knew that the Hebrew Scriptures pictured God’s Word as food to be received within the heart and digested inwardly. Job valued God’s Word more than his “necessary food” (Job 23:12), and Moses admonished the Jews to live on God’s Word as well as on the bread (manna) that the Lord supplied daily (Deut. 8:3; see Matt. 4:4). The Prophet Jeremiah “ate” the Word of God (Jer. 15:16) and so did the Apostle John (Rev. 10:8–10). God’s prophets must speak from within their hearts or their messages will not be
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