650 a year before the birth of Christ. God's chosen Israel, forgetting what he was saying was in the salvation of his people, the Lord, hit in ecumenism and combined visit Solomon's temple with sacrifices to the idols, even ritual burning of the children. God suffered, hoping that the Israelis will come to their senses, but the external being of many has zacepilo eyes. And only the prophets, not defiled spiritual dirt and God-lovers, heart felt disgusting crime will not pass for nothing. Among these deputies was Habakkuk of the tribe of Simeon ... ...

To watch my was I, standing on the tower, and will watch to see what He will say unto me, and what I shall answer my complaint?

ABB. II:1

According known exegete A.P. Lopukhin and his successors, the name of Habakkuk, one of the minor prophets, Hebrew spoken as Habakuk, derived from the verb "habak"means "hug". Thus, Habakkuk is Embracing or, more precisely, the bow. Blessed Jerome, thinking about the name of the old Testament Saint, noticed that it was so named or because he was beloved, chosen of God, or, as Jacob-Israel, entering into some kind of battle with the Lord.

The latter is not passed almost none of the Holy prophets: Abraham tried to convince the Lord does not punish sinners out of Sodom and Gomorrah, Moses interceded for having betrayed their oaths of immigrants from Egypt, and even the shortest John the Baptist, preparing for imminent death as a Martyr in prison, made bold to ask the Messiah: "art Thou He?" This, incidentally, does not speak about some kind of little faith, because the Baptist himself had testified of Christ that He is the lamb of God, who took upon Himself the sins of the world. And Habakkuk says, "my Lord! I heard a rumor Yours and I was afraid. O Lord! accomplish the work of Thy years, including the years make known; in wrath remember mercy" (HAB. III:2). He kind of let the potsherd strive with God the judge for the sake of the Grace of God as the Father of the worlds.

Sin is it? No. The fact that only the most loyal and dedicated servants of the Lord gives the right to know Myself quite a paradoxical way - in a dispute with Them. For example, He is not condemned, but, on the contrary, praised the righteous rebel job, demanding He answer their suffered questions. Similarly, apparently, was the Holy Habakkuk, angrily calling on God to bring His judgment on the face around him the iniquity and at the same time crying about their countrymen not less than, say, the prophet Jeremiah. Wonderful talked about this at the end of the NINETEENTH century Professor M. A. Golubev, whose statement is quoted in the Bible the Bible successors A. P. Lopukhina: "In the great name of esclusivos with God, sending the wicked and horrible people against its own people (like Jacob wrestled with God, speaking with a firm faith: "I will not let you go unless you bless me" (Gen. XXXII:36), or how would embrace God and embracing the people of God, comforting him, after the terrible revelations, the hope of a better future, just as a mother hugs or consoles crying child (cf. 1 Sol II:7; Galatians IV:19, 20), - in the name of Habakkuk predicatives already special property declare burden for the Jews and their enemies: for the first it - the burden of correction or discipline (cf. I:12), for the latter - the burden of extermination by fire (cf. II:13) or irretrievable destruction (C. 7:05-7:06)".

Unfortunately, neither in the book of Habakkuk, nor in any other sources not include information about the earthly life of the prophet, except a few on his knee, and service. Some rabbis, however, has raised speculation that a seer of God would come from the tribe of Simeon ... not, and Levi, the priestly, such as Ezekiel. But representatives lopukhinskiy school of Orthodox exegesis with it does not agree. They argue that the "....omission in the book of the prophet about it levitska origin, whereas on the affiliation of the prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel to the priestly race is clearly stated in their books (jer I:1; Ezekiel I:3), may arouse serious doubts historical fidelity opinion on the facilities of the prophet Habakkuk the tribe of Levi". Indeed, this is the case, it is doubtful that Habakkuk was a priest or Levite by birth. But it is unlikely that the question of the origin of so important, if the question about who has glorified the Lord Himself.

About God's miracles occurring with the prophet Avvakum, we also poorly informed. More or less widely known only one wonderful event described in non-canonical part of the book of Daniel (Dan 14:33-37). There tells about how a Jewish prophet by the name of Habakkuk, a contemporary of the prophet Daniel, brought him food into the lions ' den, where the latter threw for his refusal to obey the commandment of the king and to worship idols. Not by chance the Lord in the book of the prophet Habakkuk is praised as "the speaker for the salvation anointed", the Savior and the Revenger of Israel. The anointed ones, like Daniel and Avvakum, in the words of the Holy Apostle Paul, was not worthy of the whole world. They were entrusted not seen with their eyes and heard with their ears ordinary person revelation of the coming of God to Earth: "He stood and shook the earth; he beheld, and the thrill led the peoples; the everlasting mountains were primitive hills dropped; His ways are everlasting" (HAB. III:6).

"I have heard, and it trembled within me; when news of this and shook my lips rottenness entered into my bones, and varies place under me; and I should be quiet in the day of distress, when you come on my people robber his" (HAB. III:16), - with these lines was poured on to the paper pain Holy prophet Habakkuk, who foresaw the imminent attack on Israel powerful and cruel Chaldean people. The Lord, being Gracious and Merciful, never deprived of the right to freedom of expression, be it even crying His chosen one of those who by their wickedness did not deserve clemency. However, according to the legend pseudo-Epiphanios, the prophet Avvakum was destined to survive the conquest of the Kingdom of Judah to Babylon, and even he died, in fact, just two years before the return of the Jews to their historic homeland.

But the main thing that the prophet was able to restrain given to the Lord's promise: "at least not bloomed the Fig tree, and there was no fruit on the vines, and the olive, and the fields shall yield no food, though no sheep in the pen and cattle in the stalls, but then I will rejoice in the Lord and rejoice in the God of my salvation" (HAB. III:17-18). Now he feels eternal joy in the Kingdom of Lord Christ, whose rise predicted, as all his brethren according to the Ministry. The joy that cannot be taken away, none of the enemies...