This is part 3 of reading the Bible. It goes over finding the problems and answers that the author lays out in his writing. There are several worksheets. The first worksheet is a way to help you outline each problem and easily list the answer with it. The second worksheet contains a list of questions to help you find what the author is trying to get you to do or understand. The third worksheet is for journaling so that you can reflect on what you've just read means to you. The fourth worksheet is just a place to write unanswered questions so that you can easily go back to them and if you determine you can't find the answer in that particular book that you are reading then hopefully you will be able to find it while reading another book of the Bible. These worksheets are always available for free at the top of our page under "free worksheets". We would love to hear if these lessons are helping you in any way!
1. Paragraph: God tells Habakkuk
that He is about to do a wondrous work
2. Oracle: Habakkuk complains about
Israel’s treatment, God answers
3. Book: Israel rejects God, He
punishes them but promises them hope in the end
4. Sinaitic covenant (the Law): God’s
chastisement of Israel through the prophets is all related to the Law and
Israel’s inability/unwillingness to obey God’s commands
5. Bible: God must constantly call
Israel to repentance for their disobedience which He does through His prophets.
This sets up the significance of Jesus’ sacrifice by showing that nothing we
could ever do would merit God’s forgiveness. Even the people with the Law from
Heaven could not do it!!! How can we ever expect to?
6. Near and distant future mixed in
a confusing manner (telescoping)
7. Reference helps: use outside help
abundantly, biblehub.com
g. Songs of Trust: 11,
16, 23, 27, 62, 63, 91, 121, 125, 131
2. Reference helps: Out of the Depths:
The Psalms Speak for Us Today, Steven Bishop; How to Read the Psalms, Tremper
Longman III; biblehub.com commentary section
C.
Wisdom
1. Proverbs: practical attitudes and
behaviors in everyday life
2. Job: speculative wisdom about
suffering and evil in the world; points to Christ's destruction of evil in the
end
3. Ecclesiastes: speculative wisdom
about the nature of earthly pleasure; points to
Christ's crucifixion that gives us eternal life
4. Song of Solomon (Song of Songs):
marital romance and appropriate sexual desire, not sexual lust and pleasure
1. Do see the OT law as God's fully
inspired word for you.
2. Don't see the OT law as God's
direct command to you.
3. Do see the OT law as the basis
for the old covenant, and therefore for Israel's history.
4. Don't see the OT law as binding
on Christians in the new covenant except where specifically renewed.
5. Do see God's justice, love, and
high standards revealed in the OT law.
6. Don't forget to see that God's
mercy is made equal to the severity of the standards.
7. Do see the OT law as a
paradigm-providing examples for the full range of expected
behavior.
8. Don't see the OT law as complete.
It is not technically comprehensive.
9. Do remember that the essence of
the law (the Ten Commandments and the two
chief laws) is repeated in the Prophets and renewed in the NT.
10. Don't expect the OT law to be
cited frequently by the Prophets or the NT. Legal
citation was first introduced only in the Roman era, long after the OT was complete.
11. Do see the OT law as a generous
gift to Israel, bringing much blessing when obeyed.
12.
Don't see the OT law as a grouping of arbitrary, annoying regulations limiting people's freedom.
