PROPHETS OF THE BIBLE

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The Introduction to this writing consists of three separate pages to help give a better understanding of the definition of a “Prophet”:

INTRODUCING THE PROPHETS OF THE BIBLE

SCHOOL FOR THE PROPHETS OF THE BIBLE

TIMELINE OF THE PROPHETS OF THE BIBLE

The “Prophet” was a normal human man.  Normal in the sense that he was not a supernatural being.  He was a man given a message from God.  The message being intended for a nation or a particular king or individual.  These were men who saw events through the eyes of man as we as humans do.

However, they were also given prophecies related to the future.  Often the future that they were told about was not a period that the Prophet would live to see in his lifetime.  These Prophets wrote and spoke what they were given by God, even if it was regarding events and things they could not see with their physical eyes, but were seeing with the spirit as God gave them the blessed opportunity to do so.

Prophets often saw events that occurred in the future.  They were not always told the sequence of those events.  Their writings would convey the information as they were told, often moving forward and back in time.  However, the events are always future to the day that the Prophet is writing in. Some Prophets saw the Second Coming of the Messiah even though they had not lived yet to see His First coming!  Some wrote details of both events.

Clarence Larkin in the early 1900’s depicted this in this excellent diagram.

Mountain Peaks of Prophecy by Clarence Larkin (public domain)

Here is another additional chart by Larkin depicting what each of the Prophet writers wrote about from perspective.

Perspective of Prophecy by Clarence Larkin (public domain)

Study Overviews for the individual books of the Prophets are listed below.

How do the teachings of the Prophets effect our future?  See the Study on the End Times on this website to find out.  Passages from each of these overviews have also been incorporated into that Study on the End Times.

BOOKS WRITTEN BY THE PROPHETS

List includes Date commonly attributed to the writing.

ZECHARIAH  557-525

DANIEL  616 to 536

EZEKIEL  622-600

MICAH  650-610

JEREMIAH  685-616

AMOS  689-687

ISAIAH  701-588

JOEL  795-755

**All dates listed are most common attributed dates of writing.

Sources may differ based upon calendar used.  All dates are “B.C.”

External Websites and Documents

related to the Prophets.

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An excellent resource site to aid in the study can be found at:

The Christian Resource Center of New Hampshire.

https://www.crcnh.org/index.html

Please support them by visiting them directly.

Examples of their work which relates to this topic include:

14-The-Kings-and-Prophets-of-Israel-Timeline.pdf

15-The-Kings-and-Prophets-of-Judah-Timeline.pdf

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Rob Harbison wrote a paper titled: “Kings and Prophets”.

It is an overview of all the kings and prophets. It is located at Padfield.com.

Link to Roy Harbison paper on Kings and Prophets

https://padfield.com/acrobat/harbison/kings-and-prophets-rh.pdf

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