Learn how to enter new realms of the prophetic ministry. Examine high-level prophetic operations and the prophet's distinct lifestyle. Discover the art of prophetic intercession. Release more accurate prophetic utterances. Find out why prophetic alignment is important for your life. Learn about prophetic statesmanship, protocols and the earmarks of a true prophet. Even seasoned believers will come to new levels as you are activated to hear, see and say.
These essays are written in honour of John D.W. Watts, formerly Professor of Old Testament at Southern Baptist Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky and Old Testament editor of the Word Biblical Commentary, well known for his contributions, especially to scholarship on the prophetic books. Accordingly, the essays here address the literary, redactional and canonical questions posed by the Hebrew Bible's prophetic literature. The prophetic books have defied easy classification according to genre or facile explanation of their historical development. With a special focus on the books of Isaiah and of the Twelve Prophets, the nature and formation of prophecy as literature is probed from a variety of methodological standpoints, including textual criticism, synchronic literary analysis, tradition history and redaction criticism.
This unique introduction to the Prophetic books provides a comprehensive examination of one of the most important, and misunderstood genres of the Hebrew Bible. It examines the nature and purpose of prophetic literature, as well as providing an in-depth account of the origins and development of each individual book. The book begins by placing the prophets in their historical context and introducing the idea of a prophetic book. A series of chronological chapters focus on each prophetic book examining its literary structure, authorship, and the editorial processes that produced each book. Readers are also introduced to the most recent scholarly research into the formation of prophetic books and the ongoing task of the scribes in updating previous works to meet new situations. The Prophetic Literature offers rich and rewarding insights into a series of prophetic works whose profound influences and inspirational wisdom have endured to the present day.
A guide for students and pastors to interpret and communicate the messages of the prophetic books well Preaching from a prophetic text can be daunting because it can be difficult to place these prophecies in their proper historical setting. The prophets used different literary genres and they often wrote using metaphorical poetry that is unfamiliar to the modern reader. This handbook offers an organized method of approaching a prophecy and preparing a persuasive, biblically based sermon that will draw modern application from the theological principle embedded in the prophetic text.
There is a marked resemblance between our time and that of Elijah and Elisha. Theirs was a time of judgment; ours is as well. But there is a deeper resemblance. Their day was an age of syncretism, of radical compromise between the worship of the Lord and Baal worship. The two had been blended together to make one religion, so that a refusal to see the necessity for uncompromising religion marked Israel. Israel rarely denied the Lord or professed open apostasy. Rather, it pursued a course of religious syncretism, using the name of the Lord but absorbing with their religion whatever other faith was expedient for them. Thus, they were not open pagans, but pagans who practiced their unbelief under cover of the Lord's name. Syncretism is again our problem. Numerous forces, powers, and persons are accorded sovereignty over man. Today, Baal-worship is again prevalent in the name of the Lord. Humanistic statism is easily and readily submitted to by churchmen: children are placed in humanistic state schools, given into the hands of the enemies of God, and people are only indignant if you condemn this practice. The major concern of most church members is not the Lord's battles, nor the urgency to make a stand against compromise, but, “How can I best enjoy life?” The similarity does not end there. Elijah and Elisha's day was one of prosperity, a false prosperity that was largely the product of inflation. Our age, too, has been marked by an inflationary prosperity, and the loosening of moral and religious standards is one result. People want things, not qualities or virtues. This mindset demands more material wealth for men and diminishes the need for moral and educational performance and excellence. It is now a virtue to tolerate evil and to be intolerant of any material lack for man. In Chariots of Prophetic Fire, R J. Rushdoony challenges the Church of our day to resist compromise and the temptation of expediency, and realize that the power today does not lie in politics or governments but in God's men of faith.
The ultimate, all-in-one resource on what the Old Testament says about Jesus As Jesus walked the Emmaeus road, he showed his companions how the whole of Scripture foretold his coming. Yet so often today we’re not quite sure how to talk about Jesus in the Old Testament. How do you know what applies to Jesus? And how do you interpret some of the strange prophetic language? Get answers and clarity in this authoritative and reliable guide to messianic prophecy from some of the world’s foremost evangelical Old Testament scholars. In this in-depth, user-friendly one volume resource you get: -essays from scholars on the big ideas and major themes surrounding Messianic prophecy -A clear and careful commentary on every passage in the Old Testament considered Messianic -Insights into the original Hebrew and helpful analysis of theological implications Watch the Scriptures come into full color as you see new meaning in familiar passages and further appreciate God’s masterful handiwork in preparing the way for Jesus, the long-awaited Messiah.
This book is an outgrowth of a manuscript entitled, Advanced Prophetic Studies, by the author, written in 1981, later renamed, Manifold Revelation. This volume was designed to follow Blueprint for Revival (the precursor of Who Shall Stand) and The Daniel Eleven Mystery (the precursor of Daniel Eleven Mysteries) as a third volume in a set. The first two volumes in the set introduce the idea of more than one glorious coming of Christ during probationary time in the last days and a set of hermeneutic principles to test our prophetic views by. This volume takes those for granted, but explores those concepts through a wide range of Bible books. As in Daniel Eleven Mysteries, the text of the chapters is virtually free from the hermeneutic principles—those being reserved by chapter for Appendix A in Daniel Eleven Mysteries. The text, also, is a virtual commentary on the texts studied. Not only the applications envisioned in the original Advanced Prophetic Studies, but more recent applications of some of the texts are propounded. Every effort is made to bring the work up to date with the best light possible.
What makes a Seventh-day Adventist a real Seventh-day Adventist? an Adventist is made what he is by the faith of Adventism, he is a Seventh-day Adventist by the pillars of the Faith and by the prophecies given to him by the Holy Spirit's revelation. It is not the denomination of the SDA Church that designates a person as a true Seventh-day Adventist, it is the denominated faith of Seventh-day Adventism that makes him a Seventh-day Adventist. Affiliation with the body is good, but is not the element in true brotherly fellowship, the real element is in fellowshipping with those who have the real faith and morals.We are Thusia Seventh day Adventists. The name Thusia does not stand for a new religion, it is an adjectival noun that describes what kind of Adventists we are. The word Thusia is the Greek word for sacrifice in the LXX and the Greek of the New Testament or Second Witness. It means that we are sacrificial Seventh day Adventists, those who have sacrificed (or denied) self for the sake of love to God and love to their fellowmen because of the moral influence of the sacrifice (Thusia) Jesus made for us. This is true Seventh Day Adventism as is revealed in Romans 12:1 and Psalm 50:5. As the material of this book testifies, we have thoroughly examined the false SDA teachings, presented the teachings of true historic Adventism, and compared them with the false ones for all to see what has happened in the church. We have done all this in principled love, so that when the inquiry is made as to what is the difference between Thusia SDA and the traditional SDA denomination, people can have an appropriate answer, so as to not be deceived to accept the SDA church in its lukewarm state as a church approved of God.
This work is concerned with the influence of biblical and prophetic traditions on the author of the book of Revelation, and in particular his use of the prophecies of Isaiah. First, John's own prophetic consciousness and expression is compared with previous Israelite-Jewish and early Christian prophetic conventions. This is followed by an evaluation of John's use of the OT in general, including a discussion of methodology for isolating allusions, the question of the validity of the terms quotation and allusion in Revelation, and the presence of thematic patterns in the author's choice of Scripture. All this is foundational to the main portion of the work (Ch. III), where a detailed analysis is undertaken to determine the validity of all proposed allusions to Isaiah in the book of Revelation. Of the 72 suggested allusions treated, 40 were judged as certain or virtually certain, 24 were considered as unlikely or doubtful, and 8 were appraised as probable or possible. Those allusions which were accepted received further evaluation to see how and why they were used by John, with special attention given to the tradition-history of the passage used, and the possible interpretative techniques employed. A variety of exegetical and literary devices were uncovered, including the use of catchwords, inclusio, repetition of texts, exploitation of Hebrew parallelism, and the collection of texts around a central theme. Furthermore, John's use of Isaiah is concentrated in basic areas, with clusters of Isaiah texts appearing in specific sections of Revelation. The principal Isaian themes with which he is interested are holy war and the Day of the Lord, oracles against the nations, and salvation prophecies relating to the community of faith and the restored and glorified Jerusalem. It was concluded that on the whole, John's use of Isaiah is not random, and he does not use the OT texts merely as a visionary resource for language, phrases, structural patterns etc. But he consciously carries on the prophecies of his biblical predecessors and invokes their authority. The remnants and results of John's interpretation of Isaiah presuppose exegetical activity and application prior to the vision experience and it is likely that at least some of his intended readers were familiar not only with his theological concerns, but also with his methodological approach.
