DUAL FULFILLMENT

 You believe in a future End Time: a new temple in Jerusalem, a tribulation. But there's a problem. The prediction came to pass  with perfect timing 2000 years ago. No problem, Dual Fulfillment is here to save the day. It makes everything okay. Neither biblical or scientific, the way it works is quite terrific. Just a little twist, you get the gist. Predictions can be fulfilled twice. That's nice. Says WHO?

If you believe in a future End Time, but predictions came to pass 2000 years go,  Dual Fulfillment is a tool of interpretation to solve the contradiction: One fulfillment in the past, and one in the future.

Dual Fulfillment is illusive manipulation of Biblical intent. It takes away the End Time in the near future of the Apostles and adds an End Time in our future today. It replaces Biblical intent with popular intent.

Although a prophecy is known to have been fulfilled in the past, the theory of Dual Fulfillment suggests prophecy can be fulfilled again in the distant future. Examples:

  • Jesus said the temple buildings would be torn down, Jerusalem would be laid desolate, and this would be a time of great distress (Mt.24, Mk.13, Lk.21). Though this prophecy was entirely fulfilled in A.D. 70, it is claimed this same prophecy has dual application, with a second fulfillment yet to come in OUR future.This theory is the source of predictions of another future temple to be built in Jerusalem, which would again be laid desolate in a time of great distress.
  • Old Testament pre-captivity and captivity prophecies predict the Lord would gather His people, banished to live in exile among all the nations, back to their promised land. These prophecies were entirely fulfilled after the seventy years of Babylonian captivity which ended in 538 B.C. But again it is claimed there is a second fulfillment coming. The current immigration of Jewish people back to the land of Israel is thus taken to be a sign of the Lords imminent return.