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The prophets of old packed away the mystery. [1] [2] As they wrote, God concealed the mystery in their words using prophetic riddles. [3] [4]
- They wrote about a literal history, while God hid prophecies of Christ in double meanings. [5]
Modern prophets unpack prophecies with the help of the Spirit to solve the prophetic riddles. [6] They validate what the Spirit tells them, by these rules.
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- ↑ What is the mystery?
- ↑ Pr 25:2 [It is] the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings [is] to search out a matter.
- ↑ What are prophetic riddles?
- ↑ Ps 78:2 I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings [riddles] of old:
- ↑ Joh 5:39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.
- ↑ 2Pe 1:20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
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