[metmom]

I think it's dangerous to believe that we totally understand prophetic scripture. As for Revelation, Daniel, etc., I simply say "Hmmmm...very interesting." and set it back on the shelve.

Absolutely.

Seems like prophecy is only really understood in hindsight, once it's been fulfilled.

So my approach to a lot of stuff is*wait and see*.

What I really have problems with is the Pentecostal stuff where everybody and their brother are making *prophesies* and usually they are wrong, and then they go and make all kinds of excuses about why the prophecy didn't happen. Usually it's blame shifting by adding contingencies later *Well, It really depended on if you were obeying God.* or some such nonsense.

[HarleyD]

What I really have problems with is the Pentecostal stuff where everybody and their brother are making *prophesies* and usually they are wrong

Yes, absolutely. Scripture, especially the Old Testament, had some VERY tough words for people who claimed God talked to them when He had not. God wanted these people to be stoned. Instead the people ended up just tolerating them. Eventually, by the time of Jeremiah, people were more willing to listen to these "lying prophets" than to what God was actually telling the people.

There is danger in accepting anything other than what is written.

[Elsie]

So my approach to a lot of stuff is*wait and see*.

This is the ONLY rational thing to do much of the time!

[Elsie]

...we see through a glass darkly...