During the discussion today, something that crossed my mind was how people knew who the prophets were. Did they themselves proclaim to be called by God to be a prophet or did the majority of the people recognize the wisdom the prophets carried and they declare them as prophets? This also gets me thinking whether they knew during the time they were living in, before any of the prophets’ predictions came true or weren’t fulfilled, if they were false prophets or if they actually knew what was going to happen in the future because of what they were told by God. It’s easy to see who in the Bible were the prophets because we now see whether their predictions came true or not. How the people who were actually living with the prophets knew they were who they claimed to be, I still do not understand.
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