TY - BOOK AU - Kaiser,Walter C. TI - Back toward the future: hints for interpreting Biblical prophecy SN - 9780801054990 AV - BS647.K13.B335 1989 PY - 1989/// CY - Grand Rapids, Michigan PB - Baker Book House N1 - 2; part 1: Hermeneutics --; Make prophetic interpretation center on the living God --; Don't believe everything everyone says about the future --; Recognize that divine truth comes in our kind of word packages --; Go back to the past in order to get to the future --; Remember: sometimes "it all depends" --; Profit from the preparation and the skills of the prophets --; part 2: Biblical theology --; Develop a method for studying prophecy --; Center on the promise-plan of God --; Check your program if you want to know who the players are --; Acquaint yourself with some of the basic plays of the game --; part 3: Practical theology --; Don't substitute riddles for what God has made plain --; Don't underestimate the intelligibility of the text; 2 ER -