Near and Far prophecy and “fulfilled”-Scripture-language

I admit I don’t like the idea of a dual fulfillment of prophecy.  

How would one know that a prophecy will be fulfilled a second time, if it has already been fulfilled?  How would one demonstrate that a prophecy is being fulfilled, if it has already been fulfilled? 

I think that it is more likely that a prophecy can have a near future fulfillment and a far future fulfillment.  

Part of a prophecy speaks of a near future fulfillment, and part can speak of a far future fulfillment, but the whole prophecy does not have two different fulfillments in time.  

There are some Scriptures that speak of past events that are said to be fulfilled at a future time, but not an exact fulfillment in every detail, but in certain details there are similarities between an Old Testament reference and a future event that qualify it for fulfillment language, such as “Rachel weeping [for] her children,  refusing to be comforted,  because they are no more.”  This Scripture was “fulfilled” during the time when Herod had the male children put to death.  The fulfillment was the degree of grief by comparison with the event it originally spoke concerning. 

There may be a prophecy that has application to a certain event that must precede the actual fulfillment of the prophecy, such as the prophecy of the Jews looking “on him whom they pierced”:  this has application at the time of the cross, and thus qualified for “fulfilled” language, but really looks to the Second Coming of Christ (the crucifixion had to happen for the other to be fulfilled).  

Near and far prophecies are contained in the prophecy of Isaiah concerning the virgin birth, prophecy concerning the near events in the lifetime of Isaiah concerning Judah and her enemies, and far events concerning Judah and the birth of the Messiah.

There were near and far prophecies contained in the prophecies concerning the coming of Christ: his first coming was near, and his second coming is far.   

There are prophecies in Daniel that looked to future nations and rulers in the near future and the far future, and finding where one ends and the other begins is not so easy.

When Jesus spoke of things to come to his disciples, some of those things were concerned about the immediate future, some near future, and some far future, with some parts having application to both near and far such as not coming down into your house for your goods when you see certain events take place.

In Luke 17.30, Jesus spoke of the day he is revealed--this would be the second coming--and he says not to come down from the roof to get your stuff, just like in Mat 24.17 concerning the Abomination of desolation and the subsequent great tribulation.

In Matthew 10 where Jesus speaks to his apostles of what's to come, he speaks of things in the immediate future, as they go out to proclaim the kingdom of God, and he speaks of things in the near future, after His departure, as to them becoming before government officials, but he seems to go to the far future when he speaks to them to keep moving because of time constraints, Matthew 10.23--unless this is speaking from the perspective that Christ will return in their lifetime.