Author: Rich Gorecki

Throughout this year-long journey of lessons from The MANual, my NIV Bible for Men, we’ve continually heard about the call of the people of Israel back to God and to His commandments starting in Genesis and now in the books of the prophets. While this may seem like boring repetition, let’s view the main message, not as repetition but from a different angle or point of view. This is especially true of the prophets. As we learned in the Introduction to The Prophets, there were “Former Prophets” like Abraham, Moses, Samuel, David, and others, whose messages are scattered throughout the Old Testament. We also learned about the “Latter Prophets,” including the first two “Major” prophets: Isaiah and Jeremiah, including his book of Lamentations. In this post, I cover the last two major prophets: Ezekiel and Daniel. The Book of Ezekiel While Jeremiah was prophesying in Jerusalem, Ezekiel was giving the same

This short series of posts during my year-long journey of lessons from The MANual, my NIV Bible for Men, continues with two books on the prophet Jeremiah.  As you read in the Introduction to The Prophets, people who told of coming events in the Bible are generally divided into two groups: “Major” prophets and “Minor” prophets. These “Latter” Prophets each have separate books, where stories of others who also revealed God’s messages (like Abraham, Moses, Samuel, and David) are scattered within the History Books of the Old Testament.  My last post covered Isaiah, who some consider the greatest of all the major prophets. Jeremiah is right up there though since he wrote both the longest book of the prophets, but also provided a second book called Lamentations; both of which I cover in this post.  The Setting After King Solomon’s death, the united kingdom of Israel split into rival northern

In my Introduction to The Prophets, I explained that people in the Bible who foretold upcoming events were generally divided into Former and Latter Prophets. Within the Latter are two groups: “Major” Prophets and “Minor” Prophets. In this post on lessons from The MANual, my NIV Bible for Men, we learn about the first Major Prophet: Isaiah. I will cover another Major Prophet, Jeremiah, along with his second book called Lamentations in another post. I’ll then provide lessons from the remaining Major Prophets: Ezekiel, and Daniel, followed by posts about the Minor Prophets.  Major Means Longer We call the books of the Major Prophets, Isaiah through Daniel, “major” since their books are the longest in length and discuss a variety of topics. The books of the Minor Prophets, Hosea through Malachi, are relatively shorter and their content is more narrowly focused. These naming conventions don’t mean the Minor Prophets were any