Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel

Hint: IJED

"I JED"amski -> "prophetess" 

kidding; but we needed something to remember.....:]

Minor prophets 

There are certain ways that truth convinces or doesn't convince.

1) Logical argument (reason for relationship and judgment)

2) Emotional appeal - 1) Love of God for his people; 2) Compassion 

3) Credibility of the speaker (character and accuracy of the message)

Four Levels/Realms of Prophecy

1) Prophecy of Scripture (2 Peter 1:20-21; Rev 22:18-19)

2) Spirit of Prophecy (Rev 19:10; Num 11:24-25; 1 Sam 10:10)

3) Office of the prophet (Eph 2:19-20; 3:5; 4:11)

4) Gift of prophecy (1 Cor 12:1-10; 14:1-6; 39, 40)

• Moses addressing the nation

• Connection w/ previous verses

• Law is foundation, God will give continual guidance 

• Need of a gift - prophet

• First - don't learn their sources

• Meekness of Moses
• Moses and the prophets
• Moses the servant - God speaks to him face to face
• Complaint of Miriam and Aaron
• 2 Corinthians 3:7-8 & Hebrews 3:5-6

7 Biblical Tests for Prophets 

1. Speak only in the name of the Lord 
1. Historical confirmation (Will it come to pass?)
1.  Hearer's discernment 
1. Moral character 
1. Moral quality of the message 
1. Message in harmony w/ previous revelation 
1. Conscious of a definite call experience

Metonymy - switching around your cause and effect

Synecdoche - using a well-known term to refer to a whole

The prophets wrote in ________ and ________. 

Oracles and visions. 

Short spoken messages.

Short narrative symbolics acts which they performed to get their point across.

 Define Anthologies

These are within the prophetic books. 

- Collection of material-oracle sermon dialogues and short narrative episodes. 

(?) ELEMENTS OF OT POETRY 

1) Density

2) Parallelism

3) Figurative imagery

4) Wordplay

Hint: DPFW - "Doesn't Poetry Feel Wonderful?"

Define the three terms:

1) Hyperbole

2) Personification 

3) Anthropomorphism 

1) Hyperbole - going to an extreme to make a point

2) Personification - inanimate object used to convey an idea

3) Anthropomorphism - God described in human terms

Irony and Sarcasm. Wordplay-  

Intense/spoken first then written down/for future generations

3 levels of OT story

1)      Individual (what this person is doing)

2) National (God is interested in particular group)

3)Universal (God is interested in the world)

Hint: I Need Understanding

Immediate historical context of the message of the prophets

Basic prophetic message

1.      You broke the covenant- you need to repent

2.      No repentance- Judgment, Judgment is for restoration ultimately

3.      Hope- restoration and New Covenant  

3 categories of violation

1.      Idolatry- putting anything above God. Syncretism and rejection. They meshed beliefs and practices with pagan practices while worshipping God thinking its ok to hang out with Baal and God at the same time.  Mixing the things of God with the world. 

2.      Social injustice- what you believe has to have some physical appearance in life in how you treat other people. 

3.      Reliance on religious ritualism-  They are to do it to be connected with God and not just for the sake of the acts themselves. 

• Restoration

• Relationship over ritual
• Forgiveness and peace

• God determines course of history
• New covenant

Nonstandard prophets

(Pre-exilic, post exilic, historian) 

1) Pre-exilic (JON) - Jonah, Obadiah, Nahum

2) Post-exilic (MZH) - Malachi, Zechariah, Haggai

3) Historian, Gov't official, prophet of the far future - Daniel

Messianic prophecy

1) The coming King

2) The suffering servant

3) Some rabbi's thought there would be 2 Messiah's, really two advents who would suffer and the other would reign as king

3) Acts 3:18, prophets referring to Jesus

4) 2 Peter 1:16-21 - word more sure

SIX CENTRAL ISSUES 

1.      Land- God promised land but took them out and promised restoration

2.      Near/far viewpoint

3.      Conditional prophecy- “if”  This word effects how the prophecy functions. 

4.      Figurative language

5.      Relationship between Israel and the Church

6.      Nature of the future kingdom

Hint: LNCFRN

"Look, Nate! Crazy Fedrick's Really Nuts!"

Premillennialism

1.       Classic dispensational view

2.      Progressive dispensational

3.      Historic

HINT: CPH

Postmillennialism

Interpretive Systems

• Amillennialism

• Premillennialism

• Postmillennialism 

Man of Isaiah

1)      739-690 BC Israel and Judah

2) “Lord is salvation”

3) Son of Amoz/Married (“prophetess”)

4) From Judah and Jerusalem

5) Dies during reign of Manassah (has him sawed in half)

Hint: #LSFD

(Hint: SIF)

1. Syro Ephramite war 734 B.C.

2. Invasion by Sennacherib

3. Fall of Samaria their next door neighbor- 722

1. Theme and subject matter

2. Language and style

3. Theological ideas

Hint: TLT

Themes of Isaiah

1)Person, work, and KOG

2) Salvation given by grace by the pw’r of God

Hint: P.S.

P.S....here are the themes of Isaiah, in case you were wondering ;)

The Vision and the Call of Isaiah 6 

5 R's

1)      Reflection

2) Repentance

3) Reception of man

4) Request

5) Release

Child King – 3 Reasons to Rejoice 

1)      Yoke of burden will be broken

2) A child is born

3) Garments of war done 

Hint: YAG – kind of like “YAY” but YAG

The Servant Prophecies - 3 views

1.       Represents faithful Israel

2.       Individual but one in their history

3.       Messiah 

Hint: RIM