Prophecy and Divine Intervention

Here's a discussion I had recently with my Jewish friend on
prophecy and Divine Intervention. He wrote me because we were
discussing someone who claimed to see the future. He says:
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I realized that you may have a different concept for the word
"prophecy" than what I have been using. I use the word in the context
of true prophecy. True prophecy is not intuition, speculation,
divination, soothsaying, prognostication, wisdom or acumen. True
prophecy is a communication from God to a person.

I said:

Doesn't that means most people are prophets? Surely God speaks to
all of us in one way or another- it
is just a matter of listening to the answer? For instance, a friend
of mine was struggling with an unusual problem and her exact
predicament showed up on a TV show I was watching. Surely God wanted
her to find an answer there.

He said:

That's not what I meant when I mentioned "Divine communication" in the
context of a person receiving actual "prophecy" from God. As an
example of what I meant, see Ezekiel chapter 1.

I meant that God speaks in words to the aware mind of the person,
either directly or through an angel, while the person is awake or
asleep or in a trance-like state. Or God's message to the person
could be communicated only as a Divine vision (which could be with or
without God speaking to the person).

When a person receives actual prophecy, it might happen that God shows
or tells the person something that He is going to cause to happen in
the future.

I think you're confusing this with Divine Providence. This is God
guiding the events in our lives.

1.Everything that happens is by Divine Providence.

2. Most of the time, most people are not aware of it.

3. At some times more than others, for some people, the person
will become aware of the Divine Providence in something that happens
to him or is seen or heard by him. (For example, what you wrote
above.)

4. Some person may discern a message from God within the workings
of Divine Providence that they become aware of. (Maybe they will
discern correctly, or maybe incorrectly.)

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I found this an interesting concept. I always thought the world
more or less ran on its own with God only occasionally intervening.
This is saying that He is micromanaging everything and everyone
according to a master plan.