On the Minor Prophets... A Greatest Hits Medley

I posted the other day about Martin Luther's honest assessment of the minor prophets. And I wanted to pass on a little more about how to understand them.

The author of the commentary that I was reading said that the prophets in the Bible were like looking through a compilation of the prophet's sermon files. So it's difficult to know where one excerpt of a sermon ends and another begins. It's also difficult to reconstruct the exact context of the message.

To make it more understandable I thought of another analogy.

The prophets in the Bible are also like a greatest hits medley by a singer we've not heard any songs from before. It hard to tell where one song starts and where one song begins. And if you don't know the songs then you may feel like it's a terrible song that jumbled up when in fact it's a compilation of fantastic songs.

So when you read the minor prophets... think greatest hits medley!