(September 24, 2020 at 6:32 am)Brian37 Wrote: claim to "foresee" or "predict" the future.
Other words used throughout humanity worldwide have been words like "Oracle" "soothsayer" " psychic".
If you look at what the prophets are recorded as saying, there's very little fortune-telling of this type.
Almost everything the prophets say is just reminding people of what God wants: to obey the law, to have social justice, etc. The prediction part is mostly just saying that if people don't do what God wants they're going to regret it.
One example is what Jonah told the people of Nineveh. He said that if they don't shape up God will destroy them. So they shape up and God doesn't destroy them.
There are some announcements about the future in the Bible, but these tend to come from angels rather than prophets. No doubt if you scour the whole Bible you'll find exceptions, but this is generally true.