One hopes it may
be a prophecy of an international council of churches which may soon bind together the total life and work of the churches throughout the world.
In the religion of R'hllor there
is a prophecy about a legendary figure named Azor Ahai, that is said will return one day to defeat the «Great Other» (probably White Walkers) with the sword «Lightbringer».
This week's GoodeReader eBook of the Week
is The Prophecy by Raine Thomas, the prequel to Thomas» YA romance / fantasy bestselling Daughters of Seraqael series.
So the next
book was Prophecy — based on the prophecy in Revelation that a quarter of the world must die... (cue dramatic music)... and then I wrote Exodus, which doesn't even begin with P... you're getting the idea now that I didn't really have a clue back then!
One aspect of this messianic
hope was the prophecy of a warless world when men should «beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks»; (Isa.
Messiahs returning to save
mankind was prophecied long before and adopted by those trying to reclaim Cesars throne.
Many of Isaiah's prophecies have been fulfilled and there
are prophecies written for the last days that are being fulfilled now.
John of Patmos must have had some sense of finality of Biblical writings when he warned in Rev. 22 that God would deal severely with any «adding» or «taking away» from the Words of «this prophecy», and as much of Gods
Word is prophecy I think that applies to the entire Bible and not just to Revelation.
Yet mysticism is scarcely half of what spirituality is about — the other
half being prophecy, by which I understand the living out of the grace - experience in the body politic by way of justice.
If the omniscience of God were limited, most of everything in the books of Daniel and Revelation would be mere talk, mere guesses that may or may not be fulfilled; they would
not be prophecies.
Yes, there
are prophecies relating to the destruction of the wicked at Christ's second coming, but you will not find a living Christian who will believe that their Christ will personally carry out the killing of millions of people at that time, as we find with the vengeful Mormon Christ.
Never had there
been a prophecy which did not come true, but finally, they thought, one of God's promises failed.
It is completely rediculous to insist that Jesus Christ could not have been what that is referring to when the entire old
testament is a prophecy about the lamb of God, the Messiah, and his kingdom.
The words of Simeon to Mary about a sword piercing her own
heart is a prophecy about Christ's coming crucifixion on Calvary's cross.
All of these
things were prophecies about the expected Jewish Messiah, and none of them were done by Jesus during his lifetime.
All those «last week» details in our gospels, as distinct from the brute facts just mentioned,
are prophecy turned into history, rather than history remembered.»
Indeed the description in Genesis chapter two of the creation of Adam and
Eve is a prophecy that applies to Christ and us.
Of particular interest is whether the opening
sequence was a prophecy of some kind and who the mysterious masked man calling himself Marth is.
According to Paulsen, the
mural is a prophecy to «what women want,» whilst his work entitled «Euroboys» encapsulates a sense of instant gratification.
But there
is a prophecy in ancient folklore that tells of a single man that is destined to free the citizens of his nation, delivering them to the promised land of Promethea.