In today's lesson we learned that Prophets of God hear from the Lord and they are called to relay His message to God's people. Sometimes it was a foretelling - something that will happen in the future, and sometimes it is forthtelling, calling the people to "come forth and repent." Classical Prophets are prophets that have a book of the Bible named after them. This is the time of the divided kingdom of Israel as well as the time of the exile and then post-exilic when under Persian rule the Jews were allowed to come back to Jerusalem. Two of the main issues that the Prophets spoke of either had to do with the people's relationship to God or to people, and this reminds us of the greatest commandment found in Matthew 22:34-40, we are to love God with all of our heart, soul, and mind, and love our neighbor as ourselves. We then reviewed the OT and a key word or idea for all of the OT books we have covered so far.
