From 0fc989f49b5ec25e7f8fad549bbaf5b786e4c78f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joel Lonbeck Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 21:38:31 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update 'translate/writing-apocalypticwriting/01.md' --- translate/writing-apocalypticwriting/01.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/translate/writing-apocalypticwriting/01.md b/translate/writing-apocalypticwriting/01.md index 54daf0e..60b6ca8 100644 --- a/translate/writing-apocalypticwriting/01.md +++ b/translate/writing-apocalypticwriting/01.md @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ The prophecies tell about the evil in this world, how God will judge the world a Much of prophecy in the Bible is presented as poetry. In some cultures people assume that if something is said in poetry, then it might not be true or very important. However, the prophecies in the Bible are true and very important, whether they are presented in poetic forms or non-poetic forms. -Sometimes the past tense is used in these books for events that happened in the past. However, sometimes the past tense is used for events that would happen in the future. There are two reasons for us. When prophets told about things that they saw in a dream or vision, they often used the past tense because their dream was in the past. The other reason for using the past tense to refer to future events was to emphasize that those events would certainly happen. The events were so certain to happen, it was as if they had already happened. We call this second use of the past tense "the predictive past." See [Predictive Past](../figs_pastforfuture/01.md). +Sometimes the past tense is used in these books for events that happened in the past. However, sometimes the past tense is used for events that would happen in the future. There are two reasons for us. When prophets told about things that they saw in a dream or vision, they often used the past tense because their dream was in the past. The other reason for using the past tense to refer to future events was to emphasize that those events would certainly happen. The events were so certain to happen, it was as if they had already happened. We call this second use of the past tense "the predictive past." See [Predictive Past](../figs-pastforfuture/01.md). Some of these things happened after the prophets told about them, and some of them will happen at the end of this world.