1. OVERVIEW OF OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS & The Prophet MOSES
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2. GOD is perfectly just and holy.
MY BEST RESPONSE
GOD is perfectly loving and merciful.
GOD is perfectly just and holy.
How do these two qualities work together?
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3. PROPHETS nabiy = איבנ Hebrew for prophet, from
naba = עכנ Hebrew for bubbling, gushing forth, overflow.
PROPHET (assigned purpose):
A prophet is one who is to speak God’s word on God’s behalf and to represent God to the people.
He is God’s mouth, or someone who preaches the word of God (message that comes from God).
He is the antithesis of a priest, who represents or speaks to God for the people.
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4. PROPHETIC BOOKS 12 minor prophets 4 major prophets Hosea Isaiah Joel
Amos
Obadiah
Jonah
Micah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Zechariah
Malachi
4 major prophets
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Ezekiel
Daniel
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5. What is the best sermon you can recall?
MY BEST RESPONSE
Who is the best preacher you have ever heard?
What is the best sermon you can recall?
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6. DETAILS OF MOSES’ LIFE Exodus 6:20 Amram and Jochebed were his parents
Exodus 2:1-10 Birth of Moses
Exodus 2:8-9 Moses was raised by his own mother
Exodus 2:10 Moses means “the One Drawn Out”
Exodus 2:11 Moses killed an Egyptian
Exodus 2:15 Escape from Egypt
Exodus 2:15 Moses fled to Midian
Exodus 2:21 Moses won his wife
Exodus 2:22 Moses’ wife had a son
Exodus 3:2 Called through a burning bush
Exodus 3:6 Moses was God-fearing
Exodus 4:10 Moses had a speech problem
Exodus 4:14 Moses’ brother, Aaron, went with him to speak on Moses behalf
Exodus Received the Commandments on the mount
Deuteronomy 34:1-12 Death of Moses
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7. DETAILS OF MOSES’ LIFE
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8. To Whom Am I Talking? THE TETRAGRAMATON YAHWEH (YHWH) = הוהי
Hebrew for “I Am Who I Am!” (Exodus 3:14)
John 8:58
“Before Abraham was I AM.”
The Self-Existing One.
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9. WEEKEND JOURNAL #1
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10. MY BEST RESPONSE
How do you know if someone is telling you the truth about something that he/she is trying to sell you?
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11. To Whom Am I Talking? MOSES OBJECTIONS Exodus 3:11 Exodus 3:13
…no ability
…no credibility /no message
…no authority
…no eloquence
…no inclination
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12. GOD’S Counterarguments:
To Whom Am I Talking?
GOD’S Counterarguments:
Exodus 3:12
Exodus 4:2-9
Exodus 4:11-12
Exodus 4:14-16
…His presence
…His omnipotence
…His enabling
…His direction & instructions
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13. MOSES the PROPHET ATTRIBUTES of a PROPHET Numbers 1:1… Numbers 9:23 …
Deuteronomy 18:15 …
Acts 3:22-26…
YHWH speaks to Moses
YHWH commands the Hebrews through Moses
Moses didn’t ask to be a Prophet…was chosen by YHWH
YHWH gives dreams and visions to Moses—speaks to him face to face; and calls him a faithful servant
Moses foretells of the coming Messiah—”a prophet like me” from among the Hebrews… listen to Him.
Jesus fulfilled Moses prophecy
Moses is considered one of the major prophets:
Numbers 1:1 God calls His prophet from wherever he is and tells him what to do and what to say.
Numbers 9:23 God uses His prophet to give direct orders to the people.
Numbers 11:29 God’s Spirit was especially strong in His prophet.
Numbers 6:8 God often used visions and dreams to communicate symbolically with His prophet.
Deuteronomy 18:15 God’s prophets are from His Chosen People
Acts 3: God’s prophets came from the throne of Israel starting with the prophet Samuel.
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14. MOSES the PROPHET http://www.betemunah.org/tribes.html
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15. Is it ever okay to yell at God? Why or why not?
MY BEST RESPONSE
Is it ever okay to yell at God?
Why or why not?
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16. MOSES the PROPHET EXODUS 3 & 4 GOD reminds Moses who He is
GOD reminds Moses that He knows what they are suffering
YHWH Redemptive God
PHAROAH…who was evil, was allowed to become even more wicked so that God’s plan was fulfilled
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17. MOSES the PROPHET EXODUS 3 & 4
Nine times in Exodus the hardening of the pharaoh’s heart is ascribed to God (4:21; 7:3; 9:12; 10:1, 20, 27; 11:10; 14:4, 8); another nine times the pharaoh is said to have hardened his own heart (7:13-14, 22; 8:15, 19, 32; 9:7, 34-35).
By using Romans 1:24-25, we can understand that the pharaoh alone was the agent of the hardening in each of the first five plagues. Not until the sixth plague did God confirm the pharaoh’s willful action (9:12), as He had told Moses he would do (see Romans 9:17-18 et al for further clarification).
Notes from Concordia Self-Study Bible, New International Version, Robert G. Hoerber, editor, Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, 1986
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18. MOSES the PROPHET EXODUS 5:1-19, 5:22-6:8 Israel complains to Moses
Moses complains to YHWH (in the form of a prayer)
YHWH answers with “I AM God Almighty”
Delivers and redeems
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19. MOSES the PROPHET Moses’ 40 years
First 40+ brought up in Egypt as an Egyptian (Exodus 1-2:15; also see Acts 7:23)
Customs
Lifestyles
2nd 40 years--a stranger in a strange land. (Exodus 2:16-4:19; also see Acts 7:29-30)
Wandering in the desert…a shepherd
Becoming enslaved
Third 40 years--Moses as a YHWH’s prophet (see Acts 7:36)
wandering in the desert)…a shepherd
until his death (Deuteronomy 34:5-7)
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20. Hebrews 11:23-29 List everything Moses and his family did by faith
MOSES the PROPHET
Hebrews 11:23-29
List everything Moses and his family did by faith
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21. WEEKEND JOURNAL #2
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22. How does God come to us today and talk to us?
MY BEST RESPONSE
How does God come to us today and talk to us?
How do you relate back to God?
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