For instance, Paul cites Greek writers and philosophers, and the author of Hebrews references oral tradition which spoke of an Old Testament prophet who was sawn in half in Hebrews 11: 37, two verses after the 2nd Maccabees reference.

He believed he was a prophet of God and that the Paraclete spoke through him.

Tecumseh was among those who spoke with Wells and assured him that his band of Shawnee intended to remain at peace and wanted only to follow the will of the Great Spirit and his prophet.

Hanbal believed that God's word is eternal, that God Himself spoke to Moses the prophet and Moses heard His words, and that God did not create His words when He communicated with Moses.

Belial is also mentioned in the Fragments of a Zadokite Work ( which is also known as The Damascus Document ( CD )), which states that during the eschatological age, " Belial shall be let loose against Israel, as God spoke through Isaiah the prophet.

Concerning the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, Tatchell spoke at an event whose organisers termed a " Rally for free expression " defending the publication of cartoons of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and in support for free speech in general.

Rather, " The Lord " indicates God in all of His glory and transcendence, while " his Spirit " refers to His own Spirit that moved upon and spoke to the prophet.

According to belief, an angel spoke to the prophet Abraham, and told him to institute the rite of the stone in the hajj at Mecca.

The apocalyptic writer could obtain no hearing from his contemporaries, who held that, though God spoke in the past, " there was no more any prophet.

Razia is said to have pointed out that the spirit of religion was more important than its parts, and that even the Islamic prophet Muhammad spoke against overburdening the non-Muslims.

Soufan also notes that there is debate about whether the prophet Mohammed actually spoke some of the quoted Hadiths ( such as one attributed to Abu Hurairah ).

* Luthor Huss-The self-styled " prophet of Sigmar " who spoke up against corruption and complacency among the priesthood.

For example, Bahá ' u ' lláh describes Moses as a Manifestation of God and his brother Aaron a minor prophet ; Moses spoke on behalf of God, and Aaron spoke on behalf of Moses ( Exodus 4: 14-17 ).

There are many scholars, however, who point out that the prophet himself spoke of Cyrus arguing that Deutero-Isaiah interpreted Cyrus ' victorious entry into Babylon in 539 BC as evidence of divine commission to benefit Israel.

As punishment God's vengeance would be directed against Israel, and the prophet warns his audience: " Is not the day of the LORD darkness, not light, and gloom with no brightness in it?

Isaiah's first significant acts as a prophet occurred when Judah, under king Ahaz, faced invasion from Israel and Aram Damascus ( Syria ) after refusing to join them in a revolt against Assyria, the dominant imperial power of the age.

* Judgement against the nations and their leaders ( chapters 1-3, probably the only section containing original material from the 8th century prophet );

* Judgement against Samaria ( 1: 2 – 7 ): Drawing upon ancient traditions for depicting a theophany, the prophet depicts the coming of Yahweh to punish the city, whose sins are idolatry and the abuse of the poor.

* Threats against the prophet ( 2: 6 – 11 ): The prophet is warned not to prophesy.

In the context of the passage, they seem to equate to something like “ east and west .” There is a passage in Ezekiel, however, where God says to the prophet, " Set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and prophesy against him.

Epimenides was a 6th Century BC philosopher and religious prophet who, against the general sentiment of Crete, proposed that Zeus was immortal, as in the following poem:

In Islam, the Qur ' an describes Elijah as a great and righteous prophet of God, and one who powerfully preached against the worship of Ba ' al.

In Ezekiel 28: 12-19 the prophet Ezekiel ( the " son of man ") sets down God's word against the king of Tyre: the king was the " seal of perfection ", adorned with precious stones from the day of his creation, placed by God in the garden of Eden on the holy mountain as a guardian cherub.

The book of the prophet Nahum is almost exclusively taken up with prophetic denunciations against this city.

After 20 years of such oppression, Samuel, who had gained national prominence as a prophet, summoned the people to Mizpah ( one of the highest hills in the land ), where he organized them into an army, and led them against the Philistines.

On one occasion, in a move described by Jonathan Magonet as taking the prophet into ' protective custody ', he protected Jeremiah against the fury of Jehoiakim.

In the Oracle against Tyre, the prophet Ezekiel () mentions that silver, iron, lead and tin came to Tyre from Tarshish ( Trsys ).

18, in which " a prophet like Moses " is promised: " As Moses was a prophet for forty years, so was Jeremiah ; as Moses prophesied concerning Judah and Benjamin, so did Jeremiah ; as Moses ' own tribe Levites under Korah rose up against him, so did Jeremiah's tribe revolt against him ; Moses was cast into the water, Jeremiah into a pit ; as Moses was saved by a slave ( the slave of Pharaoh's daughter ); so, Jeremiah was rescued by a slave ( Ebed-melech ); Moses reprimanded the people in discourses ; so did Jeremiah.

The prophet advised against wearing rich silken cloths.

Lot had also subsequently been made a prophet by God, but he was ordered to leave Abraham's household and was sent to the land of Sodom and Gomorrah, to preach against the sins of the people there.

According to Martin Kramer, the Quran speaks of Jews in a negative way and reports instances of Jewish treachery against the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

LDS church president and prophet Joseph Smith, Jr. attributed the lack of sponsorship to discrimination against the Mormons.

The Book of Mormon prophet Nephi also emphasizes that after the law of Moses was " fulfilled in Christ ," the Nephites " need not harden their hearts against him when the law ought to be done away ," understanding that the law of Moses would be fulfilled through Christ's atonement and resurrection, as He also taught.

Contemporary opinions saw Rasputin variously as a saintly mystic, visionary, healer and prophet or, on the contrary, as a debauched religious charlatan.

Rasputin had a considerable personal and political influence on Alexandra, and the Tsar and Tsarina considered him a man of God and a religious prophet.

Moses (, ; ) was, according to the Hebrew Bible and the Qur ' an, a religious leader, lawgiver and prophet, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed.

On the other hand, peace with Sidon also resulted in the penetration of Phoenician religious ideas into the kingdom and led to a kulturkampf between traditionalists ( as personified by the prophet Elijah and his followers ) and the aristocracy ( as personified by Omri's son and heir Ahab and his consort Jezebel ).

* Husain ibn ' Ali, Shi ' i religious leader and grandson of the prophet of Islam, enters martyrdom.

The Imposter Unnamed-a false prophet ( from ambition, rather than fanaticism ) who creates a radical religious sect in opposition to Adrian while in France.

This could be someone who's a teacher, instructor, religious leader, prophet, or a group or community leader of some kind.

From the 7th Century BC when Jehoiakim, King of Judah, burned part of the prophet Jeremiah's scroll, ( Jeremiah 36 ), to the present day, the burning of books has a long history as a tool wielded by authorities both secular and religious, in efforts to suppress dissenting or heretical views that are perceived as posing a threat to the prevailing order.

Some Jews accepted this model of religious pluralism, leading them to view Prophet Mohammed as a legitimate prophet, though not Jewish, sent to preach to the Arabs, just as the Hebrew prophets had been sent to deliver their messages to Israel ; others refused this notion in entirety.

Taking advantage of this dissatisfaction, as well as a religious revival inspired by a Lenape prophet named Neolin, Pontiac planned a resistance.

Early in the religious movement, many tribes sent members to investigate the self-proclaimed prophet, while other communities sent delegates only to be cordial.

Many followers of the former consider its 19th-century founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, to have been a prophet, as well as such other religious figures as Krishna and Buddha, despite the mainstream Muslim view that Muhammad was the last.

Muir was noted for being an ecological thinker, political spokesman, and religious prophet, whose writings became a personal guide into nature for countless individuals, making his name " almost ubiquitous " in the modern environmental consciousness.

For instance, a charismatic leader in a religious context might require an unchallenged belief that the leader has been touched by God, in the sense of a guru or prophet.

Some exegetes believe that Antipas ' and Herodias ' struggle with John the Baptist as told in the Gospels was some kind of a remembrance of the political and religious fight opposing the Israeli monarchs Achab and Jezebel to the prophet Elijah.

One argument being that Cyrus was a follower of Zoroaster, the monotheistic prophet: Zoroastrianism played a dominant religious role in Persia throughout its history until the Islamic conquest.

Naomi Seidman, professor of Jewish culture at the Graduate Theological Union, wrote a comparative analysis of the Yiddish and French texts for a 1996 article in Jewish Social Studies, concluding that Night transforms the Holocaust into a religious event, the abdication of God, with the witness both priest and prophet ; Wiesel himself said that Auschwitz was as important as Mount Sinai.

When Joseph Smith, Jr., the Latter Day Saint prophet, took up residence in Hiram, Ohio, four miles from the Snow farm in 1831, the Snow family took a strong interest in the new religious movement.

* John Reeve ( religious leader ) ( 1608 – 1658 ), English prophet and author

* Jesus is a venerable prophet in Islam, and the portrayal of religious icons can be seen as prohibited by the Qur ' an.

Max Weber, considered to be one of the founders of the modern study of sociology, described the mystagogue as part magician, part prophet ; and as one who dispersed " magical actions that contain the boons of salvation " According to Roy Wallis, " The primary criterion that Weber had in mind in distinguishing the prophet from the mystagogue was that the latter offers a largely magical means of salvation rather than proclaiming a radical religious ethic or an example to be followed.

They pool their news-Sandy has identified Kasredin from the their clue sheet, as the title of an ancient Turkish allegorical story, the hero of which is a religious leader called Greenmantle, and has also heard much of a prophet known as " the Emerald ", associated with the play.