Prophet

The Lord Jesus Christ tells that people will come to know “false messiahs and false prophets who will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive” (Matthew 24:24). Although many false messiahs and false prophets have been a part of the earth since Jesus Resurrection, who seek to betray humans or persecute the true followers of Christ, there has never been an adequate worldwide fulfillment of the Lord’s words until the Tribulations during the first part of the 20th century. Since people are human, they have an internal need for survival and to have this need met, anyone of their leaders can sway a belief system by giving food to the hungry so they can reach their personal dispositions. The time of the setting of the beasts sees an…

Prophets are religious figures who have contact with greater beings or gods. In the Hebrew sense, prophets were the messengers from God to the people. The Hebrew word for prophet “navi” comes from the phrase “niv sefatayim” which means “fruit of the lips”. This implies that the prophets were revered as sacred vessels of knowledge and information sent from the heavens above and God himself. While the Hebrew scripture only recorded fifty-five prophets, the Talmud shows that there were more than…

The prophets depicted in the Hebrew Bible are said to have played a pivotal role in the history of the people of ancient Palestine. This is evidenced by approximately 30 percent of the Hebrew Bible is comprised of purported orations of or writings about the prophets (Stanley, 410, 425). The role of the prophets was to serve as intermediaries between deities and the people of ancient Palestine (Stanley, 416). This was important as one of the mechanism for the people to understand and connect…

to ask a practicing Christian what a prophet is, there is no doubt that most would be able to formulate some type of definition. However, many people’s thoughts on what a prophet is are often incomplete or even incorrect. While there are many places one could look to find an adequate definition of a prophet, Abraham Heschel provides an analysis of prophets unlike any other. Heschel’s analysis goes into great detail about what a prophet is, and what a prophet is not. After reading his…

The Old Testament introduces us to a variety of Prophets that are still prominent in society today. We learn from the Old Testament that Prophets are but not limited to: the recipient of G-d’s Revelation, an intermediary between G-d and Israel and a mouthpiece of G-d’s divine outrage at human immortality. Amos, one of the twelve Minor Prophets, was from Tekoa, Judah in the Southern Kingdom but prophesied in the Northern Kingdom around 760-750 BCE. His messages of impending doom and judgment for…

Haggai is one of the 12 minor prophets in the Old Testament. His book is believed to be written in 520 B.C. It is third to last out of the minor prophets, and is only two chapters long. He delivered four messages to the Jewish people of Jerusalem, after their return from exile in 538 B.C. His first deliverance was on August 29,530 BC. His second was on October 17, 520 BC, and the last two messages were both delivered on December 18 520 BC. He is believed to be over 70 years old when he was…

Greater Prophets: Have you ever been threatened to be thrown into a fire because of your faith? Or thrown in a lions den? There was a prophet named Daniel who went through both of these things and more. During Daniel’s time, the Jews were under Babylon whose leader was King Nebuchadnezzar. It also takes place when Babylon was seiged by Persia. Daniel was given the task of relaying the Lord’s messages to the people and trusted the Lord in spite of the danger of his own life. This…

A prophet is a person regarded as an inspired teacher, or proclaimer of the will of G-d. “The English word “prophet” comes from Greek and literally means “spokesperson.” This further provides meaning since the prophets were “messengers of G-d”. In Hebrew the name עמוס (Amos) means laden, burdened, carried, and brave. In the Old Testament, a person named “Amos” besides the prophet is never mentioned. Out of all of the prophets, “Amos is the first of the “writing prophets,” that is prophets whose…

The book of Isaiah the prophet begins with a third-person verse identifying the name of the book's visionary, and ends not only with a prophetic word of hope for God's chosen people, but also with an oracle of warning to those who do evil. Sixty-six chapters are contained in this book, making it the lengthiest writing among all the prophetic works in the Old Testament. In addition, it is also the book most quoted in the New Testament.1 Jewish tradition lists Isaiah among the “Latter Prophets,”…

This book name is Muhammad: The Ideal Prophet A Historical, Practical, Perfect Model for Humanity from a work by a scholar of Maulana Sayyid Sulaiman Nadwi. This volume is a compilation of lectures given by the author in 1925 at Madras, India. In these lectures the author vividly presents the life of the Prophet as an abiding historical model - not a utopian ideal - for all humanity. This book is a must for every student of religion. And English translation by Mohiuddin Ahmad from Malaysia.…