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293 latest Prophets, as when God announced, through Isaiah (41: 4, 44: 6, 48: 12): Iam He, I am the First and also the LastIam... From the Beginnings the Ending I foretell, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done. Toararr aQe 4A ahi ran And equally so (twice) in the New Testament’s Book of Rev- elation: Iam Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, sayeth the Lord— Which is, and which was, and which will be. REVELATION I: 8 Indeed, the basis for prophecy was the belief that the End was anchored in the Beginning, that the Future could be pre- dicted because the Past was known—if not to Man, then to God: I am the one “who from the Beginning tells the End,” Yahweh said (/saiah 46: 10). The Prophet Zechariah (1: 4, 7: 7, T: 12) foresaw God’s plans for the future—the Last Days— in terms of the Past, the First Days. This belief, which is restated in the Psalms, in Proverbs, and in the Book of Job, was viewed as a universal divine plan for the whole Earth and all its nations. The Prophet Isaiah, envisioning the Earth’s nations gathered to find out what is in store, described them asking each other: “Who among us can tell the future by letting us hear the First Things?” (41: 22). That this was a universal tenet is shown in a collection of Assyrian Prophecies, when the god Nabu told the Assyrian king Esarhaddon: “The future shall be like the past.” This cyclical element of the biblical Prophecies of the Return leads us to one current answer to the question of WHEN. Armageddon and Prophecies of the Return ISAIAH 48: 12, 46: 10