Word of knowledge deals with current and past events, the gift associated with futuristic happenings is the word of wisdom. It is GOD's wisdom to know all the future.
I disagree.
Whether past, present or future, it can all be revealed by a word of knowledge. In fact, one way that the veracity of words for the future are proved is by declaring hidden facts from the past and present, followed by a word about the future.
Knowledge is not the same as wisdom. Knowledge is merely information. Wisdom is about function or use of that information.
The best illustration of a word of wisdom is with Solomon when the two women came arguing over which was the mother of the living child as opposed to the dead child.
Solomon could have asked the Lord for a word of knowledge, and perhaps accurately declared that the woman in the red dress is the mother. And the woman in the blue dress, her child is dead.
But that would never have silenced the dead child's mother who would have continued to claim the living child, nor would it have guaranteed to the palace watchers that it was the right answer.
In contrast, wisdom commanded the baby should be cut in half, at the same time knowing that it would never happen. The real mother immediately cried out that the swordsman should stop and let the false mother have the child, thus proving her maternal love for the child. The false mother demanded the baby be cut in half.
That simple word of wisdom instantly revealed the true mother, and everyone in the palace knew it with no doubts.
That's the difference between knowledge and wisdom.
Jesus repeatedly used the word of wisdom to cause the revealing of facts.
