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At the very least, prophecy is truth telling.

Tara-Leigh Cobble • The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible

It’s not prophecy if it’s untethered to what God is showing you.

Read ‭‭Ezekiel‬ ‭37‬:‭1‬-‭10‬ ‭ESV

prophets were not only fore-tellers but forth-tellers of God’s word. They came to reveal the heart and mind of God.

Wastall Tony • Win the World or Escape the Earth?

Then I saw a beast come out of the sea with ten horns and seven heads; on its horns were ten diadems, and on its heads blasphemous names.

— Revelations 13:1

M. E. Rothwell • The Leviathan

exclusively prophetic.

Richard Bauckham • The Theology of the Book of Revelation (New Testament Theology)

all because a prophet has looked into the future and has called something that was not as though it were:

Kris Vallotton • Heavy Rain: How to Flood Your World with God's Transforming Power

Prophecy: Biblical prophecy is any writing in which the author speaks on behalf of God.

Ray Lubeck • Reading the Bible for a Change, Second Edition: Understanding and Responding to God's Word

The praxis of the prophet invited the interpretation: he was announcing the great fulfilment, the great renewal, the time when Israel’s god would at last become king.

N. T. Wright • Jesus Victory of God V2: Christian Origins And The Question Of God

In the first place, John’s work is a prophetic apocalypse in that it communicates a disclosure of a transcendent perspective on this world.