Long Story Short: Warning

We usually think of a prophet as one who predicts future events – a foreteller. But a prophet's primary job was to hear the word of God and then proclaim it to His people. They're not so much foretellers as they are FORTH-tellers of God’s word. The prophets spoke in strange and shocking idioms in order to fulfill an almost impossible task. They were to proclaim the Word of the Lord to a people who had grown dull in their hearing. So the message of the prophets is intended to startle us, to wake us up, to help us to shrug off spiritual complacency and return again to God's will.

Jeremiah 1:4-10

Jeremiah 25:1-7

Ezekiel 26:22-28