Mobile Ed: OT231 Survey of the Major Prophets (9 hour course)
Overview
The prophets of the Old Testament conveyed the words of God to ancient Israel, promised the advent of Jesus the Messiah, and are still relevant to our modern setting. Paul Ferris educates viewers on the office of prophet, provides detailed character studies of prophets like Isaiah and Jeremiah, and outlines his methodology for teaching powerful lessons drawn from their lives and teaching. This course allows modern students and teachers of the Bible to identify themes in the ministries of Old Testament prophets and to relate them to their church, their classroom, and in a devotional sense.
Learning Objectives
Upon successful completion you should be able to:
- Identify and explain major themes from the lives of Isaiah, Daniel, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel
- Apply lessons from other prophets via a helpful hermeneutic method
- Understand the background and setting of major prophets
Course Outline
Introduction
- Introducing the Speaker and the Course
Unit 1: Introduction to Prophets and Prophetism
- What Is a Prophet?
- Who Were the Prophets?
- What Is Prophecy?
- Did the Prophets Understand Their Calling?
- Are True Prophets Unique to Israel?
- The Promise Project: God’s Mission to Restore Creation
- The Promise of Presence and Blessing
- The Promise of Reconciliation
- The Promise of Reconciliation Leads to Glory
- The Promise of Glory and the New Testament
- The Promise as the Basis of the Kingdom of God
- The Promise Doctrine in the New Testament
- The Eternally Operative Doctrine of the Promise
Unit 2: Isaiah
- Introduction to Isaiah
- The Geopolitical Setting of Isaiah
- The Audience and Authorship of Isaiah
- Questions Concerning Isaiah’s Authorship
- The Organization of the Book of Isaiah
- The Core Message of Isaiah: Calling
- The Core Message of Isaiah: Authenticity
- The Promised One: Isaiah 7–8
- The New Testament Use of the Old Testament
- The Intended Outcome: Isaiah 19
- The Suffering Servant: Isaiah 52:13–53:12
- The Identity of the Servant
- The Rejection of the Servant
- The Human Cause and the Divine Act of the Atonement
- The Submission of the Servant in His Death and Burial
- The Exaltation of the Servant to Success
- The Exaltation of the Servant to Satisfaction and Reward
- The Impact of the Book of Isaiah on the New Testament
Unit 3: Jeremiah
- Introduction to Jeremiah
- The Geopolitical Setting of Jeremiah
- The Spiritual Setting of Jeremiah’s Message
- Jeremiah’s Ministry and Message
- Toward a Theology of Calling
- Incapacity, Inexperience, and God’s Encouragement
- Lawsuit
- Abominable Worship
- The Locus of Faith
- Struggles in Ministry
- Renewal of the Covenant: Part One
- Renewal of the Covenant: Part Two
- Renewal of the Covenant: Part Three
- Renewal of the Covenant: Part Four
Unit 4: Ezekiel
- Introduction to Ezekiel
- Ezekiel’s Background, Audience, and Message
- Ezekiel’s Call and Commission
- Prophetic Subversion of Key Doctrines
- Restoration Proclamations
- The Lord Acts to Renew Israel: Part One
- The Lord Acts to Renew Israel: Part Two
- Ezekiel’s Vision of the Renewed Kingdom
- Tensions with Hebrews
- The Theology of Ezekiel: Part One
- The Theology of Ezekiel: Part Two
Unit 5: Daniel
- Introduction to Daniel
- The Setting, Authorship, and Audience of Daniel
- The Message of Daniel
- The Fiery Furnace and Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream
- Daniel’s Dream of Four Beasts
- Daniel’s Prayer
- God’s Response to Daniel’s Prayer
- Interpreting Daniel’s Visions
Summary and Conclusion
- Conclusion
- Summary
Product Details
- Title: OT231 Survey of Major Prophets
- Instructor: Paul Ferris
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: 2016
- Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
- Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources
- Courses: 1
- Video Hours: 9
Partially includedAbout Paul Ferris
Paul Ferris Jr. is a professor of Hebrew Bible at Bethel Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota. In addition to a teaching and leadership ministry in theological education in the U.S. and Canada as well as in Egypt, Haiti, Israel, and Romania, he has had the privilege to serve as pastor, church planter and hospital chaplain.
He has authored The Genre of Communal Lament in the Bible and the Ancient Near East as well as the Expositor’s Bible Commentary on Lamentation and the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary on Lamentations. He has contributed signed articles to the Wycliffe Bible Encyclopedia, the Anchor Bible Dictionary, the Dictionary of the Old Testament Wisdom, Poetry & Writings, the Dictionary of the Old Testament Prophets, and the Lexham Bible Dictionary.
Getting the most out of Mobile Ed
Logos Mobile Education is a highly effective cross-platform learning environment that integrates world class teaching with the powerful study tools and theological libraries available in Logos Bible Software. Every course provides links to additional resources and suggested readings that supplement the lecture material at the end of every transcript segment.
This course comes with an Activities resource that functions as a type of “workbook” for the course. This resource includes learning activities such as: places for you to respond to reflection questions, exercises that will challenge and show you how deepen your understanding of this course by using specific Logos tools and resources, tutorial videos on different features of Logos Bible Software, and links to relevant Logos guides and tools. A link to open the Activities resource is conveniently placed at the end of every segment.
Reviews
1 rating
Adeleke Samson Adegbami
1/3/2022
Being a Baptist from birth, it is my desire to know everything possible about the Word of God. It is my pleasure therefore to undergo this express study. Trusting God to bless me through it in Jesus Mighty name.
Deepak Kumar Singh
3/14/2018
