Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1: Hermeneutics -- Make prophetic interpretation center on the living God -- Don't believe everything everyone says about the future -- Recognize that divine truth comes in our kind of word packages -- Go back to the past in order to get to the future -- Remember: sometimes "it all depends" -- Profit from the preparation and the skills of the prophets -- pt. 2: Biblical theology -- Develop a method for studying prophecy -- Center on the promise-plan of God -- Check your program if you want to know who the players are -- Acquaint yourself with some of the basic plays of the game -- pt. 3: Practical theology -- Don't substitute riddles for what God has made plain -- Don't underestimate the intelligibility of the text.