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OVERVIEW OF OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS & The Prophet MOSES. GOD is perfectly loving and merciful. MY BEST RESPONSE. GOD is perfectly just and holy. How do these two qualities work together?. nabiy = איבנ Hebrew for prophet, from
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GOD is perfectly loving and merciful. MY BEST RESPONSE GOD is perfectly just and holy. • How do these two qualities work together?
nabiy =איבנ Hebrew for prophet, • from • naba = עכנ Hebrew for bubbling, gushing forth, overflow. • PROPHET (assigned purpose): • A prophet is one who is to speak God’s word on God’s behalf and to represent God to the people. • He is God’s mouth, or someone who preaches the word of God (message that comes from God). • He is the antithesis of a priest, who represents or speaks to God for the people. PROPHETS
PROPHETIC BOOKS • 12 minor prophets • Hosea • Joel • Amos • Obadiah • Jonah • Micah • Nahum • Habakkuk • Zephaniah • Haggai • Zechariah • Malachi • 4 major prophets • Isaiah • Jeremiah • Ezekiel • Daniel
Who is the best preacher you have ever heard? MY BEST RESPONSE What is the best sermon you can recall?
Exodus 6:20 Amram and Jochebed were his parents Exodus 2:1-10 Birth of Moses Exodus 2:8-9 Moses was raised by his own mother Exodus 2:10 Moses means “the One Drawn Out” Exodus 2:11 Moses killed an Egyptian Exodus 2:15 Escape from Egypt Exodus 2:15 Moses fled to Midian Exodus 2:21 Moses won his wife Exodus 2:22 Moses’ wife had a son Exodus 3:2 Called through a burning bush Exodus 3:6 Moses was God-fearing Exodus 4:10 Moses had a speech problem Exodus 4:14 Moses’ brother, Aaron, went with him to speak on Moses behalf Exodus 19-20 Received the Commandments on the mount Deuteronomy 34:1-12 Death of Moses DETAILS OF MOSES’ LIFE
YAHWEH (YHWH) = הוהי • Hebrew for “I Am Who I Am!” (Exodus 3:14) • John 8:58 • “Before Abraham was I AM.” • The Self-Existing One. To Whom Am I Talking? THE TETRAGRAMATON
…no ability • …no credibility /no message • …no authority • …no eloquence • …no inclination To Whom Am I Talking? MOSES OBJECTIONS Exodus 3:11 Exodus 3:13 Exodus 4:1 Exodus 4:10 Exodus 4:13
…His presence • …His omnipotence • …His enabling • …His direction & instructions To Whom Am I Talking? GOD’S Counterarguments: Exodus 3:12 Exodus 4:2-9 Exodus 4:11-12 Exodus 4:14-16
YHWH speaks to Moses • YHWH commands the Hebrews through Moses • Moses didn’t ask to be a Prophet…was chosen by YHWH • YHWH gives dreams and visions to Moses—speaks to him face to face; and calls him a faithful servant • Moses foretells of the coming Messiah—”a prophet like me” from among the Hebrews… listen to Him. • Jesus fulfilled Moses prophecy MOSES the PROPHET ATTRIBUTES of a PROPHET Numbers 1:1… Numbers 9:23 … Numbers 11:29 … Numbers 12:6-8 … Deuteronomy 18:15 … Acts 3:22-26…
How do you know if someone is telling you the truth about something that he/she is trying to sell you? MY BEST RESPONSE
MOSES the PROPHET EXODUS 3 & 4 GOD reminds Moses who He is GOD reminds Moses that He knows what they are suffering YHWH Redemptive God PHAROAH…who was evil, was allowed to become even more wicked so that God’s plan was fulfilled
MOSES the PROPHET EXODUS 3 & 4 Nine times in Exodus the hardening of the pharaoh’s heart is ascribed to God (4:21; 7:3; 9:12; 10:1, 20, 27; 11:10; 14:4, 8); another nine times the pharaoh is said to have hardened his own heart (7:13-14, 22; 8:15, 19, 32; 9:7, 34-35). By using Romans 1:24-25, we can understand that the pharaoh alone was the agent of the hardening in each of the first five plagues. Not until the sixth plague did God confirm the pharaoh’s willful action (9:12), as He had told Moses he would do (see Romans 9:17-18 et al for further clarification). Notes from Concordia Self-Study Bible, New International Version, Robert G. Hoerber, editor, Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, 1986
MOSES the PROPHET EXODUS 5:1-19, 5:22-6:8 Israel complains to Moses Moses complains to YHWH (in the form of a prayer) YHWH answers with “I AM God Almighty” Delivers and redeems
MOSES the PROPHET Moses’ 40 years First 40+ brought up in Egypt as an Egyptian (Exodus 1-2:15; also see Acts 7:23) Customs Lifestyles 2nd 40 years--a stranger in a strange land. (Exodus 2:16-4:19; also see Acts 7:29-30) Wandering in the desert…a shepherd Becoming enslaved Third 40 years--Moses as a YHWH’s prophet (see Acts 7:36) wandering in the desert)…a shepherd until his death (Deuteronomy 34:5-7)
MOSES the PROPHET Hebrews 11:23-29 List everything Moses and his family did by faith
Is it ever okay to yell at God? • Why or why not? MY BEST RESPONSE
How does God come to us today and talk to us? • How do you relate back to God? MY BEST RESPONSE