CATAGORIES CONT. Number of recorded miracles this prophet\god performed. Greatest valu wins. Number of Messianic/Kingdom prophecies made.

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1 How To Play Any number of people can play. Shuffle and deal all the cards facedown. Player hold their cards so that they can see the top card only. The player to the dealer's left starts by reading out a statistic. The players then read out the same statistic. The player with the better value wins and places al players' top cards, including their own, t the bottom of their pile. The player winning the hand goes next. If 2 or more cards share the highest value or no data (N/A) is available for tha particular statistic then all the cards are placed in the middle and the same playe chooses again from the next card. The winner of the hand takes the cards in th middle as well. The person with all the cards at the end is the winner. CATAGORIES Time Period values: 1 - Creation (Adam - Noah) 2 - Patriarchs (Abraham - Joseph) 3 - Conquest (Exodus - Joshua) 4 - Judges 5 - United Kingdom (Saul - Solomon) 6 - Divided Kingdom 7 - Judah Alone 8 - Babylon Capt(ivity) 9 - The Return (till Jesus) 10 - Messiah (Jesus on Earth) 11 - Christian (Apostles) Lowest value wins. Fame Values: These values are based on how well known a person is as a prophet to a Biblical student. Lowest value wins Illustrations by Noelle Beckley. CATAGORIES CONT. # of miracles: Number of recorded miracles this prophet\god performed. Greatest valu wins. # of prophecies: Number of Messianic/Kingdom prophecies made. Greatest value wins Persecution Values: 0 - None 1 - Verbal 2 - Physical 3 - Imprisonment 4 - Death Greatest value wins Icons: Male \ Female Literary \ Verbal Prophet Abel (Luke 11:50-51) Named by Jesus as the first righteous prophet. Murdered by his jeolous brother. Agabus (Acts 21:10) Prophesied a Judean famine and that Paul w ould be given to the Gentiles by the Jew s. Time Period: Christian Amos (Amos 7:8) Condemned the Nations but focused on Israel. Visions of locusts and a plumb line. Anna (Luke 2:36) Prophesied over Jesus at His presentation t the Lord at the Temple. Daniel (Matthew 24:15) Fortold the everlasting Kingdom over the kingdoms of men. Rescued from lions. # of miracles: 4 Time Period: Babylon Captivity

2 David (Acts 2:25) Called the "sw eet psalmist of Israel". Wrote many prophecies in his songs. 0 Persecution: Physical Deborah (Judges 4:4) She judged under a palm tree and helped th military campain of the Judge Barak. Time Period: Judges Elijah (1 Kings 18:22) Fed by birds w hen running from evil Queen Jezebel. Taken by God in a w hirlw ind. Fame: 1 # of miracles: 9 Persecution: Physical Elisha (1 Kings 19:16) Requested a double portion of Elijah's spirit. God surrounded city w ith firey chariots. 5 Enoch (Jude 1:14) Prophesied that God w ould come w ith 10,000 of His holy ones to punish. Ezekiel (Ezekiel 1:1) Called to be a w atchman to w arn Judah of their abominations of Idolatry. # of prophecies: 6 Time Period: Babylon Captivity Habakkuk (Habakkuk 1:1) Questions God on w hy He is using a w icke nation to punish Judah. Haggai (Haggai 1:1) Urged the people returning from Babylonian captivity to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem.

3 Hosea (Hosea 1:1) God told him to mary a prostitute to show Israel's adulterous relationship w ith idols. Isaiah (Isaiah 1:1) Know n as the Messanic prophet w ho prophecied regarding the death of Jesus. 1 Jacob (Genesis 49:10) Patriarch w ho foretold the Messiah w ould come through Judah his son. Time Period: Patriarchs Jeremiah (Jeremiah 1:11) Warned Jerusalem of Babylonian destruction. Broke clay vessel to illustrate. # of prophecies: 7 Jesus (Mark 1:14) The Messiah the son of God, crucified by th Jew s. Raised from the dead by God. # of miracles: 40+ # of prophecies: 5 Joel (Joel 1:1) Fortold the pouring out of the Spirit on mankind. Peter quoted Joel on Pentecost. John (Apostle) (Revelation 1:1) Writer of Revelation, his gospel and 3 epistles. The disciple w ho Jesus loved. John the Baptist (Luke 7:26) Came in the spirit of Elijah. Forerunner for Jesus. Jesus named the greatest prophet. Fame: 1

4 Jonah (Jonah 1:1) Ran aw ay from God; sw allow ed by a fish, prophesied against Ninevah w ho repented. Malachi (Malachi 1:1) Spoke of one w ho w ould come in the spirit of Elijah (John the Baptist). Micah (Micah 1:1) Fortold the Messiah w ould be born in Bethlehem. Warned Judah of captivity. Micaiah (1 Kings 22:8) Warned the alliance of King Ahab and King Jehosephat w ould result in Ahab's death. Miriam (Exodus 15:20) Sister of Moses w ho danced and played the timbrel after crossing the Red Sea. Time Period: Conquest Moses (Deuteronomy 34:10) Writer of the first 5 books. Leader of the Exodus. Received 10 commandments. # of miracles: 30 Time Period: Conquest Nahum (Nahum 1:1) Prophesied about the unleashing of God's w rath like a w hirlw ind on Ninevah. Nathan (2 Samuel 7:2) Condemned King David & Bathsheba's sin using the story of "the little ew e lamb."

5 Noah (2 Peter 2:5) Found favor in God's eyes. Warned the ungodly of a w orld w ide flood. Built an ark. # of miracles: 3 Obadiah (Obadiah 1:1) Condemned Edom like an eagle brought low for their arrogance and trust in themselves. Paul (1 Corinthians 11:23) Persecuted the Church, converted on the road to Damascus. Apostle to the Gentiles. # of miracles: 9 Time Period: Christian Zephaniah (Zephaniah 1:1) Warns Judah of their increasing evil. People w ill "hiss" at Ninevah's runes. Samuel (1 Samuel 3:20) Called by God as a boy. Condemned the unrestrained sin of Eli's (High Priest) sons. Time Period: Judges Saul (King) (1 Samuel 10:10-12) Chosen by God to be the first king of Israel. He w as a head taller than any man. Zechariah (Zechariah 1:1) Encouraged people to rebuild the Temple. Vision of High Priest in filthy garments. # of prophecies: 9 Zechariah (Jehoiada) (Lk 11:51) Stoned to death in the Temple courtyard for condeming the people of forsaking God.