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OT Prophets
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper
you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Jeremiah 29:11
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I will pursue them with the sword, famine and plague and will make
them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse and an object of
horror, of scorn and reproach, among all the nations where I drive them.
I will make you abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse and an object of horror, of scorn and reproach, among all the nations where I drive you.
OT Prophecy
Understanding OT Prophecy
1. Understand the Context
Understanding OT Prophecy
1. Understand the Context
2. Understand the Prophet’s Role
Deuteronomy
Reminder:
Terms of Covenant
What will you choose?
OT Timeline
2000 BC
1000 BC
Abraham Joshua David
760 BC 460 BC
Fall of
Israel
Fall of Judah
Understanding OT Prophecy
1. Understand the Context
2. Understand the Prophet’s Role
3. Understand what Prophecy is
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper
you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Jeremiah 29:11
33 “This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel
after that time,” declares the LORD. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God, and they will be my people.
34 No longer will they teach their neighbors, or say to one another, ‘Know the LORD,’
because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the LORD. “For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.”
Jeremiah 31:33-34
Understanding OT Prophecy
1. Understand the Context
2. Understand the Prophet’s Role
3. Understand what Prophecy is
4. OT Prophecy is Corporate
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper
you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Jeremiah 29:11
Hezekiah Josiah
Jeremiah
Jehoiachin
Nebuchadnezzar
597BC
Siege of Jerusalem
Zedekiah
597: Puppet king installed by Babylonians
Jehoiachin
Exiled to Babylon
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD,
“plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you
hope and a future.”
Zedekiah
Rebelling again
“I will pursue them with the sword, famine and plague and will make
them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse and an object of horror, of scorn and
reproach, among all the nations where I drive
them.”
Zedekiah
586: Jerusalem Destroyed
“I will pursue them with the sword, famine and plague and will make
them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse and an object of horror, of scorn and
reproach, among all the nations where I drive
them.”
Jehoiachin
537: Return to Jerusalem begins
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD,
“plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you
hope and a future.”
Why read OT Prophecy?
• To understand God
• To understand ourselves
• To understand the NT