Which One Are You?
This train is near.
With so few signs remaining to be fulfilled, it is the difference between walking securely into your future or crashing head-on into it, with little chance of escape.
There are many kinds of biblical prophecy, including pre-, mid-, and post-exilic, Messianic, and premillennial.
Which One Are You?
Then along come those who are prophecy watchers, prophecy experts, and the prophets themselves.
Prophecy watchers are those who gather all the information they can starting with the Bible and adding the best teachers of prophecy as the time progresses.
Prophecy experts are those who have made a lifetime of the study of eschatology their business. Unfortunately, some of them have made a business of all that study. Often their best messages are for sale in all kinds of media outlets, and the poor students may have to get their best secondhand.
Then come the prophets themselves. The first is the ancient Bible prophets of old. Then the New Testament prophets, and finally, the modern prophets, if you believe they still exist.
The part of the Christian church that claims there are no modern prophets is called cessationists. They create this belief by stretching certain verses of the New Testament to extreme and highly spurious conclusions.
One example is found in their interpretation of 1 Corinthians 13:8.
“Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.”
If prophecy is going to cease, shouldn’t knowledge have also ceased?
There is no legitimate answer to this question coming from the cessationists; that is why this is hermeneutical silliness on the highest level.