Good points but your leaving out a very important way to predict future events.
God can (and does) bring things to pass!
God could say.... The Tribulation will start tomorrow and who could stop Him? He wouldn't need to be outside of time to bring something to pass.
All sorts of prophecy in the Bible does not come to pass as prophesied or does not come to pass at all!
Which of course destroys entirely the notion that God is outside of time.
Is it because God was wrong??? NO! It's because God is interacting with us IN TIME. God tells us that something is going to happen because we have been good but then He has the right to retract His offer when we disobey.
God changes to interact with freewill beings.
God explains this concept extremely clear....
Jeremiah 18:7 “The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it, 8 “if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it. 9 “And the instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it, 10 “if it does evil in My sight so that it does not obey My voice, then I will relent concerning the good with which I said I would benefit it.
That passage in Jeremiah is a key to grasping the entire story of the Bible!
God is a living God, a God that can react and change depending on the obedience or disobedience of His creation.
God told Nineveh that in 40 days they would be destroyed....
Jonah 3:1 Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah the second time, saying, 2 “Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I tell you.” 3 So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the LORD. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, a three-day journey in extent. 4 And Jonah began to enter the city on the first day’s walk. Then he cried out and said, “Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown!”
A clear prophetic statement from God! 40 days and Nineveh will be overthrown.
How will Nineveh react???
Jonah 3:5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest to the least of them. 6 Then word came to the king of Nineveh; and he arose from his throne and laid aside his robe, covered himself with sackcloth and sat in ashes. 7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published throughout Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; do not let them eat, or drink water. 8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily to God; yes, let every one turn from his evil way and from the violence that is in his hands. 9 Who can tell if God will turn and relent, and turn away from His fierce anger, so that we may not perish?
Nineveh repented! What will happen next? Will God destroy Nineveh to maintain the accuracy of His prophecy?
Jonah 3:10 Then God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God relented from the disaster that He had said He would bring upon them, and He did not do it.
God relented of the disaster and voided out the prophecy based on man's repentance.
What an awesome God we have!
Also notice the phrase....."Then God saw their works..." Then God saw their works, He saw their works IN TIME, after they repented and before He relented. God is a rational God that is in time, in the ever passing moment.
