that an initial installment may have already happened, but the final installment comes in Christ. For instance, the OT prophets regularly anticipate a new exodus-like return from Babylonian captivity (e.g., Jer. 23:7–8). They get a taste of it in the fifth century BC (deliverance from Babylon), but the real thing comes with Christ (deliverance from sin). In many situations, the NT authors do not imply that an OT passage consciously predicted something in the NT but rather that there is a