{"id":3168,"date":"2024-10-25T03:28:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T03:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3168"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:56","slug":"the-first-prophet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=3168","title":{"rendered":"THE FIRST PROPHET"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first time the word &#8220;prophet&#8221; shows up in Scripture is Genesis 20:7. Fascinatingly, it is Abraham who is the first to be called a prophet by God.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The word pops up in a dialogue which the Lord has with King Abimelech after the king has taken Sarah into his household &#8211; because Abraham said she was his sister rather than his wife.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(It&#8217;s surprising how quick Abraham was to throw Sarah under the bus whenever he got scared!)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, God appears to Abimelech in a dream and says, &#8220;Now then, return the man\u2019s wife, for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you and all who are yours.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Isn&#8217;t it interesting that the term &#8220;prophet&#8221; comes out of left field and isn&#8217;t explained? And, as far as I know, this is the only time Abraham is referred to as a prophet of God.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So what exactly qualifies someone as a prophet?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whatever it means, it obviously doesn&#8217;t describe a person who is perfect or lacking in sin &#8211; Abraham created a lot of trouble by lying about Sarah.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time the word &#8220;prophet&#8221; shows up in Scripture is Genesis 20:7. Fascinatingly, it is Abraham who is the first to be called a prophet by God. The word pops up in a dialogue which the Lord has with King Abimelech after the king has taken Sarah into his household &#8211; because Abraham said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3169,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions\/3169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}