Especialidades JA/Profetas y profecía/Respuestas
Nivel de destreza
2
Año
2017
Version
28.11.2024
Autoridad de aprobación
División Norteamericana
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La Real Academia Española define profeta como una «Persona que posee el don de profecía.»
El papel del profeta se presenta en la Biblia: «Un profeta como tú les levantaré en medio de sus hermanos; pondré mis palabras en su boca y él les dirá todo lo que yo le mande. Pero a cualquiera que no oiga las palabras que él pronuncie en mi nombre, yo le pediré cuenta»(Deuteronomio 18:18 y 19, RVR1995).
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Profetas mayores:
- Isaías
- Jeremías
- Ezequiiel
- Daniel
Minor prophets:
- Hosea
- Joel
- Amos
- Obadiah
- Jonah
- Micah
- Nahum
- Habakkuk
- Zephaniah
- Haggai
- Zechariah
- Malachi
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Estos libros se centran en un profeta, considerado tradicionalmente como el autor del libro respectivo. El término «mayor» se refiere a cuán largos son los libros, en distinción a los doce profetas menores, cuyos libros son mucho más cortos y se agrupan como un solo libro en la Biblia hebrea.
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Como era cierto en el período del Antiguo Testamento, el papel principal de los profetas del Nuevo Testamento era hablar la Palabra de Dios. Las escrituras de los profetas del Nuevo Testamento llevaban la misma autoridad que las escrituras de los profetas del Antiguo Testamento. Estaban entre los líderes distintivos de la iglesia primitiva (Efesios 4:11). Los profetas hablaban para edificación, exhortación y consuelo.
Algunos profetas del Nuevo Testamento:
- Juan el Bautista: Como todos los profetas anteriores a él, profetizó acerca del Mesías, Jesucristo, y preparó el camino para él.
- Agabo: Sabemos poco de él aparte de que él era un profeta y predijo el encarcelamiento de Pablo (Hechos 21:10).
- Silas: Él es nombrado profeta en Hechos 15:32. Acompañó a Pablo en muchos de sus viajes misioneros.
- Juan el Revelador
- Jesucristo: Jesús pasó todo su ministerio terrenal testificando a la mente y la voluntad del Padre Celestial y su propia misión divina. Predicó la justicia, habló en contra del pecado y anduvo haciendo el bien. Él es un profeta modelo. Él es el profeta modelo.
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- María (Miqueas 6:4) María, hermana de Aarón y Moisés. Cuando era niña, guardó la canasta en la que estaba su hermano Moisés hasta que la hija del faraón la encontró. Más tarde, como profetisa, llevó a las mujeres de Israel a una celebración pública después de cruzar el Mar Rojo.
- Débora (Jueces 4:4) Débora era una persona respetuosa. Su mandato como jueza de Israel no estuvo envuelto en controversias o escándalos, ya que la mayoría de los jueces estaban en el libro de Jueces. Ella profetizó la victoria sobre Sísara y su vasto ejército de hombres y carros por los 10.000 hombres de Israel. Debido a la falta del deseo de Barac para ir a la batalla sin Débora, ella profetizó nuevamente que la victoria estaría en manos de una mujer. Y así fue. La victoria fue atribuida a Jael, quien quitó la vida del general Sísara. Debido a la fidelidad de Débora, Israel disfrutó de la paz durante cuarenta años.
- Hulda (2 Reyes 22:14) Hulda fue buscado por el rey Josías después de que el libro de la ley fue encontrado durante las renovaciones para reparar el templo del Señor. Él quería que ella verificara el libro por su autenticidad, que resultó ser válida. Ella dijo la verdad, haciendo que el rey Josías destruyera cualquier remanente de adoración de ídolos entre los límites de su reino.
- La esposa de Isaías (Isaías 8:3)
- Noadías (Nehemías 6:14)
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Prophecy is the foretelling or prediction of what is to come or something that is declared by a prophet, especially a divinely-inspired prediction, instruction, or exhortation.
God uses prophecy to send a divine message to His church. Sometimes the message is for the church when it is given; other times the message is to be opened to the understanding of a people at a later time.
"To accept the existence of God is to accept His statement as to how He has chosen to communicate with man. It is neither reasonable nor sensible to accept God and then deny or reject what He says regarding the prophets through whom He has chosen to speak to man here on earth. The Bible offers neither scientific proof nor a well-reasoned argument for or against prophets. It simply declares that there are prophets through whom God spoke:
'God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son' (Heb. 1:1, 2)." -- Believe His Prophets, p. 30,by Denton E. Rebok.
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Here is the patience of the saints; here are those who keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
And I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, “See that you do not do that! I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”
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when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.
The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has My word, let him speak My word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat?” says the Lord. “Is not My word like a fire?” says the Lord, “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces? Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” says the Lord, “who steal My words every one from his neighbor. Behold, I am against the prophets,” says the Lord, “who use their tongues and say, ‘He says.’ Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams,” says the Lord, “and tell them, and cause My people to err by their lies and by their recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all,” says the Lord.
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A true prophet’s predictions will “come to pass”
"As for the prophet who prophesies of peace, when the word of the prophet comes to pass, the prophet will be known as one whom the Lord has truly sent."
He will glorify God rather than himself
"However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come."
He does not give his own private interpretation
"...knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation,[a] 21 for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God[b] spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit."
He points out sin
"Thus says the Lord concerning the prophets
Who make my people stray; Who chant “Peace” While they chew with their teeth, But who prepare war against him Who puts nothing into their mouths: 'Therefore you shall have night without vision, And you shall have darkness without divination; The sun shall go down on the prophets, And the day shall be dark for them. So the seers shall be ashamed, And the diviners abashed; Indeed they shall all cover their lips; For there is no answer from God.' But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord, And of justice and might, To declare to Jacob his transgression
And to Israel his sin."
He warns of coming judgment
The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard,
And shall totter like a hut; Its transgression shall be heavy upon it, And it will fall, and not rise again. It shall come to pass in that day That the Lord will punish on high the host of exalted ones,
And on the earth the kings of the earth.
He edifies the church
But he who prophesies speaks edification and exhortation and comfort to men. He who speaks in a tongue edifies himself, but he who prophesies edifies the church.
His message harmonizes with the Bible
To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
He teaches that Jesus came in the flesh
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.
He has a Christian character
You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them.
He is obedient to the will of God
I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him.
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1 Samuel 20:18-24 shares a most unique story where God uses prophesy to protect someone -- King Saul is attempting to capture and kill David, and David has fled to Samuel's home. This story tells you how first messengers, then Saul himself came to Samuel's home to get David. In all cases, they began to utter prophecy instead. We have no idea what they said -- whether it was wise sayings, advice and counsel, quoting of scripture, or even telling the future. What we do know is that when they began to declare prophesy, they weren't able to hurt David!
So David fled and escaped, and went to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and stayed in Naioth. Now it was told Saul, saying, “Take note, David is at Naioth in Ramah!” Then Saul sent messengers to take David. And when they saw the group of prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as leader over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied. And when Saul was told, he sent other messengers, and they prophesied likewise. Then Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they prophesied also. Then he also went to Ramah, and came to the great well that is at Sechu. So he asked, and said, “Where are Samuel and David?”
And someone said, “Indeed they are at Naioth in Ramah.” So he went there to Naioth in Ramah. Then the Spirit of God was upon him also, and he went on and prophesied until he came to Naioth in Ramah. And he also stripped off his clothes and prophesied before Samuel in like manner, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?"
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NOTE: This is an application requirement. Pathfinders need to take their knowledge and apply it to the characters in the passages, then they need to create some type of presentation explaining their conclusion about whether each character is a prophet.
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Joseph would qualify as a prophet because he brought a divine message to Egypt of future events which came true, showing Egypt the message was from God.
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Jonah qualifies as a prophet, even though his prediction does not come true. His message was conditional, depending on if it was accepted, and the people of Ninevah did change their ways. They accepted the message and changed so their destruction was not delivered. But Jonah still qualified as a divine messenger.
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