2. Isaiah
Prophet of the Messiah
• Isaiah was a prophet in Judah @740 BC
• He was educated and
had great faith
• During his lifetime
he advised many of the
kings of Judah
3. • Isaiah had a vision of the Lord surrounded by angels
• The angels were crying out, “Holy, holy, holy is the
Lord; all the earth is filled with His glory!”
4. • Isaiah urged the people to fully trust in God
• Isaiah understood that God ruled the whole
world, not just the chosen people
• In the second Book of Isaiah, the prophet speaks
of one who would take upon himself the sins of
the people; through his suffering the people
would be saved.
• This was a prophesy about the Messiah that was
to come
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6. Jeremiah
Prophet of the New Covenant
• At first Jeremiah thought he was too young to be a
prophet
• When Jeremiah was
called by God, a man
named Josiah was king
• Josiah was a good and faithful man who called the
people to worship the one true God
7. • After Josiah died, the people went back to idol
worship and unjust treatment of each other
• Jeremiah warned them that if they did not stop
breaking God’s commands, the Temple would be
destroyed and Jerusalem itself would burn
• The people did not listen to their prophet
8. • In 597 BC, Jerusalem was captured by the
Babylonians and the treasures of the Temple were
taken
• A second attack in 587 BC saw the Temple burned
9. • Jeremiah stayed in Jerusalem with the conquered
poor, and sent God’s message to those exiled in
Babylon
• Jeremiah told the people that God would make a
new covenant with them
10. • God said, “I will place my law within them, and
write it upon their hearts. I will be their God, and
they will be my people… Everyone, from least to
greatest, shall know me, for I will forgive their
inequity and no longer remember their sin.”
- Jeremiah 31:33-34
11. Ezekiel
Prophet during the Exile
• Ezekiel became the prophet for those who were in
exile in Babylon
• He often had
Symbolic visions
12. • Ezekiel had a vision in which he ate a scroll
containing God’s word.
• This was a sign that the Word of God was within
him
• Ezekiel also warned
the people of the
destruction of
Jerusalem
13. • Ezekiel also warned the people of the destruction
of Jerusalem
• The period from 587 BC to 537 BC is known as the
Exile
- exile is a state of being banned from one’s
own country
14. • When the second group of exiles arrived in Babylon
in 587 BC, they told the others that the Temple and
the city of Jerusalem had been destroyed
• Ezekiel began telling the people about God’s plan to
bring them back to their land and raise up a new
Israel
• God wanted the people to know that He was still
with them, even though they were not in Jerusalem
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16. • During the Exile, the people began to see their own
failings and started to repent.
• They studied God’s laws and wrote down the
teachings of the prophets
• It was during the Exile that many of the Hebrew
Scriptures were put onto scrolls and organized.
• Writing it down helped the Jewish people preserve
their culture and pass down their faith
17. • Because they could no longer worship in the
Temple, the people built synagogues, places to
gather and read scripture
• The Exile lasted about 50 years before the Jews
were allowed to return to Jerusalem.
• The returned exiles began constructing a new
Temple on the site of Solomon’s Temple.
• Ezra was a prophet whose book tell of this post-
Exile period, and who guided the people back to
observance of the Torah (Law)
18. • The Temple was completely rebuilt in 20 – 18 BC,
including new foundation stones and smoothing the
Temple Mount.
• The king who rebuilt the Temple at that time was
Herod the Great
