Naʹa·man has a bad sickness called leprosy. This sickness can even cause some of a person’s flesh to fall off. So this is what the girl is telling Naʹa·man’s wife: ‘I wish my master could go to Jehovah’s prophet in Israel. He would heal him of his leprosy.’ Later this …

SECTION 15 A Prophet in Exile Receives Glimpses of the Future SECTION 16 The Messiah Arrives SECTION 17 Jesus Teaches About God’s Kingdom SECTION 18 Jesus Performs Miracles SECTION 19 Jesus Gives a Far-Reaching Prophecy

Why faith in Jesus is essential for true Christians, what Jesus does for those exercising faith, and what he can do for the earth by means of his rule as king.

It makes “fire come down out of heaven” and performs signs as “the false prophet.” (Rev. 13:11-15; 16:13; 19:20) As a two-horned beast and a false prophet, Anglo-America misleads earth’s inhabitants and tells them to “make an image” of “the wild beast” that has seven heads and ten horns (See paragraph 9)

Later, through the prophet Malachi, another “great and fear-inspiring day of Jehovah” was foretold, and it was said that it would be preceded by the coming of “Elijah the prophet.” ( Mal 4:5, 6 ) The original Elijah had lived some 500 years before that prophecy was uttered, but in the first century C.E. Jesus indicated that John the ...

The prophet Isaiah foretold that the Messiah would be a descendant of King David. ( Isaiah 9:7 ) Jesus was indeed born in David’s line. — Matthew 1:1, 6-17 .

15 One day, the older men of Israel approached the elderly prophet to complain. “Your own sons have not walked in your ways,” they said. (1 Sam. 8:4, 5) Was Samuel aware of the problem? The account does not say.

e This prophecy is in the book of Zechariah, yet the Bible writer Matthew says that it “was spoken through Jeremiah the prophet.” ( Matthew 27:9 ) It appears that the book of Jeremiah was sometimes placed first in the section of Scripture called “the Prophets.”

The disciple Matthew notes that Jesus’ activity fulfills “what was spoken through Isaiah the prophet.” (Matthew 12:17) What prophecy is Jesus here fulfilling? “Look! My servant whom I chose, my beloved, whom I have approved! I will put my spirit upon him, and what justice is he will make clear to the nations.

a Michael disputed with Satan after the death of Moses and helped an angel deliver God’s message to the prophet Daniel. ( Daniel 10:13, 21; Jude 9 ) Michael lives up to the meaning of his name —“Who Is Like God?” —by defending God’s rulership and fighting God’s enemies.