Prophecy Chapter 7 Special Literary Forms, Virkler's Hermeneutics pg 168

• A Prophet

• “Is a spokesman for God who declares God's will to the people”
• The Former Prophets function within the historical books
• In the books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, Kings
• Elijah, Elisha, Nathan, Micah et. al.
• Latter Prophets
• Major (with major amounts of writings in Scripture)
• Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel
• Minor (with smaller amounts of writings in Scripture)
• Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi.
• Prophecy has come to mean predicting future events
• But Prophets were Foretellers and Forthtellers