Quotes about Foretelling

It was ordained at the beginning of the world that certain signs should prefigure certain events.

It is just as I said to Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what He is about to do.

Then Jacob called for his sons and said, “Gather around so that I can tell you what will happen to you in the days to come:

and he lifted up an oracle, saying: “This is the prophecy of Balaam son of Beor, the prophecy of a man whose eyes are open,

Now I am going back to my people, but come, let me warn you what this people will do to your people in the days to come.”

For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt and turn from the path I have commanded you. And in the days to come, disaster will befall you because you will do evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke Him to anger by the work of your hands.”

Micaiah replied, “You will soon see, on that day when you go and hide in an inner room.”

But this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘It will not arise; it will not happen.

For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The rising sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light.

“Let them come and tell us what will happen. Tell the former things, so that we may reflect on them and know the outcome. Or announce to us what is coming.

Who has declared this from the beginning, so that we may know, and from times past, so that we may say: ‘He was right’? No one announced it, no one foretold it, no one heard your words.

Behold, the former things have happened, and now I declare new things. Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”