How does God give prophecy according to the Old Testament?
According to the Old Testament, God gives prophecy by placing His promises within a specific time frame. True prophecy is almost always accompanied by an explicit timeframe, with God naming the day and the number of years involved. This demonstrates how precise and explicit God is when He reveals future events.
Les explains that the period from Abraham until the church age is called the time of prophecy, the prophetic program, or the Old Testament program. He emphasizes that true prophecy in the Old Testament is almost always, maybe not always, marked by a time frame. Whenever God made a promise, He put it in a time frame, naming the day and the number of years involved. That is how explicit God is when He tells the future.