01.2. The Fulfilment of Prophecy
The Fulfilment of Prophecy The true heir of the Old Testament promises is not ethnic Israel, but only Christ, the one Seed of Abraham.
Galatians 3:16 Thus, everyone who is in Christ, which includes all believers, is an heir of the promises made to Abraham.
Galatians 3:28-29 2) The true fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies is frequently indicated in the New Testament. The prophecy of restoring Israel was fulfilled by the calling of the Gentiles to be God’s people.
Acts 15:13-17 (quoting Amos 9:11-12) Romans 9:22-26 (quoting Hosea 1:10; Hosea 2:23)
[The verses that Paul is quoting from Hosea are clearly speaking of "the house of Israel," and say that she will be cast off, and no longer God’s people; but then restored, and God’s people again. Paul is here saying that this restoration of Israel as God’s people is being fulfilled by God’s calling out a people "not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles".] The prophecy of the New Covenant, made "with the house of Israel" (see Jeremiah 31:31-34), is fulfilled in the New Testament Church.
Hebrews 8:6-13 Hebrews 10:14-18 Matthew 26:26-28
Luke 22:19-20 1 Corinthians 11:23-25 2 Corinthians 3:5-6 Some other prophecies and types interpreted in the New Testament Matthew 2:14-15 (quoting Hosea 11:1)
[The context of Hosea is clearly referring to Israel; hence, Matthew sees Jesus as the true Israel, and the antitype of Israel’s history.] Matthew 17:10-13 (referring to Malachi 4:5)
[Not only does Jesus here equate the Old Testament temple imagery with his own body, by means of which the presence of God truly was brought down to man; but furthermore, John explains that believing this Christ-centered interpretation was in fact to believe the Old Testament scriptures themselves.] Acts 2:14-21 (quoting Joel 2:28-32)
[Most Dispensationalists will say that this prophecy is referring to Jesus’ second coming, as their hermeneutic demands; but Peter clearly declares that it is being fulfilled in this age.] Acts 2:25-32 (quoting Psalms 16:8-11) Acts 2:33-36 (quoting Psalms 110:1) Romans 4:13-17 (quoting Genesis 17:5)
[According to Paul, the promise that Abraham would be the father of many nations was fulfilled when he became the father of all those who believed, from all the Gentile peoples.] Galatians 4:22-31 (quoting Isaiah 54:1 and Genesis 21:10) Hebrews 9:1-12 (interpreting the symbolism of the tabernacle and its worship services)
[When one allows God himself to interpret the meaning of his prophecies through later revelation, it becomes impossible to employ a naturalistic, Dispensational hermeneutic. Dispensationalists claim to have a literal hermeneutic, taking prophecies in a simple, material sense unless the immediate context demands otherwise. The problem with this approach is that it arrives at interpretations which are later contradicted by the New Testament. In opposition to this principle, Covenant Theologians recognize the validity of "the analogy of faith," that is, that the best interpreter of scriptures is other scriptures. The hermeneutic which allows the Author to foreshadow spiritual realities through physical means, and later interpret them in clear, didactic writing, is actually a more natural and literal hermeneutic than one which demands a physical/material sense unless an immediate abusrdity arises thereby, even when other scriptures contradict this physical/material sense. The basic question is this: will our hermeneutic allow God to explain himself, or will it allow our own human understanding of what is more literal to negate the interpretation of God himself?] 3) Those to whom the Old Testament promises were first made understood them to mean more than the merely physical.
Hebrews 11:9-10 Hebrews 11:13-16 Hebrews 11:17-19 Hebrews 11:24-26 Hebrews 11:39-40