God Speaking Through His Servants.

God appointed priests to supervise the worship of His people Israel, but God also spoke to the people through the prophets, who were more concerned with the moral and spiritual character and activities of the people. The prophets continually encouraged Israel to trust God and to be obedient, not to neglect Him, and not to worship the pagan idols of the surrounding nations.

Today we may think of prophets as people who can foretell the future, but this was only a power given to them by God to prove that the message they gave was truly from Him. There were short-term and long-term prophecies. For example, in the short term, Elisha prophesied that the siege of Samaria would end the following day, and it happened (in 2 Kings ch.7). In the long term, most of the prophets write of times yet future when God's kingdom will be in the earth again (see Isaiah ch.51; Jeremiah ch.33; and Ezekiel ch.20).

"Many nations will come and say, 'Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in his paths.'" (Micah 4:2).

Pagan
Parable
Paradise
  New Testament references to paradise
Passover
  1. The first Passover
  2. Old Testament Passover feasts
  3. Jesus and the Passover
Pastor
Patriarch
Peace
Pentateuch
Perfect, Perfection
Pharisee
Power of God
Prayer
Preach
Predestination
Priest
  1. The Mosaic priesthood
  2. Pagan priests
  3. Christian priesthood
  4. Priests in the age to come
Promise
Promised Land
Prophet, Prophecy
Pure