24 hours. Another example is God’s use of the word today. A few years later, Saul again failed to fulfill every detail of God’s instructive prophecy to him: “So Samuel said to him, ‘The Lord has torn the kingdom of Israel from you today, and has given it to a neighbor of yours, who is better than you’ ” (1 Sam. 15:28). God said today the Kingdom has been taken from you, but it was some 30 years before it literally took place. The prophet Isaiah prophesied in his
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