Old Testament Prophets

[thatjimguy]

I am not an expert on the OT. But I (vaguely) remember stories of people having power from God that blew it in no small fashion.

 

All I remember with concrete is Moses screwing up by striking the rock, instead of talking to it. 

 

Out of all the OT Prophets, where there some who screwed up in major fashion? Or had authority but blew it?

[bluebell]

Jonah messed up pretty good, and more than once.

There's also that prophet (whose name I don't remember) who had the donkey who had to keep him safe from an angel because the prophet wasn't being loyal or obedient.

[Glenn101]

There was also a prophet in 1 Kings, Chapter 13 that disobeyed God by taking bread in the home of another prophet after delivering a message to Jeroboam, king of Israel.

 

The list of prophets that had the temerity to disobey God or do aught to displease Him is a short one indeed. And in each case, the Lord issued a course correction which unequivocal. Soemthing else that maybe we should thin about when we start imagining that our current or past prophets have been leading us astray.

 

Glenn

Edited August 8, 2014 by Glenn101

[The Nehor]

I am not an expert on the OT. But I (vaguely) remember stories of people having power from God that blew it in no small fashion.

 

All I remember with concrete is Moses screwing up by striking the rock, instead of talking to it. 

 

Out of all the OT Prophets, where there some who screwed up in major fashion? Or had authority but blew it?

 

Balaam, Samson (not prophet, but authority and a mission), David, Solomon, Cain. Just those I can think of off-hand.

[Zakuska]

King Saul, Peter, Adam & Eve, Jonah, Judas, David

[Investigating]

There was also a prophet in 1 Kings, Chapter 13 that disobeyed God by taking bread in the home of another prophet after delivering a message to Jeroboam, king of Israel.

 

The list of prophets that had the temerity to disobey God or do aught to displease Him is a short one indeed. And in each case, the Lord issued a course correction which unequivocal. Soemthing else that maybe we should thin about when we start imagining that our current or past prophets have been leading us astray.

 

Glenn

 

I've never understood this passage.

 

11 Now there dwelt an old prophet in Beth-el; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Beth-el; the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father.

12 And their father said unto them, What way went he? For his sons had seen what way the man of God went, which came from Judah.

13 And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ***. So they saddled him the ***; and he rode thereon,

14 And went after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak; and he said unto him, Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah? And he said, I am.

15 Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.

16 And he said, I may not return with thee, nor go in with thee; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place;

17 For it was said to me by the word of the Lord, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest.

18 He said unto him, I am a prophet also, even as thou, and an angel spake unto me by the word of the Lord, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water, that I may prove him; and he lied not unto him.

19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.

20 And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word of the Lord came unto the prophet that brought him back;

21 And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the Lord, and hast not kept the commandment which the Lord thy God commanded thee,

22 But camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place, of the which the Lord did say to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy carcass shall not come unto the sepulcher of thy fathers.

 

http://www.centerplace.org/hs/iv/iv-1ki.htm

 

Why didn't the man of God from Judah say "thanks but no thanks" as soon as he heard the part about "that I may prove him"?

[Ahab]

I've never understood this passage.

http://www.centerplace.org/hs/iv/iv-1ki.htm

Why didn't the man of God from Judah say "thanks but no thanks" as soon as he heard the part about "that I may prove him"?

Because he took the man at his word, believing God had actually said that to that man, when instead he should have just done as God had told him personally.

"As my Momma used to say, stupid is as stupid does."