How important is Psalms for knowing prophecy?

Jok said:

If you wanted to really get good at knowing prophecy, such as Jesus being predicted prior to the 1st century along with end times, do you think that a deep study of Psalms would be just as important as strongly knowing the prophetic books and Revelation? And as far as I am aware mastering Matthew is the most important NT book other than Revelation for being very good with prophecy.

Am I wrong about Matthew? And can anyone who is good with prophecy suggest maybe a sliding scale of what is most crucial to a deep study of prophecy (already assuming a general familiarity with the entire Bible)? Like is Isaiah much more crucial than Jeremiah for example? Would Proverbs have much prophetic value? How about a certain book in the Pentateuch? See I am thinking of buying a lot of commentaries, and what I might do as a happy medium is get harder more technical commentaries for the books that are crucial to understanding prophecy, and then just get less technical and more enjoyable reads for the other Biblical books (the top of the line technical commentaries are much more expensive! And I can’t afford to go all out on all 66 books). Also, are there other NT books (Besides Matthew) that specialize in referencing prophecies much more than the others? Like how about Hebrews? Thanks for any help! By the way there is an extremely impressive/technical 3 volume set on Psalms that’s why I started out mentioning that first.

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Jok said:

If you wanted to really get good at knowing prophecy, such as Jesus being predicted prior to the 1st century along with end times, do you think that a deep study of Psalms would be just as important as strongly knowing the prophetic books and Revelation? And as far as I am aware mastering Matthew is the most important NT book other than Revelation for being very good with prophecy.

Am I wrong about Matthew? And can anyone who is good with prophecy suggest maybe a sliding scale of what is most crucial to a deep study of prophecy (already assuming a general familiarity with the entire Bible)? Like is Isaiah much more crucial than Jeremiah for example? Would Proverbs have much prophetic value? How about a certain book in the Pentateuch? See I am thinking of buying a lot of commentaries, and what I might do as a happy medium is get harder more technical commentaries for the books that are crucial to understanding prophecy, and then just get less technical and more enjoyable reads for the other Biblical books (the top of the line technical commentaries are much more expensive! And I can’t afford to go all out on all 66 books). Also, are there other NT books (Besides Matthew) that specialize in referencing prophecies much more than the others? Like how about Hebrews? Thanks for any help! By the way there is an extremely impressive/technical 3 volume set on Psalms that’s why I started out mentioning that first.

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Jok said:

Mainly my question is, especially regarding prophecies of Jesus as future Messiah, is Psalms as important as the books of the prophecies? I'm also starting to wonder if a deep understanding of the Leviticus - Deuteronomy is vital? The NT history itself is mainly the documented human history that I have to consider. But more so the NT, how the writers are using reverences to the OT. And as far as end times prophecies that's very easy that is just a broad basic understanding of today, and the immediate future trends too. Like do you think we are in the end times?

I've seen a lot about prophecy from the angle of peeking back into the OT from the NT. What I have been considering is trying to go about it the other way, totally absorb the parts of the OT that are most critical to see things from the OT to the NT for a change, through detailed. So for whichever OT books are the most vital, I would go after more critical/deeper study material for those books.

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Jok said:

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Jok said:

I would not find it preposterous at all to link any type of end times climax to the evils of American government. The government is a den of vipers, Eisenhower told us exactly what we were becoming during his farewell address, a military industrial complex. After WW2 we transitioned into the modern day Rome. So many illusions going on that are a total sham! The two party system is a joke, a false illusion of choice. They dangle minor differences in front of us 24/7 with the news channels that work for them, to make sure that we keep fighting with each other over the media manufactured divide & conquer cherry picked story lines, yet there are major similarities between the two parties that are rotten to the core and those problems are constantly out of sight and out of mind. Could you imagine Jesus addressing Congress, could you imagine the tongue lashing that they would all get?

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