[jammer]

Given that scholars believe there are many double prophecies in the Bible, or instances where a prophecy is fulfilled once and then fulfilled again in a totally different situation many years later,

What is their basis for that belief? If they do believe that, what basis do we have to call them scholars?

[Quix]

It has been a long time since I waded into all that. There have been clear examples but I forget the specifics. Perhaps some experts on that aspect of things will step forward hereon. If not, perhaps a web search would turn something up.

The scholarship of the experts is as high as that of anyone's.

But what is interesting to me whether sociologically or psychologically--why such an aversion to such a simple, easily understood truth?

God has shown a propensity for multiple layers of meaning in things from well before Christ's parables.

[the_Watchman]

Try reading the 22nd Psalm. It is a depiction of the enemies surrounding David of Israel, yet it is also clearly a depiction of the crucifixion of Christ. Hence, two events for one account.

Someone at my office had posted a completely secular statement of how the WTC had stood as a symbol of "peace for mankind" since it represented trade between so many nations of the world. I was struck at how much that story paralleled the story of the tower of Babel, in Genesis!!