glimpses of the future and have made some remarkable predictions, however they are to be explained. However, it is wrong to think that every prediction made by the biblical prophets was literally and exactly fulfilled. Often there was a conditional element in what they said: “If you continue to do such-and-such, then God will punish you by doing such-and-such.” Just as judges today sometimes commute a sentence, so too God has the right and the power to modify or even cancel his own decisions in