I have just posted to this website under the Bible studies tab my updated book entitled ‘The Remnant - The Old Testament Prophets Explained’.
I believe it will be a very helpful commentary for anyone wanting to understand the Prophets through the application of the sound biblical hermeneutic of asking what they meant to the people the prophecies were first delivered to. Too often such sound biblical interpretation methodology is ignored when interpreting Bible prophecy because of an unfortunate tendency to too quickly read ‘the end of the world’ into prophecy.
Many famously quoted portions of scripture commonly applied to the end of the world are explained as prophecies already fulfilled in the past.
The exciting story told in this book of God’s restoration of the remnant of Israel in the days after the Assyrian captivity (approx. 720 B.C.) and Babylonian captivity (approx. 600 B.C.) will provide the reader with an important and eye-opening context for understanding of much of what God’s chosen prophets wrote. We will see the prophecies through the eyes of those who lived much nearer to the time of the prophecies. The common application of many Old Testament prophecies to our day, and the end of the world, will be put under the microscope and seriously challenged. The foundations for some of our prophetic scenarios for the future may be shattered in the process, but our faith in the existence of a loving God who doesn’t give up on His people will be strengthened