Prophets

Prophets

God spoke of old by - Ho 12:10; Heb 1:1

The messengers of God - 2Ch 36:15; Isa 44:26

The servants of God - Jer 35:15

The watchmen of Israel - Eze 3:17

WERE CALLED

• Men of God
- 1Sa 9:6
• Prophets of God
- Ezr 5:2
• Holy prophets
- Lu 1:70; Re 18:20; 22:6
• Holy men of God
- 2Pe 1:21
• Seers
- 1Sa 9:9

Were esteemed as holy men - 2Ki 4:9

Women sometimes endowed as - Joe 2:28

GOD COMMUNICATED TO

• His secret things
- Am 3:7
• At various time and in different ways
- Heb 1:1
• By an audible voice
- Nu 12:8; 1Sa 3:4-14
• By angels
- Da 8:15-26; Re 22:8,9
• By dreams and visions
- Nu 12:6; Joe 2:28

Were under the influence of the Holy Spirit while prophesying - Lu 1:67; 2Pe 1:21

Spoke in the name of the Lord - 2Ch 33:18; Eze 3:11; Jas 5:10

Frequently spoke in parables and riddles - 2Sa 12:1-6; Isa 5:1-7; Eze 17:2-10

Frequently in their actions, &c were made signs to the people - Isa 20:2-4; Jer 19:1,10,11; 27:2,3; 43:9; 51:63; Eze 4:1-13; 5:1-4; 7:23; 12:3-7; 21:6,7; 24:1-24; Ho 1:2-9

Frequently left without divine communication on account of sins of the people - 1Sa 28:6; La 2:9; Eze 7:26

WERE REQUIRED

• To be bold and undaunted
- Eze 2:6; 3:8,9
• To be vigilant and faithful
- Eze 3:17-21
• To receive with attention all God's communications
- Eze 3:10
• Not to speak anything but what they received from God
- De 18:20
• To declare everything that the Lord commanded
- Jer 26:2

Sometimes received divine communications and uttered predictions under great bodily and mental excitement - Jer 23:9; Eze 3:14,15; Da 7:28; 10:8; Hab 3:2,16

Sometimes uttered their predictions in verse - De 32:44; Isa 5:1

Often accompanied by music while predicting - 1Sa 10:5; 2Ki 3:15

Often committed their predictions to writing - 2Ch 21:12; Jer 36:2

Writings of, read in the synagogues every Sabbath - Lu 4:17; Ac 13:15

ORDINARY

• Numerous in Israel
- 1Sa 10:5; 1Ki 18:4
• Trained up and instructed in schools
- 2Ki 2:3,5; 1Sa 19:20
• The sacred bards of the Jews
- Ex 15:20,21; 1Sa 10:5,10; 1Ch 25:1

EXTRAORDINARY

• Specially raised up on occasions of emergency
- 1Sa 3:19-21; Isa 6:8,9; Jer 1:5
• Often endued with miraculous power
- Ex 4:1-4; 1Ki 17:23; 2Ki 5:3-8

Frequently married men - 2Ki 4:1; Eze 24:18

Wore a coarse dress of hair-cloth - 2Ki 1:8; Zec 13:4; Mt 3:4; Re 11:3

Often led a wandering and unsettled life - 1Ki 18:10-12; 19:3,8,15; 2Ki 4:10

Simple in their manner of life - Mt 3:4

The historiographers of the Jewish nation - 1Ch 29:29; 2Ch 9:29

The interpreters of dreams - Da 1:17

Were consulted in all difficulties - 1Sa 9:6; 28:15; 1Ki 14:2-4; 22:7

Presented with gifts by those who consulted them - 1Sa 9:7,8; 1Ki 14:3

Sometimes thought it right to reject presents - 2Ki 5:15,16

WERE SENT TO

• Reprove the wicked and exhort to repentance
- 2Ki 17:13; 2Ch 24:19; Jer 25:4,5
• Denounce the wickedness of kings
- 1Sa 15:10,16-19; 2Sa 12:7-12; 1Ki 18:18; 21:17-22
• Exhort to faithfulness and constancy in God's service
- 2Ch 15:1,2,7
• Predict the coming of Christ
- Lu 24:44; Joh 1:45; Ac 3:24; 10:43
• Predict the downfall of nations
- Isa 15:1; 17:1; Jer 47:1-51:64

Felt deeply on account of the calamities which they predicted - Isa 16:9-11; Jer 9:1-7

PREDICTIONS OF

• Frequently proclaimed at the gate of the Lord's house
- Jer 7:2
• Proclaimed in the cities and streets
- Jer 11:6
• Written on tables and fixed up in some public place
- Hab 2:2
• Written on rolls and read to the people
- Isa 8:1; Jer 36:2
• Were all fulfilled
- 2Ki 10:10; Isa 44:26; Ac 3:18; Re 10:7

Assisted the Jews in their great national undertakings - Ezr 5:2

MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE

• Enoch
- Ge 5:21-24; Jude 1:14
• Noah
- Ge 9:25-27
• Jacob
- Ge 49:1
• Aaron
- Ex 7:1
• Moses
- De 18:18
• Miriam
- Ex 15:20
• Deborah
- Jud 4:4
• Prophet set to Israel
- Jud 6:8
• Prophet sent to Eli
- 1Sa 2:27
• Samuel
- 1Sa 3:20
• David
- Ps 16:8-11; Ac 2:25,30
• Nathan
- 2Sa 7:2; 12:1; 1Ki 1:10
• Zadok
- 2Sa 15:27
• Gad
- 2Sa 24:11; 1Ch 29:29
• Ahijah
- 1Ki 11:29; 12:15; 2Ch 9:29
• Prophet of Judah
- 1Ki 13:1
• Iddo
- 2Ch 9:29; 12:15
• Shemaiah
- 1Ki 12:22; 2Ch 12:7,15
• Azariah the son of Oded
- 2Ch 15:2,8
• Hanani
- 2Ch 16:7
• Jehu the son of Hanani
- 1Ki 16:1,7,12
• Elijah
- 1Ki 17:1
• Elisha
- 1Ki 19:16
• Micaiah the son of Imlah
- 1Ki 22:7,8
• Jonah
- 2Ki 14:25; Jon 1:1; Mt 12:39
• Isaiah
- 2Ki 19:2; 2Ch 26:22; Isa 1:1
• Hosea
- Ho 1:1
• Amos
- Am 1:1; 7:14,15
• Micah
- Mic 1:1
• Oded
- 2Ch 28:9
• Nahum
- Na 1:1
• Joel
- Joe 1:1; Ac 2:16
• Zephaniah
- Zep 1:1
• Huldah
- 2Ki 22:14
• Jeduthun
- 2Ch 35:15
• Jeremiah
- 2Ch 36:12,21; Jer 1:1,2
• Habakkuk
- Hab 1:1
• Obadiah
- Ob 1:1
• Ezekiel
- Eze 1:3
• Daniel
- Da 12:11; Mt 24:15
• Haggai
- Ezr 5:1; 6:14; Hag 1:1
• Zechariah son of Iddo
- Ezr 5:1; Zec 1:1
• Malachi
- Mal 1:1
• Zacharias the father of John
- Lu 1:67
• Anna
- Lu 2:36
• Agabus
- Ac 11:28; 21:10
• Daughters of Philip
- Ac 21:9
• Paul
- 1Ti 4:1
• Peter
- 2Pe 2:1,2
• John
- Re 1:1

One generally attached to the king's household - 2Sa 24:11; 2Ch 29:25; 35:15

THE JEWS

• Require to hear and believe
- De 18:15; 2Ch 20:20
• Often tried to make them speak smooth things
- 1Ki 22:13; Isa 30:10; Am 2:12
• Persecuted them
- 2Ch 36:16; Mt 5:12
• Often imprisoned them
- 1Ki 22:27; Jer 32:2; 37:15,16
• Often put them to death
- 1Ki 18:13; 19:10; Mt 23:34-37
• Often left without, on account of sin
- 1Sa 3:1; Ps 74:9; Am 8:11,12

Were mighty through faith - Heb 11:32-40

Great patience of, under suffering - Jas 5:10

God avenged all injuries done to - 2Ki 9:7; 1Ch 16:21,22; Mt 23:35-38; Lu 11:50

Christ predicted to exercise the office of - De 18:15; Ac 3:22

Christ exercised the office of - Mt 24:1-25:46; Mr 10:32-34