find it difficult to imagine that Yahweh’s prophets predicted events that did not occur. After all, the prophets were privy to the heavenly court. They received their messages from the transcendent Creator. May we even entertain the possibility that subsequent events significantly affected the fulfillments of their predictions? Does this notion not contradict the immutability of divine decrees? By and large, critical interpreters simply dismiss these theological concerns as irrelevant. Traditional
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