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Prophecies - 1. A prediction uttered under divine inspiration.  2. A prediction uttered under divine inspiration

1Ti_1:18 This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare;

 

Sir 39:1 But he that giveth his mind to the law of the most High, and is occupied in the meditation thereof, will seek out the wisdom of all the ancient, and be occupied in prophecies.

 

Rev_1:3 Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.

Prophet and deliverer of Israel

The Israelites had settled in the Land of Goshen in the time of Joseph and Jacob, but a new pharaoh arose who oppressed the children of Israel. At this time Moses was born to his father Amram, son of Kehath the Levite, who entered Egypt with Jacob's household; his mother was Jochebed (also Yocheved), who was kin to Kehath. Moses had one older (by seven years) sister, Miriam, and one older (by three years) brother, Aaron. The Pharaoh had commanded that all male Hebrew children born would be drowned in the river Nile, but Moses' mother placed him in an ark and concealed the ark in the bulrushes by the riverbank, where the baby was discovered and adopted by Pharaoh's daughter, and raised as an Egyptian. One day after Moses had reached adulthood he killed an Egyptian who was beating a Hebrew. Moses, in order to escape the Pharaoh's death penalty, fled to Midian (a desert country south of Judah), where he married Zipporah.

Isaiah 34:16

Seek = Search.

the book of the LORD. This proves there was a book in existence, which could be searched. See App-47fail = be missing. Hebrew. 'adar. Not the same word as in Isa_19:5 (see note there). Occurs here in "former" portion, and Isa_40:26 in "latter"portion. See App-79. Isaiah 35 is the sequel to this long series of Burdens (Isa_13:1 Isa_35:10) and Woes; it sets forth the future return of Israel.

Isaiah 34:1-17

The Day of Jehovah

  1. Addressed to the world: Jews and Gentiles involved (Isa_34:1) 2. The shaking of the earth and the heavens (Isa_34:2-8) 3. The day of vengeance (Isa_34:9-17)This is one of the darkest chapters in the Bible. A worldwide judgment is described such as has never taken place in the history of the world. The indignation of the Lord is then upon all nations and upon their armies. Like chapter 33, it tells of the great judgments to come.

book of the Lord — the volume in which the various prophecies and other parts of Scripture began henceforward to be collected together (Isa_30:8; Dan_9:2).

Seek — (so Isa_8:16, Isa_8:20; Joh_5:39; Joh_7:52).

no one ... fail — of these prophecies (Mat_5:18).

none shall want ... mate — image from pairi

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Exhort

EXHORT', v.t. egzhort'. [L. exhortor; ex and hortor, to encourage, to embolden, to cheer, to advise. The primary sense seems to be to excite or to give strength, spirit or courage.]

1. To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments to a good deed or to any laudable conduct or course of action.

I exhort you to be of good cheer. Acts 27.

Young men also exhort to be sober minded.

Exhort servants to be obedient to their masters. Titus 2.

2. To advise; to warn; to caution.

3. To incite or stimulate to exertion.

EXHORT', v.i. To deliver exhortation; to use words or arguments to incite to good deeds.

And with many other words did he testify and exhort. Acts 2.

Jud_1:3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

Pro 3:25 Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.

Pro 3:26 For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken.

Be:  Job_5:21, Job_5:22, Job_11:13-15, Psa_27:1, Psa_27:2, Psa_46:1-3, Psa_91:5, Psa_112:7, Isa_8:12, Isa_8:13, Isa_41:10-14, Dan_3:17, Dan_3:18, Mat_8:24-26, Mat_24:6, Mar_4:40, Luk_21:9, Joh_14:1, 1Pe_3:14

neither:  Pro_1:27, Psa_73:19, Mat_24:15, Luk_21:18-28

THE SEDITION OF CORAH AND OF THE MULTITUDE AGAINST MOSES, AND AGAINST HIS BROTHER, CONCERNING THE PRIESTHOOD.

1. THAT which is usually the case of great armies, and especially upon ill success, to be hard to be pleased, and governed with difficulty, did now befall the Jews; for they being in number six hundred thousand, and by reason of their great multitude not readily subject to their governors, even in prosperity, they at this time were more than usually angry, both against one another and against their leader, because of the distress they were in, and the calamities they then endured. Such a sedition overtook them, as we have not the like example either among the Greeks or the Barbarians, by which they were in danger of being all destroyed, but were notwithstanding saved by Moses, who would not remember that he had been almost stoned to death by them. Nor did God neglect to prevent their ruin; but, notwithstanding the indignities they had offered their legislator and the laws, and disobedience to the commandments which he had sent them by Moses, he delivered them from those terrible calamities which, without his providential care, had been brought upon them by this sedition. So I will first explain the cause whence this sedition arose, and then will give an account of the sedition itself; as also of what settlements made for their government after it was over.

Pentecost

(Πεντηκοστ?, scil. ?μ?ρα), the second of the three great annual festivals on which all the males were required to appear before the Lord in the national sanctuary, the other two being the feasts of Passover and Tabernacles. It fell in due course on the sixth day of Sivan, and its rites, according to the Law, were restricted to a single day. The most important passages relating to it are Exo_23:16; Lev_23:15-22; Num_28:26-31; Deu_16:9-12; The following article treats of its observance from a Scriptural as well as Talmudical point of view. SEE FESTIVAL.

The Pentecost was the Jewish harvest-home, and the people were especially exhorted to rejoice before Jehovah with their families their servants, the Levite within their gates, the stranger, the fatherless and the widow, in the place chosen by God, for his name, as they brought a free-will offering, of their hand to Jehovah their God. Deu_16:10-11.

The great feature of the celebration was the presentation of the two loaves made from the first-fruits of the wheat harvest. With the loaves, two lambs were offered as a Peace Offering, and all were waved before Jehovah, and given to the priests; the leaves being leavened, could not be offered on the altar.

Act_2:1 And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place.

Act_20:16 For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.

1Co_16:8 But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost.

Tob_2:1 Now when I was come home again, and my wife Anna was restored unto me, with my son Tobias, in the feast of Pentecost, which is the holy feast of the seven weeks, there was a good dinner prepared me, in the which I sat down to eat.

2Ma_12:32 And after the feast, called Pentecost, they went forth against Gorgias the governor of Idumea,

First reading — Numbers 1:1–19 In the first reading, in the wilderness, in the second month of the second year following the Exodus from Egypt, God directed Moses to take a census of the Israelite men age 20 years and up, "all those in Israel who are able to bear arms."[4] In verses 5 to 15 the heads of each of the tribes or army divisions are named.

Second reading — Numbers 1:20–54 In the second reading, the census showed the following populations by tribe: totaling 603,550 in all. God told Moses not to enroll the Levites, but to put them in charge of carrying, assembling, tending to, and guarding the Tabernacle and its furnishings. Any outsider who encroached on the Tabernacle was to be put to death. 

Third reading — Numbers 2:1–34[ In the third reading, God told Moses that the Israelites were to encamp by tribe as follows: Priest, Levite, and furnishings of the Tabernacle

Fourth reading — Numbers 3:1–13 In the fourth readind, God instructed Moses to place the Levites in attendance upon Aaron to serve him and the priests.

Fifth reading — Numbers 3:14–39 In the fifth reading, God then told Moses to record by ancestral house and by clan the Levite men from the age of one month up, and he did so.[11] 

Sixth reading — Numbers 3:40–51 In the sixth reading, God instructed Moses to record every firstborn male of the Israelites aged one month old and upwards, and they came to 22,273.[19] 

Seventh reading — Numbers 4:1–20 In the seventh reading, God then directed Moses and Aaron to take a separate census of the Kohathites between the ages of 30 and 50