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Minor Prophets, Part 2: Babylonian Crisis

  1. Lesson One
    Nahum
    23 Activities
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    3 Assessments
  2. Lesson Two
    Zephaniah
    22 Activities
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    3 Assessments
  3. Lesson Three
    Habakkuk
    19 Activities
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    4 Assessments
  4. Lesson Four
    Joel and Josiah
    24 Activities
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    2 Assessments
  5. Lesson Five
    Interpreting Prophecy
    34 Activities
    |
    7 Assessments
  6. Course Wrap-up
    Course Completion
    1 Activity
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    1 Assessment

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[Record your answers in the workbook provided at the beginning of this course.]

In Habakkuk 3:16 NRSV the prophet says: “I wait quietly for the day of calamity to come upon the people who attack us”. This book includes a theme of waiting, evidenced by the opening question, “How long, O LORD?”

In this exercise, we will explore a variety of passages that urge us to wait on the LORD.

Wait for the LORD; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the LORD!
Psalm 27:14 NRSV

  1. What do you observe about waiting from this passage (Psalm 27:14)?

Now look at a few examples of waiting in different contexts. 

What is my strength, that I should wait? And what is my end, that I should be patient? Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh bronze? In truth I have no help in me, and any resource is driven from me.
Job 6:11-13 NRSV

  1. Given Job’s context, what made waiting on the LORD so difficult?

In the next example, Jeremiah is given a promise that the exiles will return. But they will have to wait 70 years.

For thus says the LORD: Only when Babylon’s seventy years are completed will I visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place. For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope. 
Jeremiah 29:10-11 NRSV

  1. Those who heard this message would have to wait. Few of them would live long enough to return. What do you make of this kind of “waiting” and the attitude it requires?