As we all know, most hyped prophecies never come to pass. It looks like this October 7th is only the latest.

So that makes me wonder this. Since most people who receive a doomsday prophecy feel the need to share it in order to stop it from coming true-- what is the true mark of success?

If they call the event as it hapens,

Or if they prevent if from happening?

A successful Prophet always Predicts. Now here is where I go awry as to what I assume you mean by Prophet. God says in his WORD that he told the end from the beginning, he did through Jeremiah, Isaiah, Zephaniah, Daniel, Joseph etc. But if we take the words of Daniel in telling Nebuchadnezzar of his dream about the statue that it was not he, Daniel, but GOD that gave him the answer. Here are a few things that most Real Prophets have in common, and by Real I mean 100% accuracy rate, anything less is a guess.

All Prophets get their prophecy's from GOD.
Most prophets are not listened to by those the Prophet warns.
Most are killed by those they are Prophesying too.
Most don't want the job.
Most are not recognized as a Prophet until after their death.

As for all the so called prophet posts on ATS it has all already been said, outside the ufo stuff, so they are repeating the prophecy's of others. If you would read the books of Daniel and Revelations in the proper context you can predict what is coming to this world just not when. The Statue had 5 world empires predicted... 4 have come and gone exactly as Daniel told Nebuchadnezzar they would, the 5th and last empire is all that is left. The feet of Iron and Clay with the ten toes, this would seem to indicate that the future holds some sort of revised Roman Empire. But since Iron and Clay don't mix well I don't see this coming World Order as being as successful as the other 4 were.

A successfull prophet will predict. If these were things that could be prevented there would another word for it. Destiny, fate...these are concepts ingrained into every civilization that exists and has ever existed, what you do with the information is up to you. One can prophesy that there is an iceberg in the ocean...what course you take in your boat is up to you, but it doesn't it doesn't prevent the iceberg from existing.

Originally posted by theindependentjournal . . . The Statue had 5 world empires predicted... 4 have come and gone exactly as Daniel told Nebuchadnezzar they would, the 5th and last empire is all that is left. The feet of Iron and Clay with the ten toes, this would seem to indicate that the future holds some sort of revised Roman Empire. But since Iron and Clay don't mix well I don't see this coming World Order as being as successful as the other 4 were.

Could the 5th be the USA? Mixing of iron and clay could resemble the melting pot of America . . .

Just sayin'

A successful prophet is only successful in hindsight. You can't prevent what you cannot convince en mass.