Prophecy

Prophecy is cited here as one of the visibly impressive gifts that some Corinthians were idolizing, causing others with quieter gifts to wrongly conclude their contributions didn't matter.

Prophecy is cited here as one of the spiritual gifts the Corinthians prized most highly — but Paul places it among the temporary things that will cease when the complete and eternal arrives.

The prophecy here is not abstract — it is the immediate cause of Solomon hunting Jeroboam, forcing him to flee to Egypt, showing that Ahijah's words on the road had set irreversible events in motion.

Prophecy erupts spontaneously from the torn robe incident — Samuel seizes the physical accident as a divine sign and declares it the picture of what God is doing to Saul's kingship.

Prophecy is validated here through God's record with Samuel — not one of his words falls to the ground, establishing his credibility as the genuine prophetic voice Israel had been without for a generation.

The prophecy from Azariah functions here as the catalyst for Asa's action — not merely a word he heard and pondered, but a divine message that triggered same-day demolition of everything that didn't belong.

Prophecy is implicitly contrasted with performance in this section — the four hundred men's iron-horn theatrics reveal what happens when the prophetic office becomes a vehicle for telling powerful people what they want to hear.

Solomon's prayer for the exiled functions as an inadvertent prophecy — he describes a scenario that will literally unfold centuries later when Babylon destroys the very Temple he is dedicating.

God's prophetic word is shown here to be immovable — the same sentence delivered to messengers on a road is spoken verbatim at the king's bedside, unchanged by audience or pressure.

The prophecy from 1 Kings 13 is the thread that runs through this moment — an unnamed prophet declared centuries ago that Josiah would desecrate Jeroboam's altar by name, and that prediction has now come exactly true.

Prophecy arrives here in an unexpected way — Elisha asks for music before receiving the word, and what comes is both a promise of miraculous water and a detailed military directive for the campaign against Moab.

The prophecy the captain dismissed as physically impossible is now playing out in public — its fulfillment is the backdrop against which the captain's fatal irony unfolds.

The term marks this passage as more than personal reflection — David's final words are framed as a prophetic oracle, meaning they carry divine authority rather than being mere autobiography.

A false prophecy is one of the specific channels through which the dangerous misinformation reached the Thessalonians, prompting Paul's urgent correction.

Prophecy is invoked here not as mystical prediction but as sharp moral discernment — Paul's list reads less like forecasting a distant future and more like naming a present spiritual condition.

Prophecy is the interpretive frame James uses to make sense of the Gentile mission — Amos's words transform an unexpected development into a long-foretold fulfillment.

Prophecy is central here because Peter argues that the chaotic, confusing scene the crowd is witnessing was actually foretold — it's not disorder but fulfillment of a centuries-old divine announcement.

Prophecy is framed here not as a profession but as an irresistible response — Amos uses the image of a roaring lion to show that genuine prophecy is something that happens to a person, not something they choose.

Prophecy is what Amaziah wants to suppress — he frames Amos's message not as a word from God but as political conspiracy, showing how those in power recast inconvenient truth as disloyalty.

The prophecy here is unusually specific — not symbolic imagery but a detailed sequence of historical events, presented centuries before they unfold, establishing God's foreknowledge of world empires.

Prophecy is described here as something deliberately obscured for a season — the sealed book is a reminder that prophetic understanding arrives on God's schedule, not the reader's.

Prophecy is validated here by historical record — Daniel's interpretation named empires that rose and fell across centuries, making this passage one of the most cited predictive texts in scripture.

Prophecy here is distinguished by its unusual self-contained interpretation, making Daniel 8 one of the most explicitly decoded prophetic passages in all of Scripture.

Prophecy is invoked here as retrospective evidence — Moses points to Israel's historical pattern of compromise and drift to show that God's warning wasn't overcaution but accurate foresight about exactly what would happen.