Analogy
Hebrew poetry is based upon placing lines in parallel pairs. The word pair becomes an idiom expressing a single thought that is…
Faith
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Quote
The Biggest Part of the Prophets
Peter Gentry, How to Read and Understand the Biblical Prophets
Gentry writes, “The biggest part of the message of the biblical prophets has nothing to do with predicting distant future events.” It is about calling the people of God back to covenant faithfulness in their own day—justice, mercy, true worship, and the refusal of idolatry.
How you’d preach it
Corrects the common assumption that the prophets are mainly about predicting the future.
- Repentance
- Calling
- Idolatry
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