Forgive my not having read the whole thread. It's been a pretty busy time here.

There's a widespread cultural confusion about the meaning of what is popularly called "prophecy."

Scripturally, Prophecy is a Gift of the Spirit conferred for God's own purposes; it means: the utterance of a message God wants the hearers to receive for the building up of the church-- the "church" GOD wants us to have, not the mess PEOPLE make of it.

So a prophetic Word or Vision may or may not be about the future. Sometimes it's just something He wants said in the moment, about the moment, for the upbuilding of the church.

And sometimes a Word like that has been given to be delivered, in the form of an image of the future. It CAN be just an image meant for people's meditations-- like the dialog in "A Christmas Carol" from the "Ghost of Christmas Future."

It need not be a prediction, at all.

~Susan