OT Prophets

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper

you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

Jeremiah 29:11

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I will pursue them with the sword, famine and plague and will make

them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse and an object of

horror, of scorn and reproach, among all the nations where I drive them.

I will make you abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse and an object of horror, of scorn and reproach, among all the nations where I drive you.

OT Prophecy

Understanding OT Prophecy

1. Understand the Context

Understanding OT Prophecy

1. Understand the Context

2. Understand the Prophet’s Role

Deuteronomy

Reminder:

Terms of Covenant

What will you choose?

OT Timeline

2000 BC

1000 BC

Abraham Joshua David

760 BC 460 BC

Fall of

Israel

Fall of Judah

Understanding OT Prophecy

1. Understand the Context

2. Understand the Prophet’s Role

3. Understand what Prophecy is

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper

you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

Jeremiah 29:11

33 “This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel

   after that time,” declares the LORD. “I will put my law in their minds    and write it on their hearts.

I will be their God,    and they will be my people.

34 No longer will they teach their neighbors,    or say to one another, ‘Know the LORD,’

because they will all know me,    from the least of them to the greatest,”

   declares the LORD. “For I will forgive their wickedness

   and will remember their sins no more.”

Jeremiah 31:33-34

Understanding OT Prophecy

1. Understand the Context

2. Understand the Prophet’s Role

3. Understand what Prophecy is

4. OT Prophecy is Corporate

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper

you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

Jeremiah 29:11

Hezekiah Josiah

Jeremiah

Jehoiachin

Nebuchadnezzar

597BC

Siege of Jerusalem

Zedekiah

597: Puppet king installed by Babylonians

Jehoiachin

Exiled to Babylon

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD,

“plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you

hope and a future.”

Zedekiah

Rebelling again

“I will pursue them with the sword, famine and plague and will make

them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse and an object of horror, of scorn and

reproach, among all the nations where I drive

them.”

Zedekiah

586: Jerusalem Destroyed

“I will pursue them with the sword, famine and plague and will make

them abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth, a curse and an object of horror, of scorn and

reproach, among all the nations where I drive

them.”

Jehoiachin

537: Return to Jerusalem begins

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD,

“plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you

hope and a future.”

Why read OT Prophecy?

• To understand God

• To understand ourselves

• To understand the NT