Prophecy is a fresh and stimulating subject once it is understood. Scriptural prophecy is important. To many people Bible prophecies denote only the foretelling of the future. That the Bible is a truly prophetical book in this sense is proved by the fact that its prophecies have been consistently fulfilled.
Again and again Christ Jesus referred to this fulfillment as inevitable. Even after his resurrection, when he joined two of his disciples on the road to Emmaus, he explained to them his place in the fulfillment of Scriptural prophecy. He rebuked them for their ignorance, saying, "O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken." Luke 24:25; And the record says, "Beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself." Afterward the men spoke of the way their hearts burned within them as he spoke.
In our own times, Christ, Truth, opens the Scriptures through Christian Science, which lifts prophecy above the sense of merely foretelling events by explaining it as a scientific rather than a miraculous capability. This Science makes prophets of men by giving them insight into unseen, spiritual truths, insight which alone can impart to prophecy the power of fulfillment. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures Mary Baker Eddy gives this definition: "Prophet. A spiritual seer; disappearance of material sense before the conscious facts of spiritual Truth." Science and Health, p. 593;
