The fulfillment of prophecy is the bringing to pass of what God foretold in Scripture. It includes direct predictions as well as broader patterns and promises that reach their intended completion in God’s acts, especially in Christ.
The fulfillment of prophecy is the bringing to pass of what God foretold in Scripture. It includes direct predictions as well as broader patterns and promises that reach their intended completion in God’s acts, especially in Christ.
The fulfillment of prophecy is the completion in history of what God declared beforehand in His word. Scripture presents this fulfillment in more than one way: sometimes as a direct prediction that later comes to pass, and sometimes as a promise, pattern, or typological anticipation that reaches its full meaning in a later event. The New Testament repeatedly teaches that the life, death, resurrection, and reign of Jesus Christ stand at the center of prophetic fulfillment, while also showing that some prophecies unfold in stages and others remain future from a given point in redemptive history. A careful definition should therefore affirm both that God faithfully brings His word to pass and that interpreters should handle claims of fulfillment with attention to context, authorial intent, and the way later Scripture identifies fulfillment.