Conditional Prophecy

"CONDITIONAL PROPHECY is when the fulfillment is dependent on the compliance of those to whom the promise is made, with the conditions on which it is given.  

 

Examples: 'If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them; then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield her fruit.' Lev. 26:3, 4 'But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; and if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant; I also will do this unto you: I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart; and ye shall sow your seed in vain; for your enemies shall eat it.' Verses 14-16.

  

Predictions of mere national prosperity, or adversity, are usually conditional. 

When the condition is not expressed, it is implied.
Example. - The Lord said unto Jonah, 'Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. * * And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. * * And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.' (Jonah 3:2-5,10)." 

 J.N. Andrews