HABAKKUK
Questioning God · Faith · The Righteous Live by Faith
Expanded Museum Poster · Timeline Theme Table
1 · Core Story & Meaning
Habakkuk argues with God about injustice, receives a hard answer, and ends in worshipful trust: even without fruit, I will rejoice.
Core Sentence · Habakkuk in One Line
Honest questions move toward resilient faith: the righteous live by trust.
Habakkuk
├─ complaint
├─ hard answer
├─ watch and wait
└─ ‘yet I will rejoice’
Emotionally: protest → confusion → waiting → defiant worship.
Four Major Movements
How the book actually flows:
1. COMPLAINT (1): why injustice?
2. ANSWER (1–2): Babylon; wait; live by faith
3. WOES (2): pride judged
4. WORSHIP (3): trembling praise
This is the “museum walk path” you can follow as a clean narrative rail.
2 · Key Scenes & Emotional Gestures
Four scenes that carry the book’s emotional and spiritual load-bearing moments.
Scene · How Long? (Hab 1)
A prophet protests.
Complaint
└─ violence + silence
Faith that argues.
Scene · Watchtower (Hab 2)
Wait for the vision.
Write it
Wait
Live by faith
Patience as obedience.
Scene · Woe Oracles (Hab 2)
Violence is named and answered.
Pride
└─ collapses
Justice frame restored.
Scene · Yet I Will Rejoice (Hab 3)
Joy without circumstances.
No figs…
Yet rejoice
Defiant worship.
3 · Timeline of Themes by Story Order
Rows follow story order (top = early, bottom = late). Columns track our six museum themes.
| Story Order |
Section Block |
Creation |
Fall |
Covenant |
Promise |
Faithfulness |
Exile |
| 1 · Hab 1 |
Complaint & Confusion |
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injustice named |
God questioned |
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| 2 · Hab 2:1–5 |
Watch & Vision |
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vision will come |
waiting |
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| 3 · Hab 2:6–20 |
Woes on Pride |
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violence judged |
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justice |
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| 4 · Hab 3 |
Prayer-Psalm of Trust |
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joy |
worship |
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| 5 · (Theme) |
Righteous Live by Faith |
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faith frame |
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| 6 · (End) |
God as Strength |
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endurance |
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Habakkuk is the museum’s ‘argument-to-worship’ tile: honest questions that end in resilient trust.