A friend and I once set ourselves up as financial consultants.

Nothing particularly unusual about that except for the fact that we were 16 at the time.

We started offering advice to our school friends about how they should invest their pocket money,

all for a very reasonable fee.

As chief marketing officer, I came up with a name for our corporation and I was very pleased with it.

It was called profit profit. I spelled the first profit with an F, you see, and the second profit with a

pH. It was a very clever name and as it turned out, the name was by far the cleverest part of

the whole thing. Because in reality, neither

us were profits with a pH, and therefore no one made any profit with an F. I remember his

mortified parents making us give people their pocket money back. I'm guessing that's what most of

us think of when we think of the word profit. A profit, a true profit, as opposed to a false prophet, is a person who predicts

the future and predicts it accurately. Biblically speaking, that's true, but there's more to it

than that. Mainly, the prophet's role was to remind God's covenant people of their covenant obligations. They were sent by God to call people

to turn from their sin, put their trust in God and fulfill their covenant obligations.

As we saw in another episode of simply put, the one about the offices of Christ. Jesus Christ is

the ultimate prophet. A prophet in the Old

Testament was someone through whom God spoke, predicting the future, yes, but also calling God's

people to repent and trust in him. Hebrews chapter 1 places Jesus at the head of a long line of prophets. It says this. Long ago,

at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days

he has spoken to us by his son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also

he created the world. Jesus Christ is also

the ultimate prophet because all the other biblical prophets point to him. As the Apostle Peter says in

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