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Prophecies

Fool

Fool

ALL in all
Premium Member
If some prophecies are warnings, shouldn't they tend to fail? if one heeds the warning, shouldn't they turn aside from traveling down a road that is not passable?


So what then is a good/bad prophecy? one that doesn't come to realization? or one that does?


aren't prophecies kinda like weather forecasting with higher probabilities being possible; when the mathematical data shows a preponderance of evidence based on specific behavior?
 
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Earthling

Earthling

David Henson
A prophecy is an inspired proclamation or message, a revelation of God's purpose. A bad prophecy is a false prophecy. Of course, good and bad are relative terms. Sometimes a prophecy brings bad news, but that isn't a bad prophecy. A prophecy can be a command, a judgement, or declaration. A prediction or foretelling isn't really the meaning of the term, but it can be applied in that manner. Ezekiel prophesied to the wind, by simply stating God's command to it. (Ezekiel 37:9-10) When those striking Jesus at his trial asked for him to prophesy to them as to who had struck them they mockingly required him to reveal by divine revelation who had done it. (Matthew 26:67 / Luke 22:63-64)

Sometimes a prophecy can be something that is seen as indicative of future behavior by simply observing current behavior.
 
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Fool said:
If some prophecies are warnings, shouldn't they tend to fail? if one heeds the warning, shouldn't they turn aside from traveling down a road that is not passable?


So what then is a good/bad prophecy? one that doesn't come to realization? or one that does?


aren't prophecies kinda like weather forecasting with higher probabilities being possible; when the mathematical data shows a preponderance of evidence based on specific behavior?
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I think some of them can be as warnings. And if people repent, it can be possible in some cases to pass the bad result.

One example is this:

I tell you, no, but, unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.
Luke 13:3

That is like warning.
 
TransmutingSoul

TransmutingSoul

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Fool said:
If some prophecies are warnings, shouldn't they tend to fail? if one heeds the warning, shouldn't they turn aside from traveling down a road that is not passable?


So what then is a good/bad prophecy? one that doesn't come to realization? or one that does?
aren't prophecies kinda like weather forecasting with higher probabilities being possible; when the mathematical data shows a preponderance of evidence based on specific behavior?
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I see Prophecy as a bonus. A vision of the future that can only be explained in metephor. It becomes a sign that accompanies a Message from God and only becomes clear upon acceptance of that Message.

I see Prophecy from Old and New Testaments of the Bible foretell the Revelatioms of Jesus the Christ, Muhammad, the Bab and Baha'u'llah. It is not until one sees the Christ Spirit through those Prophecies, that one accepts they are being fulfilled.

There are keys we must have, so an example for the Bab and Baha'u'llah from the Old Testament would be.

"Ezekiel 43:2 "and I saw the glory of the God of Israel coming from the east. His voice was like the roar of rushing waters, and the land was radiant with his glory"

Ezekiel 43:4 "And the glory of the LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east."

What we need to know is that Baha'u'llah translated means 'Glory of the Lord' or the 'Glory of God' and the Bab translated means 'Gate' or 'Door'. We also need to know Baha'u'llah was banished to the Holy Land from the East (then Persia, now Iran)

Those two pasages thus clearly show that Baha'u'llah came via the message of the Bab from the East.

It then becomes our choice once this has been shown to us. We decide if it has merit and look further, or we reject it and do not.

Regards Tony
 
Electra

Electra

Active Member
It is really funny when there is a prophecy and certain people do what they can to not make it happen and in doing so they fulfill the beginning of the prophecy.

I know that was a grammerly incorect sentence.
 
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