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So you are presumably saying that the prophesied events aren't meant to happen.
What I said was, whether one subscribes to prophesy or not, certain predictions were made, in evidenced writings, and its fruition occured - in a non-confusing, open manifestation, and which equivalence has not been encountered or heard of elsewhere. I gave an example. That the fruition came much later, says this had nothing to do with the subject [Abraham], as much as it being a big picture historical prediction, and one which could not have been imagined or contrived or manipulated by the subject person or anyone in his following generations.
Phophetic verses are not simple writings to deciphere, and usually its true import is lost by the uninitiated. This is what I meant by not according to everyone's wish list. True prophesy cannot be a casual or biased, self-serving proclamation, as this would be antithetical of its own premise of coming from a higher source to humanity. We cannot see the big picture, till it becomes retrospective.
Further, I don't see prophesy as an unscientific or illogical premise, because by reductionism, we prophesize all the time. Even our thoughts, which we do not have full control of - some being involuntary and coming from a mysterious place [thus the depiction of a light turning on inside the brain; a gut feeling, etc] - these too are prophesies, but related to the immediate surrounds only. Penicilin was discovered by accident - and humanity would not have survived without it. It is also unscientific and illogical to assume we are responsible for all knowledge which appears to descend into selective human minds - at critically relevent instants - and we shout EUREKA! - not when a simple thought can change the universe.