Repeating what those given to such studies and concerns is not Biblical predicting, prophecy or prophesying.
When Dr. Thiel says he covered a topic as a prophet before, he really means he talked and wrote about the topic in the past. But then so did those who report on such things and are the stories Dr. Thiel quotes and thinks that in someway, this makes him a Biblical Prophet.
Prophet Thiel confuses noting the insights, reporting, concerns and research of the Centers for Disease Control and World Health Organizations for his self appointed stunning abilities to predict disease in the end times.
Pretty much every day, I pray and ask God to assist me choosing topics to write about. And a few times in the past, that has specifically included the coronavirus.
Furthermore, the latest video for our
Bible News Prophecy program has to do with the coronavirus and other pathogens:"
This is how it works
What is a Prophet
A prophet is not the one who made the prophecy, he/she is just a mediator between God and man to deliver the prophecy of God. A prophet is like a speaker or a puppet who always ready to obey what his/her Master want him/her to say and to do.
"(Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)"
https://insidesickcure.blogspot.com/2012/02/prophecy-ultimate-quotes-of-god.html
Ezekiel 1:3 The word of the Lord came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the Lord was there upon him.
Ezekiel 22:1-3 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations. Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord God, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.
Ezekiel 30:1-3 the word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, Son of man, prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Howl ye, Woe worth the day! For the day is near, even the day of the Lord is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
Ezekiel 33:1-4 Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.