Major Prophets
Isaiah - a prophet of royal
connections ; "the prophet of God's holiness"
Jeremiah - a reluctant prophet, called as a child or youth, he was also called the Weeping Prophet
Jeremiah - a reluctant prophet, called as a child or youth, he was also called the Weeping Prophet
Lamentations - This is actually a book of poetry, but placed here because of its authorship. It was written by Jeremiah after the fall of Jerusalem.
Ezekiel - a priest carried into exile, he never served as priest, but instead received apocolyptic visions
Daniel - another exile, much better known from the stories of his life (ch1-6), but he also prophesied of the intertestamental times all the way to end times (ch7-12).
Minor Prophets
Hosea -
his life became a living illustration of God's love and
Israel's/God's people's faithlessness ; "the prophet of
lovingkindness"
Joel - locusts, the Holy Spirit on all, and a promise of a better future.
Amos - the hick preacher sent to the big city; they told him to go back home, but he told them ALL of God's message of coming judgement anyway; "the prophet of righteousness" :
"....let justice roll down like waters And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream."
Obadiah - Edom rejoiced at Jerusalem's fall, but Obadiah got to tell them they would get theirs
Jonah - the relucant prophet; he was just fine telling his countrymen to do right & get blessed, but when God sent him to tell The Enemy that they needed to repent, Jonah was not so fine.
Micah - Isaiah's contemporary, he's best known for his prophecy of Christ being born in Bethlehem, but my favorite verse is, "What He requires of us is this: to do what is just, to show constant love, and to live in humble fellowship with our God." (Valerie nonliteral paraphrase) This is set in a prophecy of the coming fall of Judah.
Nahum - this is the prophecy Jonah wanted to get. Scholars who accept the possibility of predictive prophecy set it about 100 years after Jonah, just before Nineveh's fall The battle description is extremely exact.
Habakkuk - one of my favorite OT books. It's short, and the prophet starts out by asking Why? He ends with a ringing declaration of faith.
Zephaniah - Judah's fall and restoration. BTW, all of the prophecies about Judah's fall include restoration
Haggai - encouragement to rebuild the temple; the people's priorities strangely echo our own
Zechariah - a very different prophet gives encouragement to rebuild the temple, and to rebuild their lives in the land. i love the salvation/sanctification parable/vision in chapter 3. You'll also find the king coming on a donkey prophecy (Palm Sunday) in 9:9
Malachi - God's last word before the 400 years of silence between the testaments. We have a courtroom type dialogue between God and people who don't think they've dishonored Him, a challenge to test Him with giving, and a quiet comment that "the people who feared the LORD spoke to one another, and the LORD listened and heard what they said. In His presence, there was written down in a book a record of those who feared the LORD and respeced Him." (3:16) The OT ends with a promise of Elijah coming, and with a curse.
Joel - locusts, the Holy Spirit on all, and a promise of a better future.
Amos - the hick preacher sent to the big city; they told him to go back home, but he told them ALL of God's message of coming judgement anyway; "the prophet of righteousness" :
"....let justice roll down like waters And righteousness like an ever-flowing stream."
Obadiah - Edom rejoiced at Jerusalem's fall, but Obadiah got to tell them they would get theirs
Jonah - the relucant prophet; he was just fine telling his countrymen to do right & get blessed, but when God sent him to tell The Enemy that they needed to repent, Jonah was not so fine.
Micah - Isaiah's contemporary, he's best known for his prophecy of Christ being born in Bethlehem, but my favorite verse is, "What He requires of us is this: to do what is just, to show constant love, and to live in humble fellowship with our God." (Valerie nonliteral paraphrase) This is set in a prophecy of the coming fall of Judah.
Nahum - this is the prophecy Jonah wanted to get. Scholars who accept the possibility of predictive prophecy set it about 100 years after Jonah, just before Nineveh's fall The battle description is extremely exact.
Habakkuk - one of my favorite OT books. It's short, and the prophet starts out by asking Why? He ends with a ringing declaration of faith.
Zephaniah - Judah's fall and restoration. BTW, all of the prophecies about Judah's fall include restoration
Haggai - encouragement to rebuild the temple; the people's priorities strangely echo our own
Zechariah - a very different prophet gives encouragement to rebuild the temple, and to rebuild their lives in the land. i love the salvation/sanctification parable/vision in chapter 3. You'll also find the king coming on a donkey prophecy (Palm Sunday) in 9:9
Malachi - God's last word before the 400 years of silence between the testaments. We have a courtroom type dialogue between God and people who don't think they've dishonored Him, a challenge to test Him with giving, and a quiet comment that "the people who feared the LORD spoke to one another, and the LORD listened and heard what they said. In His presence, there was written down in a book a record of those who feared the LORD and respeced Him." (3:16) The OT ends with a promise of Elijah coming, and with a curse.
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