Riddleblog – The Latest Post – The Prophecy Pundits Are Back!

With the increasing possibility of US military action against Syria and the Assad regime, it should come as no surprise that the prophecy pundits have been hard at work.

Since the ancient city of Damascus figures prominently in the news, the pundits run to their concordances and find those biblical texts where the city is mentioned.  Given their view that many of the prophecies in the Old Testament have yet to be fulfilled (and were not fulfilled in the history of Israel, or with the coming of Jesus Christ) they go to great lengths and demonstrate even greater ingenuity, I might add, to explain how the Bible’s mention of Damascus (Isaiah17) must be a reference to the current (and latest) political crisis in the region.

Read the rest of Kim Riddlebarger’s post here: Riddleblog – The Latest Post – The Prophecy Pundits Are Back!.

HT: Jason Punches of Somerset Reformed Fellowship

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Berkhof: “The Prophetic Perspective”

In his Principles of Biblical Interpretation, Louis Berkhof writes,

 Prophecy has its own peculiar perspective. The element of time is a rather negligible quantity in the prophets. While designations of time are not altogether wanting, their number is exceptionally small. The prophets compressed great events into a brief space of time, brought momentous movements close together in a temporal sense, and took them in at a single glance. This is called “the prophetic perspective,” or, as Delitzsch calls it, “the foreshortening of the prophet’s horizon.” They looked upon the future as the traveler does upon a mountain range in the distance. He fancies that one mountain-top rises up right behind the other, when in reality they are miles apart. Cf. the prophecies respecting the Day of the Lord, and the twofold coming of Christ (p.150).