The answers were recorded in the works of the prophets Ezekiel, Jeremiah and Second Isaiah, and in the Deuteronomistic history, the collection of historical works from Joshua to Kings: God had not abandoned Israel ; Israel had abandoned God, and the Babylonian exile was God's punishment for Israel's lack of faith.

Previous prophets had used " Israel " to mean the northern kingdom and its tribes ; when Ezekiel speaks of Israel he is addressing the deported remnant of Judah.

While most prophets had heroic names ( e. g., Isaiah means " God has saved "), Jonah's name carries with it an element of passivity.

Although the prophets urged the people of Judah and Israel to see their exile as punishment for failing to uphold their covenant with Yahweh, it was not long after they had been restored to the land and to Temple worship that the people's commitment to their God began, once again, to wane.

Initial converts were drawn to the church in part because of the newly published Book of Mormon, a self-described chronicle of indigenous American prophets that Smith said he had translated from golden plates.

:" We do not believe that he ever had a church on earth without revealing himself to that church: consequently, there were apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers, in the same.

While on his way, Elijah meets Obadiah, the head of Ahab's household, who had hidden a hundred prophets of the God of Israel when Ahab and Jezebel had been killing them.

Rava states in the Babylonian Talmud that although Ezekiel describes the appearance of the throne of God ( Merkabah ), this is not because he had seen more than the prophet Isaiah, but rather because the latter was more accustomed to such visions ; for the relation of the two prophets is that of a courtier to a peasant, the latter of whom would always describe a royal court more floridly than the former, to whom such things would be familiar.

All of the prophets and messengers of God had successors, and just as Allah appointed His prophets and messengers for the guidance of mankind, He also appointed successors to the prophets and messengers as a matter of necessity.

While the gentile peoples, seduced by demons, had deserted the true God for idols, the Jews and Samaritans possessed the revelation given through the prophets and awaited the Messiah.

" In Muslim belief, before the Qur ' an, God had given the Torah to Moses, the Psalms to David and the Gospel to Jesus, who are all considered important Muslim prophets.

Obadiah was very rich, but all his wealth was expended in feeding the poor prophets, until, in order to be able to continue to support them, finally he had to borrow money at interest from Ahab's son Jehoram.

Allen ( 1971 ) comments that in the First Temple Era, there were essentially seer-priests, who formed a guild, divined, performed rituals and sacrifices, and were scribes, and then there were canonical prophets, who did none of these ( and were against divination ) and had instead a message to deliver.

Irenaeus, wrote of 2nd century believers with the gift of prophecy, while Justin Martyr argued in his Dialogue with Trypho that prophets were not found among the Jews in his time, but that the church had prophets.

India, China, Russia, Afghanistan, parts of Africa, Europe, America-all had prophets according to the theory of divine guidance taught by the Holy Quran.

If other peoples have had prophets, books, and laws, these constitute no difficulty for Islam .”

:* Victorinus had this to say of them " Some had doubts about the baptism of those who appeared to recognize the same Father with the Son with us, yet who received the new prophets.

According to Jewish tradition, there were no more prophets after Malachi, who lived centuries before Jesus and delivered his prophesies about 420 BC / BCE.

In that year, at Carrickfergus, he delivered, in opposition to Wesley, a ' pointless harangue about hirelings and false prophets '.

The theme of Risalah is emphasized with reference to the accounts of some Islamic prophets like Nuh ( Noah ), Hud ( Judah ), Musa ( Moses ) and Isa ( Jesus ), noting that all of them delivered the same message of monotheism, but were disbelieved and opposed by the people they preached to, and that all of them were helped and rescued by Allah.

He only vaguely remembered the seven prophets who claimed to have delivered his commandments and precepts, and Brutha, his last believer, had to come to grips with the fact that the Great God Om was, in fact, insulting, arrogant, frivolous by self-admission ( when he manifested to one of the prophets, his words had been ' Hey, look what I can do!

Righteous in their denunciation of all that makes for death, the beat prophets bid all men become cool cats ; ;

This encounter ends with Elijah victorious over the official Baal prophets of Israel in a contest held for the sake of the Israelites and their king, Ahab.

The contest ends when Elijah's God consumes the offering which the Baal worshipers could not induce their god to touch, after which Elijah slaughters the Baal prophets ( 1 Kings 18: 17 – 40 ).

Whereas other nations have soothsayers and diviners who attempt to discover the will of their gods, according to Heschel the Hebrew prophets are characterized by their experience of what he calls theotropism — God turning towards humanity.

In this view, prophets do not speak for God so much as they remind their audience of God's voice for the voiceless, the poor and oppressed.

During the Exile many Jews were taken to Babylon, where the prophets told them to make their homes (), suggesting they would spend a long period of time there.

This is reflected in the variety of views and attitudes of the biblical legislators, priests, prophets, historians, psalmists and Wisdom teachers, the hundreds of controversies among the rabbis of the Talmud and in the codes and responsa of their successors.

This power was then extended to prophets like Moses and Samuel, who caused thunderous storms to rain down on their enemies.

'" ( 7: 29 ) Although common people may falter in this area, none of the prophets of God or their successors ever committed any act of injustice.

There were only five universal prophets, and their names were Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad ( may the peace of Allah be upon all of them ).

The easiest way to see this is to consider that these people were the examples sent for humanity to follow, and so if they committed errors, people would be obliged to follow their errors, thereby making the prophets and messengers untrustable.

Over the succeeding 47 chapters, Jesus is recorded as developing the theme that the ancient prophets, specifically Obadiah, Haggai and Hosea, were holy hermits following this religious rule ; and contrasting their followers – termed " true Pharisees " – with the " false Pharisees " who lived in the world, and who constituted his chief opponents.

The 1st century Greek author Philo of Byblos may preserve elements of Iron Age Phoenician religion in his Sanchuniathon., to which the prophets, martyrs and other pious people will go at the time of their death.

Jews and Christians consider the Book of Isaiah a part of their Biblical canon ; he is the first listed ( although not the earliest ) of the neviim akharonim, the latter prophets.

Muslim scholars have also linked both prophets through the fact that both prophets made at least one important journey in their lives ; just as Jacob migrated from Canaan to Egypt, Muhammad migrated from Mecca to Medina.

Jeroboam's reign was also the period of the prophets Hosea, Joel, Jonah and Amos, all of whom condemned the materialism and selfishness of the Israelite elite of their day: " Woe unto those who lie upon beds of ivory ... eat lambs from the flock and calves ... sing idle songs ..." The book of Kings, written a century later condemns Jeroboam for doing " evil in the eyes of the Lord ", meaning both the oppression of the poor and his continuing support of the cult centres of Dan and Bethel, in opposition to the temple in Jerusalem.

The Qur ' an describes many prophets and messengers as well as their respective followers as Muslim: Adam, Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Moses and Jesus and his apostles are all considered to be Muslims in the Qur ' an.

Members of the LDS Church consider their top leaders to be prophets and Apostles, and are encouraged to accept their positions on matters of theology, while seeking confirmation of them through personal study of the Book of Mormon and the Bible.

In The Prince, the Discourses, and in the Life of Castruccio Castracani, he describes " prophets ," as he calls them, like Moses, Romulus, Cyrus the Great, and Theseus ( he treats pagan and Christian patriarchs in the same way ) as the greatest of new princes, the glorious and brutal founders of the most novel innovations in politics, and men whom Machiavelli assures us have always used a large amount of armed force and murder against their own people.

Unlike the First Book of Nephi, this book contains a less secular history of the Nephite people, but instead discusses visions and prophecies of Nephi himself and other ancient prophets, such as Isaiah.

The Tanakh contains prophecies from various Hebrew prophets ( 55 in total ) who communicated messages from God to the nation of Israel, and later the population of Judea and elsewhere.

The name Emmanuel ( from the Hebrew words: א ֵ ל ’ El, i. e. ' God ' and ע ִ מ ָּ נו ּ i. e. ʻImmānū, ' with us ') is related to Isaiah 7: 14 and is one of almost a dozen cases in his Gospel where while discussing Jesus as the fulfillment of prophecies, Matthew points back to one of the prophets.

Although the prophets of Israel inserted poems in their prophecies, or adopted occasionally the rhythm of the dirge, which was well known to their readers, their utterances, aside from the exceptions to be noted, were in the freer rhythm of prose.

* The prophecies of 48 Jewish prophets and 7 prophetesses were recorded in the Tanakh for posterity

While the group accepts prophecy as ongoing today, they believe that modern prophets are fallible, and therefore modern prophecies are not considered equal with the Bible.

Classical Judaism teaches that there will be no prophet greater than Moses, and all the other prophets mentioned in the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible ) were inferior to Moses and his prophecies.

Therefore, the prophecies of the other prophets were a result of the lying spirit.

* The prophecies of the Israelite prophets down to Jeremiah, seen in the Book of Mormon as a contemporary of Lehi ; and

Le Sage said that he heard of Fatio for the first time through his father, because his father had heard the prophecies of the cevénots ( camisards ), and told him that Fatio was among those prophets.

Al-A ' raf is by far one of the most detailing Surah about the origins of creation and revealing prophecies about the judgment day, it starts by telling us how Satan made our ancestors Adam and Eve to leave heaven and all of the three came down to earth and from that point Satan became the number one enemy for humanity, and how he refused to obey to God and asked him to keep him alive to show him the vulnerability of this new creature the Human being, the Surah then starts by telling us how Satan misled thousands of populations over time and gives us examples of some prophets who suffered in order to gain their lost companions to the right path, cited in this surah:

Shoehorning is a ploy used by psychics, or religious apologetic or other charlatans, as a way to make it sound like their prophecies or those of earlier prophets had come true.

When Ossebaar wanted to silence vdp because of prophecies he disliked and found support for this with the prophets, Ossebaar was warned in the word of prophecy that if he preferred their prophesying to the apostolic prophesying, he would get what he desired: the prophets would decline into a Jezebel and he himself into an Ahab.

#" Marot ha-Tsobeot " ( Collected Visions ), on the prophets and their prophecies, Venice, 1803-7.