What does First B Jackson teach about minor prophets?
Drawn from the messages where it was actually addressed: the words said from the front, the passages taught, and where to hear the whole thing.
At First Baptist Jackson, the Minor Prophets series has been taught as a sustained look at what God was doing and saying across centuries of Israel's history, long before Jesus arrived. The series moves book by book through prophets most people admit they know little about, and the consistent conviction driving the teaching is that these are not peripheral texts. They are part of one coherent story in which God speaks specifically, judges precisely, and keeps his promises even across long stretches of silence and suffering.
The individual messages have covered the full range of what the minor prophets address. Pastor Carl walked through Obadiah's word of judgment against Edom's pride, pressing the congregation to see that God's resistance of the proud and his grace toward the humble is not just an ancient pattern but a present reality. Pastor Ramon took the whole book of Nahum and held together its two sides without softening either one: the Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and the Lord will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. Pastor Brian closed one message by tracing the thread from the minor prophets all the way into Luke chapter one, showing that the silence between Malachi and the Gospels was itself part of what the prophets had forecast, and that the joy of Christmas cannot be fully felt without understanding what God's people waited through.
Taken together, the teaching at First Baptist Jackson on the minor prophets keeps returning to a few fixed points. God uses nations, raises them and brings them down, and he does so with purpose. His patience is real, but it is not unlimited. His judgments, when they come, match the record. And his promises, even the ones spoken centuries before their fulfillment, land exactly where he said they would.
Taught from Nahum 1:2-3 · Exodus 34:6-7 · Obadiah 1 · Malachi 4:5-6 · Micah 5:2
The passage taught · 1 Corinthians 15
1 Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,
2 by which also you are saved, if you hold firmly the word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,
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Messages that go deeper
- December 14, 2025 Four Hundred Years of Silence Advent sermon on the 400 years of silence between Malachi and Luke 1, and how God broke through with the births of John the Baptist and Jesus.
- November 23, 2025 Slow to Anger but Just Pastor Ramon walks through the book of Nahum, showing how God's judgment on ancient Assyria reveals His justice, patience, and grace toward all who humble themselves before Him.
- November 9, 2025 The Kingdom Will Be the Lord's Obadiah's brief, pointed prophecy against Edom warns that pride invites God's judgment, while humility opens the door to grace and restoration.