QUESTION:
“WHAT DID THE PROPHETS SEE?”
ANSWER: “THEY SAW THE FOLLOWING …
2.
CALVARY
– Isaiah,
Daniel, Zechariah
3.
THE
DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM – Daniel
4.
THE DESTRUCTION OF ISRAEL’S ENEMIES –
Obadiah,
Nahum, Jonah
5.
THE
TIMES OF THE GENTILES – Daniel,
6.
THE
RETURN OF THE JEWS – Isaiah,
Jeremiah,
Ezekiel, Amos
7.
ANTICHRIST
– Isaiah,
Ezekiel, Daniel, Zechariah
8.
(THE)
GREAT TRIBULATION – Isaiah,
Daniel, Joel
9.
REMOVAL
OF RUSSIA & ARAB NATIONS - Ezekiel
10.
THE POURING OUT OF HOLY SPIRIT – Ezekiel,
Joel,
Hosea
11.
ARMAGEDDON
– Isaiah,
Ezekiel, Joel, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah
12.
THE
SECOND ADVENT – Daniel,
Zechariah,
Malachi
13.
THE MILLENNIUM – Isaiah,
Jeremiah,
Ezekiel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Micah, Habakkuk, Zephaniah,
Haggai, Zechariah
14.
THE
MILLENNIAL TEMPLE – Isaiah,
Ezekiel, Haggai
15.
THE
NEW JERUSALEM, NEW HEAVENS & EARTH – Isaiah
His
whole life was spent under the threat of Assyria
& while seeing Assyria capture the Northern kingdom, his lifetime
achievement was keeping Jerusalem out of Assyrian hands. Chapter 36-37 under King Hezekiah, Sennacherib of Assyria is
repelled.
Birth
of Christ Isaiah
7:14; 9: 6-7; 6:1; 11: 1-3
Calvary
Is
50:6; 53:1-12
Return
of the Jews Is
11:11-16; Isaiah 60:8-16
Antichrist
Isaiah
14:4-20
The
great tribulation Isaiah
2:19-21
Armageddon
Isaiah
26:20-21; Isaiah 11:4-5; Isaiah 63:1-6
Millennium
Isaiah
35:1-10; Isaiah 11:4-
Millennial
temple Isaiah
2:2-4
New
Jerusalem, new heavens & earth Isaiah
60:18-22:Isaiah 66:22
Isaiah
saved Jerusalem from Assyria, but Jeremiah
fails to save it from Babylon.
If
Judah will repent from wickedness, God will save her. God
persistently advises Judah to surrender to Babylon. Judah, Israel, is
to be
destroyed but it will eventually rule the world. Babylon is to be
destroyed and
never to rise again.
1.
Birth of Christ Jeremiah 31:5
2.
Return of the Jews Jeremiah 3:8 Jeremiah 16:14-15 Jeremiah 23:3-8 Jeremiah 31:8
3. Millennium Jeremiah 31:27-34 Jeremiah 33:12-26
597-570
BC Prophet
of captivity. Daniel in the palace at Babylon 9 years before Ezekiel
arrives. Chapter 1 Cherubim Chapter 2-3 His
commission of hardship & persecution Chapter 4-7 Symbolic
siege of Jerusalem
Chapter 8-11 Vision journey to
Jerusalem Chapter 12 Moves house
goods Chapter 13 False prophets Ch14 Hypocritical
inquirers Chapter 15 Parable of vine tree Ch16
Allegory of unfaithful wife Ch17 Parable of two
eagles Ch18 Soul that sins dies Ch19 Fall
of David’s throne Ch20 Israel’s idols Ch21
Sword against Jerusalem Ch22 Sins of Jerusalem Ch23 Oholah & Oholibah Ch24 Boiling
cauldron Ch25 Other nations Ch26-28
Tyre Ch29-32 Six
visions of Egypt Ch34 Shepherds Ch35
Edom’s doom Ch37 Valley of bones Ch38-39
Gog & Magog Ch40-48 Rebuilt
temple
EZEKIEL
SEES:
1.
Return of the Jews Ezekiel 20:40-44 Ezekiel 34:11-28 Ezekiel 36:24-32 Ezekiel 37:1-28
2.
Antichrist Ezekiel 28:11-19
3. The pouring out of Holy Spirit Ezekiel 39:29
4. Destruction of Russia & some Arab nations Ezekiel 39:1-19
5.
Armageddon Ezekiel 38:1-23
6.
Millennium Ezekiel 36:33-38
7.
Temple of the Millennium Ezekiel 40:1-48
Daniel
had a high office in Babylon & Persia. He is a
prophet
Chapter
1 As
a youth taken & trained with three others in Babylon Chapter
2 Four world empires predicted Chapter 3 Fiery
furnace Chapter
4 Nebuchadnezzar’s madness & recovery Chapter 5 Belshazzar’s
feast Chapter
6 Lion’s den Chapter 7 Four
beasts Chapter 8 Ram & He-goat
Ch9 Seventy weeks Chapter 10 Angels
of nations Chapter 11 Two kings of
North & South Chapter 12 Time of
the end.
1.
Calvary Daniel 9:24-27
2.
Destruction of Jerusalem Daniel 9:26
3.
Times of the Gentiles Daniel 2:31-45
4.
Antichrist Daniel 7:19-27 Daniel 9:26-27
5.
(The)
Great Tribulation Daniel 12:1
6.
Second Advent Daniel 7:9-14.
Around
200yrs before Hosea comes on the scene, they have
a golden calf as their god.
Chapters
1-3
A harlot wife reflects Israel’s & a faithful God.
Hosea’s
children have names that mean the following:
Jezreel=
retribution, Loammi=no longer my people, Loruhamah=no
more mercy
Chapters
4-13 Idols,
desolation, lewd priests murder, adultery
Chapter
14 God
heals
Israel’s backsliding and takes away their
iniquity
Israel’s
return to God Hosea 3:5, Hosea 6:1-2
Pouring
out of the Holy Spirit Hosea 14:4
Millennium Hosea 14:5-6
830
BC Joel
is the
1st
of Judah’s 11 prophets. The locust plagues herald the upcoming day of
the Lord.
JOEL
SEES:
1.
(The)
great tribulation Joel 2:28-31,32
2.
Pouring out of Holy Spirit Joel 2:28-31,32
3.
Removal Russia & Arab nations in the 1st half of the
tribulation Joel 2:20
4.
Armageddon Joel 3:1-4,5-8,9-12,13-16,17
5.
Millennium Joel 3:18-21
AMOS
Chapter
1-2
Doom Chapter 3. Luxury palaces Chapter 4.
Time to meet God Chapter 5. Day of God
Chapter 6.
Captivity Chapter 7. Three visions Chapter
8. Basket of Summer fruit Chapter 9. Future glory.
1.
Return of Jews to God Amos 9:11-12
2.
Millennium Amos 9:13-15
586
BC
The doom of Edom to
be ‘cut
off forever’ (Obadiah 1:10) ‘as
though they had not been’ (Obadiah 1:16).
Edom were descendants of Esau and had perpetual enmity with
Jacob (Gen 25:23). Refused Moses passage Num 20:14-17,18-21). Always ready to
aid an
attacking army. But Judah will prevail (Obadiah1:17,19,21). After Jerusalem falls in
70AD, they disappear from history.
The
destruction of Edom
Jonah
was a real figure in history (2Kings 14:25) and
lived in the reign of Jeroboam II of the northern kingdom.
Nineveh
was
Assyria’s
capital – the Jew’s greatest enemy 900-606.
The book of Jonah is about God’s
concern for a pagan nation.
Jonah to preach to his hated enemy. Ch1
– flight Ch2 prayer Ch3 repentance Ch4 disappointment.
The
destruction of Nineveh
Micah
sees the coming fall of Judah & Samaria
with
the latter with robbing the poor, seizing fields, false prophets &
national
corruption
1.
Birth of Christ Micah 5:2
2.
Millennium Micah 4:1-4,5-7
630
BC
Nineveh
God
slow to anger
Nahum 1:3 (Jonah 150 years before, saves Nineveh). Zephaniah (Nahum
2:13)
predicts the fall of Nineveh the bloody
city Nahum 3:1.
NAHUM
SEES:
The
destruction of Nineveh
607
BC
Complains
to God about Judah’s destruction Habakkuk 1:1-3 but then admits
their
sins. Babylon to be destroyed & Israel to fill the earth Habakkuk
2:12-15,16-19,20
1.
Millennium Habakkuk
3:1-4,5-8,9-12,13-16,17-19.
Under
Josiah the 15th king, there was a
temporary revival (see 2 Ki 22)
A.
Near invasion by
Nebuchadnezzar Zephaniah 1:1-2 B. Judgment on other nations –
eg Moab,
Ammon, Ethiopia, Philistines C. Filthy moral state of Jerusalem
Zephaniah
3:1-4,5-7 D. Armageddon Zephaniah 3:8 & the Millennium
Zephaniah 3:20
Armageddon
Zephaniah 3:8
Millennium
Zephaniah 3:20
Temple
rebuilding from 520-516 BC. Since the Jews return
in 536 BC, nothing done for 15years. Ch1
Foundation laid but no interest & poor crops. Ch2 Future
glory of temple.
1.
Haggai’s
1st appeal Haggai 1:2 2.
Work begins 1:4 3. Haggai’s 2nd
appeal Haggai 2:1-4,5-8,9 4. Zechariah
1st speech Haggai
1:1 5. Haggai’s 3rd appeal
Haggai 2:12-15,16-19, 6. Haggai’s 4th
appeal Haggai 2:21-23 6. Zechariah’s
visions Haggai 1:7 7. Zechariah’s
vision Haggai 7:1
1.
Armageddon Haggai 2:6 Haggai 2:20, 22
2.
Millennium Haggai 2:7-9.
3.
Millennial temple Haggai
2:9
Worked
with Haggai for 4 years on temple rebuilding. Ch1 -6 Visions
of horses, horns &
smiths; measuring line; Joshua the priest; candlestick, two olive
trees; flying
roll & ephah; four war chariots, coronation Ch7-8
Fasting Ch9-11
Other nations Ch12-14 Future.
1.
Calvary Zechariah 9:9, Zechariah 1:12-13
2.
Antichrist Zechariah 11:15-17
3.
Armageddon Zechariah 14:1-3
4.
2nd
Advent Zechariah 12:9-12,13-14 Zechariah 14:4-7,8-11
5.
Millenium Zechariah 8:3-4 Zechariah 14:16-19,20-21
Jews
have been home for around 300 years - degenerate
priests, tithes neglected, inferior sacrifices, intermarrying with
others.
Messiah will come but it will mean judgment. Ch1
Disdain for temple sacrifices Ch2 Intermarrying Ch3 Day
of the Lord, tithes, scepticism Ch4 Coming
day of the Lord
2nd Advent Malachi 3:1-3 Malachi 4:1-3,4-6
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