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How to Read and Understand the Biblical Prophets is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Prophetic Books of the Bible are full of symbolic speeches, dramatic metaphors, and lengthy allegories—a unique blend of literary styles that can make them hard to comprehend. How can we know if we are reading them the way God intended them to be read? In this accessible guide, leading Old Testament scholar Peter Gentry identifies seven common characteristics of prophetic literature in the...

do not return, they face certain destruction of their world as they know it. What have we learned from our examination of Isaiah 5 and 6? The first and perhaps most important thing is that the biggest part of the message of the biblical prophets has nothing to do with predicting the future. This is extremely important to keep in mind since a large part of this little book deals with how and why the prophets predicted the future and what function that played in the message as a whole. Instead,
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