Habakkuk's plea to God to revive His work is very interesting. God's work is salvation. As John 6:29 puts it, God's work is that we believe Him and His Son whom He has sent. In the midst of the years is a Hebraism that means "between now and the end." In effect, the prophet is beseeching God to save His people before all these terrible things mentioned in the first two chapters occur. Today, we might phrase it, "Cut Your work short." It is a plea for mercy and salvation.
Jesus actually answers this prayer in Matthew 24:22: "And unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved; but for the elect's sake those days will be shortened." The apostle Paul also confirms this in Romans 9:28, writing, "For He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth."
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