What Was a Prophet?

Correspondence between the human and the perfect domains happens from numerous points of view. One essential divert in the scriptural convention is through the prophets, male or female, who are called by God to address their locale, present and future, with that certain and booming presentation, "In this manner says the Ruler!" These equivalent prophets may likewise mediate with God for the benefit of the individuals, and may likewise talk their own words. In the midst of emergency the prophets talk about required acquiescence to God and trust in God. They talk about fiasco and judgment yet in addition of survival and expectation, tending to their own locale and the world past. Being accused of conveying what god's identity is and what God does (Amos 3:7), they challenge people with great influence and the individuals by and large.

Notwithstanding their sharp investigation of their present time the prophets unhesitatingly imagine future improvements, for example, the plausibility of a serene kingdom (e.g., Hos 2:20; Isa 11:1-9), a dream as yet enthralling the creative mind of individuals in the present.

The prophets basically represent God however they likewise express their very own words. Amos 3:7 clarifies: "The Ruler God has spoken; who can yet forecast?" Though Jer 20:7 communicates anguish at the individuals' dismissal of the prophet's statement from God: "I have turned into a fool throughout the day."

As agents of a charming convention—having an immediate association with God, and advantaged to "tune in" on God's mystery thoughts (note 1Kgs 22:17-23)— the Israelite prophets speak to two differentiating bearings. They are firmly established in the custom of "I am the Master your God, from the Place that is known for Egypt," underlining the Mass migration convention of freedom and the Mosaic pledge of selective faithfulness to God. Simultaneously they are unmistakably creative, accentuating that the God who brought out Israel from the place where there is Egypt additionally drawn out the Philistines and the Arameans and had an enthusiasm for the individuals of Kush (Amos 9:7). Prophets in the hours of the Judean banish in Babylonia and during the troublesome time of restoration in the land, reported that the foreseen Savior, God's blessed one, was really the Persian lord, Cyrus, who might advance the arrival of the outcasts and the remaking of the sanctuary (Isa 45:1; and see Isa 44:28). Also, in the equivalent comprehensive soul it was a prophet who attested that outsiders who pursued the Master and eunuchs who were devoted to the pledge were welcome in God's "place of petition for every one of the people groups" (Isa 56:3-7), and it was a prophet who foreseen a proceeding with line of prophets (Joel 2:28-29)!

Most importantly, the prophets of antiquated Israel challenge their reality—and each one of the individuals who still respect their words—to "see what is correct and do what is simply" (Isa 56:1).