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4. Define the "perspective" of prophecy

     Two or more future events, widely separated in time, may be seen by the prophecy in a single profile or side by side.  In visions, the prophets sometimes see future events just as a common observer would observe the stars, grouping them as they appear to his eyes and not according to their true positions in space.  It is also like watching a series of mountain ranges at one point, where the peaks appeared closed together or even as one. For instance, many prophets saw the Messiah's two comings as one, without the intervening church age.

--P.L. Tan (00-01-10)