Jeremiah, he's absolutely fascinating.

And more is said of him in the Word of God than any other prophet.

We know more about the individual Jeremiah of all the Old Testament prophets,

because he's just verbose about it. Now here's what I want to do.

The time of the prophets, remember, it's going to center around the time that the kingdoms

have already split, and there is a ton of idolatry.

And so then it becomes this era of the prophets.

And there comes this also their kings all along the way, Kings in the northern kingdom, kings in the southern kingdom.

But this is going to stretch from about 800 BC all the way through these several centuries

until the prophetic era would basically end in the Old Testament at around 425 BC, where would come the time of silence.

And then that would open up to the New Testament era four centuries later.

So this is the time block that we're working in.

But what you need to know is, so this era, this whole era of the major

and minor prophets is coming out of all sorts of turmoil, all sorts of political turmoil

that Israel is in. And it begins just before the Assyrian rise to power. This is going to

set the stage for several of the prophets. Then it's going to go into the Babylonian threat and that rise to power, this is going to set the stage for several of the prophets. Then it's going to go

into the Babylonian threat and that rise to power, and then the advent of the Persian Empire.

I want to put these three time frames up. These are the eras, so what are we naming here,

the eras of the prophets, both major and minor.

So we've got, please tell me what this says?

Assyrian Empire, and then we've got, what is this?

Babylonian Empire, and then we've got this.

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