#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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I’ve been busy with school

But here’s some selfies of Elijah

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Happy Feast Day

Saint David the King

973 B.C.

Feast day: December 29

King David was from the tribe of Judah, a descendant of Ruth and one of the 12 sons of Jesse who lived in Bethlehem. After he was anointed by the prophet Samuel, he killed the Philistine, Goliath, and eventually succeed Saul as King of Israel. During his 40 year reign he brought about Israel’s “Golden Age”, wrote the Psalms, brought the Ark of The Covenant back to Jerusalem. His son Solomon succeeded him as King. Jesus is a descendant of David. (Samuel 16:1, Kings 2:11)

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

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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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Base colours complete!

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Have you ever read through the minor prophets in the Bible? I got to recently and it was really interesting, a lot of them read like poetry!

Yes! I absolutely adore the twelve. They are a drastically underrated section of scripture. That said, as it's mostly poetry (and poetry is hard to read, harder still when from another culture with different imagery and metaphors) I can understand how people struggle with it. That said, the prophets are my bois!

Poets. Philosophers. Activists. Covenant watchdogs and lawyers. Hater of idolatry and injustice. Warriors of tzedakah (righteousness - a religious obligation towards right relationships with God and with neighbor) and mishpat (justice - restoring and reforming society to be based on love and compassion, especially for the afflicted). Comedians and social critics. The "mad" and the "insane". Saints and martyrs, stoned and cut in half and killed between the alters. Condemners of the rich and the sexually immoral. The original liberation theologians and postcolonial philosophers. Writers of songs and poems. The disillusioned. The Resistance. The cultists. The extremists. And, finally, an apostate who is a symbol of who God's people have always been despite what we tell ourselves.

We should never let the twelve "minor" prophets ever stray too far from our thoughts. They always have been and always will be God's spokesmen for his people (it's not a coincidence there are twelve).

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

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Jonah and the big fish

I don’t know how to draw fish

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

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Jeremiah in the Ruins of Jerusalem, Horace Vernet, 1844

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Jeremiah Dictating His Prophecy of the Destruction of Jerusalem to Baruch the Scribe

Artist: Washington Allston (American, 1779–1843)

Date: 1820

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, United States

Jeremiah 36:32, New International Version

"So Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and as Jeremiah dictated, Baruch wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them."