The trap of the contemporary must be avoided. " The world is ever with us, and we commonly err by reading the headlines of the newspaper into our views of prophecy. Instant relevance is what we desire. But not all of the prophecy need to be relevant to us. Some of it, perhaps most of it, may have been relevant to those who have gone on before us." (William Shea's introduction to The Use and Abuse of Prophecy, 5)