Dr. Pothana's Teaching

2. Dr. Pothana's Teaching

3. The mission of the prophets: A Study of Select
Missional Themes in Prophetic Writings
 Now the witness to God’s glory is in a
context of a brokenness, marginalization,
oppression and forced integration

4. Major Prophets
 Isaiah 11:9
 25:6-7 "a feast ...for all peoples"
 42: 6,8 “not give my glory to another”
 45:5-6 "from the rising to the setting men man
know..I am..no other“
 49:6 “salvation to the ends of the earth”
 52:1,7,10 "How beautiful are the feet...and all
the ends of the earth will see the salvation of
our God..."
 56:6,7 "a house of prayer for all nations"
 66:18-19 "they will proclaim my glory among
the nations"

5. Major prophets cont’d…
 Jeremiah 1:4,5 "I appointed you as a
prophet to the nations“
 45-51 Messages regarding the
nations.
 Ezekial 36:18-24;
10:4 & 40:2-4 God’s glory and the temple
 Daniel (another c-c respect builder!)
Nebuchadnezzar’s testimony:
3:29; 4:1-3,35

6. Minor Prophets
 Joel 2:28,32 c.f. Acts 2 fullfilment a multi-
national, multi-lingual witness
 Micah 4:1-3 “many nations will say”
 Habakkuk 2:14 “filled with the glory of the
LORD”
 Zephaniah 3:9 “purify the lips of the
peoples”

7. Minor Prophets Cont’d
 Haggai 2:7 “shake all nations and…fill this
house with glory.”
 Zechariah 2:11 many nations will be joined;
9;9-10 Messiah…all nations”
 Malachi 1:11 “name great among the
nations”
3:8-12 Abram’s tithe among the Gentiles
is understood as related to “the nations!”

8. The Mission Continues
 GOD’S MISSION FOR HIS PROPHETS
AND HIS PEOPLE DURING THE
CAPTIVITY
 WAS TO BE WITNESSES OF HIS
GLORY AMONG THE NATIONS
 DURING THEIR TIME OF DISPERSION
THROUGH EXILE

9. Prophetic attitude
 Idolatry
 Syncretism
 External Religion

10. Prophetic Method
 Preaching
 Symbols
 Power Encounter

11. The Intertestamental Mission
 Missionary qualities of the Diaspora
Jews
 Missionary Zeal-due to revival, minoritizing
& suffering
 Openess to Gentiles around them

12. The Intertestamental Mission…
 Missionary tools of the Diaspora Jews
 The Synagogue-presented Judaism where
the “heathen” could be included
 Literature - Wisdom Literature,
LXX in Koine Bible (Septuagint),
Apocalyptic Literature
 Personal Witness- Mt. 23:15

13. The Intertestamental Misson…
 The Missionary results of the Intertestamental
Period
 Immense increase in number of Jews by
conversion
 Combated Polytheism
 Formation of Sects
 Reached Gentiles as Gentiles in their distinct
nations
 Created the category known as "God fearers"

14. The Intertestamental Mission…
 The Missionary Importance of the Intertestamental
Period to the N.T. Mission (c.f. R.Hedlund, The Mission of
the Church in the World.)
 Many of the God Fearers would become Christians
(Acts 16:14)
 Provided a preparation for conversion to monotheism
(spread history, theology, and ethics of Judaism)
 Synagogues were patterns of worship and instruction
which formed a basis for the pattern of the local
church.
 O.T. knowledge, ethics, law
 Worshipping groups of O.T. monotheists were
everywhere in the towns.
 Literature

15. Dr. Pothana
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