Revision Mindmap for Prophets

Revision Mindmap for Prophets

1. Jeremiah

   • Jeremiah suffered by being thrown out of town, whipped and put in stocks, seeing his being destroyed in war, thrown into a water pit and almost drowning in it, what God had told him to say wrote down being burnt twice and was depressed and wished that God let him die.
   • Jeremiah was a prophet and who never gave up on spreading the message for God.
   • God had told Jeremiah to tell people that people will die of deadly diseases and will become food for the birds and wild animals. Also, he said not to bury or mourn over those have died as both high and low will die on the land. God said that he wants Jeremiah to destroy and overthrow all the nations and kingdoms he would find so that he can preach the message.
   • God had said, "Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you."

2. Amos

   • Amos said that the rich people will suffer destruction and will not have a good future as they didn't share or care for the poor people suffering.
   • He sends a message to the rich people of Israel from God.
   • It was hard for Amos to make people believe in what he was saying as some didn't know about God or didn't even care about what he was saying.

3. Hosea

   • "Unfaithfulness to God, is like a bad marriage."
   • God gets Hosea to feel about his wife the way that God feels about his people – who are also unfaithful so other people will see what Hosea has done and think long and hard about their own unfaithfulness to God and how it makes God feel.
   • Hosea's children names were: Jezreel, Un-loved and Not-my-people. The first one was a son and God told Hosea to name him Jezreel because of the great battle they last to, the second one was a daughter and named her from God 'Un-loved' to show God doesn't love them and the last one was named 'Not-my-people' to show that they are not God's people and God is not theirs.

4. Moses

   • God tells Moses that he is 'I am I will be' and 'I am the God of your Father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob'.
   • God reassures Moses that his mission will be successful because: He predicts that it will be successful because afterwards, they will be on that mountain, all the people together with Moses. He gives Moses power to make his staff a snake, putting his hand in his cloak and when it comes out he has leprosy and when he puts it back in again it would be well. If either of them won't work, he would take water from the Nile, pour it on the ground and it will turn into blood. He tells Moses that the elders of Israel will listen and trust him as they would have known about it from the other prophets from the past.
   • Moses was a good choice for a prophet as he had completed God’s mission and helped these people to be free at last. He was a good leader and got through everything he was told to do by God.

5. Jesus

   • Jesus was: born of the Virgin Mary, given a special message - the gospel - for all people and did miracles (eg healing blind, healing lepers and raising the dead).
   • Jesus is called the, 'the Messiah' and 'Word from/of God'.
   • Jesus was more than a prophet as he didn't have to pray to god as he already knew what he wanted and was thinking so he could automatically forgive sins. He is all knowing like God - and he can give life to heal, to whom he wants to.