Bible Prophecy # 12: Five Great Themes of the Hebrew Prophets

[@weeddds]

Excellent lecture Dr. Tabor. Love the idea of a people getting their act together and being the example for the world. That seems like the proper and only way forward.

[@tonyhy-nielsen8520]

If you want that then beelieve in yourself and people and expose the hierarxhy and their church conspiracy which evolves around their bible and Temple builder cult. Dont believe his indocrtination what has this brought us ? We dont need more we need to stop this madness

[@jbhowell]

Just listened to your Who were the Ebionites with D. Lambert. I look forward to this as well. Keep up the good work Dr. Tabor!

[@gpwil3847]

Thank you Dr Tabor I am learning more about my Faith because of the depth of knowledge and the perspective that you bring.

[@johnmichaelson9173]

For me the learning led me away from faith and into the history of Ancient Judaism & Early Christianity. I felt a weight had lifted off my mind & I could relax while studying these amazing stories. Like you I believe Dr Tabor is simply brilliant.

[@c0bra969]

I like these longer videos Doc! Keep up the good work.

[@tonyhy-nielsen8520]

He is indictrinating people into abrahamism. This bs has got to stop. Start exposing the hierarchy and conspiracy which starting with their canonizing of scripture

[@gokartbob6478]

"my tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy Commandments are righteousness. Psalms 119.172

[@dbb1292]

Thank you for including the notes! They are very helpful

[@mdlahey3874]

Marvelous, as usual... Thank you, Dr. Tabor...

[@BryanKirch]

Great sermon. Thank you

[@hiddenhammockfarm1838]

One of my favorite episodes, thank you.

[@TheVabish]

Greetings from across the oceans, Dr. Tabor! Thank you for all your work and generosity. There's incredible intimacy about your videos, much appreciated!!!

[@allahsnarrative]

Dr. Tabor, Excellent rundown of the message of the prophets. I am the author of Allah's Narrative Books and I admire that you have accurately described the essence of God's historical approach to humankind.

[@gregorymassey4024]

This was amazing. I was hoping for more on denouncing the sacrificial temple cult, but this was still amazing!

[@retepelyod]

I’m sure that Jehovah is watching on in admiration of this teaching. Beautiful work James.

[@yosefavraham9819]

I haven't watched this presentation yet. But considering your very high quality presentations of the past I know I'll be blessed. Thank you Doctor Tabor for your excellent lectures. I look forward to each new one. Shalom achi!

[@elizabeth_777]

Out of one comes many. Out of many, one.😎

[@onpurposeinternational]

So good! Thank you!

[@sasquatchycowboy5585]

You are such an amazing teacher.

[@tonyhy-nielsen8520]

He is not. He should be exposing the devilish testamenta and covennat with Israel which is xonquering the minds of all who submit to abrahamism and evil yahweh

[@KendraAndTheLaw]

It's about time. Where ya been? 🙂

[@michaelmcclosky1142]

Very well done. Psalm 94 expresses the 'karmic' principle of God bringing peoples' own doings upon their own heads(Reaping what is Sown) Zephaniah uses 'probably' showing the part we play in the outcome of salvation as well. Peace

[@DrSales-zl3kq]

This has been your best video to date

[@GWwise3642]

Thank you for your wonderful message.

[@grantsmythe8625]

What a vision presented here and what a mess we're in. How far even the best of us are from living out the vision here offered to us.

[@tonyhy-nielsen8520]

Its because people listen to preachers like this ! The bible is evil

[@markballantyne393]

There must be something written on the high priest of Salem Melchizedec.who Abraham knew and were like minded.

[@VALENT3NE]

Dr Tabor, I really appreciate your perspective and presentation in this video, thank you.

[@acinematrail]

Thank you for this.

[@methylmike]

This was awesome! Man, tysm. You got some gift going on

[@maync1]

Wonderful presentation. It appears no servant nation has come forth yet and we are far from realizing one. Look at Israel, hardly an example. I like the way you speak; one has time to to absorb what you are saying. I shall research more now about the prophecies. Thank you for the pointer also to Schonfield's work.

[@allahsnarrative]

Islam is the servant nation. It may not appear to be in the times we live.

[@amn7319]

Thank you for your lecture, doctor. I think not enough people are aware of the transactional nature of things besides marriage and business, but also faith.

[@jamesstedronsky4139]

This is Tabor's most important video. If eternal life is not the goal of the past three thousand years of our religion, this video addresses/answers the question: so what's it all about? But Jesus focused, not on nations, but on individual redemption and reconciliation with God/each other. After all, it's always individuals who start wars.....or exercise love and justice.

[@Jbagggg]

Dr. Tabor, as a childhood fanatic of reptiles, I noticed that around 41:00 mins, you referred to the 'poisonous' snakes, scorpions, etc. Snakes are venomous, not poisonous. Venom must come into contact with blood in order to cause its intended effects, whereas poison on the other hand, does not require contact or fusion with blood, but merely contact alone. Think poisonous gas being breathed in, poisonous liquid being drank, touching a poisonous plant or animal (dart frog, perhaps), and to that effect, poison can even be injected (something awful like heroin). In theory, you could drink a snake's venom and be 'okay', so long as there's no preexisting internal bleeding... I hope I didn't come across as a know-it-all smart-a**, I just love pulling that factoid out every couple of years when someone uses those terms interchangeably. Oh, and btw, did you know that Jesus' last name was Christ? I'm not sure you've covered that yet...

[@Jbagggg]

P.S. - if the sarcasm didn't come through regarding the last comment on the above reply, please know I'm only kidding! LOL But all jokes aside, I am truly grateful for your channel, your teaching, your expertise, and not least, the time and energy you put into making these videos. And thank you for all of the work you've done over your career generally! Something so special, and something so important.

[@SapphicTwist]

I am disappointed that Amos did not figure at all in this treatment of the prophets. To me, the 10 Commandments are a good starting point, but the social prophets are the pinnacle of Jewish moral teaching, where structural injustices are laid out with precision, transcending the individualistic orientation of the Commandments. Note also in Matthew 19:21-22, where Jesus points out that the 10 Commandments leave wealth untouched. Covetousness and theft are forbidden, but only in the social prophets are the broader meaning and social implications of those Commandments laid out...

[@SatSingh-mm4gg]

Would you address "the Magi" and Zoroastrian influence on Jesus movement?

[@maarit.gneleah]

Dr. Tabor, as I don't know the Bible particularly well - am in the process of learning, though - I'd like to ask you who truly knows... Wasn't it so that Job had lived in such a way that if God had kept His word and promises, Job was supposed to be blessed by Him? Job had done no such thing to deserve to be cursed. Nonetheless, God did withdraw His blessings from Job (replacing them with curses?). God's self-description - or a part of it - is truth, justice and rightousness. Well, I'm having a hard time seeing those qualities coming to expression in what He did to Job. In fact, to put it unequivocally: God betrayed His promise, went against His own word. If Job had done nothing to deserve other than the promised blessings to those who obey God, I find it impossible to believe that God is truth, justice and righhtousness. Is there something I'm misunderstanding here in my lack of knowledge of the Word?

[@user-tl4qg2gh1l]

Job is the oldest book of the Bible and it conveys that ultimately God is sovereign authority who does what He will with his creation as a potter does with clay.

[@camilleespinas2898]

Good thing people had the Jews deeply soul-searching ideas that set down civil rules and loving , kind behaviors for all to emulate and strive for.

[@Watchingtheparadegoby]

Isn't Daniel a late exile or early Hellenist period writing? I really appreciate your contributions to my continued learning.

[@peterhook2258]

"and remember, it can be extended beyond the blood of Abraham" ..awesome. Lets build this nation lol.

[@nobunaga240]

Dr Tabor needs another bookcase

[@tonyhy-nielsen8520]

He needs to stop juadæo brainwashing the sheeple

[@Shai-eg6ew]

I found the word segula , סגולה, in a parallel Acadian text of mount sinai covenant , saying it means a slave, a peasant , צמית.

[@avnerperl9935]

Someone must want it. Thanks

[@anibalerikromero88]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us, Dr. Tabor! Learning from the academics is a totally different level !

[@beauregarddangerfield5451]

Great stuff! One suggestion: In the lower left corner, where it reads "Dr. James D. Tabor", please change the background from white, so we can read the time stamp.

[@elizabeth_777]

Thank you🤓❤️

[@Zen_Traveler]

Nice presentation, Dr Tabor! Very Zen and interesting concept. Thanks for sharing.

[@carlosacevedo7062]

You give a interview in the chanel mith vision you said the cristianity is pesimist l agree in part. What is be optimist to you? Thanks for you work

[@kaygibbs8639]

Thank You!, so glad to hear this teaching it truly slapped some more spiritual common sense in my face ("revelation" a very good thing). I appreciate the reminder of the Abrahamic plan ("for all red blooded humanity"), I've not heard that since the 1980s. Wow-fatherhood parenting must be very difficult if a fellow has not had a real foundational Godly masculine example in his life. Praying for Godly wisdom, healing, forgiveness, revelation, for all menfolk in this earth right now! The spiritual magnitude of this lecture is blowing my mind, knowing what was done to the Prophets (to quite their rebukes). LORD GOD please help us!

[@ElkoJohn]

The Heavens and Earth create Beauty. The Laws of Nature create Perfection. Humans choose to create good or evil. The Righteous are chosen, and the Lord anoints them.

[@thomasrhodes5013]

Mt. 10-35 appears vain glorious.

[@onika700]

God makes covenants with his people, like a marriage.

[@StanKindly]

I can't help thinking of Native People for instance The Hopi. They too had a covenant with The Creator and knew the virtues of taking care of the land and each other. I've visited Chaco Canyon and what struck me the most was these people knew no war or violence (at least for 250 years) because their is no evidence of it and where they built those amazing monuments ( highly vulnerable to enemy attacks). If YHWH or The Creator knows no geographical bounds he could have visited the North American people with his presence, laws, principles taught through their Prophets. Indeed they had their Prophets also - many of their prophecies have and are coming true. Incidentally they had ritual where they would break pottery like - was it The Essenes?

[@stephannaro2113]

It is really interesting to have the Hebrew works presented as their own thing rather than selectively abused in the furtherance of christianity. That being said, I can't help think that Tabor is being too positive about the purpose of these ideas or themes. It looks to me plausble that they are there as honey to bait people into being ensnared into a Platonic theocratic guardian-state. "Let us guard over you and you will have justice, and you will have a life-purpose." There must be territory here to be explored by a discussion between Tabor and Russell Gmirkin.

[@stevenv6463]

Thank you

[@jamesstedronsky4139]

May I add....Following Tabor's talks on Messiah-ship and Mark, the message seems to be that the role of the Messiah is to work radical love and justice in one's life.....and accept the consequences. In so doing, the Messiah throws stones in the water hoping/seeking for ripples of change as envisioned by the prophets.. And s/he lives a life that can be a beacon to others both during that person's lifetime and afterwards. However one hold's Jesus' life, his beacon is no less brilliant than it was 2,000 years ago.

[@raymondweiland6423]

Jesus said if you seen me you seen the Father. Now I get it

[@gokartbob6478]

The Spirit of God (Yah) is inside Jesus. Then Jesus says "be ye one (Spirit) with us as we are one." (Spirit)

[@DavidCicia]

Wow! A truly profound message,bitingly practical for the world right now.

[@dadedowuh]

✌️

[@mongoharry]

Makes you want to be a person who "takes up the call".

[@36cmbr]

Nice to hear you giving the lecture without the talking head, asking the questions. I don’t think I’ve seen you in this format before. You’re always very interesting, however, I generally in dub disagreeing with you. (meaning disagreeing with the point you’re making or the story you’re telling) but you are interesting so I listen.

[@markballantyne393]

High priest, of an established religion, melchezedek

[@phillipmorris4555]

I wish the whole world heard this....The Holy Fire is so loving ; that we would always be thoughtful of our Loving creator.and connected to as Jesus prayed that we would be one with Him as He was One with ABBA.....in John 17 verse 21 ! !!! Read it

[@Cloudryder]

Yep. Prophets were just social critics. They all eventually got fired and that’s when apocalypticism kicked in.

[@evropej]

The book of Revelation was not written by Jesus or Yeshua. The book is written by those who have lived and have died or YHWH as its written in chapter 1. Jesus has nothing to do with any prophecy. He was a messenger with the spirit of YHWH God. People turned him into a religion just like they turned Moses into a religion. Both were prophets, both were messengers. Both told you, there is only one God and that is the God of heaven! But some people cannot hear the truth for a reason! A prophecy is a symbolog interpretation of what happened to humanity. If you dont interpret them symbolically, they will not make sense. Place yourself 3000 years back, no science no math none of that. So the symbology was used to describe the world they lived in. For example the bull is a herd animal. They all knew what a bull or calf did, stick together for strength. This is why Jesus said, for those who can hear, let them hear. The symbology represents characteristics of humanity. They are symbolic models of life. They all apply to everyone. Apply them outside of time, they are independent. If you break the commandments of God, it does matter at what time you do it, 5000 years ago, or 5000 years in the future for example. Each prophecy is a book on its own. It does not belong with any other book or should never be considered part of another book with the word holy. Once you figure out the symbology which is defined all over the prophecies, then the truth is unraveled for you. But this is for those who seek the truth. Critical point: take all religions out, take all their names titles etc out, and then read them with an open mind. YHWH God is all the spirits of all those who have lived and have died symbolized by the one image or the holy spirit.

[@johnmichaelson9173]

"Love God with all your heart, treat your neighbour as you treat yourself. All the rest is commentary." I've always believed that's the only way.

[@gokartbob6478]

And Christianity tries to make the Messiah their God..

[@evropej]

@@johnmichaelson9173 Remember, Jesus set people free before there was a book for them to read. So the truth is this, be a good person, and you will go to a good place. The rest is commandments and traditions written by men, aka priests!

[@evropej]

@@gokartbob6478 Bingo! They miss the point of the spirit. The God of heaven is a spirit, so the vessels are many. The vessels who live by the commandments are the temple of YHWH God, the spirits within them are Zion or YHWH God. The rest are tales from the crypt!

[@johnmichaelson9173]

@@evropej Absolutely, Jesus was just a man & sadly everything about him has been hijacked. The man simply wouldn't recognise himself in the NT. I couldn't agree more, as you say men wrote the fiction in the NT.

[@Thomasw540]

Jimmy, I assume everything you present is subversive in some Weather Underground kind of way, I understand the historic structures you posit in your portrait of Jesus within the context of the Jesus Seminar. History is a sub-genre of literature, History shares the narrative structures of literature but lack the anthropology, The literary relationship of the 39 books of the Hebrew Bible in the Protestant Bible to the Gospel of Mark what the Federalist Papers are to the US Constitution once it was ratified. The Torah is a 5 volume military field manual for cultural transformation, Jesus realigned the trajectory of the Hebrew narrative from the dead end of Eschatology and back on the epistemology of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit which runs straight as a laser from the Book of Job to the Cross to Apollo11, The Gospel of Mark begins with images captured by the Roman Surveillance Network regarding John the Baptist. Richard Baucham is exactly correct: the Gospels originate with eye witnesses, on they aren't Jewish fishermen and businessmen, but with the military perspective of Cornelius . The Romans knew all about the Jesus Followers in Mark 3:7 - 8 before He took over the movement. You can lay the demographics of the Christians on a topographical map and hang it in the headquarters for all to identify in the field. In that regards, the Romans knew pretty well what they were dealing with in Jerusalem politics, Jesus was the wild card in the nix. The Irony is that the Roman centurions turned out to be the wild card in the divine purposes of Pauline Theology. Now, I know that David Koresh shared your narrative. This is classic Campus Radical Marxist Teach-In curriculum which advocating toppling the government to end the Draft, All your theology was a turn on to David Koresh. It's like interpreting the content of the Hebrew narrative anticipates the Turner Diaries. Jesus simplifies the five themes of prophecy with the Great Commission, This is a mission, men, self component of the Talking Cross. Jesus is the personification of Hegel's dialectical synthesis that has been abandoned by the Post Modern Historic Deconstruction you adhere to. Never forget: the King James Bible is a Druid translation,

[@markballantyne393]

There has to be before Abraham, God the one God could not have begun at the point of God speaking to Abraham, there had to be before.

[@Azupiru]

Abraham... Of course, another possibility is that Abraham didn't exist, and the Biblical theistic story was an attempt to establish the foundation of a West Semitic ethnoreligion. In fact, Abraham did not exist, and this should be apparent to anyone with knowledge of the naming conventions of the Old Babylonian period (the family was from Babylonia, specifically Ur). Names like Abram/Abraham, Terah, Sarai/Sarah, Isaac, Ishmael, Jacob/Ishrael, Judah, Epher (from aphar, "dust"), Ishi (related to "salvation"), etc. were nonexistent. But if we imagine for a moment that a family southern Mesopotamians travelled to the Levant in the early centuries of the 2nd millennium bce, it actually does fit with one group, the 'Apiru/habiru, which means "dusty," and is related to the Hebrew word for dust, aphar. These people actually did eventually make their way to the Levant by 1300 bce, and are attested multiple times in the Amarna letters as invaders, just like those led by Joshua and in the exact same period as the Hebrews claimed that Joshua (related to "salvation") lived. And if we suspend our disbelief even more and take some aspect of the names of the Abrahamites as accurate, we run into another issue. Abraham would have known cuneiform, which means the name Isaac would have been recognized as related to the Sumerogram 𒅖 (known as sahar and iš, among others), which was referred to by the Semitic word ṣihu ("laughter") at the time (whence Isaac), but it was also seen as the Sumerogram sahar, which was referred to by the Semitic word eperum ("dust"), and it was also present in the earliest cuneiform attestation of iš-ra-il, a name discovered in tablets at Ebla. The Sumerogram 𒅖 was also read as šadu, meaning "mountain," and the name Shadday, as in El Shadday, is suggested as having been derived from this Semitic word for mountain that is not present in the attested Biblical Hebrew. So, Abraham habiru (the dusty) traveled from Babylonia to the Levant and named one of his sons 𒅖 (ṣihu), who named his son Jacob, but was renamed to 𒅖-ra-il, and two of Jacob's grandsons were Epher (dust, 𒅖) and Ishi, which at the time did not relate to "salvation" in any of the Semitic languages. However, if a group of nomads were crossing the desert for months, what would salvation look like? Salvation would look like a mountain, an iš/𒅖, referred to by šadu. So this single Sumerogram accounts for two names introduced in Genesis 17, Shadday, of El Shadday, and Isaac. It accounts for the word Hebrew, introduced in Genesis 14. It is the iš of Israel and the source of salvation. Oh, and the name Iš-ra-il existed about 500 years before any hypothetical Biblical Israel. Apparently God was going around naming Semitic people Israel centuries before Jacob... lol

[@onika700]

peculiar: One’s very own, exclusive, or special;

[@kingsleynkrumah4762]

God rules

[@kimfreeborn]

Something is not quite right here. I think its one thing to promote your religion as the model and yet another to actually include everyone in the collective.

[@ncarmstron]

Excellent lecture on the true meaning of the prophets. It has the ring of a sermon. Is that intentional?

[@tonyhy-nielsen8520]

Brainwashed by preachers bable

[@tonyhy-nielsen8520]

Faith for the noachidic covenant slaves. One set of rules and commandmenta for the 99% so that the initiated brethren could rule us for eternity building their temples and making us fight their schisms. Believing that their holy books are divine and taking any of it as good after 2000 years of it as their divide and conquer tool is beyond ridiculous

[@christinabernier4860]

The word “Israel” is a very poor translation for what should be “Yasharel.” If you look in the concordance, you will see the word “yashar” which means “upright,” is spelled with the same Hebrew letters as “Israel,” which are-yod, shin, resh. There has been a push by those who wish to be in power that Israel is a geopolitical land mass or an ethnicity. In truth, it is Yasharel, the upright servants of YHWH that are called to be the Light of YHWH to the nations. One Torah and One King-YHWH and there is no other.

[@christinabernier4860]

This is an excellent lecture 🙏

[@jdosantamonica]

The lecture has an appealing message, but I think your notion of the ten commandments is overly simplistic. First, the Ten Commandments occur twice in two imperfectly blended text, and the second version includes an admonishment not to boil a lamb in her mother’s blood or some other form that doesn’t exactly spell out universal justice, mercy and empathy for the poor and oppressed. The prophetic writings express laudable ideas, but cherry picking passages to paint the entire book as a model for human ideals stretches credulity.

[@charlissmurph2129]

All of the dooms day Prophets have been and will be wrong, you are from the Church of Christ? There is 3 things I knew about the Bible before I ever picked one up and read it, #1. 90% of the Book of Revelations has already taken place, #2. Not even the Angel that sent and signified the Book of Revelations knew what it meant, #3. Stay out of the Book of Revelations, it is not for us. I don't know how I knew before I ever read the Bible, but it must have came from God, otherwise how did I know?