[null and void]

When you look at the way Isaiah spoke of the events he prophesied as being in the past

I'm given to understand that Hebrew has a 'future predictive tense' that is usually translated this way.

I saw... It was...

[OneVike]

Thanks, I’ll look into it for future reference.

[Delta 21]

Dont worry kids. Grammar is like math.

You will never, ever use this in real life.

/s

[HiTech RedNeck]

And we also have divine vs. human perspective. God sees a completed picture of eternal events. Humans, currently bound to time, see something coming into being.