We have been taught that prophecy is foretelling or forth-telling.
I beg to differ … or to add onto that matter.
I remember one time when God redefined it for me. He mentioned that it was former-telling too.
Scholars suggest Prophet Moses wrote the book of Genesis. He writes of events that happened thousands of years before he was born! And he seemed limpid about them like he was there!
Some prophets have misused this component by merely exposing men and causing shame. But from a different perspective, it enables us understand and have wisdom of things deserving.
Imagine we didn’t know the origin of humanity, it’d be sad, wouldn’t it! There’d be a void of inquiry and curiosity within many of us. And it’d have haunted us if it wasn’t dealt with.
Knowing the past helps us understand where one comes from. Many atimes, people end up making their life’s purpose discovering their roots. And imagine you are like Jeremiah; God could have ordained you a prophet to the nations, and instead of going to them, you’d be running with your made up purpose — thus trudging in the opposite direction like Jonah.
It is important that God showed Moses Genesis. It is important that the genealogy of Jesus was recorded. It is important that you read all those stories of old. For the Bible is a template of what to do when so much happens: when we take long to conceive, when we lose loved ones, when those over us try to kill us, when we get it all, or when we lose it all!
Learning from older people as well helps one redeem time. One would save oneself from repeating mistakes that were made by past generations. So you might not be a prophet, but it is prophetic to employ available tactics to learn of the past. This includes topics like church history that one would desire to learn about.
Even altars (which are licenses for the operation of patterns or spirits on earth) can be destroyed if one discovers where and when they were set up. For if not uprooted or destroyed (like God commanded Jeremiah), they could end up interrupting the flow of things in the future!
I don’t know how to close this officially, but I hope that this information will be useful to you, especially in regards to cycles that have been repetitive in your lives that must break, or be prevented from ever resuscitating again.
But in a nutshell, yes — prophecy involves the telling or knowing of things former, or past as well. In fact, it is having access to the spiritual timeline (or plane) which has no time in it. For there, the past, the present and the future are all existent in the same moment.
That is where God dwells; and if you are one with Him, you should experience the suspense of chronological systems or the idea of time once in a while — or in whiles.
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