Can you give me a prophecy that didn't need its RL meaning interpreted by God?
If we were to be literalist then the Pharaohs dream of fat and skinny cows would be just that.. dreaming of cows. But no, such a prophecy needed interpretation for it to be understood.
The Messiah was killed because so few understood the prophecies relating to His coming
And let us not forget the words mene mene tekel upharsin
Prophecy is not a book to be read, its interpretation comes from God alone. I believe Jesus was very clear with His followers in that day. They were not at all cofused.
There is a distinct difference between prophetic dreams or visions, and prophetic explicit statements of coming events.
In the entire Bible, there is not a single prophetic dream or vision for which we have an inspired interpretation, in which the meaning was not entirely different from what was seen in the dream or vision. In short, prophetic dreams and visions are not videos, as it were, of coming events, but visual symbols of coming events. In all the dreams or visions for which we have inspired interpretations, the meaning was somethnig that had some kind of a moral similarity to the thing being portrayed, as in a kingdom being represented by a vicious beast.
But the explicit statements of coming events in Biblical prophecies are distinctly different. Wherever these occurred, those which have actually been fulfilled have been fulfilled exactly as stated, down to the tiniest detail.
A typical example of this is the first 36 verses of Daniel 11. From the beginning to the end of this passage, every act attributed to "the king of the south" was actually committed by one of the Ptolomies, a dynasty that ruled out of Alexandria in Egypt. And every act attributed to "the king of the north" was actually committed by one of the Selucids, a dynasty that ruled out of Antioch in Syria. The details of this prophecy were fulfilled so precisely that unbelievers claim that its very accuracy proves that this passage could not have been written before these events actually took place. But scripture distinctly states that they were all prophesied long before any of them happened.
There are many other such examples, such as being explicitly told that Messiah would be born of a virgin, that He would be born in Bethlehem, that he would be called out of Egypt, and even when he would come. All of these took place exactly as had been stated long before they happened.
But Preterist and Historicists take many other prophecies which are similarly stated in explicit words, and claim they have been fulfilled in events for which less than 20% of the details contained in the prophecy actually correspond to details of the historical records which allegedly tell of their fulfillment. This is completely different from the fulfilments of these other prophecies.
Now as the Revelation is an apocalypse, that is, a vision, the things seen are not to be thought of as actual pictures of coming events. I agree that these are symbols of coming events, not actual coming events. But even in the report of this series of visions, there are interspersed explicit statements of things to come. To say that these things will not actually happen is to deny what our God has stated.
Now the scriptures speak in many places of an end time return of all Israel to their ancient homeland. Many want to interpret the "Israel" in all these prophecies to mean "the church," and to interpret "the land" to mean "heaven." The problem with all this is that these interpretations simply break down when we begin to inspect the details of what the prophecy states. In order to pretend that these prophecies mean the church being taken to heaven, you have to simply ignore almost all of the details in these prophecies. For these prophecies contain many details which simply do not work in such interpretations. So these details are simply ignored.
And the same is true of the claims that most of these prophecies have already been fulfilled. In order to pretend that most of them have actually been fulfilled, it is necessary to pretend that most of the details in the prophecy are simply insignificant. But Jesus said the very opposite when He said "Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled."
Matthew 5:17-18
The jot and the tittle were the two smallest marks used to build the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. So here Jesus was saying that not only every word, but even the spelling of every word, was significant and important, and not a single detail would fail to be fulfilled.
