PROPHETS: WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO ME Part 3

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PROPHETSWHAT DOES IT MEAN TO ME?Part 3
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AFTERMATH TODAY

• Fulfillment Can Happen When No Fulfillment Is
  Expected
• Jn 1149-52 Caiphas
• Hosea 111 / Mt. 215

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AFTERMATH TODAY

• Fulfillment Can Occur in Stages or Stretch
  Further Than Expected
• End of Exile (Jer 25, 29 Daniel 9)
• Day of Lord (Joel 228-32 Acts 2)
• Messianic Age (Isaiah 61 Luke 418-21)
• Return of Christ

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AFTERMATH TODAY

• Expectations Drawn from Statements Considered
  Clear in the Text Sometimes Are Not Realized
• Haggai 221-23 World dominion?
• Isaiah 1115-16 Return of Northern Tribes?

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AFTERMATH TODAY

• Fulfillment Can Be Narrower or More Defined Than
  Necessary or Anticipated
• Isaiah 714 Micah 52 Zechariah 99

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AFTERMATH TODAY

• Prophecies Are Not Limited to One Fulfillment
• Daniel 927 Antiochus (167 BC) and Fall of
  Jerusalem (AD 70)
• Return to the Land 538 BC 1948?

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AFTERMATH TODAY

• Terminology Can Be Repackaged
• New Heaven/Earth Isaiah 65/ Rev. 21

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TWO GUIDING PRINCIPLES

• Humility toward fulfillments
• Focus on Revelation of God