First, let me clarify that the Term “The Major Prophets”
refers to the size of the book, not its significance. Isaiah is called “the Messianic
Prophet”. He is quoted more than any
other prophet in the New Testament. And
there are lots of equidistant letter sequences hidden behind the text of Isaiah
53, including the names of 40 people who were present at the crucifixion. Seeps rather apropos for the passage of
Scripture dedicated to “the Suffering Servant”.
What’s even more curious is that the name of Judas (who, statistically
should appear) is absent.
I’d never heard about the arguments concerning the two
Isaiah’s prior to watching this video, but the way this fallacy is refuted by
John the apostle is one of those fascinating things that I love about what’s
included in this study.
Jeremiah is known as “the Weeping Prophet” largely because
of the book of Lamentations, which he wrote as an addendum to the prophetic
book that bears his name. In studying
this prophetic book, we are exposed to the blood curse on Jeconiah, and Dr.
Missler offers a wonderful explanation of how this paradox is resolved in the
virgin birth of Christ. This is where we
also come across a prediction (Jeremiah 50 and 51 and Isaiah 13 and 14) of the
destruction of Babylon that has not yet taken place. Jeremiah 50:9 also alludes to the use of
smart weapons. Check it out!
Ezekiel is a rather colorful figure. He was a priest/prophet like Jeremiah who was
captured and taken to Babylon. There is
some very strange imagery in the book of Ezekiel, but this leads to the linking
of images from Ezekiel with Isaiah and Revelation. There is a lot of teaching about the origin
of Satan in these three books. Ezekiel
also brings us the Valley of Dry Bones, a description of the Millennial Temple
and the invasion of Israel by Magog. The
Magogians have been identified as the Scythians. For all of you “Highlander” movie fans, the
Kurgan character was a Scythian from the steppes of Russia.
This week’s lesson was packed! I’ll probably need to watch this one several
times before I can really digest all of what Dr. Missler has presented. In fact, that is probably true for each of
the lessons.
Dr. Missler wrapped up this video teaching with a massive
amount of information about how we got the Bible. There are supplemental notes online for
printing. Sadly, I didn’t go looking for
the supplemental notes until after viewing this teaching. I will have to re-watch the video after
reviewing that information packet.
Almost halfway done.
Next week is the last lesson of our Old Testament survey. I am super-excited to listen to the homework
for next time: The Minor Prophets.
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