Prophetic Foreshadow

He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

• [FORESHADOW] Aaron's golden calf would be copied by a later king → 1KI 12:28 MEDIUM

Whenever Yahweh raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for Yahweh was moved to pity by their groaning under those who oppressed them and afflicted them.

• [FORESHADOW] When each judge died, Israel would turn back to idols and the cycle would start again → JUDG 3:7-9; JUDG 3:12; JUDG 4:1; JUDG 6:1 MEDIUM

But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways.

So the Israelites did evil in the sight of Yahweh; they forgot Yahweh their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.

• [FULFILLS] When each judge died, Israel would turn back to idols and the cycle would start again ← JUDG 2:18-19 MEDIUM

Then the anger of Yahweh burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram-naharaim, and the Israelites served him eight years.

But when the Israelites cried out to Yahweh, He raised up Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz as a deliverer to save them.

Once again the Israelites did evil in the sight of Yahweh. So He gave Eglon king of Moab power over Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of Yahweh.

• [FULFILLS] When each judge died, Israel would turn back to idols and the cycle would start again ← JUDG 2:18-19 MEDIUM

After Ehud died, the Israelites again did evil in the sight of Yahweh.

• [FULFILLS] When each judge died, Israel would turn back to idols and the cycle would start again ← JUDG 2:18-19 MEDIUM

Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of Yahweh; so He delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years,

• [FULFILLS] When each judge died, Israel would turn back to idols and the cycle would start again ← JUDG 2:18-19 MEDIUM

“Go throughout the city of Jerusalem,” said Yahweh, “and put a mark on the foreheads of the men sighing and groaning over all the abominations committed there.”

• [FORESHADOW] God's faithful marked on the forehead before judgment fell → REV 7:3; REV 9:4 MEDIUM

The high places of Aven will be destroyed— it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”

• [FORESHADOW] People would cry to the mountains, Cover us, and to the hills, Fall on us → LK 23:30; REV 6:16 MEDIUM

Woe to you who long for the Day of Yahweh! What will the Day of Yahweh be for you? It will be darkness and not light.

• [FORESHADOW] The Day of Yahweh would be darkness, not light, for those who thought they were safe → Fulfilled in successive judgments: 722 BC, 586 BC, AD 70 MEDIUM

It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.

Will not the Day of Yahweh be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?

For a son dishonors his father, a daughter rises against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. A man’s enemies are the members of his own household.

• [FORESHADOW] A man's enemies would be the people of his own household → MT 10:35-36; LK 12:53 MEDIUM

For I have come to turn ‘a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.

• [FULFILLS] A man's enemies would be the people of his own household ← MIC 7:6 MEDIUM

A man’s enemies will be the members of his own household.’

They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”

• [FULFILLS] A man's enemies would be the people of his own household ← MIC 7:6 MEDIUM

At that time ‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!” and to the hills, “Cover us!”’

• [FULFILLS] People would cry to the mountains, Cover us, and to the hills, Fall on us ← HOS 10:8 MEDIUM

And they said to the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the One seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.

• [FULFILLS] People would cry to the mountains, Cover us, and to the hills, Fall on us ← HOS 10:8 MEDIUM

“Do not harm the land or sea or trees until we have placed a seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God.”

• [FULFILLS] God's faithful marked on the forehead before judgment fell ← EZK 9:4 MEDIUM

They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any plant or tree, but only those who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads.

• [FULFILLS] God's faithful marked on the forehead before judgment fell ← EZK 9:4 MEDIUM