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Saturday, August 09, 2003 Israel & the Minor ProphetsWe're about to begin this year's BSF bible-study of the above name. Much reading ahead, I fear! But this morning the discussion leaders in our BSF mens class spent the morning being revved up for the year ahead.A few worthwhile points: - The clenched fist of God is balanced by His open hand of grace - during the study we won't see one without the other. - The greatest evidence of God's grace is that He continues to offer it to those who don't want it. - Summing up the real message of the prophets - the whole study in one word: "turn". Turn back to God (or repent). Turn from your wicked ways and again experience His grace. - The basic structure of the Minor Prophets has 3 parts: 1) prophets' statement of judgements against the people of God; 2) prophets' statement of divine judgement against nations of the world; 3) prophets' message of hope (good to come; salvation, fulfilment of Davidic covenant). - It's a study of how Israel's leaders led. There were 3 types of leaders: 1) Judges - military deliverers (Joshua to Samuel, including the woman Deborah); 2) Kings - rule according to God's law; Saul onwards, the good and the bad; 3) Prophets - (the ugly?), generally bearers of bad news! Not the sort of guys to invite to your party!! Again, true and false ones. Even the bad ones were used by sovereign God to deliver messages of judgement to God's people. Kings and Prophets hung around simultaneously, and generally a bad King resulted in much activity by those Prophet guys. So, that's a little foretaste of the year ahead in bible study. If you're keen, checkout a BSF class near you (class locations world-wide are listed on their web site). # posted by geoff @ 7:15 pm 0 comments
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