Thread: What prophecies have yet to be fulfilled in Christianity?

And what other religions have prophetic views that have yet yet to be fulfilled or are only partially filled?

The Jews are still waiting for the TRUE Christ.

Bible prophecies need to be read in the context of the times in which they were written. They generally take the form of warnings of catastrophe if the people to whom they are addressed don't change their ways - usually adopting the religion or culture of people they live among or neighbour.

One way of claiming that a prophecy has been fulfilled is to pick on an event or set of events and read it or them back into ancient scripture, and twist that scripture to make it fit the events and mean something the original prophet or scribe could not have meant or conceptualise. Another is to accredit an ancient prophet with prophesying events that he could never have known about - if indeed he was real, and not a legend or a demi-god adopted by the Israelites but transformed to be consistent with their later monotheistic beliefs.

And theologians often read back later scriptures, reflecting beliefs current at the time they were written, to earlier scriptures. For example, John identifies the great dragon in Revelation, that ancient serpent (from Sumerian myth, symbolising the waters of chaos), with Satan and the Greek equivalent the Devil (from Diabolos that has similar meanings as Satan, such as Accuser); that has been read back into Genesis 3 to claim that the serpent in the garden of Eden was Satan - even though these were separate myths.

And the prophecies in Revelation were expected to happen within the lifetimes of those living at the time, the 1st or 2nd century CE, followed by 1,000 years. They just didn't happen, although believers push them further and further into the future to other times, when they continue not to happen.

The end of all religion and the complete control of the world by one government. I don't know about other religions. I am Christian.

Lots of people have different views on the fulfilment of prophecy (especially end time prophecy) however they can roughly be divided into four camps.

Idealists believe the prophecies have no literal fulfilment

Futurists believe some or all of the prophecies concerning the end times have yet to be fulfilled.

Preterists believe all of the end time prophecies were already fulfilled (most believed the second coming was in 70CE)

Historicists are a little complicated, some believe that some prophecies have been fulfilled and others are awaiting fultilment and the prophecies especially in Revelation are a chronological order of which many have already been fulfilled and some are yet to be fulfilled. Whereas others believe the prophecies were all fulfilled in the past, are being fulfilled as we speak and will again be fulfilled many times in the future until one day there will be a final eschatological event drawing everything to a close. The historicist view has the advantages of all the other views with none of the disadvantages and is an extremely powerful technique for reading the scriptures however it has been badly misused wihch is why it largely fell out of favour with many chruches.

Here's a link if you want to know more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_eschatology