{"id":19975,"date":"2021-03-26T09:42:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T13:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19975"},"modified":"2021-03-26T10:28:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T14:28:02","slug":"joining-the-prophetic-chorus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=19975","title":{"rendered":"Joining the Prophetic Chorus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XwF8IrRsFCE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<p><em>While the most well-known\nHebrew prophets are presumably male, such as Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Ezekiel, the\nBible also contains little-known women prophets such as Deborah (Judges 4:4\u20135),\nHuldah (2 Kings 22) and Anna (mentioned in Luke 2:36). Rabbi Tikva Frymer-Kensky\nshares one example of this historical reality:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike priests, generals, judges, and\ngovernors, a prophet does not have to be appointed by superiors, and a\nprophet\u2019s status does not depend on advancement within a hierarchy or on\ncompletion of a course of study. As Amos and again Jeremiah inform us, God\ntells the prophet to speak. Prophecy is a \u201cgift of the Spirit,\u201d offered to\nwhomever God wills, and societies can accept women as recipients of the gift\nand value them as prophets even as they deny women roles in the official\nhierarchies of religion and polity. Toward the end of Israel\u2019s history, King\nJosiah sent his men to see a female prophet, Huldah, to validate the discovery\nof a scroll in the Temple that called for Israel to behave in ways it had not\nbeen observing . . . (see 2 Kings 22:12\u201314).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not surprising to find . . . Huldah\naccepted as [a] professional prophet. Unlike priests, kings, judges, or\nadministrators, prophets were not born to their role or appointed by a\nhierarchy. There were cadres of professional prophets, but there were also lone\nmavericks, called by the spirit of God. . . . In Israel, where God often works\nthrough the marginal and brings the peripheral to the center, women appeared as\nthe harbingers of history. [1]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>We might know the names of only a few\nprophets, memorialized in the scriptures and by history, but by the gift of the\nSpirit, we can all think and act prophetically. We can pay attention to what\nisn\u2019t right in the world around us and speak and act out of faith and love to\nchange it. &nbsp;Benedictine Sister Joan Chittister, a prophetic voice in our\nday, encourages us to do just that:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These prophetic people, people just like us, simple and sincere, eager and inspired\u2014these sheep herders like Amos and small-business people like Hosea, these simple country farmers or priests like Jeremiah, these thinkers and writers and dreamers like Isaiah and Ezekiel, these struggling lovers and suffering witnesses like Micah, these brave and independent judges and leaders, like Deborah and Miriam, made no small choices. They chose courage. They chose the expansion of the soul. They chose to stake their lives on what must be rather than stake their comfort, their security, the direction of their lives, on what was. It is that steadfast, unyielding, courageous commitment to the eternal Will of God for Creation\u2014whatever the cost to themselves\u2014that is the prophetic tradition. It sustains the eternal Word of God while the world spins around it, making God\u2019s Word\u2014Love\u2014the center, the axle, the standard of everything the faithful do in the midst of the storm of change that engulfs us as we go.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"328\" src=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-19-500x328.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-19-500x328.png 500w, https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-19-300x197.png 300w, https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-19-768x504.png 768w, https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/image-19.png 1878w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the most well-known Hebrew prophets are presumably male, such as Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Ezekiel, the Bible also contains little-known women prophets such as Deborah (Judges 4:4\u20135), Huldah (2 Kings 22) and Anna (mentioned in Luke 2:36). Rabbi Tikva Frymer-Kensky shares one example of this historical reality: Unlike priests, generals, judges, and governors, a prophet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19978,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19975\/revisions\/19978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}