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The Prophets
Deut 13:1-5 offers insight into the role of a prophet.
Writing and non-writing.
Majors and minors with Various backgrounds.
Jeremiah- son of a priest.
Daniel- member of the Jewish ruling class and highly trained.
Hosea- Married with children.
Jeremiah- not married without children.
Amos- a shepherd and farmer.
Zephaniah- son of a king
Zechariah- Born in Babylon and returned with exiles.
Spokesmen for God
“thus says the Lord” Is. 1;2;10, Amos 1:3;6;9;13…
II Peter 1:20-21
Forth telling in the since that they were simply speaking the law of God, what had already been written and applying it to the present situation of their contemporaries.
Foretelling in that God also used them to speak about things to come in the future.
Some of which are still yet to come to pass.
They gave explanation of what God was doing among His people before the Assyrian and Babylonian exiles, during the exile, and after the return.
Many of the prophets were very eccentric and probably the kind of person most of us would think strange.
They were very demonstrative in the way they communicated using their own bodies and lives as illustrations of judgment.
For example: Hosea was commanded by God to take a prostitute for a wife and use his relationship with her as a means of revealing Israels unfaithfulness to His covenant.
Transition: As a result of being obedient to God’s calling, the prophets suffered greatly.
It was not a lucrative position.
Jeremiah is called the weeping prophet, Jonah was swallowed up by a huge fish, Isiah was sawn in half, and Amos was threatened with exile.
As the first Christian martyr , Stephen said in his sermon,, before he was executed, Acts 7:52.
Transition: Now, with that bit of background concerning the prophets, now lets spend some time looking at their message.
What was it that God used them to say?
The Prophetic Message
Explaining what God is like… (They were the theologians of their day reminding the people about the character and attributes of God.)
Holy, true, sovereign, just, good, faithful to keep His covenant, full of mercy and grace.
(Is.6)
Judgment
Upon Israel’s enemies like Obadiah pronouncing judgement upon Edom.
Upon Israel like Joel 2:1-3
Deliverance
Nahum 1:3-7
Jer.
33:1-9
Transition: One of the greatest accounts in the Prophetic books about God’s deliverance is the narrative of Shadrch, Meshach, and Abindigo.
(Read Daniel 3:13-25) This Christophony points to the ultimate deliverance that the prophets reveal is the “crusher of the serpent’s head”.
The messiah.
The Prophetic Point
Identity of Jesus the Messiah (Luke 4:16-30
Identity of Jesus’ Church (Acts 2:14-21
Closing: have you confessed Jesus Christ as Lord?
Do you belong to His church?
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