About this episode

The episode explores the conversations between God and the prophet Habakkuk, as well as a discussion among angels in the Book of Enoch, focusing on questioning God's actions and expectations.

Do you ever get an answer that just leads to more questions? I think a lot of us have had that experience. Sometimes we’re searching for the answer to some weird thing in the Bible, and when we finally find it, we find ourselves saying, “Well wait, what about this?” Or “this challenges the view I had of spiritual reality or what God is like.” Honestly, our preconceptions of how God operates are probably our biggest hindrance to understanding some parts of the Bible. And if that’s you, don’t feel bad; it was Habakkuk’s problem as well. Habakkuk, a prophet of God, one of the men selected to write a book of the Bible, certainly had his view of God challenged. Habakkuk had some issues with how God was running the world, he asked God about it, God actually answered Habakkuk, and Habakkuk wasn’t too satisfied with the answer. Today, we’re going to read how that conversation between God and Habakkuk went down, and it’s going to help us understand how to process it when God’s actions don’t meet our expectations. Then we’ll look at a similar conversation that was recorded amongst a group of angels in the Book of Enoch. And that discussion is going too help us understand what we should DO…

People in this episode

Host: Luke Taylor

Topics covered

• prophets
• angels
• God's nature
• spiritual questions
• Biblical interpretation

Keywords

• Habakkuk
• Book of Enoch
• prophets
• angels
• God
• spirituality
• Bible

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Book of Enoch

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