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The Hypostatic Union

The Office of a Prophet, Priest, and King.

Office of a Prophet
A prophet is someone who says or speaks before or for someone. Tenney observes
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that the OT “prophet acted as a mouthpiece for God.” Prophets are commissioned by
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God to confront sin (Jonah 1:1-2), call people for the repentance of their sins (Jonah 3:1-
5; Joel 1:1-20), caution people about the coming judgment (Hab. 1:5-11; Zeph. 1:1-6),
and comfort them with the promise of a better future (Amos 1:1—2:16; 9:1-15).

In Acts, Peter states that the prophet whom God was going to raise after Moses (Acts 3:20-23; cf. Deut.
18:14-18) is Jesus because he cited the exact passage when defending their actions of faith in Jesus
Christ. Jesus fulfilled the office of a prophet by proclaiming about the coming Kingdom of God and the
call to repentance.

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61 Walter A. Elwell, ed., Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, 2 ed. (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2001), 960.
62 A. A. MacRae, “Prophets and Prophecy,” In Dictionary of The Zondervan Encyclopedia of the Bible: Volume 4, 2
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ed. ed. Merrill C. Tenney (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1976), 4:875.
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