Prophecy & Apocalyptic

A prophet is essentially a spokesman for God.

Apocalyptic is both a genre and a worldview.

The forth-telling aspect of prophecy is basically preaching.

Fore-telling is more frequent in the Bible than forth-telling.

Apocalyptic is very optimistic about God's activity in the present and is not ethically passive.

Why does prophecy cause problems for the interpreter?

Because prophecy is part of special hermeneutics, we don't need to deal with general hermeneutics to interpret it.

What does the term enigmatic mean?

Apocalyptic in the Bible might better be called "prophetic apocalyptic."

We must let the finality of God’s revelation in Christ affect all earlier revelations.

We need to take account of the patterns in apocalyptic literature as part of interpreting it.

There are no predictions in the Bible which have not been fulfilled.

The New Testament interprets Old Testament prophecies on both a verbal and a figurative level.

Prophecy in the Bible is limited to the books we call "the prophets."

Grammatical issues do not contribute to the enigmatic character of prophecy.

What is true about apocalyptic?

What term best describes how a prophecy can be fulfilled in installments?

Since apocalyptic is so weird and confusing, we should ignore it and not waste our time with it.

According to what was presented in class, what is the final interpreter of [predictive] prophecy.

We should not look at predictive prophecy as either history pre-written or history post-written.

Prophetic revelation is often in vignettes: it's more like a series of photos than a movie.

Which of the following is NOT a way to classify or categorize prophecy?

What is the key event in the future for apocalyptic literature?

Apocalyptic often divides history and future into periods.

How did a prophet NOT get his message?