Another name for Dual Fulfillment is Dual Reference:
Definition of Dual Reference
(J. Dwight Pentecost) "Two events, widely separated as to the time of
their fulfillment, may be brought together into the scope of one
prophecy. This was done because the prophet had a message for his own
day as well as for a future time . . . It was the purpose of God to
give the near and far view so that the fulfillment of the one should
be the assurance of the fulfillment of the other." (J. Dwight
Pentecost, Things To Come [Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House,
1964], pp. 46,47.)
The phenomenon of double reference prophecy to reveal God's plan is
common in and unique to the Bible. The Old Testament employs four
different kinds of double-reference prophecy: Type, Gap, Type-gap, and
Unforeseen partial.
A link to Dual Reference can be found here:
The hyperlink goes into a lengthy explanation of each, so I'll summarize:
1) Type
The Old Testament prophet describes an event, person, or institution
("type") and later Scripture reveals the prophetic significance of
this event, person, or institution ("anti-type")
Num. 21:9 is an example: Moses raises up the Bronze Serpent and the Children of Israel are healed from the poisonous bite of the serpents; in John 3:14-15 Jesus prophesies so also will the Son of man be lifted up, so that all who would believe in Him would not perish but have eternal life.
2) Gap
The prophet predicts two dissimilar events, widely separated by time,
as though they were one event.
Isa. 61:1-9 fortells Christ's coming: in vss.1-2 it tells about His 1st Coming, which Jesus confirms in Lk. 4:17-21, yet in vss 3-9 fortells His 2nd Coming
3) Type-Gap
The prophet predicts two similar events or people widely separated.
The first event foreshadows the later event (in most cases the later
event concerns the end of the age). In this case, the prediction of
the earlier event or person is typical of the later, but the
description of the later event or person does not completely fit the
earlier event
An example of this is when Jesus prophesies to the daughters of Jerusalem in Lk. 23:28-31, telling them not to weep for Him, but for yourselves and your children; but He also says, "If they do these things IN a green tree, what shall be done in the dry", meaning "mountains fall on us, hills cover us" refers both to the Destruction of Jerusalem in 70AD and the end of the world.
4) Unforseen Partial
The prophet predicts aspects of God's kingdom at the end of the age.
(In the final kind of double reference, the prophet's focus is
exclusively on the later event.) New Testament authors subsequently
reveal that this prediction has been granted in a partial way to the
church. (The prophets predictions will still be fulfilled at the end
of the age.)
An example of this is the Joel 2:28-32 prophecy "...your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men see visions..."
Peter quotes this prophecy being fulfilled in Acts 2:16-21, yet the "sun turned to darkness and the moon to blood" is a specific reference to the last days, which have yet to be fuflfilled.
The main objection for Dual Reference(Dual Fuflfillment) come from those expousing the Covenant Theology view/hermeneutic. While Dispensationalists see a "future" fulfillment in the Restoration of Israel, and the subsequent prophesies, given from a 'literal'(plain reading) of the text, Covenant Theology 'sees' these prophecies as having already been 'fulfilled' in Christ(covenant of grace) and therefore the church(the Israel of God), has already received every benefit, not needing any other 'prophetic fulfillment'. Therefore, they 'see' Joel's prophecy as already fulfilled, Christ's prophecy concerning Jerusalem 'fulfilled' in 70AD, and any OT prophecy concerning Israel's Return(Deut. 30:1-7) as already fulfilled by the church. Since Covenant Theology is also a 'hermeneutic', one must 'translate' Israel as being "Israel of God", children of Abraham, "children of Abraham by faith", Abraham's seed 'singular' meaning "Christ". "Covenant of grace" only refers to those after 70AD to those who have made their committment to Christ, the thought that any 'grace' was left over was extinquished concerning the 'physical' nation of Israel.
Futurists and Dispensationalists contend there is a "future" fulfillment of both OT and NT prophecies concerning Christ, end times, and His Plan for the Restoration of Israel. They contend that the 'plain reading of the text', without any 'covenant' lens means that one see a "Dual Reference/Fulfillment".
Refs:
For these and such-like reasons, the scheme of attaching a double
sense to the Scriptures is inadmissible. It sets afloat all the
fundamental principles of interpretation by which we arrive at
established conviction and certainty and casts us on the boundless
ocean of imagination and conjecture without rudder or compass.'-
Stuart on the Hebrews, Excurs. xx.
'First, it may be laid down that Scripture has one meaning, -the
meaning which it had to the mind of the prophet or evangelist who
first uttered or wrote to the hearers or readers who first received
it.' ' Scripture, like other books, has one meaning, which is to
be gathered from itself, without reference to the adaptations of
fathers or divines, and without regard to a priori notions about its
nature and origin.' ' The office of the interpreter is not to add
another [interpretation], but to recover the original one : the
meaning, that is, of the words as they struck on the ears or flashed
before the eyes of those who first heard and read them.' - Professor
Jowett, Essay on the Interpretation of Scripture, § i. 3, 4
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