MORE HERMENEUTICAL ISSUES IN OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECY

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MORE HERMENEUTICAL ISSUES IN OLD TESTAMENT
PROPHECY
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HOW DID THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHETS PREDICT JESUS?
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The Meaning of Fulfillment

• Different from our use of the term
• Application of a passage - Midrash
• Multiple fulfillments

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Categories of Fulfillment

• Non-Predictions (Hosea 111)
• Predictions Completed (Isaiah 714)
• Predictions Incomplete (Jeremiah 3115)
• Predictions Uninitiated (Isaiah 91-2 Zechariah
  99)

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Assyrian Invasion
In earlier times He treated the land of Zebulun
and the land of Naphtali with contempt, But later
on He shall make it glorious, by the way of the
sea, on the other side of Jordan, Galilee of
the Gentiles. The people who walk
in darkness Will see a great light Those who
live in a dark land, The light will shine on them.
Ministry of Jesus in
Galilee
? Jerusalem
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Zechariah 99

• Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout in
  triumph, O daughter of Jerusalem!
• Behold, your king is coming to you He is just
  and endowed with salvation,
• Humble, and mounted on a donkey,
• Even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

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Messiahs Second Coming ?
Messiahs First Coming ?
Babylonian Exile ?
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Types of Fulfillments

• Literal
• Figurative
• Spiritual

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Literal Fulfillments

• Ezekiel 261-14 and the fall of Tyre
• Zechariah 99 where the Messiah rides into
  Jerusalem on a donkey
• Psalm 2218 where the soldiers cast lots for the
  garments of Jesus

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Figurative fulfillments

• John 219. "Destroy this temple and in three
  days I will raise it up.
• Psalm 11822. The stone which the builders
  rejected
• Isaiah 2222. Key of the House of David
• Zechariah 137. Strike the shepherd

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Spiritual Fulfillments

• Isaiah 22-3 speaks of the mountain of the house
  of the Lord
• Amos 911-12 tells how God will raise up the
  fallen booth of David, and wall up its breaches
  and raise up its ruins, and rebuild it as in the
  days of old

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The Purpose of Prophecy

• To affect the conduct of those who hear the
  prophecy
• To build faith
• To encourage believers who are in the midst of a
  difficult situation

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KEYS TO UNLOCKING PROPHECY

• The New Testament is Necessary to Interpreting
  the Old Testament
• The Old Testament is Necessary to Interpreting
  the New Testament
• The Bible is to Interpret our Current Events, not
  the Reverse
• The Symbolic Nature of Dreams and Visions

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ARE WE LIVING IN THE LAST DAYS?
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The Latter Days According to Moses
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Judgment for Unfaithfulness
Blessings for Faithfulness

• Fertility
• Military Victory

• Famine
• Military Defeat

Repentance
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The Latter Days according to Moses
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The Latter Days in the Early Prophets

• Unfaithfulness will lead to Deportation and
  Exile
• Repentance will lead to Return and Restoration
• The Last Days will be that time of Eventual
  Blessing

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The Latter Days in the Early Prophets
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Amos 911-12
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Additional patterns seen in the Early Prophets

• The King
• The Temple
• The Gentiles

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The King
EXILE RESTORATION

• Davids Descendants taken into exile
• Isaiah 396-7. All that is in your house
  shall be carried to Babylon

• A Glorious Throne will be established
• Jeremiah 317. They shall call Jerusalem, The
  throne of the Lord

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The Temple
EXILE RESTORATION

• Temple to be Destroyed
• Micah 312. Zion will be plowed as a field.
  Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins

• A Glorious Temple will be established
• Isaiah 22. The mountain of the house of the
  Lord will be established...

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The Gentiles
EXILE RESTORATION

• Gentiles Victorious over Israel

• Gentiles punished for plundering Israel

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Isaiah 22
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Isaiah 23
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Isaiah 24
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The Latter Days in the Later Prophets

• Jeremiah taught that the Captivity would be 70
  years in duration (Jeremiah 2910)
• After the Captivity there would be a return in
  the Latter Days (Daniel 228)
• Daniel and the Prophecy of Jeremiah (Daniel 9)

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Daniel 913

• "As it is written in the law of Moses, all this
  calamity has come on us yet we have not sought
  the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our
  iniquity and giving attention to Thy truth.

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Leviticus 2618

• If also after these things, you do not obey Me,
  then I will punish you seven times more for your
  sins.

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Haggai 221-22

• "Speak to Zerubbabel governor of Judah saying, 'I
  am going to shake the heavens and the earth. 22
  'And I will overthrow the thrones of kingdoms and
  destroy the power of the kingdoms of the nations
  and I will overthrow the chariots and their
  riders, and the horses and their riders will go
  down, everyone by the sword of another.

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Haggai 223

• On that day, declares the LORD of hosts, I
  will take you, Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, My
  servant, declares the LORD, and I will make you
  like a signet ring, for I have chosen you,
  declares the LORD of hosts.

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The Latter Days in the New Testament

• Jesus and the favorable year of the Lord (Luke
  417-19)
• Peters understanding of the prophet Joel (Acts
  214-21)
• A Future Promise In the last days difficult
  times will come (2 Timothy 31)

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New Testament Eschatology

• Inauguration of the Kingdom
• Continuation of the Kingdom
• Culmination of the Kingdom

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Eternal State

• Prophecies of Tribulation and Kingdom fulfilled
  in this age
• Revelation 20 seen as symbolic of kingdom today
• Satan bound with reference to his ability to
  deceive the nations

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• Full Preterism Past
• Partial Preterism

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Homework for Next Class

• Read Jonah and Hosea
• Read Handbook on the Prophets, Pages 406-416 and
  336-368
• Read Introduction to the Old Testament Prophets
  Chap 29, 25
• Do Study Guide 2 of He Gave Us Prophets from
  Pratt Video/Audio
• No Class next week

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