days. So I can understand people getting depressed but actually um uh every prophet of doom uh in ancient Israel wasalso a prophet of hope and um so I I hope there's the book ends with hope. I hope so.
So I'm just going to finish by reading one passage that catches Dean Price just as he's making this conversion from being a failed truck stop entrepreneur to a local prophet of biodiesel.A two-lane asphalt road ran past the woods, white oak, shag bark hickory, Carolina ash.
country a lot of unflattering things about Moab said before the exile Zephaniah the aforementioned monologist prophet says I've heard the taunts of a Moab and therefore Moab shall become like like Sodom he probably has Godsaying that actually but post-exilic you have this whole book of Ruth devoted to bringing the Moabites into the family
trouble hearing her down below why can't we be like every single other Muslim country and count from the time of the prophet 's migration not from his death what is this the unspoken answer was that Libya's leader liked it that wayhis quixotic decisions kept the lives of ordinary libyans endlessly veering toward bedum being the only one knowing what
the king's court so he has a fair amount of influence over how Yahweh's will is interpreted but not so for other prophets the other gods their prophets are floating around you know the country saying other things and the Bible saysthat at one point there was something like four hundred prophets four Asherah a goddess who actually apparently was a consort of Yahweh's that's something you
And we only have to think about what happened to a group of Danish cartoonists just a few years ago, when they drew the Prophet Mohammad. There were subsequent riots, where hundreds of people were killed. And it caused an international outcry that still is an open wound today.
For Muslims, very popular right now, for those of you who don't know, they follow the Hadith, which is a collection of stories that talk about the etiquette of the prophet Muhammad. Stories give humans identity and purpose. They also help us pass down our values, ideals, beliefs, and cultures.
that that represents his policies and one thing in them is he says any prophet who speaks in the name of other gods that prophet shall die so just just to put a little exclamation point on his policy of eliminating domestic political
in in the second Isaiah the one who would the first unequivocally monotheistic prophet um there's very much an air of retribution and I think it has to do with what what Israelites did to kind of maintain their self-esteem in the wake of the complete
out the Quran contains just one vague reference to a tribe that own dogs but the Hadith the often disputed sayings of the prophet and his contemporaries that form the basis for much Islamic law mention dogs no fewer than 430 times a few references noted positive
And they've made laws that help keep our food and automobiles safe and college education affordable. Liberal Christianity can point to the Old Testament prophets and to Jesus as the original political liberals. As mainstream a resource at the Encyclopedia Britannica describes political liberalism as the culmination of a development that goes back
So, Nawal, Maya, maybe Muhammad Ali. I think the prophet Muhammad would be so interesting. A lot of the prophets would be interesting, you know, just to sit with them.
prophet of doom uh in ancient Israel wasalso a prophet of hope and um so I I hope there's the book ends with hope. I hope so. Yes. And there is there is optimism sort of led through it as well. It's just that the the analysis is
And of course, we brace ourselves because the world will accuse us of wasting our time. But the prophet Jeremiah writes in this place of which you say it is a waste, there will be heard again the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voices of those who sing.
And in the Passover service, a lot of Jews don't know this, but in the Passover service there is a place where we open the door, theoretically to let the prophet Elijah come in, but actually, it probably goes back to opening the door so that everybody outside can see no Christian children are being killed in order to get blood for the making of unleavened bread of matzo.
I think the key is to know when your beliefs are beliefs or when your beliefs are certainties or truth. I would be a prophet or I would be evangelizing these very credulous people.
But I think that the title of this section of your book was "Meetings Present Opportunities." I like that. So Tony Prophet is the chief equality officer at Salesforce.com, and I interviewed him for the book.
That if you truly claim to love God, then follow me. So the prophet Muhammad is trying to guide people to a way in which they can love the divine. And stemming from that love is a 1,400 year old tradition of trying to honor that love.
And it's 600 million years old. was a soothsayer prophet in Greek mythology.
our allergies and The evolutionary driver of why we have IG antibodies and this one Prophet a MacArthur genius Grant in uh 1993 but it would take another 20 years until there was actually any evidence behind it
The founding prophet of Israel was not David Ben-Gurion or Chaim Weizmann, the first President and Prime Minister of the country, but a man named Theodor Herzl.
ancient world under the prophet Elijah.
And the prophet said, no, it's bringing those lines together.
some sort of prophet it's a weird name to choose so yeah well I think he's got delusions that he's working on something
Hosea so you get what you what I would predict um you get it even even more clearly with a prophet named Zephaniah and I'll kind of what kind of run-throughs F&I and not dwell on everything I have him saying but was F&I you see and this is in the 7th century
is that from every prophet has a miracle Muhammad's miracle was the fact that
Old Testament prophet . He had a defiantly thick Bronx accent, an intimidating intellect, and the ultimate
I think the prophet Muhammad would be so interesting. A lot of the prophets would be interesting, you know, just to sit with them. And yeah, I think that's a nice table.
then there is the prophetic legacy of Jerusalem in which you're actually doing the truth by enacting a truth in the form of what our Jewish brothers sisters called
There are prophetesses, judges, and warriors who are women.
The Hebrew prophets said-- they were great eaters of words.
a messianic prophetic preacher at a tent evangelist show.
And it's actually prophetic on his part that he actually said that.
at a place prophetically called Mount Hopeless.
I had a prophetic sense that it was all going to collapse.
don't hear about a lot but increasingly that's what archaeologists think and four hundred and fifty or four hundred prophets for bail the reviled Canaanite God so these prophets would have been a threat to the political authority of a king and and Josiah takes care of that um he's uh this just a few decades before the Exile the Exile
As mainstream a resource at the Encyclopedia Britannica describes political liberalism as the culmination of a development that goes back to the Hebrew prophets , the teachings of the Pre-Socratic philosophers and the Sermon on the Mount of Jesus of Nazareth. All right. I'm trying finish up here so we can get to some discussion.
about the fourth succession after the prophet . And its bitterness has -- if anything, it
I thought he was the prophet .
gonna insult Islam or the Prophet of Islam that there's zero tolerance and there's a death penalty.
The 2026 one appears to be pretty prophetic because a lot of things that you list as the top risks are playing
the voice of God in say the prophets giving you thus saith the Lord statement, like communicating messages
All the Law and the prophets depend on these two commands." So my hope in this book, in telling embarrassing stories about myself and saying words that
but you can always find somebody who who would argue with you but if you stick with the mainstream dating than the earliest Manal etre sputterin s-- in the prophets among the prophets is Hosea which is around in the 8th century BCE now he said something that may sound to
people in the world think that America conceives of its role so okay so you've got a you've got these prophets increasingly of a national bent nationalist bent they don't think there's much nonzero-sum action going on with other nations and they don't want you to worship foreign gods but there's
you look at even the prophets each of them in their own time we're rebels one
got an unparalleled set of prophets and
And we also had our own prophets -- people who had spiritual experiences and were healers.
There's so many lessons in following the prophet and how he did things.
And he looks at 6,000 of them, and he meets them all. Ibn Abbas, the prophet 's, one of his most dear companions. And Ibn Abbas was very well-dressed.