Familiar Phrases

1. Fill in the blanks: The most famous line from Habakkuk reads, "But the  -------- shall live by his
------- ."

2. Sentence completion: Habakkuk echoed Isaiah when he wrote, "For the earth will be filled With the knowledge of the glory of the Lord....

3. Habakkuk said, But the Lord is in His holy temple. Let......"

1. "Just...faith" (Hab. 2:4). Paul quoted this statement in Romans 1:17 to bolster his point that the gospel was powerful to awaken faith and in Galatians 3:11 to illustrate the superiority of faith over law as an adequate basis for achieving justification before God.

 

 

2. "As the waters cover the sea" (Hab. 2:14; Is. 11:9).

 

 

3. "All the earth keep silence before Him" (Hab. 2:20). Habakkuk was here contrasting the living God

with lifeless, man made images and idols ( vv. 18, 19).

Familiar Phrases

1. Fill in the blanks: Habakkuk said to God, "You are of ------- eyes than to behold evil, And cannot
-------- on wickedness."

2. God charged Habakkuk, "Write the vision And make it  -------- on tablets, That he may  -------
who reads it."

3. God assured Habakkuk, "For the vision is yet for an appointed time.....Though it tarries, -------
for it; Because it will surely --------."

1. "Purer...look" (Hab. 1:13). Habakkuk could not understand how God could use the terrible Babylonians to judge the sinful nation of Judah. He asked , Why do You....hold Your tongue when the wicked devours A person more righteous than  he?"

 

 

2."Plan...run" (Hab. 2:2).

 

 

3. "Wait...come" (Hab. 2:3). The coming event was the invasion of Judah by Babylon which Habakkuk dreaded (1:6, 15-17).

Familiar Phrases

1. Fill in the blanks: Nahum wrote, "Behold, on the --------  The feet of him who brings ------ -------,
Who proclaims  ---------!"

2. Nahum condemned Nineveh like this, "Woe to the  ------- city!"

3. Sentence completion: The Lord promised Habakkuk, "I will work a work in your days Which you would not believe..."

1. "Mountains....good tidings....peace" (Nah. 1:15).

 

 

2. "Bloody" (Nah.3:1).

 

3. "Though it were told you" (Hab. 1:5).

 

 

 

 

It has taken a few days to recover from the  shock -- as we prayed so for our country.

 

God has a plan and we must remember HE puts these people in power.

God only gave us gentiles the promise of eternal life.

 

 Romans 5:1 Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we  have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2. through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.

Familiar Phrases

1. Fill in the blanks: Micah wrote, "But you,  -------- Ephrathah, Though you are ------- among the thousands of  ---------. Yet out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be -------- in Israel."

2. Micah asked, "And what does the Lord require of you But to do  ---------- , To love -------, And to walk  -------- with your God?"

3. Micah said, "Therefore I will ------ to the Lord; I will -------- for the God of my salvation; My God will ----- me."

1. "Bethlehem..... little.....Judah.... ruler" ( Mic.5:2). The chief priests and scribes in Jerusalem referred  the wise men to this prophecy when they came asking, "Where is He who has been born King of the Jews?" (Matt 2:1-6).

 

 

2. "Justly....mercy...humbly" (Mic. 6:8).

 

 

3. "Look....wait....hear"  (Mic. 7:7). This was Micah's conclusion after he realized that he could not trust any man to be righteous (vv. 3-6).

 

 



Familiar Phrases

1. Fill in the blanks: Micah told wicked rulers, priests, and prophets, "Because of you Zion shall be 
---------- like a field, Jerusalem shall become heaps of  --------."

2. Micah joined Isaiah in predicting, "Nation shall not lift up  --------- against nation, Neither shall they ------  -------- anymore."

3. To represent peace and prosperity, Micah said, "Everyone shall sit under his  -------- and  under his
-------- tree."

1. "Plowed....ruins" (Mic. 3:12). Micah blamed this dreadful doom on the judges, priests, prophets who did their functions for personal gain rather than service of the Lord and His people (v. 11).

 

 

2. "Sword...learn... war" (Mic. 4:3 Is. 2:4).

 

 

3. "Vine....fig" ( Mic. 4:4).

Familiar Phrases

1. Fill in the blanks: Jonah prayed from the fish's belly, "The waters encompassed me,even to my
 ------; The ------ closed around me; Weeds were wrapped around my head."

2. True or false? Jonah prayed from the bottom of the ship, "I went down to the moorings of the mountains; The earth with its bars closed behind me forever; Yet You  have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord, my God."

3. Fill in the blanks: In Jonah, God said that Nineveh had "more then one hundred and twenty thousand persons who cannot discern between their ------  ------- and their  ------."

1. "Soul...deep" ( Jon. 2:5).

 

 

2. False. He prayed this from the fish's belly (Jon. 2:1, 6).

 

 

3. "Right hand....left" (Jon. 4:11).

Familiar Phrases

1. Fill in the blanks: Amos warned those who loved their sin, "Woe to you who are at  ------- in -----.


2. Amos warned of a famine, "Not a famine of  -------, Nor a thirst for -------. But of hearing the ------
of the --------."

3. Amos looked forward to a time of prosperity "When the plowman shall overtake the -------, And the treader of -------- him who sows seed."

 

 

1. "Ease....Zion" (Amos 6:1 ).

 

 

2. "Bread...water...words...Lord" (Amos 8:11).

 

 

3. "Reaper....grapes" (Amos 9:13).