OT Prophetical

• seer
• man of God
• servant of the lord
• messenger of the Lord
• man of the Spirit
• watchman

• fore tell (predict)
• forth tell (proclaim)
• warning

• -he spoke in the name of the Lord
• -he spoke by reveleation and inspiration
• -the moral charcter of the prophet
• -he was conscious of a definite call by God
• -often the call was accompanied by a sign or miracle
• -his message must be in harmony with God's previous revelations
• -what he prophesied came true
• -moral quality of the message
• -hearer's discernment
• -discernment of other prophets

• orally
• in writing
• acting it out symbolically

things are so certain that they will happen, they can be spoken as if they have already happened

• literally
• essentially
• conditionally

• attempt to justify God's ways in the world
• ex. why does evil exist if God is all loving

moses, samuel, and elijiah

• -they address all the people
• -they inform the people of God's wrath against their sin
• -they warn the people of approaching judgment
• -they call the peope to repentance
• -they proclaim God's salavation for those who will turn to him

• isaiah
• malachi

• covenant obligations
• day of the Lord
• concept of Messiah

• -prophets possessed hearts devoted to God
• -prophets possessed a strong sense of calling
• -prophets were messengers
• prophets were forth tellers (telling Gods truth)
• -prophets were fore tellers (prophesying future)
• prophets were creative individuals who used a variety of techniques

• prophets were not hysterical babblers
• prophets were not fortuntellers
• prophets were not religious fanatics

• isaiah
• jeremiah
• lamenations
• ezekial
• daniel

• Groan/Glory
• God's salvation, tradition says he was sawed in half and his wife was a prophetess

• rotten sash
• autobiography, known as weeping prophet, did not marry

• tears
• jeremiah wrote this funeral dirge so it is a sad book

• dry bones
• 11 yrs before downfall of jerusalem, he goes to the valley of dry bones by God as a remnant that will return to jerusalem

• dreams
• deported to babylon as youth, serves the courts, interprets dreams

12

• harlot
• marries Gomer to symbolize God marrying his adulturous people

• locusts
• uses natural disaster of locusts and plagues to warn judah of catastrophe (babylon will attack judah)

• plumbline
• sheep tender, had 8 oracles he gave against 8 nations. gives last call of repentance

• brother's keeper
• edom and judah should have been friends but were not

• fish
• jonah didnt want to go to nineveh to preach so fish swallows him and he goes to their and they repent...jonah gets mad at that

• day in court
• aims rebuke at false prophets and judges judah

• flood
• nineveh gets washed away and judged

• watchtower
• theodicy - god/justice
• waits in watchtower for god's answer but he is silent

• day of the lord
• seven times says day of the lord
• final judgment of God on earth and then eventual blessings and peace

• temple
• prophet calls people to finish rebuilding the temple

• messiah
• born in babylon who spoke of gods future kingdom, joins haggai to rebuild temple

• hearts of stone
• not sure if was prophet/ ezra may be author
• gives final warning and then is followed by 400 years of silence in biblical record until NT.
• Ends in Curse

the united kingdom

the divided kingdom

the fall of syria

fall of samaria

the fall of judah

the return of the exiles

samaria

ephram

Judah

davidic kingdom

722 by the assyrians

586 by the babylonians

• -message had to be consistent with earlier revelation
• -predictions must come true

• -lays on left/right side
• -used 2 sticks to rep. divided kingdom
• -cut hair into parts (.33 burned, .33 chopped into bits, .33 tossed into wind, 4 on breastplate for return)

ezekiel 11:22-25

during time of 10 yr exile

daniel