Showing posts with label Prophecy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prophecy. Show all posts
Friday, December 29, 2023

So, what is a prohet?

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If you don't read anything else today, you need to read Scot McKnight's post on What's a prophet? Here's a snippet to wh...
Monday, October 24, 2022

A Warning

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Seedbed has been excerpting from Jack Deere’s new book . Today’s pointed out something I never noticed before in 1 Sam 18.10. The next day ...
Saturday, January 18, 2020

What I read this week

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or, around the web in a few links. Why keep excavating when we have so much buried in our museums already? That's the question that Hy...
Thursday, April 04, 2019

He's not a tame lion

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Passive deductive divination does not intrinsically imply beliefs about deity that are contrary_to Israelite theology. Communication by mean...
Wednesday, April 03, 2019

Look out! Here it comes! (Maybe)

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Thus the king would also be careful to heed the warnings that divination offered. But just as a positive omen would not be understood as a g...
Monday, April 01, 2019

Read those entrails!

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Deductive divination is no less initiated [than prophecy, etc.] from the divine realm, but its revelation is communicated through events and...
Friday, March 08, 2019

The uniqueness of YHWH

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In the polytheistic religions of the ancient world it was not considered obligatory for individuals to worship the state gods. It might be t...
Friday, February 23, 2018

Where's the glamor in that!?

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Confronting the sinful party with their sins and reminding them of their covenant obligations often results in strong criticism and personal...
Friday, February 16, 2018

The hidden life of a prophet

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The main responsibility of the prophets is commonly understood to be that of proclaiming the word of God (cf. Deut 5:23–27, 18:15–18). Actin...
Friday, February 09, 2018

In the divine council

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Though divine grace and patience are immense and will eventually overrule God’s wrath, the revelation of the divine name makes it clear that...
Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Still hoping

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In the Old Testament, the outpouring of the Spirit of God is limited (with few exceptions) to the leaders and particularly to the prophets. ...
Friday, December 15, 2017

What manner of man?

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What is of great interest to us is that the priests in the book of Joel act under instruction of the prophet. Even the priests do not know h...
Friday, November 17, 2017

Prophetic mediation

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The genuine prophetic mediator embodies not only the divine word but, to some degree, the divine pathos as well.— Standing in the Breach , p...
Thursday, November 09, 2017

Prophetic voice?

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Lots of people want to be prophets, screaming doom and gloom, and calling down the end of the world on everybody and everything. Is that rea...
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

And you thought you had it bad!

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Chapters 11–20 witness to the highly demanding role of the prophet. A series of accounts reveal Jeremiah’s tormented life of prayer in vivid...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Poor Jeremiah

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The Hebrew conjunction weʾattâ (“as for you”) marks a sudden shift of addressee away from the “temple audience” that is under judgment to t...
Monday, October 23, 2017

Intercession and sin

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[I]ntercession, alongside speaking on behalf of the Lord are the primary responsibilities of the prophet. Jeremiah knew well that intercessi...
Friday, October 20, 2017

Thought for the day

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23 The Lord’s word came to me: 24 Human one, say to her, You are an unclean land without rain on the day of reckoning. 25 The conspiracy of ...
Thursday, September 21, 2017

From despot to servant

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Schenker catches the narrative development insightfully when he observes that from 2 Sam 24:3 onward, especially from v. 14 to v. 17, the ac...
Friday, September 15, 2017

How does this king thing work anyway?

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The prophets speak on behalf of God to the people, while the kings are called to rule and judge wisely on behalf of the divine King. The pro...