What are the prophets of the Hebrew people like?

In the Bible, "prophets" refer to those who are called by God to communicate with God and convey God's will.

Before the 9th century BC, there were people who communicated with God and conveyed God's will in various ways between the Euphrates River and the Nile Valley. They try to figure out and convey the "sacred will" by divining, interpreting dreams, throwing sacred dice or observing the fall of birds, and examining the livers of sacrificial animals, so as to answer all kinds of doubts in life. These problems range from looking for lost things to winning or losing the war and rewarding the harvest. There are also such "fortune tellers" among the Hebrews. According to the Book of Samuel, chapter 9, verses 5-9, after the donkey of Saul's family was lost, Saul's servant advised him to take a quarter of a shekel of silver and seek the instructions of Samuel's prophet. At that time, there were not only "fortune tellers" but also "crazy prophets". According to the Records of Kings, chapter 18, section 26 ~ 29, 450 Baal prophets who fought Elijah screamed wildly, and even cut their bodies with knives and guns, and fell into ecstasy in order to communicate with God.

The prophet Amos preached in northern Israel at the end of 1 1 BC. With the establishment of the unified kingdom of Hebrew, some of these divination prophets and crazy prophets continued to live in the countryside, while others became temple priests specializing in religious ceremonies. The other part became the court prophet of the king. The main duty of the court prophet is to provide divine approval for the king's major decisions. Sometimes a king has hundreds of such prophets. This kind of prophet often only dares to say what the king wants to say in order to protect his palace salary. However, among the court prophets, there are also upright, upright, honest and frank people, such as Nathan, Elijah and Micaiah. They are not afraid of the arrogance of the monarch, but "speak ill without saying good things."

The Bible contains 16 prophets. According to the length of their works, there are more or less prophets. The Great Prophet includes four prophets: Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel. 12 "Little Prophets" are Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahong, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi.

These prophets with sacred mission gained courage and strength from their sacred mission. Their courage doubled, they dared to condemn evil and fearlessly preached justice. Regardless of personal honor and disgrace, we have to lose the crime of condemning the ruling class and even the whole nation. They persevere, never changing their will through suffering, and never changing their behavior through suffering. At the same time, predicting the nature of the apocalypse also contains another layer of efficacy. Once some predictions are drastically turned into reality, the prophets' predictions will have great deterrent power, so those predictions that have not yet been realized and yet to be realized will have greater appeal and practical guiding significance.