He reflected that the event was a prophecy that he would be " tilting at the sun and always catching the fall.

Latinus heeded the prophecy, and Turnus consequently declared war on Aeneas at the urging of Juno, who was aligned with King Mezentius of the Etruscans and Queen Amata of the Latins.

" But the prophecy was not to be fulfilled at this time.

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

" Aegeus did not understand the prophecy and was disappointed.

Pittheus understood the prophecy and introduced Aegeus to his daughter, Aethra, when Aegeus was drunk.

Isaiah 52: 13 – 53: 12, the fourth of the " Suffering Servant " songs, was interpreted by the earliest Christians as a prophecy of the death and exaltation of Jesus, a role which Jesus himself seems to have accepted ( Luke 4: 17 – 21 ).

In the New Testament, his prophecy of the outpouring of God ′ s Holy Spirit upon all people was notably quoted by the apostle Peter in his Pentecost sermon ().

The naming of this son was to stand as a prophecy against the reigning house of the Northern Kingdom, that they would pay for that bloodshed.

The first stage was the collection and arrangement of some spoken sayings of the historical Micah ( the material in chapters 1-3 ), in which the prophet attacks those who build estates through oppression and depicts the Assyrian invasion of Judah as Yahweh's punishment on the kingdom's corrupt rulers, including a prophecy that the Temple will be destroyed.

# The second prophecy ( 1-9 ), which was delivered a month after the first

It was in this context that the prophet commonly referred to as Malachi delivered his prophecy.

The fulfilment of this prophecy is commonly understood to have taken place when Judah was captured by the nation of Babylon and many of its inhabitants were exiled in an event known as the Babylonian captivity.

The book was written by many ancient prophets by the spirit of prophecy and revelation.

Willingly or not — the 11th-century Prophecy of Berchán, a verse history in the form of a supposed prophecy, states that it was not a voluntary decision — Constantine abdicated in 943 and entered a monastery, leaving the kingdom to Malcolm.

Traditionally, most Christian readings of the Bible maintained that almost every prophecy was actually about the coming of Jesus, and that the entire Old Testament of the Bible is a prophecy about the coming of Jesus.

# The Old Testament, in which a line of kings was created by God through the prophecy of Jacob / Israel, who created his son Judah to be king and retain the sceptre until the coming of the Messiah, alongside the line of priests created in his other son, Levi.

Elijah then goes beyond the prophecy he was given and tells Ahab that his entire kingdom will reject his authority ; that Jezebel will be eaten by dogs within Jezreel ; and that his family will be consumed by dogs as well ( if they die in a city ) or by birds ( if they die in the country ).

Great expectations attended his coming of age ; Sir George Buc recalled predictions that ' he was much more like ... to acquire a new erldome then to wast & lose an old erldom ', a prophecy that was never fulfilled.

Galen was concerned to distinguish it from divination or prophecy, both to improve diagnosis technically and to enhance the physician ’ s reputation.

Lautner, for his part, `` belonged to the present-day race of small artists, who do not demand the utmost of themselves '', and the bitter description of the type includes such epithets as `` wretched little poseurs '', the devastating indictment `` they do not know how to be wretched decently and in order '', and the somewhat extreme prophecy, so far not fulfilled: `` They will be destroyed ''.

The train provided a great service to Achill, but it also fulfilled an ancient prophecy.

The Kirkintilloch Burning Disaster in 1937 fulfilled the second part of the prophecy, when the bodies of ten victims were carried by rail to Achill.

Moreover, Frederick A. Tatford in Prophet of Edom ’ s Doom says that Obadiah ’ s prophecy is fulfilled today as there is currently no trace of anyone who may be identified as an Edomite.

Preterism ( from the Latin praeteritus, meaning " gone by ") is an approach which sees prophecy as chiefly being fulfilled in the past, especially ( in the case of the Book of Revelation ) during the first century.

Mormons believe that this fulfilled a biblical prophecy stating that the prophet Elijah would return to ' turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers.

This prophecy was fulfilled in 70 A. D. when the Romans sacked Jerusalem and burned the temple.

According to historian William Manchester, his great grandson Alfried Krupp would interpret these outbursts as a prophecy fulfilled by the coming of Hitler.

The first prophecy is thus fulfilled, and Macbeth immediately begins to harbour ambitions of becoming king.

Christianity interprets a wide range of biblical passages in the Old Testament ( Hebrew scripture ) as predicting the coming of the Messiah ( see Christianity and Biblical prophecy for examples ), and believes that they are fulfilled in Jesus ' own explicit life and teaching:

Christians believe the Messianic prophecies were fulfilled in the mission, death, and resurrection of Jesus, and seeks to spread throughout the world its interpretation that the Messiah ( Jesus ) is the only God, and that Jesus will return to fulfill the rest of Messianic prophecy.

The term preterism comes from the Latin praeter, which is listed in Webster's 1913 dictionary as a prefix denoting that something is " past " or " beyond ," signifying that either all or a majority of Bible prophecy was fulfilled by AD 70.

In addition, certain statements from classical theological liberalism are easily mistaken for preterism, as they hold that the biblical record accurately reflects Jesus ' and the Apostles ' belief that all prophecy was to be fulfilled within their generation.

Preterism holds that the contents of Revelation constitute a prophecy of events that were fulfilled in the 1st century.

Historicists are prone to see prophecy fulfilled down through the centuries and even in today's world.

The prophecy is fulfilled, and, on the last day of the war, only Coriantumr and Shiz, the commander of the opposing army, remain.

Knox's return to St Andrews fulfilled the prophecy he made in the galleys that he would one day preach again in its church.

According to Plutarch, a seer had foreseen that Caesar would be harmed not later than the Ides of March ; and on his way to the Theatre of Pompey ( where he would be assassinated ), Caesar met the seer and joked, " The ides of March have come ", meaning to say that the prophecy had not been fulfilled, to which the seer replied " Aye, Caesar ; but not gone.

Vivekananda had fulfilled his own prophecy of not living to be forty years old.

It was completed and inaugurated of the sixth year of Darius ( March 515 BCE ), as also related in the Book of Ezra ( chapter 6, verse 15 ), so the 70-year prophecy of Jeremiah was fulfilled.

When Ichadon was executed on the 15th day of the 9th month in 527, his prophecy was fulfilled ; the earth shook, the sun was darkened, beautiful flowers rained from the sky, his severed head flew to the sacred Geumgang mountains, and milk instead of blood sprayed 100 feet in the air from his beheaded corpse.

) This vision fulfilled a prophecy telling them that they should found their new home on that spot.