Prophets as Foreteller and Forthtellers Chapter 7 Special Literary Forms, Virkler's Hermeneutics pg 169

• A Prophet as a Foreteller

• Predictive prophecy brings glory to God and grants assurance and comfort to oppressed believers, and motivate its hearers to stronger faith, … or not.
• The fulfillment of predictive prophecy involves three different time frames.
• Events in the near future, thus now, past fulfullments
• Events fulfilled ine the Messianic period
• Events to be fulfilled in the end times 'Eschatology'
• Prophetic statements often 'telescope' all three time periods
• Like viewing a mountain range where peaks appear close or overlapping
• In reality there can be great valleys and other peaks obscured from view
• Biblical prophecy may leap from one prominent peak to another
• A Prophet as a ForthTeller
• As spokesmen for God presenting God's Word to the people