{"id":5087,"date":"2026-05-21T18:15:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T16:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lionofjudah.info\/?p=5087"},"modified":"2026-05-24T15:37:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T13:37:05","slug":"prophetic-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lionofjudah.info\/?p=5087","title":{"rendered":"Prophetic books"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn.kb-btns5087_1ec25e-f0{gap:var(--global-kb-gap-xs, 0.5rem );justify-content:center;align-items:center;}.kt-btns5087_1ec25e-f0 .kt-button{font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;}.kt-btns5087_1ec25e-f0 .kt-btn-wrap-0{margin-right:5px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn.kt-btns5087_1ec25e-f0 .kt-btn-wrap-0 .kt-button{color:#555555;border-color:#555555;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn.kt-btns5087_1ec25e-f0 .kt-btn-wrap-0 .kt-button:hover, .wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn.kt-btns5087_1ec25e-f0 .kt-btn-wrap-0 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.kb-btn5087_d111ea-79.kb-button{width:initial;}<\/style><a class=\"kb-button kt-button button kb-btn5087_d111ea-79 kt-btn-size-small kt-btn-width-type-auto kb-btn-global-fill  kt-btn-has-text-true kt-btn-has-svg-false  wp-block-kadence-singlebtn\" href=\"https:\/\/wellness.lion-of-judah.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"kt-btn-inner-text\">Wellness<\/span><\/a>\n\n<style>ul.menu .wp-block-kadence-advancedbtn .kb-btn5087_9f5d9f-20.kb-button{width:initial;}<\/style><a class=\"kb-button kt-button button kb-btn5087_9f5d9f-20 kt-btn-size-small kt-btn-width-type-auto kb-btn-global-fill  kt-btn-has-text-true kt-btn-has-svg-false  wp-block-kadence-singlebtn\" href=\"https:\/\/mm.lion-of-judah.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"kt-btn-inner-text\">Biker<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Introduction to the Books of the Prophets<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The biblical prophets are not \u201cordinary\u201d fortune-tellers, shamans, medicine men, or seers, such as those found in every tribe and culture since the dawn of our species and in isolated regions of our world right up to the present day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their practices include, among many other things, interpreting weather, clouds, dreams, and other signs, as well as divining the future from the entrails of sacrificial animals and casting symbols made of bone, wood, or stone.<br>As civilizations emerged, this subsequently gave rise everywhere and independently of one another to \u201corganized\u201d priestly castes or \u201cclergy,\u201d who viewed their activities more as \u201cwork for a living\u201d than as a calling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A profession that was learned and led to a \u201cspiritual-social status\u201d that could ultimately be passed down through generations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The books of the prophets that we can read here, on the other hand, come from people from the most diverse social classes and professional groups.<br>The crucial thing about these \u201cprophets of the Scriptures\u201d in the Bible was that they all had a message from God to deliver in a specific situation!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These revelations could have been directed at a single person, the Northern Kingdom of Israel, the Southern Kingdom of Judah, or the whole of Israel\u2014and Jonah was even sent on an \u201cinternational\u201d mission \ud83d\ude42 from God to Nineveh (near modern-day Mosul in northern Iraq), the last and most powerful capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First and foremost, these prophets hold up a mirror to their contemporaries\u2014they expose hypocrisy and godlessness and call for repentance. The issues they address concern all areas of life\u2014political, social, and religious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first of these prophets appeared when Israel was still a powerful and prosperous nation; they had much to preach about the coming judgment.<br>Judgment for the behavior that was common among the people and often among the rulers as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was only after all power had vanished from all the tribes of Israel (following the Babylonian Exile) that the prophets began to comfort the people and give them hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the prophecies of the Bible, all hope is always accompanied by the recognition of one\u2019s own powerlessness and by trust in, and turning toward, God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alongside this relentless criticism, the warnings, and the calls to turn back\u2014\u201cto repentance\u201d \u2013 and the announcements of the coming \u201cjudgments\u201d for individuals, nations, and all of humanity \u2013 all these prophetic books also consistently speak of the promise of a Messiah \u2013<br>God\u2019s promise of an \u201cAnointed One,\u201d a Savior for Israel and ultimately for all people who accept the call of the God of the Bible, everywhere in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Often, a distinction is made among the prophetic books between the so-called <strong>\u201cmajor prophets\u201d<\/strong>:<br><strong>Isaiah, Jeremiah and his Lamentations, the prophet Ezekiel, and Daniel<\/strong> \u2014<br>and the twelve <strong>\u201cminor prophets\u201d: Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi<\/strong> \u2014 the so-called \u201cBook of the Twelve Prophets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Personally, I find a classification based on the location of their ministry\u2014which simultaneously provides us with a rough chronological overview of these \u201cprophets of the Scriptures\u201d\u2014to be more meaningful.<br>Here is a brief overview\u2014but God has infinitely more to say through the prophets themselves. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Primarily in the Northern Kingdom, before the fall of Israel in 722 B.C.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lionofjudah.info\/?p=1531\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1531\">Amos: <\/a><\/strong>His warning that persistent sin must be followed by divine judgment<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lionofjudah.info\/?p=1488\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1488\">Hosea:<\/a><\/strong> Speaks primarily of God\u2019s love for Israel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lionofjudah.info\/?p=1538\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1538\">Jonah: <\/a><\/strong>His message to the ruling Assyrian Empire: Repent! Jonah himself wanted exactly the opposite \ud83d\ude42 \u2013 Here we see God\u2019s love for the Gentiles already evident in the Old Testament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In Judah, the Southern Kingdom, during the long years of decline<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lionofjudah.info\/?p=1529\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1529\">Joel: <\/a><\/strong>Speaks of the \u201cDay of the Lord\u201d\u2014the second coming of Jesus Christ after the \u201ctime of grace\u201d in which we still live\u2014and of the judgment upon the nations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lionofjudah.info\/?p=1535\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1535\">Obadiah:<\/a><\/strong> Prophecies the judgment upon Edom (in the southern highlands of present-day Jordan)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lionofjudah.info\/?p=1468\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1468\">Isaiah: <\/a><\/strong>Has much to say to us; he speaks extensively of the coming Savior of the world, the Messiah\u2014the Christ and, at the same time, the coming King of Israel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lionofjudah.info\/?p=1542\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1542\">Micah: <\/a><\/strong>He, too, has news for us about the coming King of Bethlehem and his kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In Judah during the final years before the exiles to Babylon, from about 634 to 606 B.C.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lionofjudah.info\/?p=1472\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1472\">Jeremiah:<\/a><\/strong> Proclaims judgment upon Jerusalem, but he also speaks of its coming glory<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lionofjudah.info\/?p=1546\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1546\">Nahum: <\/a><\/strong>Proclaims God\u2019s final judgment upon the Assyrian Empire and its capital, and its coming end<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lionofjudah.info\/?p=1550\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1550\">Habakkuk: <\/a><\/strong>Speaks of God\u2019s kingdom and of how His people will triumph<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lionofjudah.info\/?p=1552\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1552\">Zephaniah: <\/a><\/strong>Prophecies that a remnant will be saved and blessed by God<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Prophets of the Scriptures during the Babylonian Exile through the Persian Rule, from about 606 to 538 BC<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lionofjudah.info\/?p=1484\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1484\">Daniel: <\/a><\/strong>Foretells the coming world empires and speaks at length about \u201cthe times of the Gentiles\u201d as well as the coming messianic kingdom for Israel. Daniel\u2019s vision, spanning his long life, extends to the end of this \u201cworld age.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lionofjudah.info\/?p=1480\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1480\">Ezekiel: <\/a><\/strong>Also prophesies far beyond the coming restoration of Israel, as a land and as a nation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">During the time of the restoration of Jerusalem and Israel, through the returnees from the Babylonian exile, in the years from around 538 to the 4th century B.C.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lionofjudah.info\/?p=1556\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1556\">Haggai:<\/a><\/strong> Foretells the restoration of the temple in Jerusalem and that of the kingdom for Israel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lionofjudah.info\/?p=1559\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1559\">Zechariah: <\/a><\/strong>Speaks at length again about the coming Savior as the Messiah, the \u201cBranch,\u201d and the King-Priest<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lionofjudah.info\/?p=1563\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"1563\">Malachi: <\/a><\/strong>As the last prophet of the Scriptures, Malachi laments the cold heart of the people of Israel.<br>He also issues the final warnings to the people regarding the coming judgment for their apostasy from the living God.<br>But even the last prophet to speak \u201cdirectly\u201d in God\u2019s Word announces the coming of the Messiah\u2014and even of his forerunner, John the Baptist!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In closing, a few thoughts that do not strictly pertain to the prophetic books themselves, but which I believe are nonetheless important to the topic of God\u2019s prophets.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bible tells us about many other prophets. Some of them, such as Samuel or the kings David and Solomon (who also foreshadow the \u201croyal priesthood\u201d to which all of God\u2019s children in Jesus Christ are entitled), left behind several books\u2014although their writings have found a very different place in the Bible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But many other prophets of God are mentioned only in passing in the Bible.<br>Their messages were perhaps just as important as those we can read\u2014but these messages from God were not intended for all of us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The regulations and criteria that apply to a prophet of God are listed in Deuteronomy, chapter 18, verses 9 through 22, the so-called \u201cLaw of the Prophets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Incidentally, there are just as many women among the prophets as there are men\u2014and not just in the New Testament!<br>Miriam\u2014Moses\u2019s older sister\u2014is already mentioned as the \u201cfirst prophetess\u201d ever.<br>Moses, her younger brother \ud83d\ude42, is then also listed as the \u201cfirst prophet\u201d\u2026<br>Or Deborah, who is not only referred to as a prophetess, as a \u201cnebi\u2019a\u201d\u2014a called one\u2014but who also simultaneously held the office of \u201cjudge,\u201d the spiritual and secular leader of the people of Israel in those times.<br>We can read about Deborah in the Book of Judges starting in chapter 4\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prophets of the Old Testament were all filled with God\u2019s Spirit, the \u201cRuach ha Kodesh,\u201d who gave them their messages and missions\u2014divine prophecy is one of the gifts of God\u2019s Spirit!<br>This special anointing, the \u201cfilling with the Holy Spirit,\u201d became available to all followers of Jesus on Pentecost in the year 32 A.D.\u2014but that by no means means that everyone immediately becomes a prophet as a result. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-5087_6cded8-4e 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