Certain Types of Dispensationalism

"The first point to be considered [in the interpretation of prophecy] is the true design of prophesy, and how that design is to be ascertained. Prophecy is very different from history. It is not intended to give us a knowledge of the future analogous that that which history gives us of the past."

Charles Hodge, The Bible & The Future--Anthony A. Hoekema, Pg. 132