#2 Prophets

#2

TO: Janice Gould

Subject: Prophets

God had men, called Prophets, to tell the future. God talked to people then. Not now. Every time a prophecy was told – it came true. Man says about 1/3 of the Bible is prophecy. As I told you before, the last prophecy that happened and told in the New Testament was in 1948 when Israel became a nation. The big event (or prophesy) to come is the Rapture, as told to us in the New Testament by Jesus. That is when Jesus calls us to His Holy city up in the second Heaven. Remember, I had told you that God refers to the Heavens. I knew only of one at that time. Now I know of three, one where God is, the Holy City and the final one is on this earth. Maybe there are more – if you find one let me know.

I think God had Prophets at that time because people believed so much in fortune-tellers, mediums, idols and so on and worshipped them. If you want to make God angry, just believe in them. Like I had told you, people just didn’t seem to have a conscience in those days. Towards the end of the Old Testament God said, instead of circumcision, I will circumcise their hearts so they will know right from wrong. It was like they never had a conscience back then. They did so many evil and wrong things. God sure had a lot of patience with them in those days.

There are hundred’s of prophesies in the Word, most of them are in the Old Testament. And most came true in the future. I think I told you about the ones of Jesus in the Old Testament. They are in so many places, telling of the coming Messiah. They say of Him coming in the future, sold for thirty pieces of silver, where He is to be born and that He will die on a tree. If you didn’t know the New Testament you would think He would die by hanging not a wooden cross. There are many other prophesies in the Old Testament about Jesus.

Not all prophets were perfect and some made mistakes. They are human. Like Jonah, he was a racist. He was a Jew (or they called them Hebrews in those days). God told him to go to Nineveh (now called Iran), and tell the Gentiles or unbelievers (Arab) people to repent or God would destroy them. Jonah did not want to tell the Arabs, so he ran in the opposite direction. You know the rest of the story and how the big fish swallowed him and not a whale as man says. God saved the people, as they all repented, when Jonah said if they didn’t God would kill them all. Jonah was left sulking under a tree, as he didn’t want them saved. God loves all people and wants to save them all.