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    Journey - Lesson 12 - Prophets in Judah (1)
    Journey - Lesson 12 - Prophets in Judah (1)
    Journey - Lesson 12 - Prophets in Judah (1)
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    Journey - Lesson 12 - Prophets in Judah (1)

    By Marcel Gervais

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    This is the 12th lesson of the Journey Bible Study Program series. In this lesson we turn to the prophets of Judah. In chapter 1 we analyze selected passages from the prophet Isaiah.In chapter 2 we analyze selected passages from the Prophet Micah. This section ends with reflections on Prophets and Prophecy. The third chapter continues the commentary on "Dei Verbum"

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    PublisherMarcel Gervais
    Release dateJan 10, 2014
    ISBN9781927766156
    Journey - Lesson 12 - Prophets in Judah (1)
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    Marcel Gervais

    About the Author Archbishop Gervais was born in Elie Manitoba on September 21 1931. He is the ninth of fourteen children. His family came from Manitoba to the Sparta area near St. Thomas Ontario when he was just a teenager. He went to Sparta Continuation School and took his final year at Saint Joseph`s High School in St. Thomas. After high school he went to study for the priesthood at St. Peter’s Seminary in London , Ontario. He was ordained in 1958. He was sent to study in Rome. This was followed by studies at the Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem. He returned to London to teach scripture to the seminarians at St. Peter’s Seminary. In 1974 he was asked by Bishop Emmett Carter to take over as director of the Divine Word International Centre of Religious Education. This Centre had been founded by Bishop Carter to provide a resource for adult education in the spirit of Vatican II. This Centre involved sessions of one or two weeks with many of the best scholars of the time. Students came not only from Canada and the United States but from all over the globe, Australia, Africa, Asia and Europe. By the time Father Gervais became the director Divine Word Centre was already a course dominated by the study of scripture to which he added social justice. This aspect of the course of studies was presented by people from every part of the “third world”; among which were Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez and Cardinal Dery of Ghana. In 1976 the Conference of Ontario Bishops along with the Canadian conference of Religious Women approached Father Gervais to provide a written course of studies in Sacred Scripture for the Church at large, but especially for priests and religious women. This is when Fr. Gervais began to write Journey, a set of forty lessons on the Bible. He was armed with a treasure of information from all the teachers and witnesses to the faith that had lectured at Devine Word. He was assisted by a large number of enthusiastic collaborators: all the people who had made presentations at Divine Word and provided materials and a team of great assistants, also at Divine Word Centre. The work was finished just as Father Gervais was ordained an auxiliary bishop of London (1980). He subsequently was made Bishop of Sault Saint Marie Diocese, and after four years, Archbishop of Ottawa (1989). He retired in 2007, and at the time of this writing, he is enjoying retirement.

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      Journey - Lesson 12 - Prophets in Judah (1) - Marcel Gervais

      Journey-Lesson 12- Prophets in Judah (1)

      by Marcel Gervais, Emeritus Archbishop of the diocese of Ottawa, Canada

      Nihil Obstat: Michael T. Ryan, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

      Imprimatur: + John M. Sherlock, Bishop of London

      London, March 31, 1980

      This content of this book was first published in 1977 as part of the JOURNEY Series By Guided Study Programs in the Catholic Faith and is now being republished in Smashwords by Emmaus Publications, 99 Fifth Avenue, Suite 103, Ottawa,ON, K1S 5P5, Canada on Smashwords

      Cover: ." ...these will hammer their swords in ploughshares, their spears into sickles (Isaiah 2:4)

      COPYRIGHT © Guided Study Programs in the Catholic Faith, a division of The Divine Word International Centre of Religious Education 1977. Reproduction in whole or in part is Prohibited.

      ~~~~~~~~

      CONTENTS

      Chapter 1 Isaiah

      Chapter 2 Micah

      Chapter 3 On Chapter Three, Paragraph Eleven of Dei Verbum

      Answer key to practice Questions

      Self --test

      Answer key to self-test

      Recommendations for group meeting on Lesson Twelve

      About The Author

      Psalm 48

      This happy song of praise rejoices in God's presence in Jerusalem. God defends his city; no enemies can destroy her. (There is probably a reference to Jerusalem being saved from Sennacherib's attack in 701 BC in verses 4-7). The Temple, symbol of the presence of the Lord, is the place where his love is remembered and where praises are given to him. Jerusalem is beautiful because God is there (vss 12-14). This psalm reflects the thought of Isaiah and forms the background for some of the theology of the Church. Like Jerusalem, the Church can withstand any enemy (See Matt 16:18-20) because the Lord is with her to the end of time (Matt 28:20).

      Lesson Objective To analyze selected passages from the Books of Isaiah and Micah,

      The general objectives for Lessons 11 to 15 apply. See the end of the introductory Notes in Lesson 11.

      Historical Background

      Four of the greatest prophets that were raised up by God among his People lived and prophesied in the same period of history: Amos, Hosea, Isaiah and Micah all were called between 750 and 740 BC, Their prophecies indicate that these men felt many of the same things and pronounced, each in his own way, similar messages to the People. They experienced the same terrible period of history.

      Isaiah and Micah both had long ministries, probably from 740 to about 690 BC. Much of what was said in Lesson 11 about history applies to their times. We will simply sum up briefly the major events,

      The attack of the Israelite-Syrian coalition on Judah which took place around 734 had a very marked effect on Isaiah, especially. It became the occasion for some of his most powerful prophecies. The Assyrians were on the attack; Israel and Syria (Damascus) wanted to force Judah to join their anti-Assyrian coalition. Ahaz, the king of Judah, refused to join the coalition. So the armies of Israel and Syria attacked Judah and caused great damage until Ahaz called on Assyria to help him against his brother Israel and his neighbour Syria. Ahaz paid tribute to the Assyrians. The Assyrians came to the rescue. They overcame Damascus and tore a great part of the kingdom away from Israel. Death, destruction and deportation for the north was the result of Ahaz's call for help (2 Kings 16).

      Isaiah also lived through the period of the fall of Samaria (724-721). The news of this cruel and thorough defeat of the brother kingdom filled Judah with horrified fear. Its kings were not about to rebel against Assyrian domination for a while (2 Kings 17: 1-6),

      Some 20 years later, however, the decision to rebel, to refuse to pay tribute seemed sensible to Hezekiah, Ahaz's successor. The strength of Assyria had been underestimated; the troops came down, ravaged Judah, taking some 46 towns and a number of villages. The Assyrians, under their new King Sennacherib, came right to the walls of Jerusalem. How the destruction and conquest of Jerusalem was avoided

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