God Will Raise Up the Chaldeans! (Habakkuk 1:5-6)

The Prophecy of Habakkuk (3): God Will Raise Up the Chaldeans! (Habakkuk 1:5-6) by Rev. Angus Stewart I. Habakkuk’s “Unanswered” Prayer—The Lessons II. Jehovah’s Astounding Work—The Calling D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones: “God sometimes gives unexpected answers to our prayers. This, more than anything else, was what really startled Habakkuk. For a long time God does not seem to answer at all. Then, when He does answer, what He says is even more mysterious than His apparent failure to listen to our prayers. Habakkuk was quite clear in his own mind that the need was for God to chastise the nation ... But when God replied, ‘I am answering you by raising up the Chaldean army to go right through and destroy your cities’, that was the last thing he could ever have imagined that God would say ... We all tend to prescribe the answers to our prayers. We think that God can come in only one way. But Scripture teaches us that God sometimes answers our prayers by allowing things to become much worse before they become better” (From Fear to Faith, pp. 14-15).