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This trivializes the costs and technology involved in accomplishing these.
You know, even with ancient and very limited technology, it would have been theoretically possible to reach every point in the world in a lifetime. Jeez, the
safe, established trade routes covered a pretty large chunk of the earth's area and population, and could be covered in months. Not to mention that you claim God was behind this prophecy, and with him all things are possible! Try to be self-consistent here!
That you have denied the ability of an omnipotent God to accomplish what the prophecy says is NOT a good reason to insist that it actually says something else.
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With your argument it would be impossible to make any prophecy because as soon as someone could read about it they could self fulfill it.
You can make any prophecy you want! Nobody can stop that. What they
can do is doubt a supernatural origin of a "prophecy" whose very origin and fulfilment can be explained perfectly well by human events.
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But I'm sure when Jesus sets foot on the Mt. of Olives, you will say that doesn't fulfill prophecy because Jesus knew he said that therefore it was a self fulfilling prophecy.
Now you're resorting to misrepresentation of conclusions that differ from yours, apparently to make your belief appear more rational by comparison. Maybe you find this comforting, or maybe you just like to insult people. Regardless, it impedes the discussion. Your prediction is pretty nonsensical.