{Religious Prophecy}[23rd November 1979]

[Redbook2:158-160][19791123:1850]{Religious Prophecy}[23rd November 1979]

19791123.1850

It is possible that the validity of religious prophecy may not be as prediction, but as instruction, within the World. Naturally the two may turn out to be the same: or one may be the means to the other. But there is much that does not seem to occur as predicted by the voices of those who have predicted much that does, and this (or errors or misinterpretation!) could be a reason. It is, of course, still true that much prophecy or Sight is of events which cannot be (or are not) altered or influenced by those expressing the vision, or by their audiences. But in other cases, especially in the case of Old Testament prophecy apparently fulfilled by Jesus, it seems likely that he knew of it and deliberately fulfilled it in his adult life as a sign to those who could see. Similarly the Bedouin who attempted to fulfil the Muslim tradition/prophecy in Mecca by having their leader proclaimed by* the Ka'aba after Dawn prayers, apparently at gunpoint, can be seen as following an instruction concerning initiation or authorisation, for whatever motive. These are instructions in two senses: personal, to the individual believing himself referred to; and public, to the World, so that it should know what to expect and what to accept.

*[i.e. 'next to'. (See The Times 23/11/1979, pp1,6)]

[158B & 158C are insertions from The Times for 19791123:1 & 6 respectively, reporting on the attack on the Great Mosque at Mecca by Beduin gunmen, & the tradition of the “expected Mahdi” who will appear in the fifteenth century in Mecca (whose people will try to kill him) and go on to liberate Jerusalem, be united with Issa (Jesus), and defeat the false Mahdi from Persia.]

[& See [Redbook9:78][19910411:1858]{The Mahdi}[11th April 1991]]

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