He was the long-awaited male heir, and was named Alexius as a fulfilment of the AIMA prophecy.

At Pentecost the Apostle Peter declared that this gift, which was making some in the audience ridicule the disciples as drunks, was the fulfilment of the prophecy of Joel which described that God would pour out his Spirit on all flesh ( Acts 2: 17 ).

Some views allow dual fulfilment of parts of the Olivet prophecy.

Protestant Christianity separated itself from what it felt was the fulfilment of prophecy that there would be a falling away from the truth given by Jesus Christ and his apostles.

Ostensibly it is written in opposition to Whiston's attempt to show that the books of the Old Testament did originally contain prophecies of events in the New Testament story, but that these had been eliminated or corrupted by the Jews, and to prove that the fulfilment of prophecy by the events of Christ's life is all " secondary, secret, allegorical, and mystical ," since the original and literal reference is always to some other fact.

Since, further, according to him the fulfilment of prophecy is the only valid proof of Christianity, he thus secretly aims a blow at Christianity as a revelation.

Knapp held that Eddy represented a personal fulfilment of biblical prophecy as the woman referred to in the twelfth chapter of the Book of Revelation.

This was a fulfilment of Glorfindel's prophecy following the fall of Arnor that the Witch-king would not die " by the hand of man ".

In Defending Christian Zionism, David Pawson, a prominent Christian Zionist in the United Kingdom, puts forward the case that the return of the Jews to the Holy Land is a fulfilment of scriptural prophecy, and that Christians should support the existence of the Jewish State ( although not unconditionally its actions ) on theological grounds.

* Christian Zionism, belief among some Christians that the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 was a significant fulfilment of Biblical prophecy

Ghulam Ahmad declared that this was a sign of his truth and was in fulfilment of the tradition or prophecy.

trans., 1877 ), largely polemical in its scope, and specially directed against those who rest theological dogmas on the fulfilment of prophecy.

+ The Holy Bible is the authority of God's Word, and is completely true, in every recorded statement, every prophecy and their fulfilment and in every recorded act and its outcome from Genesis to Revelation.

The prophecy is also believed by some to have a future fulfilment relating to end-time developments concerning Israel.

How could he simultaneously predict the ruin of the temple in the ordeal and affirm the end-time fulfilment of promise and prophecy on Zion and temple?

The mass of promise and prophecy will come to fulfilment in this eschatological and messianic circle of believers.

There is no other life ; man's fulfilment is in this life alone.

Christadelphians believe that Jesus is the promised Jewish Messiah, in whom the prophecies and promises of the Old Testament find their fulfilment.

The fulfilment of the promise to each patriarch depends on having a male heir, and the story is constantly complicated by the fact that each prospective mother – Sarah, Rebekah and Rachel – is barren.

::: Where the institutions of the Republic, the independence of the Nation, the integrity of its territory or the fulfilment of its international commitments are under serious and immediate threat, and where the proper functioning of the constitutional public authorities is interrupted, the President of the Republic shall take measures required by these circumstances, after formally consulting the Prime Minister, the Presidents of the Houses of Parliament and the Constitutional Council. He shall address the Nation and inform it of such measures. The measures shall be designed to provide the constitutional public authorities as swiftly as possible, with the means to carry out their duties.

Although this is a form of VAT, it has been charged at a much lower rate than UK or French VAT, and as such Jersey's fulfilment industry continues.

However, whereas natural law deems good what is self-evidently good, according as it tends towards the fulfilment of the person, istislah calls good whatever is connected to one of five " basic goods ".

Where the institutions of the Republic, the independence of the Nation, the integrity of its territory or the fulfilment of its international commitments are under serious and immediate threat, and where the proper functioning of the constitutional public authorities is interrupted, the President of the Republic shall take the measures required by these circumstances, after formally consulting the Prime Minister, the Presidents of the assemblies and the Constitutional Council.

The prophets were older than the Greek philosophers and their authority is accredited by the fulfilment of their predictions ( Apol., xix-xx ).

However, personal fulfilment is the aim.

It has been already argued that desires cannot be measured directly, but only indirectly, by the outward phenomena to which they give rise: and that in those cases with which economics is chiefly concerned the measure is found in the price which a person is willing to pay for the fulfilment or satisfaction of his desire.

Freud's view was that dreams are compromises which ensure that sleep is not interrupted: as " a disguised fulfilment of repressed wishes ," they succeed in representing wishes as fulfilled which might otherwise disturb and waken the dreamer.

And He is the All-Mighty, the Oft-Forgiving ;" Those who pass the test are rewarded with Paradise: " Verily for the Righteous there will be a fulfilment of ( the heart's ) desires ;"

Other arguments against historicity include the silence of Josephus ( who does record several other examples of Herod ’ s willingness to commit such acts to protect his power, noting that he " never stopped avenging and punishing every day those who had chosen to be of the party of his enemies ") and the views that the story is an apologetic device or a constructed fulfilment of prophesy.

Whilst acknowledging that the episode " contains nothing that is historically impossible " Hill says that Matthew's " real concern is ... with theological reflection on the theme of OT fulfilment ".

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints believes a significant portion of its members to be descended from Ephraim, arguing that they are charged with restoring the lost tribes in the latter days as prophesied by Isaiah, and that the tribes of both Ephraim and Judah will play important leadership roles for covenant Israel in the last days ; some believe that this would be the fulfilment of part of the Blessing of Jacob, where it states that Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well ; whose branches run over the wall (, interpreting the " wall " as the ocean ).

Rabbi Moshe Feinstein wrote that permission is granted to every woman who wishes to fulfil even those mitzvot which the Torah did not obligate ; and they indeed fulfil a mitzvah and receive the reward for the fulfilment of ït including saying the appropriate associated blessing ( as with shofar, lulav etc.

Good, he says, is the fulfilment of man's destiny, evil the thwarting of it.

Every man being organized in a particular way has, of necessity, an aim, the fulfilment of which is good ; and he has faculties for accomplishing it, directed by reason.

Das Kapital, his mainly economic work, was meant to be one of a series of books which would have included one on society and one on the state, but his death prevented fulfilment of this.

Some, looking for the 2nd coming of Jesus and the Kingdom of God based round the land of Israel, believe that the prophecies regarding the Tarshish power have their latter day fulfilment in modern times.

Nationalist myths sometimes have a tendency to stimulate conflicts between the nations, to magnify distinctive characteristics of the national group and to overstate the threat to the nation posed by other groups propagating militant fulfilment of the their goals.

Since ye have been deemed worthy to behold the great day and the fulfilment of God's word by the Prophets, your lament and sorrow must be changed into joy, and your fasting into merriment ; for ye shall weep no more.

The role of the Ffestiniog Railway in the promotion and fulfilment of tourism and in preserving railway heritage has been recognised many times, and notable mentions have included:

King Tullus Hostilius is said to have established another collegium of Salii in fulfilment of a vow which he made in the second war with Fidenae and Veii.

The Clinton administration claimed in May 2000 that Solana was the fulfilment of Henry Kissinger's famous desire to have a phone number to talk to Europe.

" Loving devotion ," says Dhanna in his sabda in Raga Asa, " is now fixed in my heart and thereby have I found solace and fulfilment.

They deal with male protagonists who, like Equis, gradually explore their sexualities, discovering that they have to renounce traditional gender roles both in sexual behaviour and in the real world to find fulfilment.

According to his wife Lucy Hutchinson, Cromwell attempted to persuade her husband to accept office, " and, finding him too constant to be wrought upon to serve his tyranny ", would have arrested him had not death prevented the fulfilment of his purpose.