Predictor or one who declares by divine inspiration something that will take place in the future, near or distant. Thus Isaiah the preacher became a predictor when he spoke predictively of a virgin who would conceive and bear a son whose name was to be “Immanuel.”
Predictive prophecies occur over four hundred times in the scripture, commenting on the two senses conveyed by the term prophet, summarizes:
When a prophet predicts, or foretells, he sees and represents the future in the light of the present; when he rebukes, reproves, counsels, or admonishes as Jehovah’s representative messenger *forth-telling rather than fore-telling * he portrays the present in the light of the future.
Predictive prophecy is the foremost proof to which the Word of God appeals on its own behalf. It was the standing miracle by which God challenged faith in His inspired Word, defying all the worshipers of other gods and their sages and seers to produce any such proofs that their gods were worthy of worship or their prophets true representatives of a Divine religion. (See Isa. 41:21-23)
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