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  • Prophets: three principles to unlock the code

    Prophets: three principles to unlock the code

    Prophets and prophecy: the most misunderstood part of OT, “mysterious messengers”. A random chunk from a prophetic book will offer a confusing, seemingly muddled, confusion of vivid picture language. Yet, three simple principles can (usually) unlock the mystery and allow the prophets to speak: conversion not prediction context not timeless conversation not monologue As I’ll [&hellip...

  • Understanding the Prophets: Part Two: Amos

    Sep 18, 11 • 3 simple rules, Amos, ProphetsComments Off on Understanding the Prophets: Part Two: Amos
    Understanding the Prophets: Part Two: Amos

    In Understanding the prophets: Part one I spoke about the “Three Cons” as a key to reading the prophetic books of the Old Testament with understanding and in ways which are faithful to their original intention. In this second part we’ll look at an example from Amos 5:18ff. and apply this approach. The result will [&hellip...

  • Understanding the prophets: Part one

    Aug 29, 11 • 3 simple rules, ProphetsComments Off on Understanding the prophets: Part one
    Understanding the prophets: Part one

    I am doing a three part series at South City Baptist Church on Sunday afternoons on Understanding the prophets. This week thinking, about what a prophet was and how they spoke, I used the title: “What does a prophet? What does it profit?” these are the slides from the talk. A key idea in this [&hellip...

  • E100 Week 12: The teachings of Jesus the prophet

    E100 Week 12: The teachings of Jesus the prophet

    This week’s readings contain a sample of Jesus teachings. In reading them we will notice two things particularly that will help us better understand: (a) Jesus is a prophet: so the rules we learnt for reading Old Testament prophets will help us understand Jesus. These rules were: Prophets spoke to a context: knowing the who, [&hellip...