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.
