Smith claimed that the last prophet to contribute to the book, a man named Moroni, buried it in a hill in present-day New York and then returned to earth in 1827 as an angel, revealing the location of the book to Smith and instructing him to translate and disseminate it as evidence of the restoration of Christ's true church in the latter days.

" The peculiarity of this change of gender led the later rabbis to reason that this means Jonah was comfortable in the roomy male fish, so he didn't pray, but that God then transferred him to a smaller, female fish, in which the prophet was uncomfortable, so that he prayed.

If the superscription of the book of Zephaniah is a reliable indicator of the time that the bulk of the book was composed, then Zephaniah was a contemporary of the prophet Jeremiah ( or Jeremias ).

: Matthew 24: 15-26 ( ESV ) " So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place ( let the reader understand ), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

The people of Israel then told Samuel the prophet that they needed to be governed by a permanent king, and Samuel appointed Saul to be their King.

Noah's narrative lays the prototype for many of the subsequent prophetic stories, which begin with the prophet warning his people and then the community rejecting the message and facing a punishment.

Odysseus then summoned the spirit of the old prophet Tiresias for advice on how to appease the gods upon his return home.

The Jewish Sages themselves considered this a prophetic work that was written during the time of the Prophet Jeremiah by his colleagues, but these latter prophets then attributed their result to king Solomon, just as other writings of Jewish Scripture have been written by one prophet while being attributed to another, such as the Book of Hosea, Isaiah, and others.

Apparently enraged at the plainness with which Jeremiah uttered his solemn warnings of coming judgements because of the abounding iniquity of the times, Pashur " smote Jeremiah the prophet " ( this could mean that he ordered the temple police to seize him and inflict the corporal punishment of up to forty stripes found in Deuteronomy 25: 3 ); then he placed him in the stocks in the high gate of Benjamin, where he remained all night.

Prophecy is a process in which one or more messages that have been communicated to a prophet are then communicated to others.

For instance, the spiritual prophet who communicates with the divine, then shares his insight and understanding to those in his group, community or society.

Matthew then states: " That which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit ", in fulfillment of the prophecy of the prophet: " A virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.

In the book of Jonah, the prophet initially chose to disobey God's command, and then he repented and became obedient.

" ( verses 2-3 ) One seraph then carries out an act of purification for the prophet by touching his lips with a live coal from the altar ( verses 6-7 ).

Mark 13: 14-20 ( King James Version ): " But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, ( let him that readeth understand ,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains: And let him that is on the housetop not go down into the house, neither enter therein, to take any thing out of his house: And let him that is in the field not turn back again for to take up his garment.

Isaiah 8: 1-15 continues the previous chapter: the prophet tells of the birth of another child, his own son named Maher-shalal-hash-baz ( yet another symbolic name ), then predicts that after Ephraim and Syria are destroyed the Assyrians will come like a river in flood to " cover the breadth of your land, Immanuel " ( Isaiah 8: 8 ).

If Beor and Peor are one and the same, then son of Beor merely identifies Balaam as being a prophet of Baal Peor.

The Battle of Yarmouk is regarded as one of the most decisive battles in military history, and it marked the first great wave of Islamic conquests after the death of prophet Muhammad, heralding the rapid advance of Islam into the then Christian Levant.

Frank would anger Bessie by calling Brigham Young, the second president and prophet of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, " Bring ' Em Young " and call her crazy, and then Bessie would retaliate saying maybe she was crazy and would kill him one night.

Once a player thinks they have figured out the rule then they can declare themselves a " prophet " and make the good / bad card calls for the dealer.

Kharijites (, literally " those who went out "; singular, ) is a general term embracing various Muslims who, while initially supporting the authority of the final Rashidun Caliph Ali ibn Abi Talib, the son-in-law and cousin of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, then later rejected his leadership.

The reported story is told that the prophet saw Asma clothed in a thin garment, at which he proclaimed: " when a woman reaches the age of menstruation, she should cover everything but "- and he then pointed to his face and hands.

Homer's Odyssey provides the poem's narrative background: in its eleventh book the prophet Tiresias foretells that Ulysses will return to Ithaca after a difficult voyage, then begin a new, mysterious voyage, and later die a peaceful, " unwarlike " death that comes vaguely " from the sea ".

The fourth encounter is with Micaiah, the prophet who, when asked for advice on a military campaign, first assures Ahab he will be successful and ultimately gives Ahab a glimpse into God's plan for Ahab to die in battle ( 1 Kings 22 ).

There is no direct injunction of the Quran regarding Waqf, but there is a hadith which says " Ibn Umar reported, Umer-Ibn-Al-Khitab got land in khyber, so he came to the prophet Muhammad ( peace be upon him ) and asked him to advice him about it.

* According to hadith the Islamic prophet Muhammad was asked who should " begin " the salam greeting, and he said:

The prophet asked Jesse to present his sons, after seeing them, he realized that God has not chosen any of them.

Accounts vary as to the reasons for what came next: Mughal accounts state that Sambhaji was asked to surrender his forts, treasures, and names of Mughal collaborators with the Marathas, and that he sealed his fate by insulting both the emperor and the Islamic prophet Muhammad during interrogation, and was executed for having killed Muslims.

Donatello was asked to make some adjustments to the statue ( perhaps to make him look less like a prophet ), and a pedestal with an inscription was made for it: PRO PATRIA FORTITER DIMICANTIBUS ETIAM ADVERSUS TERRIBILISSIMOS HOSTES DII PRAESTANT AUXILIUM ( To those who fight bravely for the fatherland the gods lend aid even against the most terrible foes ).

When her son Joseph III became president / prophet of what would be later known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, she was again asked to compile a hymnal.

Many Sunni Muslims fast during this day, because it is recorded in the hadith that Musa ( Moses ) and his people obtained a victory over the Egyptian Pharaoh on the 10th day of Muharram ; accordingly Islamic prophet Muhammad asked Muslims to fast on this day, and also a day extra either before or after, so that they are not similar to Jews ( since, according to him, Jews used to fast for one day due to the same reason, and many practices recorded in the hadith are specifically performed to avoid any apparent similarity to those of contemporary neighbouring Jews and Christians ).

Hizam was a merchant, who asked the prophet Mohammed whether it was permissible for him to sell to a customer goods that he doesn't yet possess (" short selling " in Western parlance ).

Allah ( God ) sent his prophet Moses to save children of Israel from pharoah, he gave him great power to face the pharaoh and win over him, he succeeded and save his people and as soon as he went to listen to God's orders, they rejected his message even that Haroon / Aaron was present among them, this made Moses very mad about his brother but later he asked for mercy from the almighty for him, his brother and those people, Allah accepted.

:" The false prophet fled to the land of Ifat and lived there propagating his false teaching ... And when Säbrädīn asked him for council he told him saying: ' The kingdom of the Christians has now come to an end ; and it has been given to us, for you will reign on in Siyon Ethiopia.

Then disputes ensued and they asked prophet Musa for help.

The prophet Musa asked who killed him and he said his nephew and he died again.

A well known Hadith of the prophet says: " I asked the Prophet who has the greatest right over a man, and he said, ' His mother '".

Section two deals with the idea of revelation, and what it means for one to be a prophet.

Similar to the traditional view in Judaism, conservative Christians view the Book of Daniel as written by the prophet Daniel, who they claim wrote the book around 536 BC after having been in captivity for about 70 years.

In Islam, Job ( ايوب ) was a prophet renowned for his endurance ( assumed to be of pain and suffering ).

In Revelation 21-23, as in the closing visions of Ezekiel, the prophet is transported to a high mountain, where a heavenly messenger measures the symmetrical new Jerusalem, complete with high walls and twelve gates, the dwelling-place of God, producing a state of perfect well-being for his people.

Then, in Chapter 12, the prophet pleads for Israel's repentance.

* 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.

" The prophet Jonah shows us where God shows concern for the people of Nineveh, while Nahum ’ s writing testifies to his belief in the righteousness / justice of God and how God dealt with those Assyrians in punishment according to " their cruelty " ( Nahum 3: 19 ).

Three general possibilities are that a person, possibly named Zephaniah, prophesied the words of the book of Zephaniah ; the general message of a Josianic prophet is conveyed through the book of Zephaniah ; or the name could have been employed, either during the monarchic or post-monarchic period, as a ‘ speaking voice ’, possibly for rhetorical purposes.

In the final part of the first chapter, the prophet expresses shock at God's choice of instrument for judgment.

Divine revelation for the direction of the entire church comes from God to the President of the Church, who is viewed by Latter-day Saints as a prophet in the same sense as Noah, Abraham, Moses, Peter, and other biblical leaders.

The prophet has a vision of the angel Gabriel, who tells him, " Seventy weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city ( i. e., Israel and Jerusalem ).

" There have been people who have come to the prophet and explained how they love to be engaged in prayer and fasting for the sake of God.

Egypt is identified in the Bible as the place of refuge that the Holy Family sought in its flight from Judea: " When he arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night and departed for Egypt, and was there until the death of Herod the Great, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt I called My Son " ( Matthew 2: 12 – 23 ).

By January 1972, Berg introduced through his letters that he was God's prophet for this time, further establishing his spiritual authority within the group.

Based on the above, the number of revelations ( accounting for sections that are not revelations ) presented by each Community of Christ prophet, are as follows:

In the 2nd century, Lucian devoted a witty essay to the career of a charlatan, " Alexander the false prophet ", trained by " one of those who advertise enchantments, miraculous incantations, charms for your love-affairs, visitations for your enemies, disclosures of buried treasure, and successions to estates ",< ref >

Led by their prophet Moses they journey through the wilderness to Mount Sinai, where Yahweh promises them the land of Canaan ( the " Promised Land ") in return for their faithfulness.

Jacob Myers suggests a number of possible reasons for this letter, among them that it may be an example of a better known prophet's name being substituted for that of a lesser known prophet.

He served as a prophet for at least 22 years until, according to scriptures, it is believed Ezekiel's last encounter with God occurred in April 570 BCE.

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.