CHR 105 BIBLE TOOLBOX CHAP 7

amos

Burden Bearer

amos

Social Injustice of Israel

Hosea

to save

hosea

marries prostitute, has 3 kids with ominous names, buys wife back, picture of Israels infidelity and yawehs grace

hosea

only prophet from north

jonah

dove

Jonah

biographical account, preached against Nineveh, angry with gods compassion

jonah

describes gods compassion and freedom to exercise it

micah

who is like the lord

micah

concerned about social conditions, forces message on prophets, priests, and kings, predicts full deliverance, sees that messiah will come from Bethlehem

isaiah

Yahweh is salvation

isaiah

relative of king, long ministry, poetic and complex, clearly points to messiah

nahum

comforted by yaweh

nahum

announces gods coming judgement on Assyria

habakkuk

embraced by yaweh

habakkuk

questions why god has done nothing about evil in Judah, affirms that god is soverign

zepheniah

yaweh has stored up

zepheniah

approaching day of yaweh for judah

jeremiah

yaweh exalts

jeremiah

Weeping prophet, "New covenant", Book of Comfort

jeremiah

longest OT book

lamentations

written by Jeremiah, what Jeremiah and Ezekiel had predicted, fall of Jerusalem, 5 lames, acrostics

ezekiel

god strengthens

Ezekiel

deals with people who lost identity, tried to expose peoples false confidence and sin, powerful picture of restoration to come

daniel

god is my judge

daniel

historical and apocalyptic, modeled how to function in paan environment

daniel

predicted the messiah would be son of man

joel

yaweh is god

joel

day of the lord, locust armies

obadiah

servant of yaweh

obadiah

prophesying against Odom who will be judged because of their hatement of Judah

haggai

pilgrimage festival

haggai

encourages building of the temple

zechariah

yaweh has remembered

zechariah

rebukes delay in rebuilding of the temple

Malachi

the lord messenger

malachi

explores symptoms of spiritual apathy