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1 posted on 10/29/2014 3:19:36 PM PDT by pastorbillrandles
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In many cases, prophecies are much like Mountain peaks. From a distance, a person sees what he thinks is one mountain. As he comes closer to it, he realizes that what he saw is in fact many peaks, and with much distance between the peaks. Many prophecies have multiple fulfillments.

I was just researching this topic on Monday. The parlance used by theologians is sometimes "already, not yet" to state that many times there is a near fulfillment and a far fulfillment. Craig Blomberg (Denver Seminary) and others employ the term "double fulfillment" to cover those cases where there is a specific "near" and "far" fulfillment.

The recurring locust plague of Joel involves those multiple peaks and looks far through history leading to the concept of "multiple fulfillments". Many times Biblical types are associated with these in that it is common for types to recur.

I have been studying Carson and Beale's Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament. I also have been reading the Zondervan Counterpoint Series book on NT use of the OT.

I just went over to my Logos Bible software running on my laptop and the last search still in the current pane was: "fulfillment NEAR multiple" which resulted in 66 hits in 25 articles in 16 resources. "fullfilment NEAR double" results in 122 results in 46 articles in 28 resources. From this I would guess that double fulfillment is more common. At least it is clearly more commonly discussed in my resources (books). 29 of those hits, the majority, were in the aforementioned Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament.

2 posted on 10/29/2014 3:44:00 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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John says in his Revelation that he sees “the souls of believers beheaded with an ax for thier testimonies of Jesus”(Rev 20:4) I believe that is the work of the anti-Christ whom I believe will be a charismatic muslim leading a caliphate who attempts to take Jerusalem.
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LEX


3 posted on 10/29/2014 3:44:52 PM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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Oh my gosh, for a few seconds I thought it was Joel Osteen. What a relief.
5 posted on 10/29/2014 4:53:51 PM PDT by Dave W
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