Bible Blitz IV

The ProphetsJuly 2, 2007

Presenter: Fr. EdTechnician: Ray HoslerHonoree: Deacon Norm

The Prophets

Isaiah

Jeremiah - Lamentations

Ezekiel - Daniel

Hosea - Joel

Amos - Obadiah

Jonah - Micah

Nahuum - Habakkuk

The Prophets – cont’d

Zephaniah - Haggai

Zachariah - Malachi

John the Baptist

Jesus

Lamentations(586 BC – 516 BC)

“Witness to the Persecution”

“My eyes are red from crying”

Author

Unnamed – Eyewitness – Jeremiah?

Lamentations

Time Line

• 586 BC – Jerusalem destroyed by Babylon

• 538 BC –Jewish exiles return to Jerusalem

• 516 BC – Temple rebuilt

LamentationsStyle

Five poems in acrostic form, 1-8,

each verse begins with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet, which has 22 letters

One poem has 66 verses – 3 x 22 – Therefore every third verse begins with a letter of the alphabet.

Alphabet letters – a memory help or a sign of completion – “A to Z” - 22

Lamentations

Contents

1. Confession of sins

2. Grief

3. Chastisement

4. Yahweh can restore

5. Israel the bride of Yahweh, now a widow

“The Lord is good to those whose hope is in Him, to the one who seeks him.”

(3:22-26)

Ezekiel(605 BC - 516 BC)

Dry BonesFour Faces

Priest, Prophet, Prisoner

Ezekiel

Time Line

• 605 BC – Suppression of Jerusalem by Babylonians

• 593 BC – Ezekiel begins 20 years of prophesy

• 583 BC – Jerusalem destroyed; 10,000 prisoners - Ezekiel

Life Notes

• At 25, Ezekiel a priest in Jerusalem

• At 30, called to be a prophet to Jews in exile

• Called to be a prophet in Babylon

• First prophet to be called to prophesy outside the Holy Land

• Deported by Nebuchadnezzar – 587 BC

Life Notes – cont’d

• Up until 587 BC, he scolded the people

• Afterward, he encouraged them

• Doom and hope

Ezekiel Stories

• The four faces (Ez 1:1-14)

• Ezekiel eats the scroll (Ez 2:3 – 3:3)

• Dry bones (Ez 37:1-14)

Daniel(600 BC – 500 BC

Fiery Furnace

Lion’s Den

Handwriting on the Wall

Daniel

• Teenage dreams

• Prophet and prisoner in Babylon

• His book is more apopalyptic than prophetic

• Written @ 167 BC and 164 BC to encourage the Jews

Time Line

• 605 BC – Babylon invades Judea; Daniel taken captive

• 586 BC – Babylon destroys Jerusalem

• 538 BC – Jews return to Jerusalem

Life Notes

• Daniel from the upper class of Jerusalem

• Humble and obedient; turned to God and prayer in crises

• He and three others taken into the court of Nebuchadnezzar

• Three young men: Shadrach (Hananiah), Meshach (Michael), Abednego( Azanah)

Daniel Stories

• Fiery Furnace (Dn 3:1-30)

• Handwriting on the Wall

•Lions’ Den (Dn 6:1-28)

•Oh Susanna (Dn 13)