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By Barry Rosenfeld
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\n\u201c\u2018In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.\u2019\u201d (Acts 2:17)<\/p>\n

The primary function of Bible prophets is to convey to the people, God\u2019s will for them. The great 12th century Talmudic scholar and philosopher Maimonides included as one of his 13 basic principles of faith the belief that \u201cG-d communicates to mankind through prophecy.\u201d (Chabad.org) Although the basic understanding of God\u2019s laws is laid down in the Torah and thus His plan for our lives, God uses prophets to make course corrections as needed. Although a prophet may be used to foretell the future, when this becomes necessary, other times he may serve to let us know where we are missing it and what this will lead to if we don\u2019t get our act together. At other times God has used prophets to bring messages to individuals, in the Bible usually important individuals such as kings. Although a prophecy will never go against God\u2019s laws nor add to them, it may convey a particular one-time instruction that may even run contrary to \u201ca universal Torah command.\u201d (Chabad.org)<\/p>\n

It is interesting to note that although Daniel has prophetic visions that describe the coming kingdoms throughout history, he is not included in the section of the Bible devoted to the prophets and that the Talmud (compendium of rabbinic discussions of the Bible) does not even consider him as being a prophet. The Talmud (Megillah 3a) says that the prophets Chaggai, Zechariah and Malachi were superior to Daniel because they were prophets and he was not, but that Daniel was superior to them in that he saw visions and they did not. (chabad.org)<\/p>\n

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