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"...In 1Chronicles
29:29 all these three words are used: Samuel the seer.(ro'eh),
Nathan
the prophet.(nabi'),
Gad the seer.(hozeh).
In Joshua
13:22 it speaks of soothsayers.
"Balaam
is called a "kosem", a "diviner," a word used only of a false prophet.
This so-called
prophet proclaimed the message given to him, as the "seer" beheld the vision
of God:.Numbers
12:6,8.
"Thus
a prophet was a spokesman for God. He spake in God's name and by his authority:.Exodus
7:1. He is the mouth by which God speaks to men.(Jeremiah
1:9; Isaiah 51:16).and
hence what the prophet says is not of man but of God:.2Peter
1:20,21; compare Hebrews 3:7; Acts
4:25; 28:25.
"Prophets were the immediate
organs of God for the communication of his mind and will to men:.Deuteronomy
18:18,19. The foretelling of future events was not a necessary but
only an incidental part of the prophetic office."
Of the Old Testament prophets
there are sixteen, whose prophecies
form part of the inspired canon.
These are divided into four groups:
(1.) The prophets of the
northern kingdom.(Israel),
viz.,
Hosea,
Joel,
Amos,
Jonah.
(2.) The prophets of Judah,
the southern kingdom:.Isaiah,
Jeremiah,
Obadiah,
Micah,
Nahum,
Habakkuk,
Zephaniah.
(3.) The prophets of Captivity,
viz., Ezekiel and Daniel.
(4.) The prophets who prophesied
of the Restoration, viz., Haggai,
Zechariah
and Malachi.
Minor Prophets were:
Hosea,
Joel,
Amos,
Obadiah,
Jonah,
Micah,
Nahum,
Habakkuk,
Zephaniah,
Haggai,
Zechariah,
Malachi.
So called 'Major Prophets'
were Isaiah,
Jeremiah,
Ezekiel,
Daniel.
A
chart on them.
God had foretold the split:.1Kings
11:9-13. It's easy for God to foretell things, because it's Him that
brings them to pass.
Colleges,.'schools
of the prophets', were instituted for the
training of prophets.(2Kings
2:3,15; 4:38),
which continued to the close of the Old Testament.
Such schools were established
at Ramah, Bethel, Gilgal, Gibeah and Jericho. The sons or disciples of
the prophets were young men.(2Kings
5:22;
9:1-4).who
lived together at these different schools:.2Kings
4:38-41.
Today, with spiritual people
all over the world, training for those having dedicated themselves to truth,
can be done through documentaries about spiritual things:.Ephesians
2:10. A good documentary to start on would be.The
Grand Self.
One can learn quickly this
way when also the four
disciplines are followed. Individuals dedicated
to what God
is, progress spiritually in
accord with his or her dedication to do so.
These young men were taught
not only the rudiments
of secular knowledge,
but they were brought up to exercise the office of prophet,
to preach pure morality
and the heartfelt
worship
of the Infinite One and to act along and coordinately
with the priesthood
and monarchy
in guiding the state.aright
and checking all attempts at illegality and
tyranny.
