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The message of the prophet. The view that the utterances of the prophet had to be predictive in order to deserve the name of prophecy is in the light of the foregoing a thoroughly mistaken idea. Christ was preeminently the prophet of the Lord yet a comparatively small part of his discourses were pr
When we consider prophecy in the predictive sense, therefore, we may say that it is a looking into the future even unto the final realization of all things, to the great day of the Lord, in the searchlight- beam of the special revelation of God's counsel and with a view to the development and culmin
In a broad sense it is indeed true that all the discourses of all the prophets of God were predictive. They were this as they set forth either directly or indirectly by word of mouth and (or) type and symbol, the promise, the hope of God's people, the heavenly. In distinction from the prophets of th
The judgments of God in the whole earth. Isaiah 24-27. The judgments of God in the whole earth. Isaiah 24-27. Our prophet has foretold the judgments, of God against the nations that formed the world-power of Israel's own limited world. But he cannot be allowed to put the period here. For this worl
The Point Of Departure The Point Of Departure This prophecy is called "the burden of the word of the LORD to Israel." The term "burden" (massa) refers literally to something which is a load, a thing to be lifted up. It is the common term for the message which prophets must bring to the people in J
.” This prophecy (“the Lord cometh!”) is certainly of the most ancient date, in view of the above, was universally received and acknowledged in the Old Testament church and is a central article of our New Testament creed. Prophecy, a form of preaching, or proclamation of the promise of God, began wi
Prophecy is not interested in history or the future as such, but prophecy had to do with the development and realization of the Kingdom of God! Further, prophecy is based on the principle that God’s covenant people, being His friends, are called to know God, to enter into His secrets, that they may
The message of the prophet. The view that the utterances of the prophet had to be predictive in order to deserve the name of prophesy is in the light of the foregoing a thoroughly mistaken idea. Christ was preeminently the prophet of the Lord yet a comparatively small part of his discourses were
The prophet is unable to specify the date of this happening. He can say no more than that it will take place afterwards. Israel's sons and daughters will prophesy, its old men shall dream dreams, and its young men shall see visions. Israel is here the N. T. Church. The meaning of this prophecy is th
Thou shalt do this or thou shalt do that, predicting the future. But that was not all that the prophets spoke. The prophets also spoke any word that God revealed to them, also about past events and present events. Prophecy is merely to speak God's Word. A prophecy implies that one first knows Go