Are there Guidelines To Intrepreting Prophecy From Either A Literal or Spiritual Mean

[JesusFan]

How do we know when to apply and understand Prophetic text to have a "literal" or a "Spritual" Fulfillment?

 

[freeatlast]

How do we know when to apply and understand Prophetic text to have a "literal" or a "Spritual" Fulfillment?

Which passage are you talking about?

 

[JesusFan]

3 mail areas in Biblical prophecy

How to intrepret OT ones concerning coming Holy Spirit, and Israel being blessed in last days, and messiah actually ruling from his throne in jerusalem?

 

[Van]

If the literal sense makes sense, seek no other sense. Anytime a person thinks it does not mean what it says because that is inconsistent with my understanding of another text, they should tread slowly. An understanding that accepts the literal sense of both passages is far better than one that nullifies what one passage says in order to perserve our understanding of the other.

All this is code for the amillinnalist view is dubious.

 

[asterisktom]

If the literal sense makes sense, seek no other sense. Anytime a person thinks it does not mean what it says because that is inconsistent with my understanding of another text, they should tread slowly. An understanding that accepts the literal sense of both passages is far better than one that nullifies what one passage says in order to perserve our understanding of the other.

All this is code for the amillinnalist view is dubious.

Your first sentence is a methodology that is not found in the Bible. In fact it was this very approach to God's Word - specifically the words of their Messiah - that repeatedly tripped up the Jews of the first century.

We should learn from their mistakes. Not follow in their hermeneutical footsteps.

 

[Iconoclast]

here is something to look at;
http://www.letgodbetrue.com/sermons/pdf/gospel-millennium.pdf

 

[Greektim]

How did the NT writers use the OT?... that might help. That concept has affected my hermeneutic the most.

 

[mandym]

How do we know when to apply and understand Prophetic text to have a "literal" or a "Spritual" Fulfillment?

It all has a literal fulfillment. What is symbolic represents something literal.

 

[J.D.]

Your first sentence is a methodology that is not found in the Bible. In fact it was this very approach to God's Word - specifically the words of their Messiah - that repeatedly tripped up the Jews of the first century.

We should learn from their mistakes. Not follow in their hermeneutical footsteps.

How right your are, sir!

 

[J.D.]

here is something to look at;
http://www.letgodbetrue.com/sermons/pdf/gospel-millennium.pdf

I used to visit letgodbetrue.com a lot, but it's been a while. It was refreshing to go back there and see the work. That guy really knows how to lay things out so it's plain.

 

[freeatlast]

3 mail areas in Biblical prophecy

How to intrepret OT ones concerning coming Holy Spirit, and Israel being blessed in last days, and messiah actually ruling from his throne in jerusalem?

Yes they are true.