Bible 10- Prophets

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What's included in the covenant lawsuit

-arraignment in the divine court -accusations -pronoucement of judical sentence -description of coming punishment -promise of restoration

Elements that characterize the relationships between the Lord, prophets and their hearers. List elements

-authority of the Lord over both the prophets and audience -obedience of the prophets, sometimes with inital protest -authoiryt of the prophets as reprentatives of the soverign God -requirment of the audience to choose covenant obedience of disobedience -report of the prophet back to the Lord in the form of prayer

Prophets use poetry to convey their message because:

-it speaks powerfully to the will and emotionsnot only to inorm but move audience -stress on symbolism and imagery is sometimes better than prose to convey the onders of God and charater at the heart of prophets messages -can speak about meaning of future events without having do descirbe all literary details

Most important prophets in the kindom period?

-samuel -elijah -elisha

Two of the Lord's messengers from awhile back?

Abraham ( Genesis 20:7) Moses (Exodus 3:1-4:17)

who are the during the exile prophets ho miistered to the Jews in Babylon

Daniel Ezekiel

Elijah and Elisha prophesied during the divied kingdom and before the exile of 70 years in Babylon

True

pre-exilic prophets that prophesied to Israel

amos hosea

Prophets function

call people to radical obedience and depence upon God

the content to the prophetic messages were shaped by God's ______ with his people and by the particular ___________ of the individual

covenant historical circumstances

what happended in 586 BC

destruction of temple

terms used by Yahweh that allude to the greatest prohpet of all

go send speak i will be with you

Post-exilic prophets who ministered to the remaining remnant

haggai zachariah malachi

terms used by the prohphet

hear thus says the Lord

the prophetic books are largely written in the style of __________ poetry

hebrew

Major prophets

isaiah jeremiah ezekiel daniel

pre-exilic prophets who prophesied to the city of nineveh

jonah nahum

the only difference between major and minor prophets is...

length or their writing

Descirbe the true prophets in the OT

loyal servants of God and convinced foes of idolatarry. They risked their lives to confront wicked kings of their sins and God's coming judgment. They would pled for sinners to return to God

Why was the covenat established

make Israel a holy nation that worshipped the 1 and true God

Greatest prophet

moses

Do bible prophet predict the future

no primarly

houw could the history of israel be characterized

persistent rebellion agaisnt God

Minor prohphets are also called

the twelve

prophets that recorded their messages

writing prophets


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