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October 21, 2021
On some occasions, prophets in the Bible would speak of future events as if they had already transpired. Scholars sometimes refer to this manner of prophesying as the “prophetic perfect” because, grammatically speaking, it uses the past tense or past participle verb forms (present and past perfect tenses).
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