Some prophecies have more than one fulfillment.
Failure to recognize this constitutes one of the main difficulties confronting the student of prophecy. Another school of thought, Christian in concept, sees the higher fulfillment but is not always able to recognize any earlier application. Let us look at a few illustrations of this. Quite obviously, this has reference to the infant nation of Israel and its deliverance from the hand of Pharaoh. No orthodox Jew could fail to recognize this.