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Profiting from the PROPHETS

Profiting from the PROPHETS. Why We Should Study the Prophets. They are in the Bible!. Why We Should Study the Prophets.

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Profiting from the PROPHETS

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  1. Profiting from the PROPHETS

  2. Why We Should Study the Prophets They are in the Bible!

  3. Why We Should Study the Prophets All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. (2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV)

  4. Why We Should Study the Prophets They are Authors of the Bible!

  5. Why We Should Study the Prophets Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith— (Romans 16:25-26 ESV)

  6. Why We Should Study the Prophets knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation. For no prophecy was ever produced by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit. (2 Peter 1:20-21 ESV)

  7. Why We Should Study the Prophets The New Testament becomes clearer.

  8. Why We Should Study the Prophets • As C. S. Lewis once observed, “one of the rewards of reading the Old Testament regularly” is that “you keep on discovering more and more what a tissue of quotations from it the New Testament is.” • For by neglecting the Old Testament, we neglect the only source we have to fill out the meaning of the gospel and make it more than mere words to us. – Douglas Moo

  9. Why We Should Study the Prophets They teach us about God.

  10. Why We Should Study the Prophets Thus says God, the LORD, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it. (Isaiah 42:5 ESV) But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation. (Jeremiah 10:10 ESV)

  11. Why We Should Study the Prophets They teach us about Christ.

  12. Why We Should Study the Prophets At least 37 specific prophecies fulfilled by Jesus. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey. (Zechariah 9:9 ESV)

  13. Why We Should Study the Prophets You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me, (John 5:39 ESV) And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself. (Luke 24:27 ESV)

  14. Why We Should Study the Prophets They Reveal Our Sin & Need of Repentance

  15. Characteristics of a Prophet As preachers. . . example: Jonah preaching repentance to Nineveh. As predictors. . .example: Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel (we’ll deal with this in detail in the coming weeks). They were not priests! Priests represented the people to God. Prophets represented God to the people.

  16. Prophets in the Bible Actions recorded in Scripture (partial list) Abraham – Genesis 20:7 Moses and Aaron – Exodus Samuel - 1 Samuel Gad - 1 Samuel 22:5 Nathan - 2 Samuel 7:2-17 Elijah - 1 Kings 18(7 miracles) Elisha - 2 Kings 2 (asked for double portion 2Kings 2:9, 14 recorded miracles) Jesus

  17. Prophets in the Bible “Majors” Isaiah Jeremiah (2 books) Ezekiel Daniel “Minors” Hosea Nahum Joel Habakkuk Amos Zephaniah Obadiah Haggai Jonah Zechariah Micah Malachi

  18. Test of a True Prophet But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die.’ And if you say in your heart, ‘How may we know the word that the LORD has not spoken?’—when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him. (Deuteronomy 18:20-22 ESV)

  19. New Testament Warnings Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. (Matthew 7:15 ESV) And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. (Matthew 24:11)

  20. New Testament Warnings But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. (2Peter 2:1)

  21. False Prophets

  22. False Prophets

  23. The Message of the Prophets Future Prophecy Most common misconception about OT Prophets Around 10 % of all OT Prophets deal with future Several different views: premillenial, postmillennial, amillienial/ futurist, preterist/ dispensational, covenant. . . etc.

  24. Tips for Future Events • The Mountain View / Telescoping View

  25. Tips for Future Events • The Mountain View / Telescoping View • The New Testament is Key to Understanding the Old Testament • The Bible is to Interpret our Current Events, not the Reverse. • Anti-Christs through History: Hitler, Mussolini, Napoleon, Nero, Saddam Hussein

  26. 3 Basic Tips for Interpreting the Prophets 1. You have broken the covenant; you had better repent! 2. No repentance? Then judgment! 3. Yet, there is hope beyond the judgment for a glorious, future restoration.

  27. Covenant Breakers Idolatry (Ex. 20:1-3): Half of it he burns in the fire. Over the half he eats meat; he roasts it and is satisfied. Also he warms himself and says, “Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire!” And the rest of it he makes into a god, his idol, and falls down to it and worships it. He prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god!” (Isaiah 44:16-17 ESV)

  28. Covenant Breakers Social Justice (Deut. 10:18; 24:17-21, 26:12-13, 27:19): They have grown fat and sleek. they know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy. Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the LORD, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?” (Jeremiah 5:28-29 ESV)

  29. Covenant Breakers Legalism/ Empty Religion (Deut. 10:12) What use to me is frankincense that comes from Sheba, or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me. (Jeremiah 6:20 ESV)

  30. Why We Should Study the Prophets They Reveal Our Sin & Need of Repentance

  31. The New Covenant And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”(Matthew 22:37-40 ESV)

  32. Profiting from the Profits God, through his prophets, exposes our idolatry. God, through his prophets, exposes our social injustice. God, through his prophets, exposes our legalism/ empty religion. God, through his prophets, call us to repent, or face judgment.

  33. Profiting from the Profits God, through his prophets, promises us a glorious, future restoration. For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. (Romans 8:18 - ESV)

  34. Profiting from the Profits Covenant Violation Repent! Judgment! Future Glory

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