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Originally Posted by Ivanhoe  While I realize this is vague, are we perhaps asking the wrong questions when we frame our eschatology? |
Many wrong questions arise because people think prophetic oracles are only concerned with foretelling future events. Prophetism is a movement which affects the future by shaping the present. It's not simply the case that God has a plan for the future and the prophet makes it known. Because biblical prophecy is divine it is also infallibly self-fulfilling. The Word itself initiates the movement which results in its own fulfilment. Failure to comprehend this basic point dooms prophetic interpretation from the start.