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The Twelve Minor Prophets (Hebrew: שנים עשר, Shneim Asar; Imperial Aramaic: תרי עשר, Trei Asar, "Twelve") (Ancient Greek: δωδεκαπρόφητον, "the Twelve Prophets"), or the Book of the Twelve, is a collection of prophetic books, written between about the 8th and 4th centuries BCE, which are in both the Jewish ...
12 dic 2017 · Exploring a lesser-known, but a still vital segment of the Bible: the minor prophets of Holy Scripture.
- Sam O'neal
- The Minor Prophets
- The Twelve Minor Prophets
- Hosea
- Joel
- Amos
- Obadiah
- Jonah
- Micah
- Nahum
- Habakkuk
The Minor Prophets are not called minor because they are unimportant but because of the size of their books. Prophets like Jeremiah, Isaiah and Ezekiel have large books and so these prophets are called the Major Prophets only because their books are larger, not because they are more important. The prophets of the Old Testament do not appear in chro...
It is interesting that there are twelve prophets because that was the number of disciplesand later, apostles and there were also twelve tribes of Israel. The number twelve in the Bible is associated with governmental perfection and sometimes relates to God’s divine authority or sovereignty. Here is a list of each of the twelve Minor Prophets in the...
Hosea’s name means “salvation” and his book was written primarily to the Northern Kingdom and as his name suggests, he seeks Israel’s salvation by repentance, otherwise they face destruction and captivity, which eventually happens when the Assyrians invade and take the Northern Kingdom as slaves. The same problems that Hosea dealt with are those th...
Joel’s name means Jehovah or Yahweh is God or Lord. The main focus of the Book of Joel is the coming Day of the Lord. He writes about a coming judgment or destruction of the land’s vegetation by locusts. Whether these are real locusts and they devour crops in a time of drought or they are implements of war, we cannot be certain. Joel speaks of a “d...
Amos’ name means “to carry” or “born (carried) by God.” He primarily prophesied to the Northern Kingdom who had become comfortably wealthy and began to have a false sense of security. Amos focused on two areas of sin in both the Southern Kingdom (Judah) and the Northern Kingdom (Israel). Two of the greatest sins that were occurring in the Northern ...
Obadiah means “servant of God” or “servant of the Lord.” Obadiah tries to reassure Judah that Edom’s vicious and deadly attack against them will be avenged by God Himself. This was written because Judah’s faith was very weak and God wanted to ensure the nation that He still cared for His people and that He is always at work for them, even during ev...
Jonah’s name means “peace” or “dove” of which a dove is symbolic of. Jonah shows us that you cannot run and you cannot hide from God or His express, divine will. There is no place to hide, nowhere to run, where God is not at. Jonah resisted until he was trapped in the belly of a great fish and even then he resisted wanting to save Nineveh because N...
Micah’s name means “who is like God?” The answer of course is no one is like God. He alone is transcendent. Micah’s message was that the great disparity between the very rich and the very poor was a judgment against them. Greedy landlords (2:1-5) and political corruption had caused the entire nation to be morally bankrupt (6:9-16; 7:1-7) so God ros...
Nahum’s name means “comfort” or “comforter.” Nahum’s message was designed to bring a voice of relief, comfort, and joy for those who had been suffering under the hand of oppressive nations. These merciless nations will not go unpunished and this book is intended to comfort God’s people with the fact that no crimes against them have escaped His sigh...
This minor prophet’s name means “embrace.” What a comforting thought it is that God wants to embrace us during great trials and that we should embrace His Word. Habakkuk is consumed with a burning desire to proclaim the glory of the Lord. Habakkuk reminds the readers of Jeremiah’s book because of his deep concern for the wayward people of Israel wh...
2 ott 2003 · The “Twelve Minor Prophets” is the eighth and last “book” in the second section of the Hebrew Bible, the Nevi’im, or Prophets. It is, as its name implies, not a unified whole but a collection of 12 independent books, by (at least) 12 different prophets.
- Shawn Aster
The 12 Minor Prophets Summary & Lessons. The so-called ‘Minor’ Prophets of the Old Testament also known as ‘The Twelve’ nevertheless had a Major impact in their day. This summary of the 12 prophets gives an overall view or a summary, of the Minor prophets one by one as they sought to change the lives of their people, and protect them ...
30 nov 2017 · The Minor Prophets is a collection of twelve Old Testament books, known simply as “the Twelve” or “the Book of the Twelve” in the Hebrew Bible. The title “minor” refers to length, not significance.
The Minor Prophets speak with a unified voice the message of God to a wayward people during the most tumultuous times in Israel’s history.
