Visionary telescopes of the prophets

 

koot van wyk (DLitt et Phil; ThD)

Visiting Professor

Kyungpook National University

Sangju Campus

South Korea

Conjoint lecturer of Avondale College

Australia

 

The prophets were given by the Holy Spirit and Jesus Himself, telescopes of the future in vision, which we can call visionary telescopes. They were able to see things happening thousands of years after their own time. These telescopes were given in an eclectic manner to them, it seems so that in their description they are switching sometimes rapidly between these telescopes.
There are two models possible here: either the earliest generations after the Fall had a clear systematic picture of what is going to happen in future, and that sin demarcated that clarity and misunderstanding crept in so that rehearsal to the prophets were attempts by the Holy Spirit to revive that knowledge; or the rehearsal to the prophets were attempts to eclectically park the different telescopes for the righteous to unravel through the following centuries. That is where the rubicon concept comes in. Each prophet does not speak systematically with one color at a time in succession. They speak with the rubicon in many different colors. Handling the whole Bible brings more clarity to the systematics of eschatology.
Maybe one can say that before the Flood those generations had a clear understanding of the program of God in future. After the flood they also may have had clarity but only bits and pieces are recorded because a full understanding only needs half a word. During the time of the latter prophets, much information was supplied, but then again, in an eclectic manner changing the visionary telescopes, so that one almost get the impression they are talking to an audience who has clarity about the systematic of each telescope, similar to the systematic understanding of eschatology by Seventh-day Adventists today. I say Seventh-day Adventists, since they are the continuing prophetic interpreters before Thomas Myers in 1854, people who continued the style of the Protestant interpreters before that time. The Preteristic-Idealistic shift in 1854 did not affect Adventism and that is why we are singling out Seventh-day Adventist prophetic hermeneutics as vital for proper understanding here.

(Excerpt out of my future book: Prophets do see the Future)

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