How do I find all of the Prophecies in the Old Testament?
Hello,
What would be the process for finding all of the Old Testament prophecies at once instead of one at a time? 
Thanks!
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Douglas said:
What would be the process for finding all of the Old Testament prophecies at once instead of one at a time?
Douglas, I assume what you want is an automatically generated list of every prophecy. This would require a Bible text to be tagged in a way that distinguished prophecies from other text. I don't know of one that is tagged that way in Logos.
Pastor, North Park Baptist Church
Bridgeport, CT USA
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I found the following in the New Nave's Topical Bible:
Prophecies Concerning, Coming of: Gen. 3:15; Gen. 12:3; Gen. 49:10; Deut. 32:18; 1 Sam. 2:10; Job 19:25; Psa. 21:5–7; Psa. 40:6–10; Psa. 68:18; Psa. 118:22–24, 26; Isa. 11:1 [Rom. 15:12.] Isa. 11:2–10 vs. 11–16.; Isa. 28:16; Isa. 40:3 [Luke 3:4.] Isa. 40:11; Isa. 42:1–4; Isa. 49:1–12 vs. 13–26;; Isa. 53. Isa. 55:3–5; Isa. 56:1; Isa. 59:16–18, 20; Isa. 62:10, 11; Jer. 23:5, 6; Jer. 33:15–18; Dan. 7:13, 14; Dan. 9:24–27; Hag. 2:7; Zech. 3:8; Zech. 9:9; Zech. 13:1; Mal. 3:1–3; Mal. 4:2; Matt. 1:20–23; Luke 1:26–37, 41–45; Luke 2:26, 31–35, 38; John 8:56; Acts 3:22–24; Rom. 1:2, 3; Heb. 7:16; Heb. 10:9 See KINGDOM OF, PROPHECIES CONCERNING; CHURCH, PROPHECIES CONCERNING PROSPERITY OF.
I suspect you could find more by following the links at the end of this entry or by searching in other Topical Bibles
Blessings,
FloydPastor-Patrick.blogspot.com
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Read it? [;)]
(Search will take a while...)
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Mark A. Smith said:
Douglas, I assume what you want is an automatically generated list of every prophecy. This would require a Bible text to be tagged in a way that distinguished prophecies from other text. I don't know of one that is tagged that way in Logos.
Sounds like a suggestion brewing to me
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Douglas said:Mark A. Smith said:
Douglas, I assume what you want is an automatically generated list of every prophecy. This would require a Bible text to be tagged in a way that distinguished prophecies from other text. I don't know of one that is tagged that way in Logos.
Sounds like a suggestion brewing to me
Believe me, there certainly has been a lot of discussion on this topic.
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Douglas said:
What would be the process for finding all of the Old Testament prophecies at once instead of one at a time?
The difficulty with any answer will be that OT prophecies often work by typology rather than straightforward propositional prediction. Typology is where ceremonies or people or institutions form a trajectory through Scripture ending in Jesus or the Cross or the final judgement or heaven. The Passover lamb, for example, is a type of Jesus' atonement on the cross. David is a type of Christ ... great David's greater son, as the hymn writer put it. So is the Priesthood. etc.
Some even argue that the Mosaic moral law is typological ... as are Christ's and his apostle's ethical instructions to believers ... of the final law that will be perfectly embodied in our hearts on the new heaven and the new earth.
It is pretty much the case that the answer to your question is the OT.
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Douglas said:Mark A. Smith said:
Douglas, I assume what you want is an automatically generated list of every prophecy. This would require a Bible text to be tagged in a way that distinguished prophecies from other text. I don't know of one that is tagged that way in Logos.
Sounds like a suggestion brewing to me
First, you would need a wide-spread consensus as to which passages were prophetic. Then, you would need agreement as to which are typological and which are merely recorded history.
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I once owned a small KJV Bible that starred each passage that the editor thought was a prophetic passage. I suppose LOGOS could adopt some single edition that is tagged in its hard copy form and make that available. At that point, the argument is with the original book editor, rather than LOGOS. I "do not" know of a current LOGOS resource that does this.
EDIT - edited to answer Mark's question.
Blessings,
FloydPastor-Patrick.blogspot.com
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Floyd Johnson said:
I do know of a current LOGOS resource that does this.
Do or do not? If do, then which is it?
Pastor, North Park Baptist Church
Bridgeport, CT USA
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While I've not used it, there is this:
http://www.logos.com/product/600/the-prophecy-knowledge-handbook
For what it's worth, it claims to be "a one-source reference book that covers all prophecies in the Bible". Walvoord would be giving a dispensational view.
MacBook Pro (2019), ThinkPad E540
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Douglas said:
Hello,
What would be the process for finding all of the Old Testament prophecies at once instead of one at a time?
Thanks!
Hi Douglas, here's My 2 cents:
1. Halley's Bible Handbook has a section called "The Messiah in the Old Testament" . A search on the word "prophec*" yields other relevant sections, such as a table of the summaries of Daniel's and Isaiah's predictions.
2. The Dictionary of Biblical Prophecy and End Times has a scripture index at the end.
3. Bible Prophec y Made Easy has chapters like "Jesus in the Psalms" and "Why Matthew Makes 65 References to the Old Testament."
4. Wilimgton's Book of Bible Lists has a section on Prophecies.
5. Then there are also our Topical Dictionaries
6. Outside of Logos, I beleive there is a book called "All the Prophecies of the Bible" but I do not own it so cannot comment on it.
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There are lists of messianic prophecies in the OT fulfilled by Christ and other purported prophecies yet to be fulfilled that various groups have put together (these are, of course, each published from a particular perspective; how one interprets "fulfillment" of prophecies varies depending on one's theology):
http://www.jesus-is-lord.com/messiah.htm
http://www.cynet.com/jesus/prophecy/ntquoted.htm
http://www.preceptaustin.org/messianic_prophecies.htm
http://www.bible-prophecy.com/otprophecies.htm
Google "Old Testament" prophecies and you'll find more
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To have one more stab at this ...
Unprovoked, the Amalekites, had attacked the Israelites as they were on their travels to the promised land (Exodus 17:8), and so brought destruction upon themselves (1 Sam 15:2). Is this prophecy?
Consider King Saul. He was rejected as King because he failed to kill all the Amalekites (1 Sam 15:8, 26; 28:17). Is this prophecy?
David took a different approach to Amalekites (1 Sam 27:8). and we find that "David recovered everything the Amalekites had taken" (1 Sam 30:18).
Are these narratives prophecy? ... Yes, Absolutely!
The Amalekites are types of God's enemies ... especially Satan. The King of Israel was to be a type of Jesus. A King of Israel who did not destroy God's enemies was inadequate as a type of Christ, who defeated the powers of darkness on the cross. Saul had to be rejected for this disobedient sin. David, the true King of Israel who was an adequate type of Christ ... had to finish the task, and he did. Hallelujah that David recovered all that the Amalekites had taken! What a picture of redemption!
This is just one way in which the narrative about David speaks about or prophecies about Jesus ... through the typelogical structures embedded in the Scriptures.
Rather than seeking a list of prophecies, study biblical theology ... use something like the IVP New Dictionary of Biblical Theology (which is available on Logos), to learn about the numerous strands or threads that weave through the Scriptures, binding them together in thrilling ways. Study themes like "rest" or "land" or "exile" ... and understand how the narratives point forward, beyond themselves, on into the eschaton. Read Hebrews on "Melchizedek" to see how to read the Bible being sensitive to the ordering or sequencing of events in salvation history, and hence come to understand how typology works. It is not magic reading, brought about by some extra-biblical "key" or "insight". The trajectories of typology are all there in the texts themselves ... although it is often only clear once the whole trajectory is traced over salvation history (i.e. the Bible's storyline).
Remember Luke 24:27: "And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself."
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Jack Caviness said:
First, you would need a wide-spread consensus as to which passages were prophetic.
Exactly right and let me add, "Good luck with that." [:S]
What would be interesting (and do-able) would be to tag prophetic verses according to consensus within a given eschatological system. In other words, tag all prophetic verses that a consensus of amills agree upon, and then all verses that historical premils agree upon, ditto postmils, dispensational premils, preterists, and so on. It would useful to not only identify whether or not a particular verse is indeed prophetic, but also give a brief identification of the interpretation, and its place in history/future. And, finally, it almost goes without saying that it would be highly beneficial to be able to build a table for any set of verses which would lay out the various interpretations for comparison.
Instead of Artificial Intelligence, I prefer to continue to rely on Divine Intelligence instructing my Natural Dullness (Ps 32:8, John 16:13a)
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