(Part 3 in a series of posts on Habakkuk.)

The prophet Habakkuk had three big questions about God. If we are honest, we will admit that we sometimes have the same three questions about God ourselves. The three questions are:

1. Does God care?
2. Is God fair?
3. Is God there?

Do you ever feel that way about God? Habakkuk did. That’s the way things looked to him before he went to God with his doubts and his confusion.

Let me give you a quick summary of the three sections in the book as organized around these three questions:

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(Part 2 in a series of posts on Habakkuk.)

Today we will answer the following three questions about the prophet Habakkuk: Who was he? When did he live? Why did he write this book?

1) Who was Habakkuk?

Unlike some of the other prophets, we do not know that much about Habakkuk. His name only appears in Scripture twice, in Habakkuk 1:1 and 3:1.

Some sources outside of the Bible say he may have been from the tribe of Levi, but the Bible does not tell us one way or the other. However, chapter 3 of Habakkuk is a musical poem, and so it is possible that Habakkuk may have been one of the Levites responsible for worship in the temple.

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(Part 1 in a series of posts on Habakkuk.)

As I mentioned last week, I would like to spend some time blogging with you through the book of Habakkuk. The posts will be adapted from a sermon series on Habakkuk that I will later put on the Sermons page. For example, last week’s series of posts (“Reading the Prophets 1, 2, and 3″) on the Old Testament prophetical books came right out of the introduction to this series. The whole series is called Habakkuk: The Journey from Doubt to Faith.

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