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The Purpose of Prophecy

The Purpose of Prophecy. Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.

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The Purpose of Prophecy

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  1. The Purpose of Prophecy Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed. A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the LORD that renderethrecompence to his enemies. Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child. Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children. Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God. Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her: Isa 66:5-10 KJV

  2. Definition of Prophecy • : a prediction of something to come • : the function or vocation of a prophet; specifically: the inspired declaration of divine will and purpose

  3. Definition of Prophecy Prophecy - Heb. Nebuah: a prediction (spoken or written) Prophet – Heb. Nabiy:a spokesman or inspired man.

  4. Biblical Definition of a Prophet I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. Deu 18:18 KJV

  5. Prophet – Predicting the Future And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him. Deu 18:21-22 KVJ

  6. Challenge # 1 • Produce your cause, saith the Lord; bring forth your strong reasons, saith the king of Jacob. Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen; let themshow the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. Shew us the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are godsIsa. 41:21-23 KJV

  7. Challenge # 2 • I am the Lord: that is my name: and I will not give my glory to another, neither my praise to graven images. Behold, the former things are come to pass and new things do I declare; before they springforth, I tell you of them • Isa. 42:8 KJV

  8. Challenge # 3 • Thus saith the Lord the king of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of Hosts; I am the first and I am the last; and beside me there is no God. And who, as I,shall call, and shall declare it, and set it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? and things that are coming, and shall come, let them shew unto themIsa 44:6-7 KJV

  9. Challenge # 4 • Remember the former things of old: for I am God and there is none else; I am Godand there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure Isa 46:9-10 KJV

  10. Challenge # 5 • Ihave declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and Ishewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass; ... before it came to pass, I shewed thee; lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them and my graven image, my molten image, hath commanded them Isa 48:3-5 KJV

  11. Prophecy Two Part System: • Prediction • Fulfillment

  12. The Prophetic Witness The Prophecy upon which the Most High has staked his claim as God, is this: The Witness of the Nation of Israel

  13. The Prophetic Witness • Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? Let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, it is truth. YE ARE MY WITNESSES, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I am the Lord, and beside me there is no saviour. I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange God among you: therefore YE ARE MY WITNESSES, saiththe Lord that I am God". • Isa 43:9-12 KJV

  14. The Prophetic Witness Fear ye not, neither be afraid; have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it ? YE ARE EVEN MY WITNESSESIsa 44:8 KJV

  15. Ye Are My Witnesses • But now thus saith the Lord that created thee 0Jacob. and he that formed thee 0 Israel. Fear not for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by name, thou art mine Isa 43:1 KJV

  16. The Prediction – Part 1 SCATTERING About 1500 B.C., the children of Israel were repeatedly warned by Moses that failure to obey the divine commandments and ordinances would result in the nation being scattered from the Promised Land (Palestine) to a multitude of foreign countries. " If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious andfearful name, THE LORD THY GOD: then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful ... he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt. .. and ye shall be left few in number. .. and ye shall be plucked off the land whither thou goest to possess it. And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from one end of the earth even unto the other. .. And among those nations thou shalt find no ease... and thy life shall hang in doubt before thee ... and thou shalt have no assurance of thy life" Deut. 28:58-66 KJV

  17. The Prediction – Part 2 RETAIN THEIR IDENTITY Despite the fact that they would be scattered throughout the countries of the world, they would RETAIN THEIR IDENTITY. " though I make a full end of all nations wither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee ... " Jer. 30:11 KJV " If those ordinances (the sun and the moon) depart from before me, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever" Jer. 31:36 KJV

  18. Retain Their Identity In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates: The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites. Gen. 15:18-21 KJV

  19. The Prediction – Part 3 REGATHERING The prophets had long foretold that, in the latter days, prior to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, the Jews would return to their own land - the same land from whence they had been scattered many centuries before.

  20. The Prediction – Part 3 • REGATHERING • Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. Eze 11:17 KJV • I will accept you with your sweet savour, when I bring you out from the people, and gather youout of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen. • And ye shall know that Iam the LORD, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel, into the country for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to your fathers. Eze 20:41-42 KJV

  21. Not Everyone Believed As late as 1933 some believed that the prediction of the return of the Jews to Palestine would prove an abject failure. "Suppose a gigantic miracle were to be worked - God can work miracles - and the Moslems and Christians were persuaded to depart from Palestine, would the repatriation of the Jews be a simple matter? Would their age-long dream then be easy of realization? Far from it“ (p. 38) The Second Advent of Our Lord H.E.Hughes 1933

  22. Israel – Ye Are My Witness The Re-gathering of the Jewish People • The First Zionist Congress 1897 • Exactly 1260 years from the capture of Jerusalem in 637 A.D., a new movement among the Jews springs into existence: Zionism. • Zionism - "to procure for the Jewish people an openly recognized and legally assured home in Palestine the ancient homeland of the Jews " • The first Zionist Congress was held at Basle, Switzerland, in 1897 Dr. Theodor Herzl was the " architect " of modem Zionism.

  23. Israel – Ye Are My Witness The Re-gathering of the Jewish People • THE BALFOUR DECLARATION 1917 • " His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object; it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country".

  24. Israel – Ye Are My Witness The Re-gathering of the Jewish People • The Holocaust and World War II 1939- 1945 • During WW II the notorious Holocaust took place in which over 6 million Jews were killed. • By the end of the war in 1945, the Jewish population was greatly decimated. The beneficial outcome of the Holocaust was that many of the Jews who survived the massacre, were now not only willing, but even anxious to seek refuge in a country (Israel) of their own. • "World War I prepared the (Holy) Land for the people. World War II prepared the (Jewish) people for the land".

  25. Israel – Ye Are My Witness The Re-gathering of the Jewish People • THE STATE OF ISRAEL 1947-48 • The miracle occurred! May 14, 1948

  26. Israel – Ye Are My Witness The Re-gathering of the Jewish People • WE DECLARE that, with effect from the moment of the termination of the Mandate being tonight, the eve of Sabbath, the 6th Iyar, 5708 (15th May, 1948), until the establishment of the elected, regular authorities of the State in accordance with the Constitution which shall be adopted by the Elected Constituent Assembly not later than the 1st October 1948, the People's Council shall act as a Provisional Council of State, and its executive organ, the People's Administration, shall be the Provisional Government of the Jewish State, • to be called "Israel".

  27. The Magnitude of the Miracle The Re-gathering of the Jewish People • "If this remarkable people (Jews) should be restored to their own country, and become a flourishing nation in it, (which is likewise foretold), few persons, I think, will doubt the reality of the prophetic spirit" . • Joseph Priestly - a student of Bible prophecy - 1787

  28. The Magnitude of the Miracle The Re-gathering of the Jewish People • "These prophecies .. need no comment. They declare, as clearly as language can, that the Jews shall return to Judaea, and be at last permanently re-established in the land of their fathers". • Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion p.318 Alexander Keith, 1830 • "If we would seriously consider what concerns the Jewish restoration, a truth that seems for many hard to believe how this should take place, for that dead womb to bear; and these dry bones live which for so many days have lain at the grave's mouth, is indeed a marvelous thing"! The fulfilling of Scripture Complete Robert Fleming, 1726

  29. The Magnitude of the Miracle The Re-gathering of the Jewish People • "The reader is doubtless familiar with the predictive clause [Rev. 16: 12] as one most generally explained of the restoration of the Jews to their own land, following on the decay and fall of the Turkish Empire ... ". • HoraeApocalyticaeE. B. Elliott 1844

  30. The Magnitude of the Miracle The Re-gathering of the Jewish People • "What is the natural conclusion from all these facts [of Bible prophecy] but that just as all threats [of divine judgments upon the Jews] have had a literal, historical fulfilment in the literal historical nation of lsrael, so also .. shall all these promises in like manner have a no less literal historical fulfilment, in the same literal historical nation of Israel.. . .If such words as those which we have cited, do not teach that Israel, the literal historical national Israel, shall yet be gathered into their own land, to be rooted out no more forever, we ask what words could possibly have been substituted which should have taught this?". S. H. Kellogg 1883

  31. The Magnitude of the Miracle The Re-gathering of the Jewish People The restoration of Israel is a most important feature in the divine economy. It is indispensable to the setting up of the Kingdom of God; for they are the kingdom, having been constituted such by the covenant of Sinai, as it is written, “Ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation” (Exodus 19:6). The apostles understood this well enough, and so do all who understand the Gospel of the Kingdom. Elpis Israel Bro. John Thomas 1848

  32. The Magnitude of the Miracle The Re-gathering of the Jewish People • " There is nothing more certain: the prophets do everywhere confirm it " • Thomas Brightman [1562-1607]

  33. The Purpose of Prophecy • Object of prophecy - to reveal God to men and to keep men with God. • And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation: • And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? Dan 4:34-35 KJV

  34. The Purpose of Prophecy • Object of prophecy - to reveal God to men and to keep men with God. • Prophecy - given as an instrument in the preparation of a people for the Lord, and it is given primarily for the benefit of those with whom God is working out his purpose of redemption.

  35. The Purpose of Prophecy • Object of prophecy: • "And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, • YE MIGHT BELIEVE"John 14:29 KJV

  36. The Purpose of Prophecy • Object of prophecy: • "And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, YE MIGHT BELIEVE“ John 14:29 KJV • The prediction of the future well in advance. • The fulfilment of the prediction or prophecy, • The result and purpose of the activity or undertaking. That Ye Might Believe

  37. Our God Lives But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD. Num 14:21 KJV

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