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Yahweh calls those things that do not exist as though they did. Just like an Abraham's life Yahweh said that out of him would come Nations and yet he didn't even have one son. Yahweh always speaks about things that look like they are in the present or past tense but they are really futuristic. The prophetic perfect tense is a literary technique used in the scriptures that describes future events that are so certain to happen they are referred to in the past tense as if they already happen. We must understand this in order to understand the scriptures.