Issues: Single Versus Multiple Meaning Chapter 7 Special Literary Forms, Virkler's Hermeneutics pg 174

Single Versus Multiple Meaning

• The near fulfillment, the foreshadowed fulfillment and the final fulfillment must herein be considered
• Double meaning, double reference, manifold fulfillment, or multiple sense are phrases to describe this.
• Others say Prophetic telescoping, progressive prediction and developmental fulfillment
• A third concept of prophetic meaning, developmental fulfillment leans toward a generalized, comprehensive prophecy in several progressive stages. Also called sequentially fulfilled prophecy.
• Clarifying examples are in order here.
• Virkler's only misplaced example: The bruising of Satan's head begins with Christ's death, resurrection, and ascension, continued in the church and ending with Satan's imprisonment in the abyss, and then lake of fire.
• It is much cleaner to see Satan's head bruised at Calvary
• Virkler never addresses multiple fulfillments of Biblical prophecy