Summary
So 722 Assyrians destroying the Northern Kingdom 586 you've got the fall of the Southern Kingdom which was Judah and that's the fall of Jerusalem. And then 539 you've got the release here by Cyrus the tolerant Persian, the Persians who had then defeated the Babylonians, the Persians were in power and then the release of the people to go back to their to their home. So he's living in the the tragic last days of the northern kingdom, the tragic last days of the northern kingdom. So in chapter 1, verse 2, we read, when the Lord first spoke through Hosea, the Lord said to Hosea, go take for yourself a wife of Hortam and have children of Hortam. So if you want a key word with regard to Habakkuk, a key word with regard to Joel, maybe a repent, a key word with regard to Habakkuk could very well be this dialogue, just dialogue because there is this dialogue between the prophet and God. So as you're reading through the prophets and you're getting your bearings of where they're falling here with these three dates, look for those four prophetic messages in both the major and the minor prophets, exposing sinful practices, calling people back to moral, civil, and ceremonial law, warning of judgment and anticipating the coming of the Messiah.
Video citations
- Minor Prophets January 27, 2019 — Well, last week we took a look at one of the more rugged parts of the prophetic books and that was Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and Habakkuk and Zefania. And we saw the weeping prophet Jeremiah, but…