PROPHETIC TIMING (2)

Jonah prophesied that Nineveh was going to be destroyed within 40 day but it wasn’t.  The city repented and was spared for approximately 120 additional years before its eventual destruction.

Moses prophesied in Egypt to the Hebrew slaves that God was going to bring them into the Promised Land, yet they all died in the wilderness except Joshua and Caleb and those 20 and under.  Moses word was fulfilled through the children 20 and under of those to whom he prophesied.

Malachi said that Elijah would come before the Lord comes, yet Jesus said John the Baptist was Elijah.

Words of prophecy are literally fulfilled, fulfilled in type, or delayed.

Also, there are many prophecies in the Old Testament which are not for this age but for the age to come.

Some prophetic words are changed or delayed as in the case of Nineveh and the judgment of Jerusalem.  For Jesus to pray that it not happen in winter or on the Sabbath, thus making the season of the year and day of the week subject to change.

In Jesus’ prophetic discourse as recorded in Matthew 24-25; Mark 13; Luke 17:20-37, there were three questions which he addressed: 1) When shall these things be? (destruction of Jerusalem).  2) What shall be the sign of thy coming?  3) What shall be the sign of the end of the world?  Thus demonstrating again that within a prophetic word there can be different time frames.