Posted by Chris on 3/25/2007, 8:18 am, in reply to "Like deep water" In a study I was making the other day into the word ‘Praise’, I came across the phrase ‘A Man of God’ in regard to David. The Companion Bible margin led me on a journey of discovery looking up references to occurrences of this title. Also to the appendix, where the following right-up proved a blessing, and has relevance to what you are saying Robert .... ‘The Man of God’ God's spokesman could know what to speak for Him only, All such are God's spokesmen because they alone know what He wishes to be spoken. They are His witnesses (Acts 1:8; 22:15). Christ was THE prophet because He spoke only those things which were give Him to speak (see note on Deut. 18:18), and He alone is "the faithful Witness" (Rev. 1:5). It was for the above reasons that the expression "the man of God" (i.e. God's man) became the general name for a prophet among the common people. See all the occurrences :- Deut. 23:1.
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(Psa 119:130) The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.
The first occurrence of this expression is in Deut. 33:1, and is used of Moses. Its use in connection with Moses (Ps. 90, title), who was, par excellence, the prophet, like unto whom Christ was to be "raised up" (Deut. 18:15-19), shows that it is to be understood of what Moses was, viz., "the prophet". He was so called, not because he foretold, but because he spoke FOR God. This is the meaning of the word "prophet" as taught by its first occurrence in Gen. 20:7. The prophet was God's "spokesman" (Ex. 4:16. Cp. Ex. 7:1).
(1) from His Spirit (Neh. 9:30. Cp. Hos. 9:7, margin, and see Num. 11:16, 17, 25-29);
(2) from Jehovah making Himself known (Num. 12:6. Ezek. 3:17. Jer. 15:19. Cp. 2Chron. 36:12); and
(3) from God's written word. This is why Timothy is the only one called a "man of God" in the New Testament (1Tim. 6:11), and why, to-day, one, and only one who knows "all scripture", which is so profitable, can be called a "man of God" (2Tim. 3:17).
Josh. 14:6.
Judg. 13:6, 8.
1Sam. 2:27.
1Sam. 9:6, 7, 8, 10.
1Kings 12:22.
1Kings 13:1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14, 14, 21, 26, 29, 31.
1Kings 17:18, 24.
1Kings 20:28.
2Kings 1:9, 10, 11, 12, 13.
2Kings 4:7, 9, 16, 21, 22, 25, 25, 27, 27, 40, 42.
2Kings 5:8, 14, 15, 20.
2Kings 6:6, 9, 10, 15.
2Kings 7:2, 17, 18, 19.
2Kings 8:2, 4, 7, 8, 11.
2Kings 13:19.
2Kings 23:16, 17.
1Chron. 23:14.
2Chron. 8:14.
2Chron. 11:2.
2Chron. 25:7, 9, 9.
2Chron. 30:16.
Ezek. 3:2, 2.
Neh. 12:24, 36.
Ps. 90, title.
Jer. 35:4.
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