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 456
 Prophecy 

 - Is the foretelling of future events
     #GE 49:1; NU 24:14

 - God is the author of
     #ISA 44:7; 45:21

 - God gives, through Christ
     #RE 1:1

 - A gift of Christ
     #EPH 4:11; RE 11:3

 - A gift of the Holy Spirit
     #1CO 12:10

 - Came not by the will of man
     #2PE 1:21

 - Given from the beginning
     #LU 1:70

 - Is a sure word
     #2PE 1:19

 - THEY WHO UTTERED
   . Raised up by God
       #AM 2:11

   . Ordained by God
       #1SA 3:20; JER 1:5

   . Sent by God
       #2CH 36:15; JER 7:25

   . Sent by Christ
       #MT 23:34

   . Filled with the Holy Spirit
       #LU 1:67

   . Moved by the Holy Spirit
       #2PE 1:21

   . Spoke by the Holy Spirit
       #AC 1:16; 11:28; 28:25

   . Spoke in the name of the Lord
       #2CH 33:18; JAS 5:10

   . Spoke with authority
       #1KI 17:1

 - God accomplishes
     #ISA 44:26; AC 3:18

 - Christ the great subject of
     #AC 3:22-24; 10:43; 1PE 1:10,11

 - Fulfilled respecting Christ
     #LU 24:44

 - Gift of, promised
     #JOE 2:28; AC 2:16,17

 - Is for the benefit of after ages
     #1PE 1:12

 - Is a light in dark place
     #2PE 1:19

 - Is not of private interpretation
     #2PE 1:20

 - Despise not
     #1TH 5:20

 - Give heed to
     #2PE 1:19

 - Receive in faith
     #2CH 20:20; LU 24:25

 - Blessedness of reading, hearing, and keeping
     #RE 1:3; 22:7

 - Guilt of pretending to the gift of
     #JER 14:14; 23:13,14; EZE 13:2,3

 - PUNISHMENT FOR
   . Not giving ear to
       #NE 9:30

   . Adding to, or taking from
       #RE 22:18,19

   . Pretending to the gift of
       #DE 18:20; JER 14:15; 23:15

 - Gift of, sometimes possessed by unconverted men
     #NU 24:2-9; 1SA 19:20,23; MT 7:22; JOH 11:49-51; 1CO 13:2

 - How tested
     #DE 13:1-3; 18:22

 457
 Prophets 

 - God spoke of old by
     #HO 12:10; HEB 1:1

 - The messengers of God
     #2CH 36:15; ISA 44:26

 - The servants of God
     #JER 35:15

 - The watchmen of Israel
     #EZE 3:17

 - WERE CALLED
   . Men of God
       #1SA 9:6

   . Prophets of God
       #EZR 5:2

   . Holy prophets
       #LU 1:70; RE 18:20; 22:6

   . Holy men of God
       #2PE 1:21

   . Seers
       #1SA 9:9

 - Were esteemed as holy men
     #2KI 4:9

 - Women sometimes endowed as
     #JOE 2:28

 - GOD COMMUNICATED TO
   . His secret things
       #AM 3:7

   . At various time and in different ways
       #HEB 1:1

   . By an audible voice
       #NU 12:8; 1SA 3:4-14

   . By angels
       #DA 8:15-26; RE 22:8,9

   . By dreams and visions
       #NU 12:6; JOE 2:28

 - Were under the influence of the Holy Spirit while prophesying
     #LU 1:67; 2PE 1:21

 - Spoke in the name of the Lord
     #2CH 33:18; EZE 3:11; JAS 5:10

 - Frequently spoke in parables and riddles
     #2SA 12:1-6; ISA 5:1-7; EZE 17:2-10

 - Frequently in their actions, etc. were made signs to the people
     #ISA 20:2-4; JER 19:1,10,11; 27:2,3; 43:9; 51:63; EZE
     4:1-13; 5:1-4; 7:23; 12:3-7; 21:6,7; 24:1-24; HO 1:2-9

 - Frequently left without divine communication on account of
   sins of the people
     #1SA 28:6; LA 2:9; EZE 7:26

 - WERE REQUIRED
   . To be bold and undaunted
       #EZE 2:6; 3:8,9

   . To be vigilant and faithful
       #EZE 3:17-21

   . To receive with attention all God's communications
       #EZE 3:10

   . Not to speak anything but what they received from God
       #DE 18:20

   . To declare everything that the Lord commanded
       #JER 26:2

 - Sometimes received divine communications and uttered
   predictions under great bodily and mental excitement
     #JER 23:9; EZE 3:14,15; DA 7:28; 10:8; HAB 3:2,16

 - Sometimes uttered their predictions in verse
     #DE 32:44; ISA 5:1

 - Often accompanied by music while predicting
     #1SA 10:5; 2KI 3:15

 - Often committed their predictions to writing
     #2CH 21:12; JER 36:2

 - Writings of, read in the synagogues every Sabbath
     #LU 4:17; AC 13:15

 - ORDINARY
   . Numerous in Israel
       #1SA 10:5; 1KI 18:4

   . Trained up and instructed in schools
       #2KI 2:3,5; 1SA 19:20

   . The sacred bards of the Jews
       #EX 15:20,21; 1SA 10:5,10; 1CH 25:1

 - EXTRAORDINARY
   . Specially raised up on occasions of emergency
       #1SA 3:19-21; ISA 6:8,9; JER 1:5

   . Often endued with miraculous power
       #EX 4:1-4; 1KI 17:23; 2KI 5:3-8

 - Frequently married men
     #2KI 4:1; EZE 24:18

 - Wore a coarse dress of hair-cloth
     #2KI 1:8; ZEC 13:4; MT 3:4; RE 11:3

 - Often led a wandering and unsettled life
     #1KI 18:10-12; 19:3,8,15; 2KI 4:10

 - Simple in their manner of life
     #MT 3:4

 - The historiographers of the Jewish nation
     #1CH 29:29; 2CH 9:29

 - The interpreters of dreams
     #DA 1:17

 - Were consulted in all difficulties
     #1SA 9:6; 28:15; 1KI 14:2-4; 22:7

 - Presented with gifts by those who consulted them
     #1SA 9:7,8; 1KI 14:3

 - Sometimes thought it right to reject presents
     #2KI 5:15,16

 - WERE SENT TO
   . Reprove the wicked and exhort to repentance
       #2KI 17:13; 2CH 24:19; JER 25:4,5

   . Denounce the wickedness of kings
       #1SA 15:10,16-19; 2SA 12:7-12; 1KI 18:18; 21:17-22

   . Exhort to faithfulness and constancy in God's service
       #2CH 15:1,2,7

   . Predict the coming of Christ
       #LU 24:44; JOH 1:45; AC 3:24; 10:43

   . Predict the downfall of nations
       #ISA 15:1; 17:1; JER 47:1-51:64

 - Felt deeply on account of the calamities which they predicted
     #ISA 16:9-11; JER 9:1-7

 - PREDICTIONS OF
   . Frequently proclaimed at the gate of the Lord's house
       #JER 7:2

   . Proclaimed in the cities and streets
       #JER 11:6

   . Written on tables and fixed up in some public place
       #HAB 2:2

   . Written on rolls and read to the people
       #ISA 8:1; JER 36:2

   . Were all fulfilled
       #2KI 10:10; ISA 44:26; AC 3:18; RE 10:7

 - Assisted the Jews in their great national undertakings
     #EZR 5:2

 - MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE
   . Enoch
       #GE 5:21-24; Jude 1:14

   . Noah
       #GE 9:25-27

   . Jacob
       #GE 49:1

   . Aaron
       #EX 7:1

   . Moses
       #DE 18:18

   . Miriam
       #EX 15:20

   . Deborah
       #JUD 4:4

   . Prophet set to Israel
       #JUD 6:8

   . Prophet sent to Eli
       #1SA 2:27

   . Samuel
       #1SA 3:20

   . David
       #PS 16:8-11; AC 2:25,30

   . Nathan
       #2SA 7:2; 12:1; 1KI 1:10

   . Zadok
       #2SA 15:27

   . Gad
       #2SA 24:11; 1CH 29:29

   . Ahijah
       #1KI 11:29; 12:15; 2CH 9:29

   . Prophet of Judah
       #1KI 13:1

   . Iddo
       #2CH 9:29; 12:15

   . Shemaiah
       #1KI 12:22; 2CH 12:7,15

   . Azariah the son of Oded
       #2CH 15:2,8

   . Hanani
       #2CH 16:7

   . Jehu the son of Hanani
       #1KI 16:1,7,12

   . Elijah
       #1KI 17:1

   . Elisha
       #1KI 19:16

   . Micaiah the son of Imlah
       #1KI 22:7,8

   . Jonah
       #2KI 14:25; JON 1:1; MT 12:39

   . Isaiah
       #2KI 19:2; 2CH 26:22; ISA 1:1

   . Hosea
       #HO 1:1

   . Amos
       #AM 1:1; 7:14,15

   . Micah
       #MIC 1:1

   . Oded
       #2CH 28:9

   . Nahum
       #NA 1:1

   . Joel
       #JOE 1:1; AC 2:16

   . Zephaniah
       #ZEP 1:1

   . Huldah
       #2KI 22:14

   . Jeduthun
       #2CH 35:15

   . Jeremiah
       #2CH 36:12,21; JER 1:1,2

   . Habakkuk
       #HAB 1:1

   . Obadiah
       #OB 1:1

   . Ezekiel
       #EZE 1:3

   . Daniel
       #DA 12:11; MT 24:15

   . Haggai
       #EZR 5:1; 6:14; HAG 1:1

   . Zechariah son of Iddo
       #EZR 5:1; ZEC 1:1

   . Malachi
       #MAL 1:1

   . Zacharias the father of John
       #LU 1:67

   . Anna
       #LU 2:36

   . Agabus
       #AC 11:28; 21:10

   . Daughters of Philip
       #AC 21:9

   . Paul
       #1TI 4:1

   . Peter
       #2PE 2:1,2

   . John
       #RE 1:1

 - One generally attached to the king's household
     #2SA 24:11; 2CH 29:25; 35:15

 - THE JEWS
   . Require to hear and believe
       #DE 18:15; 2CH 20:20

   . Often tried to make them speak smooth things
       #1KI 22:13; ISA 30:10; AM 2:12

   . Persecuted them
       #2CH 36:16; MT 5:12

   . Often imprisoned them
       #1KI 22:27; JER 32:2; 37:15,16

   . Often put them to death
       #1KI 18:13; 19:10; MT 23:34-37

   . Often left without, on account of sin
       #1SA 3:1; PS 74:9; AM 8:11,12

 - Were mighty through faith
     #HEB 11:32-40

 - Great patience of, under suffering
     #JAS 5:10

 - God avenged all injuries done to
     #2KI 9:7; 1CH 16:21,22; MT 23:35-38; LU 11:50

 - Christ predicted to exercise the office of
     #DE 18:15; AC 3:22

 - Christ exercised the office of
     #MT 24:1-25:46; MR 10:32-34

 458
 Prophets, False 

 - Pretended to be sent by God
     #JER 23:17,18,31

 - Not sent or commissioned by God
     #JER 14:14; 23:21; 29:31

 - Made use of by God to prove Israel
     #DE 13:3

 - DESCRIBED AS
   . Light and treacherous
       #ZEP 3:4

   . Covetous
       #MIC 3:11

   . Crafty
       #MT 7:15

   . Drunken
       #ISA 28:7

   . Immoral and profane
       #JER 23:11,14

 - Women sometimes acted as
     #NE 6:14; RE 2:20

 - Called foolish prophets
     #EZE 13:2

 - Compared to foxes in the desert
     #EZE 13:4

 - Compared to wind
     #JER 5:13

 - Influenced by evil spirits
     #1KI 22:21,22

 - PROPHESIED
   . Falsely
       #JER 5:31

   . Lies in the name of the Lord
       #JER 14:14

   . Out of their own heart
       #JER 23:16,26; EZE 13:2

   . In the name of false gods
       #JER 2:8

   . Peace, when there was no peace
       #JER 6:14; 23:17; EZE 13:10; MIC 3:5

 - Often practised divination and witchcraft
     #JER 14:14; EZE 22:28; AC 13:6

 - Often pretended to dreams
     #JER 23:28,32

 - Often deceived by God as a judgment
     #EZE 14:9

 - THE PEOPLE
   . Led into error
       #JER 23:13; MIC 3:5

   . Made to forget God's name by
       #JER 23:27

   . Deprived of God's word by
       #JER 23:30

   . Taught profaneness and sin by
       #JER 23:14,15

   . Oppressed and defrauded by
       #EZE 22:25

   . Warned not to listen to
       #DE 13:3; JER 23:16; 27:9,15,16

   . Encouraged and praised
       #JER 5:31; LU 6:26

 - Mode of trying and detecting
     #DE 13:1,2; 18:21,22; 1JO 4:1-3

 - PREDICTED TO ARISE
   . Before destruction of Jerusalem
       #MT 24:11,24

   . In the latter times
       #2PE 2:1

 - Judgments denounced against
     #JER 8:1,2; 14:15; 28:16,17; 29:32

 - Involved the people in their own ruin
     #ISA 9:15,16; JER 20:6; EZE 14:10

 459
 Converts 

 - Described
     #ES 8:17; ISA 56:3

 - REQUIRED
   . To give up all heathen practices
       #EZR 6:21

   . To give up all heathen associates
       #RU 1:16; 2:11; PS 45:10; LU 14:26

   . To be circumcised
       #GE 17:13; EX 12:48

   . To enter into covenant to serve the Lord
       #DE 29:10-13; NE 10:28,29

   . To observe the law of Moses as Jews
       #EX 12:49

 - Unfaithfulness in, punished
     #EZE 14:7

 - From the Ammonites and Moabites restricted for ever from
   holding office in the congregation
     #DE 23:3

 - From the Egyptians and Edomites restricted to the third
   generation from holding office in the congregation
     #DE 23:7,8

 - Were entitled to all privileges
     #EX 12:48; ISA 56:3-7

 - Went up to the feasts
     #AC 2:10; 8:27

 - Pharisees, zealous in making
     #MT 23:15

 - Many, embraced the gospel
     #AC 6:5; 13:43

 - Later called devout Greeks
     #JOH 12:20; AC 17:4

 460
 Protection 

 - God is able to afford
     #1PE 1:5; Jude 1:24

 - God is faithful to afford
     #1TH 5:23,24; 2TH 3:3

 - OF GOD IS
   . Indispensable
       #PS 127:1

   . Seasonable
       #PS 46:1

   . Unfailing
       #DE 31:6; JOS 1:5

   . Effectual
       #JOH 10:28-30; 2CO 12:9

   . Uninterrupted
       #PS 121:3

   . Encouraging
       #ISA 41:10; 50:7

   . Perpetual
       #PS 121:8

   . Often afforded through means inadequate in themselves
       #JUD 7:7; 1SA 17:45,50; 2CH 14:11

 - IS AFFORDED TO
   . Those who hearken to God
       #PR 1:33

   . Returning sinners
       #Job 22:23,25

   . The perfect in heart
       #2CH 16:9

   . The poor
       #PS 14:6; 72:12-14

   . The oppressed
       #PS 9:9

   . The Church
       #PS 48:3; ZEC 2:4,5

 - IS VOUCHSAFED TO SAINTS IN
   . Preserving them
       #PS 145:20

   . Strengthening them
       #2TI 4:17

   . Upholding them
       #PS 37:17,24; 63:8

   . Keeping their feet
       #1SA 2:9; PR 3:26

   . Keeping them from evil
       #2TH 3:3

   . Keeping them from falling
       #Jude 1:24

   . Keeping them in the way
       #EX 23:20

   . Keeping them from temptation
       #RE 3:10

   . Providing a refuge for them
       #PR 14:26; ISA 4:6; 32:2

   . Defending them against their enemies
       #DE 20:1-4; 33:27; ISA 59:19

   . Defeating the counsels of enemies
       #ISA 8:10

   . Temptation
       #1CO 10:13; 2PE 2:9

   . Persecution
       #LU 21:18

   . Calamities
       #PS 57:1; 59:16

   . All dangers
       #PS 91:3-7

   . All places
       #GE 28:15; 2CH 16:9

   . Sleep
       #PS 3:5; 4:8; PR 3:24

   . Death
       #PS 23:4

 - SAINTS
   . Acknowledge God as their
       #PS 18:2; 62:2; 89:18

   . Pray for
       #PS 17:5,8; ISA 51:9

   . Praise God for
       #PS 5:11

 - WITHDRAWN FROM THE
   . Disobedient
       #LE 26:14-17

   . Backsliding
       #JOS 23:12,13; JUD 10:13

   . Presumptuous
       #NU 14:40-45

   . Unbelieving
       #ISA 7:9

   . Obstinately unrepentant
       #MT 23:38

 - NOT TO BE FOUND IN
   . idols
       #DE 32:37-39; ISA 46:7

   . Man
       #PS 146:3; ISA 30:7

   . Riches
       #PR 11:4,28; ZEP 1:18

   . Hosts
       #JOS 11:4-8; PS 33:16

   . Horses
       #PS 33:17; PR 21:31

 - Illustrated
     #DE 32:11; PS 125:1,2; PR 18:10; ISA 25:4; 31:5; LU 13:34

 - Exemplified
   . Abraham
       #GE 15:1

   . Jacob
       #GE 48:16

   . Joseph
       #GE 49:23-25

   . Israel
       #JOS 24:17

   . David
       #PS 18:1,2

   . Shadrach etc.
       #DA 3:28

   . Daniel
       #DA 6:22

   . Peter
       #AC 12:4-7

   . Paul
       #AC 18:10; 26:17



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