The prophets of old packed away the mystery <ref name="Pr 25:2">[[Pr 25:2]] [It is] the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings [is] to search out a matter.</ref>. As they wrote, God concealed the mystery in their words using prophetic riddles. <ref>[[Ps 78:2]] I will open my mouth in a parable: I will utter dark sayings [riddles] of old:</ref>    Modern prophets unpack it by the Spirit to solve riddles <ref>[[2Pe 1:20]] Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.</ref>. They validate what the Spirit tells them by these rules.