Prophets: Do they still exist today?

* Luís Alberto Alves

Here is a controversial subject: prophets! Many people now call themselves prophets, some even assuming to be prophets of certain cities or states in Brazil. The problem is that a lot of people do not study deeply the scriptures. In this case, the Old Testament.

At that time, a few centuries after the departure of the Hebrew people from Egypt, the Bible did not exist as it exists today, divided into chapters, verses and united in one block, the 66 books, composed of Old Testament and New Testament. Moses wrote the Pentateuch, the first five books composed of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

It is these five books that will form the Torah, considered sacred by the Jews. The other books were written centuries later, including the Apocrypha (not considered sacred by Judaism) and in the Roman Empire, when Christianity was officially officially declared, and by the year 400, Catholicism then annexed them to the Bible used by the church catholic

Many prophets did not know each other. They were used by God to write His Words, which centuries later would be annexed to the Old Testament. Example: Malachi did not live in the time of Elijah, just as Micaiah did not live in the time of Ezekiel.


* Luís Alberto Alves is a pastor