of it, and of slavery as it there existed." The plantation raised tobacco, corn, and wheat, they shipped the goods out to Baltimore. Lloyd owned three to four hundred slaves, they got poor monthly allowances," The men and women slaves received, as their monthly allowance of food, eight pounds of pork, or its equivalent in fish, and one bushel of corn meal."Their yearly allowances consisted of the bare minimum to that the master could lower spending costs. "Their yearly clothing consisted of two coarse linen shirts, one pair of linen trousers, like the shirts, one jacket, one pair of trousers for winter, made of coarse negro cloth, one pair of stockings, and one pair of

This view has definite strengths; foremost, its answer to the problem this present world faces with Radical Islamic Terrorism, whose goal is to create a one-world Islamic Kingdom under Sharia Law. As ISIS spreads its campaign of terror and torture on the level of biblical proportions across the Middle East, events appear to parallel prophecies in The Bible, i.e. the beheading of the saints.

In his book God Behaving Badly David Lamb examines difficult texts in the Old Testament and tries to answer the hard questions that arise from those readings. In my own examination of Lamb’s God Behaving Badly I will look at a few of the- questions and difficult texts that I found most interesting. Specifically, I will examine Lamb’s response to God 's anger, apparent lack of concern for race and genocide, and violence in the Old Testament, and I will offer my own response.

The alignment of Jesus’ angels and devils is very divided; the Beast and his own are inherently unjust, while those on Heaven’s side assumed benevolent and good. Even when it is the angels bringing about Armageddon on the Lord’s command, Jesus reassures recipients of his message, “Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer; be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life” and “he that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death,” promising that everyone who remains devoted to Heaven shall be saved following the end of the world, able to live in peace in the new Heaven Jesus will create on Earth (Revelation 2:10-11). For Taylor’s world, the angels are revealed to be a prejudiced and domineering race of mindless killers, conquerors, and slanders who brand the chimaera as animals incapable of feeling or thought to rectify torturing them to use their pain in magic, though they began with good intentions to “civilize” the chimaera (Taylor 2011: 742). Despite the fact that many of the angels now played no part in these histories, they are still products of the mindset and must atone for the guilt of their predecessors. At the same time, the chimaera assume the worst of all angels, and kill them just as they are killed, a moral conflict Karou herself grapples with when she learns of her time in the

There is an understanding that another individual may have written other chapters, however the focus was on Cyrus The Great (600-530 BCE). Lisbeth Fried suggested that Deutero-Isaiah, the author that is assumed to have written at least chapters 40-55, believed that Cyrus would eventually become the successor Davidic monarch. In the bible, Isaiah 44:23, he states that “the Lord has redeemed Jacob”, indicating that Messiah has arrived. 2”For Fried the relevant Isaiah sections begin with: 'Who has stirred up one from the East?

No place has generated so much speculation and wild theories as the standing stones of Stonehenge. After traveling for miles through the rolling hills and plains of the English countryside the sight of this unusual structure made me gasp. A walk around it only provoked more strange feelings. There's a sense that this is something very important. For over 5000 years it has stood silent vigil over the

In the last section of the Bible there are two parts. The two parts are the Major and Minor Prophets. The Major prophets are in the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel. The minor Prophets are in the books of Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, these books form that last segment of the Old Testament cannon. The authors of these books were the Hebrew prophets, which makes sense because a Hebrew prophet is a spokesperson for God. The twofold aspect of the prophet's ministry included declaring God's message for people of their day and foretelling God's actions in the future (Hindson). Thus, the prophet was also called a "seer" because he could see future events before

We read in Habakkuk chapter 3, his prayer it begins with speaking of the immense power our God has. You see sometimes I feel like we just do not realize how big he is. You shouldn’t be walking in disobedience if you have been born again. You should be striving to stay in his word and not faltering from it. In a split second he can change everything for you, for better or for worse, depending on your obedience and allegiance to him. You see you shouldn’t become so easily discouraged by man, they are just humans, we should be more concerned about winning souls for Jesus than the idol things of this world. It is part of what we have been called to do.