How explicit is God when He predicts the future in prophecy?
God is almost always explicit in prophecy, placing His promises in a definite time frame. Whenever He predicts the future, He typically names the specific day and the number of years involved. True Old Testament prophecy is therefore characterized by exact timing rather than vague generality.
Les teaches that true prophecy is telling the future, and in the Old Testament it is almost always, maybe not always, accompanied by a time frame. When God made a promise, He put it in a time frame; He will name the day and name the number of years involved in that particular prophecy. That is how explicit God is when He can tell the future. In the broader context, Les places this within the prophetic program—the Old Testament program from Abraham’s call in 2000 BC until Christ’s first advent—where God promised Abraham a nation, a geographical area of land, and ultimately a King in the person of God in the flesh, the Messiah and Redeemer.