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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...

to know the will of God. God would raise up individuals, called prophets, from within the ethnic nation of Israel. The prophets would make known the divine will for both individuals and for the nation of Israel as a whole. Two tests were given for distinguishing a false prophet from a true prophet: (1) The true prophet must speak in the name of Yahweh, and those speaking in the name of other gods must be put to death. (2) If what a prophet predicted came to pass, he was a true prophet. If not, he
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