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Prophecies Proverbs Poetry and Parables
It is interesting to ponder the role that Prophecies, Proverbs, Psalms, Poems and Parables play in the redemptive plan of God. Remember the Bible is about how God met every challenge that attempted to counter his plan to redeem mankind. God in the execution of his plan used every device to teach, guide, instruct , educate and discipline mankind in bringing them home to glory.
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Hebrews 1:1 reminds us that "God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past to our fathers by the prophets hath in these last days spoken unto us by his son". I would like to emphasize particularly and specificlly "in divers manners". Hallelujah praise the Lord. This underscores my observation that God used every available communication and literary device to declare himself and his will to mankind.
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He used Poems, Psalms, Proverbs Parables and Pictures
to speak to mankind.
He even uses nature. "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:​
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In times past, that is in the times before Jesus Christ God spake to the Fathers by the prophets. If God had something to say to mankind he would say it by the Prophets. Moses was one of the most outstanding of the Prophets ​
Since that time no prophet has risen in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face, Prophets were God's mouthpiece. When Aaron and Miriam contradicted Moses God defended Moses saying:
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“Now hear My words:
If there is a prophet among you,
I, the Lord, will make Myself known to him in a vision.
I will speak with him in a dream.
7 It is not this way for My servant Moses;
He is faithful in all My household;
8 With him I speak mouth to mouth,
That is, openly, and not [a]using [b]mysterious language,
And he beholds the form of the Lord.
So why were you not afraid.
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The Prophets were not to be trifled with because they were God's mouthpiece. When Abimelech took Abraham's wife God
defended Abraham and told Abemelech "You are a dead man". Gen. 20:3. "Now therefore restore to the man his wife, for he os a prophet". (Gen 20:7 KJV). It's bad enough interfering with a man's wife, for that's adultery. But the wife of a prophet.
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​​​​Prophets were a protected, revered Species
In Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.
And again in Psal 105 :14-15 He suffered no man to do them wrong: he reproved Kings gor their sakes : Saying , Touch Not Mine Anmointed, and do my prophets no harm. These special species of God's people were specially chose, anointed and appointed by God to be God's mouthpiece. The wriiter to the Hebrews is correct when he said that God spoke in time past at different times and in different ways to the fathers by the prophets. No wonder why from Abel to John the Baptist prophets appeared speaking in different ways.
This was part of God;s masterpiece in goading and cajoling men and women into the kingdom of God.
They rejected God's prophets. Time amd again (Mat. 23:31, Luke 11:47, Rpm. 11:3, 2 Thess. 3:15 The scriptures testify that they killed the prophets.
Jer. 7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
25 Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
26 Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
God is saying
When wisdom cries
Drink waters out of your Own Cisterns and running water from your own well
The strange woman that winks with her eyes