In a prophetic statement of the time, Khodorkovsky is quoted as saying:

John Tvedtnes, an LDS scholar, responded with Joseph Smith's statement that " a prophet was a prophet only when he was acting as such ," and that purchasing historical materials is a business activity rather than a prophetic undertaking.

According to former Church President Ezra Taft Benson, " A patriarchal blessing is the inspired and prophetic statement of your life ’ s mission together with blessings, cautions, and admonitions as the patriarch may be prompted to give.

In a truly prophetic statement, Trotsky warned that if this position were adopted by the Communist International, it would inevitably mark the beginning of a process that would lead to the nationalist and reformist degeneration of every Communist Party in the world.

During an interview, in a statement which may yet prove prophetic, Eddy first used the term " Eddy Minimum " while explaining why he rejected it in favor of naming the event the " Maunder Minimum ":

" Conductor Gunther Schuller said that Epitaph is " among the most important, prophetic, creative statement in the history of jazz .”

" This statement proved to be prophetic, as adequate funding never came and the network never resumed broadcast operation.

" Sadly, it proved to be a prophetic statement and his era at Notre Dame, initially referred to as " The Bold Experiment ", fell far short of living up to expectations.

Before the ship collided with an iceberg, Hays made a statement that was prophetic of the disaster.

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Upon presenting it, the pious princess Polyxena is said to have uttered a prophetic statement to the religious: " Venerable Fathers, I bring you my dearest possession.

The article concluded with what was to become a prophetic statement, " In addition to these events, a full program of orgies, brawls, freakouts, and arrests is being planned.

The various dates given in the book suggest that Ezekiel was 25 when he went into exile, 30 when he received his prophetic " call ", and 52 at the time of the last vision c. 571.

Stephen Cook asserts that the prophetic efforts of this book can be summed up in this passage " I have been the Lord your God ever since the land of Egypt ; you know no God but me, and besides me there is no savior " () Hosea's job was to speak these words during a time when that had been essentially forgotten.

* The Heading ( 1: 1 ): As is typical of prophetic books, an anonymous editor has supplied the name of the prophet, an indication of his time of activity, and an identification of his speech as the “ word of Yahweh ”, a generic term carrying a claim to prophetic legitimacy and authority.

In favour of the Synoptic chronology, E. P Sanders observes that a short ministry accords with the careers of other known prophetic figures of the time — who appear in the desert, raise large scale public interest, but soon come to a bloody end at the hand of the Roman military.

Although he frequently wrote of his longing for solitude in order to come closer to God and to extend his reflections – elements considered essential to the prophetic experience itself in his philosophy-he gave over almost all his time to caring for others.

The Jews of his day ascribed the Book of Malachi, the last book of prophecy, to Ezra but if Ezra's name was originally associated with the book, it would hardly have been dropped by the collectors of the prophetic Canon who lived only a century or two subsequent to Ezra's time.

The Jewish Sages themselves considered this a prophetic work that was written during the time of the Prophet Jeremiah by his colleagues, but these latter prophets then attributed their result to king Solomon, just as other writings of Jewish Scripture have been written by one prophet while being attributed to another, such as the Book of Hosea, Isaiah, and others.

This seven-year week may be further divided into two periods of 3. 5 years each, from the two 3. 5-year periods in Daniel's prophecy where the last seven years are divided into two 3. 5-year periods, () The time period for these beliefs is also based on other passages: in the book of Daniel, " time, times, and half a time ", interpreted as " a year, two years, and half a year ," and the Book of Revelation, " a thousand two hundred and threescore days " and " forty and two months " ( the prophetic month averaging 30 days, hence 1260 / 30 = 42 months or 3. 5 years ).

The Life of Oswald, written in Ramsey, England around the same time as the battle, portrays Byrhtnoth as a nearly supernatural, prophetic figure.

Another prophetic view ( Preterism ) is that all of these predictions were fulfilled by the time Jerusalem fell in 70.

At this time, Erythrae was renowned for its wine, goats, timber, and millstones, as well as its prophetic sibyls, Herophile and Athenais.

They allowed for the possibility of small errors in their calculations and even in some of their historic dates .” In fact, on February 28, Miller himself had written, “ If Christ comes, as we expect, we will sing the song of victory soon ; if not, we will watch, and pray, and preach until he comes, for soon our time, and all prophetic days, will have been filled .”

Strauss was portrayed as being the coming Führer who would lead a United States of Europe into a prophetic and victorious future World War III against the US and UK at some time between 1972 and 1975.

The growth of COGIC at the time of Bishop Mason's death gives credence to his untiring efforts to teach and preach the Pentecostal-Holiness message and his exceptional leadership in building a comprehensive organization fulfilling the prophetic vision of COGIC that Holiness would cover the Earth.

In 1925, radio station CFCN broadcast his Sunday sermons for the first time, taking his prophetic message beyond the confines of a theatre to listeners across the Prairies.

In the Advent Herald of April 24, Joshua Himes wrote that all the " expected and published time " had passed and admitted that they had been " mistaken in the precise time of the termination of the prophetic period ", while Josiah Litch surmised that they were probably " only in error relative to the event which marked its close.

* The explanation of this great prophetic event ( as understood after the passing of the time )

The book is prophetic when it comes to recording technology: " It's obvious that in a very short space of time the Japanese will have delivered the technology and then brought the price of it down so that you can do the whole thing at home.

For a time, these men had considerable influence on Wimber and the Vineyard — according to Jackson, Wimber's son was delivered from drug addiction through a prophetic word from Jones.

It views this future age as a time of fulfillment for the prophetic hope of God's people as given in the Old Testament.

Of those remaining Adventist, the majority gave up believing in any prophetic ( biblical ) significance for the October 22 date, yet they remained expectant of the near Advent ( second coming of Jesus ).

Furthermore, individual bishops, or the Council of Bishops as a whole, often serve a prophetic role, making statements on important social issues and setting forth a vision for the denomination, though they have no legislative authority of their own.

Chapters 4-10 contain a series of oracles, or prophetic sermons, showing exactly why God is rejecting the Northern Kingdom ( what the grounds are for the divorce ).

As early as the 2nd century, however, some authorities declared this resurrection of the dead was a prophetic vision: an opinion regarded by Maimonides ( Guide for the Perplexed, II: 46 ) and his followers as the only rational explanation of the Biblical passage.

This text recounts a prophetic dream by Nebuchadnezzar, in which the previous empires had been Babylonian, Persian, Grecian and Roman ; the last empire, they concluded, would be established by the returning Jesus as King of kings and Lord of Lords to reign with his saints on earth for a thousand years.

In like manner we do also hear many brethren in the Church, who possess prophetic gifts, and who through the Spirit speak all kinds of languages, and bring to light for the general benefit the hidden things of men, and declare the mysteries of God.

In some cases it signifies prophetic inspiration, while in others it is used as a hypostatization or a metonym for God.

According to the Sages, this was a prophetic reference to the End of Days, when Jacob's descendants will come to Mount Seir, the home of Edom, to deliver judgment against Esau's descendants for persecuting them throughout the millennia ( see Obadiah 1: 21 ).

And that this power which the prophetic word calls God, as has been also amply demonstrated, and Angel, is not numbered different in name only like the light of the sun but is indeed something numerically distinct, I have discussed briefly in what has gone before ; when I asserted that this power was begotten from the Father, by His power and will, but not by abscission, as if the essence of the Father were divided ; as all other things partitioned and divided are not the same after as before they were divided: and, for the sake of example, I took the case of fires kindled from a fire, which we see to be distinct from it, and yet that from which many can be kindled is by no means made less, but remains the same.

It was written for anyone who loves gripping fiction featuring believable characters, a dynamic plot that also weaves prophetic events in a fascinating story.

One conjecture holds that " Nazareth " is derived from one of the Hebrew words for ' branch ', namely ne · ṣer, נ ֵ֫ צ ֶ ר, and alludes to the prophetic, messianic words in Book of Isaiah 11: 1, ' from ( Jesse's ) roots a Branch ( netzer ) will bear fruit.

Noah's narrative lays the prototype for many of the subsequent prophetic stories, which begin with the prophet warning his people and then the community rejecting the message and facing a punishment.

Specifically, it is used in the context of Christianity for the concept of divine revelation, and in the context of Judaism for the Urim and Thummim breastplate, and in general any utterance considered prophetic.

This is perhaps the basis for Internet reports in the late 1990s about the supposed discovery of Pope John's diary in which he allegedly wrote about receiving prophetic insight into the future, including the return of Jesus in New York in 2000.

It may be read with confidence, for its statements may be checked against that prophetic Book.

Friedrich Heiler is often cited in Christian circles for his systematic Typology of Prayer which lists six types of prayer: primitive, ritual, Greek cultural, philosophical, mystical, and prophetic.

It was a prophetic movement that called for a reliance on the spontaneity of the Holy Spirit and a more conservative personal ethic.

* 1980s a press advertisement for IBM word processors with the prophetic ' throw away your old tripewriter '.

And " traditions which originally related the dramatic story of temptation became a sterilized anecdote providing prophetic precedent for a ritual practice ".

The Báb also stated that he was not only the fulfillment of the Shi ` i expectations for the Qá ' im, but that he also was the beginning of a new prophetic dispensation.

In 2011, plans for a 20th anniversary revival were welcomed in the Guardian, which applauded the show as " prophetic ".