THE BOOKS OF THE PROPHETS contain some of the harshest literature that has ever been written and some of the most sublime words that have ever been uttered. The prophets speak to four major time periods: their own day, the captivity that is coming to the people, the coming Messiah, and the great Messianic Kingdom that will one day be established. In this study, students are going to take a look at how the prophets knew God and how they represented him. In mere weeks, you will come to know four of the greatest men who ever walked the earth. In the prophets especially, you will see how the New Testament responds to the Old Testament. You will see prophecies find their fulfillment in Jesus Christ.
THIS STUDY BRINGS YOU through thrilling stories and their significance in the Christian journey. These stories include great, mighty powers that were threatening the peace of the world. You will learn about small nations that were caught in the midst of political intrigue, making wrong decisions, and frightened to death that they were going to be overtaken by a super power. You will learn of some wonderful kings and others who were simply a mess and who let their people down a path that led nowhere. But, in the midst of all this agony, all this despair, and all this doom and gloom, the prophets came along shining lights of hope and encouraging people when they were most downtrodden. God doesn’t call the prophets to success, He calls them to obedience and to not be afraid. That’s really a marvelous calling because God doesn’t measure success the way we do.
God never gives up on his world. Even with all the problems and all the sin and all the factions and all the difficulties, God has not abandoned his world. And I think that’s as much a message for today as it ever was back in the days of Ezekiel. — DR.ALAN MEENAN, THE WORD IS OUT PODCAST: EPISODE 12
