How To Interpret Prophecy (10)

By: Pak Hendrik Wieland

There are sections of the Bible we do not understand (even Paul didn't know everything), and we need to admit it.

We cannot be dogmatic about many specific interpretations — and we cannot categorically reject everyone else's.

A brief word about dates, perhaps one of the most often misused aspects of prophecy: Bible prophecies are often purposely ambiguous about chronology.

That isn’t so we will study harder and make lots of guesses – it is because the chronology is relatively unimportant.

The more important thing is our spiritual response, and that is more important even if we did know the chronology.

Prophecy is given not so much that we will know the future, but that we will know that God controls the future, and it is far more important for us to know God, than it is for us to know the future.

Any revelation of the future is given primarily so that we will do something now to be on the side of the One who wins in the end, the One who declares the end from ancient times, the One who will be sure to bring it all to pass just as He has purposed.

Stay blessed in Christ Jesus