IN MY 38 YEARS OF SCRIPTURAL RESEARCH, THE PROPHETS OF THE BIBLE ARE MESSENGERS THAT I HAVE FOUND THAT DELIVER THE WORD OF GOD IN POWER AND UNFAILING TRUTH.100% ACCURACY IS THE MEASURE OF THE TRUE PROPHETS OF GOD, ALL OTHERS ARE FALSE! THEY CANNOT BE TRUSTED WITH YOUR LIFE.
WHY READ THESE PROPHETS? WE READ THEM BECAUSE 2017 IS COMING APART AT THE SEAMS. THERE IS A VIRUS OF HATRED SPREADING WORLDWIDE AND THESE PROPHETS WILL SHOW YOU THE WARNINGS OF HOW TO BE IN YOUR LIFE AND HOW NOT TO BE. HEAVEN AND HELL IS ON THE LINE FOR EACH OF US. MAKE YOUR CHOICE!
WE HAVE JUST FINISHED THE SYNOPTIC ANALYSIS OF THE RECORDS OF THE FOUR MAJOR OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS (ISAIAH, JEREMIAH, EZEKIEL AND DANIEL).
WE WILL NOW BEGIN TO ANALYZE IN THIS SERIES THE RECORDS OF THE TWELVE MINOR PROPHETS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IN A QUICK SYNOPTIC OVERVIEW.
I WILL SPLIT THE 12 PROPHETS INTO 3 BLOG POSTS OF 4 PROPHETS EACH TO KEEP THE POSTS FROM BEING TOO LONG.
THE BOOK OF HOSEA (THE PROPHET)
HOSEA BEGAN TO PROPHESY DURING THE REIGN OF JEROBOAM 2.
THE BASIC IDEA BEHIND HIS MESSAGE FROM GOD IS ABOUT THE LOVE OF GOD FOR HIS PEOPLE.
HOSEA CHAPTER 1 SYNOPSIS:
HOSEA THE PROPHET AND HIS WIFE DIBLAIM HAVE THREE SUCCESSIVE CHILDREN WHICH ARE MEANT TO BE “SIGNS OF THE TIMES” TO THE NATION OF ISRAEL ~
THE 1ST CHILD JEZREEL: MEANING ~I WILL AVENGE THE BLOOD OF JEZREEL UPON THE HOUSE OF JEHU AND WILL CEASE THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL.
THE 2ND CHILD LO-RUHAMAH: MEANING ~I WILL HAVE NO MORE MERCY UPON THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL BUT I WILL UTTERLY TAKE THEM AWAY.
THE 3RD CHILD LOAMMI: MEANING ~YOU ARE NOT MY PEOPLE, AND I WILL NOT BE YOUR GOD.
THEIR CHILDREN’S NAMES SAID IT ALL IN A WARNING TO ISRAEL!
HOSEA CHAPTER 2 SYNOPSIS:
WORSHIPPING FALSE GODS BRINGS SEVERE JUDGEMENTS UPON ISRAEL.
IN THE LAST DAYS ISRAEL SHALL BE RECONCILED TO GOD.
HOSEA CHAPTER 3 SYNOPSIS:
THE PROPHET SAYS THAT ISRAEL SHALL RETURN TO THE LORD AND RECEIVE OF HIS GOODNESS IN THE LAST DAYS.
HOSEA CHAPTER 4 SYNOPSIS:
ISRAEL CHASES AFTER FALSE GODS AND LOSES ALL TRUTH, MERCY AND KNOWLEDGE OF GOD.
HOSEA CHAPTER 5 SYNOPSIS:
HOSEA STATES THAT THE KINGDOMS OF JUDAH AND ISRAEL SHALL BOTH FALL BECAUSE OF THEIR INIQUITIES. (WE KNOW IT HAPPENED.)
HOSEA CHAPTER 6 SYNOPSIS:
HOSEA CALLS ISRAEL TO RETURN AND SERVE THE LORD.
HOSEA CHAPTER 7 SYNOPSIS:
ISRAEL REPROVED FOR HER MANY OBVIOUS SINS.
HOSEA CHAPTER 8 SYNOPSIS:
BOTH ISRAEL AND JUDAH HAVE FORSAKEN THE LORD.
HOSEA CHAPTER 9 SYNOPSIS:
ISRAEL IS TAKEN INTO CAPTIVITY FOR THEIR SINS.
THE TRIBE OF EPHRAIM SHALL BE WANDERER AMONG NATIONS.
HOSEA CHAPTER 10 SYNOPSIS:
ISRAEL HAS PLOWED WICKEDNESS AND REAPED INIQUITY.
HOSEA CALLS UPON ISRAEL TO SEEK THE LORD.
HOSEA CHAPTER 11 SYNOPSIS:
THE TRIBE OF EPHRAIM TURNS AWAY FROM THE LORD.
HOSEA CHAPTER 12 SYNOPSIS:
THE LORD USES PROPHETS TO GUIDE HIS PEOPLE, BUT THEY CHASE AFTER RICHES AND LEAVE HIM (THE LORD) BEHIND.
COMMENTARY: THIS IS WHAT’S HAPPENING ALL OVER THE WORLD AT THIS TIME! ESPECIALLY IN AMERICA WE FIND MATERIALISM AND MONEY IS WORSHIPPED.
HOSEA CHAPTER 13 SYNOPSIS:
THE PROPHET TELLS US THERE IS NO SAVIOR BESIDES THE LORD.
THE LORD RANSOMS HUMANS FROM THE GRAVE AND REDEEMS THEM FROM DEATH.
HOSEA CHAPTER 14 SYNOPSIS:
IN THE LAST DAYS, EPHRAIM SHALL REPENT AND RETURN TO THE LORD.
THE BOOK OF JOEL
JOEL WAS A PROPHET OF JUDAH. THE OCCASION OF THIS PROPHECY WAS A SEVERE VISITATION FROM GOD IN THE FORM OF DROUGHT AND LOCUSTS. HE ASSURES JUDAH IF THEY WILL REPENT THEY WILL SEE AGAIN THE BLESSSINGS OF GOD.
JOEL CHAPTER 1 SYNOPSIS:
JOEL CALLS JUDAH TO SOLEMN ASSEMBLY IN A GATHERING AT THE TEMPLE OF GOD, FOR THE DAY OF THE LORD HAS COME UPON THEM.
JOEL CHAPTER 2 SYNOPSIS:
JOEL SHIFTS INTO A VISION OF THE LAST DAYS (OUR TIME) ~
WAR AND DESOLATION WILL PRECEDE THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST.
THERE WILL BE EARTHQUAKES, THE SUN AND MOON WILL BE DARK AND THE STARS SHALL WITHDRAW THEIR LIGHT.
THE LORD WILL REMOVE (DESTROY) THE NORTHERN ARMY (RUSSIA) AND THEY WILL STINK UPON THE LAND (ISRAEL).
THEN ISRAEL WILL KNOW THAT THE LORD IS GOD AND THERE IS NONE ELSE.
AFTER THIS EVENT GOD (NOTE THE TEXT SAYS AFTER.)
“WILL POUR OUT HIS SPIRIT UPON ALL FLESH; AND YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS SHALL PROPHESY, YOUR OLD MEN SHALL DREAM DREAMS, YOUR YOUNG MEN SHALL SEE VISIONS.
“HE WILL SHOW WONDERS IN THE HEAVENS AND IN THE EARTH, BLOOD, AND FIRE, AND PILLARS OF SMOKE. THE SUN SHALL BE TURNED INTO DARKNESS, AND THE MOON INTO BLOOD, BEFORE THE GREAT AND THE TERRIBLE DAY OF THE LORD COME. AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, THAT WHOSOEVER SHALL CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD SHALL BE DELIVERED.”
JOEL CHAPTER 3 SYNOPSIS:
IN THE LAST DAYS THE LORD WILL AGAIN BRING THE CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH AND JERUSALEM.
THE GENTILE ARMIES WILL GATHER IN THE VALLEY OF JEHOSHAPHAT (BETWEEN THE CITY OF JERUSALEM AND THE MOUNT OF OLIVES) FOR BATTLE AS THE SECOND COMING DRAWS NEAR.
JESUS CHRIST APPEARS AND CLEANSES JERUSALEM OF ALL THE “STRANGERS.”(I.E. ARMIES OF THE GENTILES)
CHRIST WILL HEAL THE LAND AND LIVE IN ZION.
THE BOOK OF AMOS
THE NAME AMOS MEANS, “BURDEN.” BURDEN IS SYNONYMOUS WITH “PROPHECY.”
AMOS PROPHESIED IN THE DAYS OF UZZIAH, KING OF JUDAH. HE DIED ABOUT 740 B.C. HE WAS A SHEPHERD AND A NATIVE OF TEKOA, 12 MILES SOUTH OF JERUSALEM.
HIS EMPHASIS WAS UPON THE MORAL CHARACTER OF GOD.
AMOS ALSO TEACHES THAT THE LORD SPEAKS THROUGH HIS PROPHETS TO WARN MANKIND.
AMOS CHAPTER 1 SYNOPSIS:
AMOS SHOWS THE LORD’S JUDGEMENT UPON SYRIA, THE PHILISTINES, TYRE, EDOM AND AMMON.
AMOS CHAPTER 2 SYNOPSIS:
THE LORD WILL POUR OUT JUDGEMENTS UPON MOAB, JUDAH, AND ISRAEL FOR THEIR UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.
AMOS CHAPTER 3 SYNOPSIS:
AMOS 3:7 ~ THE PROPHET TELLS US ~
“SURELY THE LORD WILL DO NOTHING, BUT HE REVEALETH HIS SECRET TO HIS SERVANTS THE PROPHETS.”
BECAUSE OF ISRAEL’S REJECTION OF THE PROPHETS, AND SPEAKING OF EVIL, AN ADVERSARY OVERWHELMS THE NATION. (WE KNOW THIS HAPPENED.)
AMOS CHAPTER 4 SYNOPSIS:
THE LORD WITHHOLDS RAIN, SENDS FAMINE AND PESTILENCE, AND DESTROYS GARDENS AND VINEYARDS AS JUDGEMENT FALLS UPON HIS PEOPLE, YET THEY DO NOT RETURN UNTO THE LORD.
AMOS CHAPTER 5 SYNOPSIS:
ISRAEL IS EXHORTED TO SEEK THE LORD AND DO GOOD THAT THEY MAY LIVE.
THEIR SACRIFICES TO FALSE GODS ARE ABHORRENT.
AMOS MAKES REFERENCE TO THE SECOND COMING IN AMOS 5:18 ~
“WOE TO YOU THAT DESIRE THE DAY OF THE LORD! TO WHAT END IS IT FOR YOU? THE DAY OF THE LORD IS DARKNESS, AND NOT LIGHT.”
(REMEMBER PEOPLE, JESUS RETURNS IN OUR MODERN TIME WITH A SWORD FOR THE WICKED.)
AMOS CHAPTER 6 SYNOPSIS:
WOE TO THEM THAT ARE AT EASE IN ZION.
ISRAEL SHALL BE PLAGUED WITH DESOLATION.
AMOS CHAPTER 7 SYNOPSIS:
AMOS RELATES HOW HE WAS CALLED OF GOD TO BE A PROPHET. (YOU MAY READ FOR YOURSELF.)
HE PROPHESIES THE CAPTIVITY OF ISRAEL. (WE KNOW IT HAPPENED.)
AMOS CHAPTER 8 SYNOPSIS:
AMOS PROPHESIES THE DOWNFALL OF ISRAEL.
THERE WILL BE A FAMINE OF HEARING THE WORD OF THE LORD IN THE LAST DAYS.
“BEHOLD, THE DAYS COME, SAITH THE LORD GOD THAT I WILL SEND A FAMINE IN THE LAND, NOT A FAMINE OF BREAD, NOR A THRIST FOR WATER, BUT OF HEARING THE WORDS OF THE LORD. AND THEY SHALL WANDER FROM SEA TO SEA, AND FROM THE NORTH EVEN TO THE EAST, THEY SHALL RUN TO AND FRO TO SEEK THE WORD OF THE LORD, AND SHALL NOT FIND IT. IN THAT DAY SHALL THE FAIR VIRGINS AND YOUNG MEN FAINT FOR THIRST.”
(WE KNOW FROM STUDYING THE SCRIPTURES THAT PASSAGES SUCH AS THIS ONE APPLIES TO MANY PERIODS OF HISTORY, WHICH OF COURSE KEEPS REPEATING ITSELF. THIS APPLIES WELL TO OUR LAST DAYS.)
AMOS CHAPTER 9 SYNOPSIS:
ISRAEL SHALL BE SIFTED AMONG ALL NATIONS.
IN THE LAST DAYS, THEY WILL BE GATHERED AGAIN INTO THEIR OWN LAND, AND IT SHALL BECOME PRODUCTIVE. (SINCE 1948)
THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT SO STAY AWAKE! ~
“IN THAT DAY WILL I RAISE UP THE TABERNACLE OF DAVID THAT IS FALLEN, AND CLOSE UP THE BREACHES THEREOF; AND I WILL RAISE UP HIS RUINS, AND I WILL BUILD IT AS IN THE DAYS OF OLD.”
COMMENTARY: WAKE UP PEOPLE! THE TEMPLE OF GOD IS ABOUT TO BE REBUILT IN JERUSALEM.
THE BOOK OF OBADIAH
OBADIAH MEANS “SERVANT OF THE LORD.” OBADIAH PROTECTED THE PROPHETS OF GOD FROM JEZEBEL.THIS PROPHET ALSO FORETOLD THE DOOM OF EDOM.
YOU MAY READ OBADIAH FOR YOURSELF.
NEXT—THE BOOK OF JONAH, MICAH, NAHUM, AND HABUKKUK