So, your definition of "prophecy" is different from the one he gave....
Your definition seems to be if someone exhorts other believers, using the truth found in scripture already, that they are prophesying... do I understand you correctly?
No. When the gifts of prophesy operate in a church meeting - 1Corinthians 14 - it is 'inspired speaking'
not clairvoyance about specific future events.
The words prophecy and to prophesy are related and mean to foretell
Prophesy > G4395 > to foretell events, divine, speak under inspiration,
exercise the prophetic office: - prophesy.
But prophesy is not about specifics - tomorrow this will happen, or next week you will see
such and such.
Rather these messages through the Holy Spirit from both Jesus and our Father are for
the benefit of his church made up of Spirit-filled disciples.
Often God will lament how that his holy Word is not believed and honoured no longer, and
that men are keen, even zealous, to discredit the scriptures and reinterpret the Bible.
But his pleasure is with us because we believe all the Bible is true and because we
endeavour to live it and defend the Word of God as true.
Or it is often of recent times warnings about the end of the world, the terrible cataclysmic
events about to be unleashed on an unbelieving and wicked world.
We are encouraged to hold onto our faith, to keep praying in the Spirit, to trust in our
Lord for our safety, to keep on preaching the gospel until the very last day.
Time is running out for the world; a lot sooner than many people think.
God will through these tribulations show that there is a real difference between his children and
Satan's children, just like he did in the time of Moses - separating the Children of Israel from
the Egyptians.