ACCURATE
BIBLE
KNOWLEDGE!
QUESTION: “WHY WERE
THE
PROPHETS SO IMPORTANT?”
1.
THEY TOLD
ISRAEL WHAT WAS
TO HAPPEN TO THEM
2.
THEY TELL THE
PRESENT WORLD
WHAT IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN”
Prophets were chosen
of God, to foretell
the certain future before it They would not predict the
future, as that
would imply guesswork on the part of the God simply used these
messengers, to tell what WOULD
be happening. No guessing The books of the prophets, Isaiah to
Malachi,
cover about 400 years, 830-430BC approximately, when the Hebrew
nation
was in decline.
THEIR MISSION
AND MESSAGE
1.
To try and save the
Hebrew nation from IDOLATRY and wickedness.
2.
Failing this, to announce
to the nation, that they will be destroyed.
3.
But not completely
destroyed, as a remnant (a few left) will be saved.
4.
Out of this remnant will come a Person
who will bring all nations to God.
5.
That person will be a great
man who will one day arise out of the family tree of David.
The
prophets called him THE BRANCH. This family tree of
David, once
the most powerful family in the world, was cut down in the days of the
prophets, and disappeared. But the family would comeback with this man
called THE
BRANCH - THE KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS (Rev19:16)
Not
even understanding the full meaning and importance of their words, the
prophets
were obedient.
There
are three prophets whose mission were to other nations other
than Israel
(ten Northern tribes) and Judah (two Southern tribes), and these were JONAH
to Assyria (Nineveh), OBADIAH to Edom (Esau) and NAHUM
to Assyria
(Nineveh).
16 PROPHETS IN
FOUR GROUPS
1. NORTHERN
KINGDOM CALLED ISRAEL had the ten
tribes, and lasted about 210 years, and the
prophets
during this period were Amos, Hosea.
The destruction and captivity Northern kingdom
went from 734-721BC. They were taken to Assyria have
simply
disappeared from the face of the earth.
The destruction and captivity of the Southern
kingdom, went from 606-586BC. Taken to Babylon.
Invading armies didn’t kill and destroy everything at
once, but slowly strangled their captive nations, with taxes, slaves
and goods.
Under their rule, they then left the very poorest in the land to
struggle on.
THE 16
PROPHETS ARE GROUPED AS FOLLOWS
Northern -
ISRAEL |
Southern -
JUDAH |
Other Nations |
Amos |
Before
captivity |
Ninevah |
Hosea |
Joel |
Jonah |
|
Isaiah |
Nahum |
|
Micah |
|
|
Jeremiah |
Edom (Esau) |
|
Habakkuk |
Obadiah |
|
Zephaniah |
|
|
Before &
to Babylon |
|
|
Daniel |
|
|
Captives in
Babylon |
|
|
Ezekiel |
|
|
Return from
Captivity |
|
|
Haggai |
|
|
Zechariah |
|
|
Malachi |
|
“TABLE OF KINGS AND
PROPHETS”
KINGS and
PROPHETS |
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Two Prophets |
Year BC |
|
Year BC |
Fourteen Prophets |
|
|
|
The Exodus
40 years |
1446 |
|
|
|
|
Joshua in Canaan 16 years |
1406 |
|
|
|
|
The Judges 340 years (450 yrs
with gaps Acts 13:20) |
1390 |
Samuel 1100-1050 BC |
|
|
|
Saul 40yrs |
1050 |
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|
|
David 40yrs |
1010 |
Nathan |
|
|
|
Solomon 40yrs |
970 |
|
|
|
930 |
KINGS
NORTHERN reign years |
KINGS
SOUTHERN reign years |
930 |
|
|
930-911 |
1 Jeroboam I 22 |
1 Rehoboam 17 |
930-914 |
|
|
|
2 Nadab
2 |
2 Abijah
2 |
|
|
|
|
3 Baasha
24 |
3 Asa
40 |
912-872 |
|
|
|
4 Elah
2 |
|
|
|
|
|
5 Zimri 7 days |
|
|
|
|
|
6 Omri
12 |
|
|
|
Elijah 875-850 Elisha 850-800 AMOS 780-740 HOSEA 760-720 |
875-854 |
7 Ahab 22 |
4 Jehoshaphat 25 |
874-850 |
|
855-854 |
8 Ahaziah
2 |
5 Jehoram 8 |
850-843 |
|
|
854-843 |
9 Joram
12 |
6 Ahaziah
1 |
843 |
|
|
843-816 |
10 Jehu
28 |
Athaliah 6 |
843-837 |
|
|
820-804 |
11 Jehoahaz 17 |
7 Joash
40 |
843-803 |
JOEL
840-830 JONAH 790-770
ISAIAH 745-695
MICAH 740-700
ZEPHANIAH 639-608 NAHUM 630-610 JEREMIAH 626-586
HABAKKUK 606-586
OBADIAH 586 |
|
806-790 |
12 Joash
16 |
8 Amaziah 30 |
803-775 |
||
790-749 |
13 Jeroboam II 41 |
9 Uzziah
50 |
787-735 |
||
748 |
14 Zachariah 6 mth |
10 Jotham 15 |
749-734 |
||
748 |
15 Shallum 1 mth |
|
|
||
748-738 |
16 Menahem 10 |
|
|
||
738-736 |
17 Pekahiah 2 |
|
|
||
748-730 |
18 Pekah
20 |
11 Ahaz
15 |
741-726 |
||
730-722 |
19 Hoshea
9 |
12 Hezekiah 30 |
726-697 |
||
|
ASSYRIA CAPTIVITY
734-722 |
13 Manasseh 55 |
697-642 |
||
|
|
|
14 Amon
2 |
641-640 |
|
|
|
|
15 Josiah
30 |
639-608 |
|
|
|
|
16 Jehoahaz 1 |
608 |
|
|
|
|
17 Jehoakim 10 |
608-597 |
|
|
|
|
Assyria
falls 607 - Rise of Babylon |
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|
|
|
18 Jehoakin 1 |
597 |
|
|
|
|
19 Zedekiah 10 |
597-586 |
|
|
|
|
BABYLON
CAPTIVITY DANIEL 606-534
606–586
EZEKIEL 592-570
|
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|
|
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Babylon
falls 536 - Rise of Persia Return
from captivity 536 |
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|
|
|
Joshua |
536-516 |
HAGGAI 520-516 |
|
|
|
Zerubbabel |
536-516 |
ZECHARIAH 520-516 |
|
|
|
Temple rebuilt |
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|
|
|
Ezra |
457-430 |
|
|
|
|
Nehemiah |
444-432 |
|
|
|
|
Wall
rebuilt
MALACHI 440-400 |
**** ****
Harley Hitchcock
www.
AustralianBibleMinistries
.com
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