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Swaggering Abuse of Prophets

Swaggering Abuse of Prophets

Watch out for bluffs.

Do better than making a big fool of yourself.

"The days are coming," declares the Lord, "when I will raise up to David a righteous Branch, a King who will reign wisely and do what is just and right in the land. In his days Judah will be saved and Israel will live in safety. This is the name by which he will be called: The Lord Our Righteousness. [Jeremiah 23:5,6]

Jesus used to draw on the prophets, claiming they prophesised about him, and that prophet words were to be fulfilled though him. Jesus said, "Do not think that I have come to abolish . . . the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfil them." [Matthew 5:17. Cf. Matthew 1:22; 2:17; 4:14 for examples of prop use of prophets].
Did he fulfil all of them? All of the recorded prophet sayings? Absolutely not.
Actually, just a handful or so of all the prophet sayings in the Old Testament are made use of to serve the claims of Jesus in the gospels. Paul adds some more, but the words of the Old Testament that refer to Jesus are about as a couple of drops in a heavy rain shower. By looking up the use of prophets in the gospel, you can see it for yourself. If you work your way through the Old Testament you may end up with an even more pessimistic comparison. The main point is: There are extremely few references in the prophets to anyone like Jesus. If the hat fits, wear it: Jesus and followers abused prophet authority to seemingly or haltingly legitimise himself and his "trade". You should refrain from that.
Some delicate prophet words go completely against the mission of Jesus: In "fulfilling prophets", Jesus did not talk of prophet words that said Israel was destroyed, never to rise again. And what is more, "the lost sheep of Israel [Matthew 13;24]" did not want him either. The sheep did not actually listen to the shepherd's voice, but said "Execute him!" The hat fits -
Even more interesting to some, the Old Testament tells God had already crushed and killed them all, and they were never to rise again. That Jews did not welcome Jesus, should come as no surprise then.
Study the facts first, before you put any faith in anything. That could be very wise. After all, the Spirit is of truth cannot want anyone to live a lie, can it?
One sees from prophets that gospels refer to, that those who lived by Jewish customs at the time of Jesus, could not be God's people, for he had killed them off long ago according to main prophets - That is the long overlooked point if you take key words of prophets seriously, and the "fulfiller words" of Jesus (above) less seriously because they obviously do not fit all prophet sayings, such as:

"I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel." [Hosea 1:4] "I will crush you". [Amos 2:13] "Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again". [Amos 5:2].
"You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against me, against your helper. (. . .) In my anger I gave you a king". [Hosea 13:9,11]

Thinking: "There never was such an obstinate house remembered no more!"

"Fallen and destroyed" . . . so many disregard this; it is written in the Bible. But according to those precious prophet words Jesus never came to his own. Dear words by Hosea and Amos - among the dearest of the whole Bible - show there never was a God's people to come to for Jesus. They were dead.
Amos and Hosea are not the only key prophets to study in this. The whole hardened and obstinate house of Israel [Ezek 3:7] would be killed, said the prophet Ezekiel:
"I am going to cut off the righteous and the wicked, my sword will be unsheathed against everyone from south to north. [Ezek 21:4]". Such indiscriminate slaughter is great injustice to the righteous. But the main thing comes next: "Then all people will know that I the Lord have drawn my sword from its scabbard; it will not return again." [Ezek 21:5] "You will be fuel for the fire, your blood will be shed in your land, you will be remembered no more." [Ezek 21:32, emphasis added]. Interestingly, the bible counteracts that. Ai-ai-ai.
Jesus has nowhere fulfilled those prophet words and the safety words of Jeremiah, for one prophet saying contradicts another. We do not find that Israel was saved in the days of Jesus, or in safety, as Jeremiah had prophesised for the Righteous King [Jer 23:5,6]. Did he allow robbery, slavery, and killing of innocents? Has someone got no shame? That is putting it very, very gently. The main point is to go against untrue demagoguery as you come across it. Be mentally prepared. There is no good match between main prophet words and Jesus.

Jesus misuses prophets and really abuses Scripture authority.
Blatant prophets misuse appears to be "Hades practice".
You can do better than being taken in by unfit, untrue statements and wild exaggerations.
Not all hitting prophet words are taken into account as they should be. "Turn their insults back on their own heads", is the thing to do [Nehemiah 4:4].

Moral: Watch out for empty, boastful talk.

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Ay: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Autobiography of a Yogi. 1st ed. New York: Theosophical, 1946. Online. [oaks.nvg.org/pv6bk12.html]
Ebu: Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica 2006 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD. London: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2006.
Pa: Yogananda, Paramahansa. Autobiography of a Yogi. 11th ed. Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1971.

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