#Old Testament Prophets

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Bartholomäus Sarburgh (German, 1590-after 1637) The Prophets Haggai and Baruch

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Unveiling the Deceptive Critique of Prophet Joseph Smith's Teachings

The post at Life After Ministries attempts to critique Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), by comparing his actions with those of Old Testament prophets.

Joseph Smith Preaching – Teacher of God’s Truth Introduction The question of whether Joseph Smith bore the infirmities of others is one that appears to bare significant amount of misrepresentation from a critic of the LDS faith. This recent example comes from Michelle, an active contributor at the Life After Ministries blog, who published a post concerning a quote taken from the “Discourses of…

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Kunz Meyer-Waldeck (1859-1953), 'The Witch of Endor', ''La Ilustración artística'', Oct. 28, 1901 Source

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God would love me if I was a worm (Isaiah 41:14)

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Elijah Taken Up in a Chariot of Fire, Giuseppe Angeli, ca. 1740-55

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The Miracles of Prophet Elisha

Artist: Giorgio Vasari (Italian, 1511-1574)

Date: c. 1566

Medium: Oil on Wood

Collection: Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Description

This composition is a typical example of a painting for private worship, a genre that was popular with Vasari. The subject is a scene from the life of the Prophet Elisha, who during famine saved his people making edible wild herbs. Elisha is one of the biblical prophets whose miracles prefigured those of Christ. A man in the middle ground carries a basket, because Elisha miraculously multiplied the available food.

In spite of the modest size of the work, the artist insists on elaborating a composition of great complexity and refinement, characteristics which would reappear in the profane paintings of the Studiolo executed thirty years later.

Death in the Pot | 2 Kings 4: 38-41, NIV

Elisha returned to Gilgal and there was a famine in that region. While the company of the prophets was meeting with him, he said to his servant, “Put on the large pot and cook some stew for these prophets.”

One of them went out into the fields to gather herbs and found a wild vine and picked as many of its gourds as his garment could hold. When he returned, he cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were. The stew was poured out for the men, but as they began to eat it, they cried out, “Man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it.

Elisha said, “Get some flour.” He put it into the pot and said, “Serve it to the people to eat.” And there was nothing harmful in the pot.

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Saint Samuel the Prophet

Old Testament

Feast Day: August 20

Saint Samuel, from the tribe of Levi, was the last of Israel’s judges, the first of the prophets after Moses, and a priest intercessor who made sacrifices for Israel. He anointed Israel’s first two kings, Saul and David. (The horn which he holds, contains the oil of anointing.) Hannah, Samuel’s mother, had begged God for a child, promising to raise him for God’s glory. Samuel served God faithfully, guiding Israel well. In the year 406 A.D., the relics of the Prophet Samuel were transferred from Judea to Constantinople.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

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Base colours complete!

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i looooove the constant back and forth between writers who are very aware of their deliberate technical craft and writers who seem legitimately convinced that their characters and plots are real sentient entities who exercise complete creative control and the author is just some unwitting and borderline unconscious vessel who just types out whatever The Characters demand. by which i mean i find one of the above very obnoxious and frequently linked to worse writing and i’ll leave it up to you to figure out which one i think it is

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Blessed are the Obedient

Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. — Proverbs 29:18 | King James Version (KJV) The King James Version Bible is in the public domain. Cross References: Exodus 32:25; 1 Samuel 3:1; Psalm 1:1-2; Psalm 19:11; Psalm 74:9; John 13:17

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Moses, alttestamentlicher Prophet von Unbekannt (1860, wood engraving)

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19th century mormon men loved growing the worst facial hair youve ever seen

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Consistency

The Old Testament and New Testaments fit together. They enhance each other and show a complete picture that we would miss if we cling to only one of the Testaments.

In my Bible reading plan that is taking me through the whole Bible in chronological order in a year, I’ve been in the Book of Isaiah for the past few days.  Something stood out to me quite clearly the other day as I highlighted several verses from Isaiah and was reminded of their complementary verses scattered throughout the New Testament. Always remember— The Old Testament and the New Testament…

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Jeremiah in the Ruins of Jerusalem, Horace Vernet, 1844

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Angel Appearing to Elijah

Artist: Ferdinand Bol (Dutch, 1616–1680)

Date: c. 1642

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Collection: The Leiden Collection, New York City, NY, United States

The Angel Appears to Elijah

The painting depicts an episode from the Old Testament (I Kings 16:29–34 and chapters 17–19). In this complex and rather gory story, Ahab, the king of Israel (reigned ca. 874–53 BC), and his wife, Jezebel, reject the God of the Israelites and build an altar for the worshippers of Baal. The prophet Elijah then challenges the priests of Baal to set up a sacrificial altar to rival his own. When only Elijah’s sacrifice is consumed by fire, the people reject the false god, Baal, and turn again to the God of the Israelites. At Elijah’s instigation, the people then seize the prophets of Baal, and Elijah kills them. After Jezebel subsequently threatens to kill Elijah, the prophet flees into the wilderness where he sits under a juniper tree and prays for death before falling asleep. The moment that Bol depicts is when an angel comes to Elijah and says: “Arise and eat.” Elijah eats and drinks, but then he falls asleep again, whereupon the angel returns and exhorts him once more to get up and eat. Thus fortified, Elijah “went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights unto Horeb the mount of God.”

In Bol’s painting the figures loom large in the picture plane. Elijah, lying under a tree, supports his head with his right hand and rests his left arm on the ground. In his lap is the end of the belt tied around his waist, a motif often seen in portrayals of biblical figures by, among others, Pieter Lastman (1583–1633) and Rembrandt.1 Behind Elijah hangs a gourd, while leaves and flowers fill the right foreground. The approaching angel looks at Elijah with slightly raised eyebrows as he prepares to waken the prophet with his raised left hand and provide him with water from the flask hanging from his right hand. Light falling onto Elijah’s face and hands and onto the hair of the angel lends plasticity to their forms and anchors them firmly in the darkened landscape surrounding them.

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Saint Daniel the Prophet

5th century BC

Feast Day: July 21

Patronage: Courage, Fortitude, and Strength

Daniel, meaning “God is my Judge”, is one of the four Great Prophets in the Old Testament and the writer of the book of scripture that bears his name, the Book of Daniel. He is from the royal family of David and known for his wisdom, intelligence, faithfulness to God and interpreting dreams.  Daniel was taken into captivity by King Nebuchadnezzar to serve in his court and his successors. After Daniel interpreted the King's dream correctly he became a government official. His wisdom saved Suzanna from corrupt Jewish elders, and his adherence to God’s law sent him to the lion's den where he was miraculously unhurt. Daniel was killed by Haman a wicked prime minister of Ahasuerus. Daniel’s life is a synopsis of the Jewish Babylonian Captivity.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)