The Jesuit Origins of Futurism

I think that my friend showed me one of his books, He is a fundamentalist, wasn't he? Isn't Darby considered to be the father of modern dispensationalism? These ideas were at the Niagara Bible Conference from 1883 to 1897 at Niagara Falls.

In 1883 a group of Christian bible scholars met for the first time at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, near Niagara Falls and established the principles of Christian fundamentalism. It was here that the Niagara Bible Conference gathered every year from 1883 through 1897 (with the exception of 1884). It met at the Queen's Royal Hotel and its pavilion. James Brooks, in his Truth magazine describes the meeting of 1892 as one

"more largely attended than ever before. Often every seat in the pavilion was occupied, and the porches were filled with eager hearers of the Word. The place too becomes more beautiful as the years go by, and it would be difficult to find a spot better suited to the quiet and prayerful study of the Sacred Scriptures. The building in which the Conference meets, overlooking Lake Ontario and the River Niagara, and surrounded by green trees, is secluded from the noise of the world; and so excellent were the arrangements for the accommodation of the guests, both in Queen's Royal Hotel and in the boarding houses of the village, that not a word of complaint was heard from any one." Some of the scholars who were present, known as the founding fathers of Fundamentalism, were W.E. Blackstone, Charles Erdman, James H. Brookes, William Moorehead, A.J. Gordon, A.C. Dixon, C.I. Scofield, and J. Hudson Taylor (who founded the China Inland Mission).

https://www.theopedia.com/niagara-bible-conference

 

There was a Plymouth Brethren church in my hometown but I don't know anything about them. I am guessing that I am wrong to call them Pentecostal. Thanks for the info. I had a friend who had been a Congregationalist.

 

Thanks again. Where do you find that history? How do you describe the theology of the Plymouth Brethren?

 

I do not hold to the Dispy view on end times, but the same as many of the Ecf did hold to a preMil view,as , Historical premil, or Covenant premil theology!

 

Pretty Much standard Baptist views of rapture, pre mil end times!

 

The main thing is taht both CT premil, and Dispy premil, see God still dealing with national Israel in some fashion at the end times, and that Jesus sets up His kingdom here upon the earth.....

 

They are a mixed group for theology,as their eschatology is OK, but the Charasmatic chaos is not.

 

So are they Pentecostal or do they just believe in the perpetuity of spiritual gifts?

 

I have read many sites on them, and saw nothing about second act of grace or spritual gifts, but some sites did say held to necessity to "must be believers baptised"

 

Okay, I know some of them here in Indiana. They are part of the holiness movement if you ask me. They are okay. We had a Nazarene pastor Dr. Gene Hood in Beech Grove, a suburb of Indianapolis, who was active in political and social lobbying and activities with Dr. Greg Dixon, the well-known Baptist Fundamentalist, who refused to cooperate with government. Dr. Hood was an appealing personality.

 

The jeezits, in the person of Alcazar, spread preterism to try to keep the pope from being labeled the antichrist.

There's no good reason to "take" the Revelation prophecies and those of the Olivet Discourse any way but literally. And most of those events, especially the eschatological ones, have simply not yet happened.

Daniel, Paul, and Jesus in the Revelation plainly spoke of a great "man of sin" to come. Obviously, that hasn't yet occurred. the closest NONE of the prominent evil men who've lived have fulfilled ALL the Scriptural criteria to be THE worst antichrist of all, and all those criteria MUST be fulfilled PRECISELY by that man, just as Jesus fulfilled all the criteria for the Messiah.

So preterism is phony as a Chevy F-150.

 

I spent many years with the Open Plymouth Brethren and I can testify that they are not Arminian and do not believe in a second blessing. In fact, J. N. Darby was a Calvinist, believing in OSAS. Doctrinally, the open PBs are traditionally: OSAS, Dispensational (of the Darby/Scofield system), PreTrib Rapture, PreMil Return of Chirst, and Cessationists. Like Independent Baptist Churches, the open PB do not have a denominational structure, so each assembly is autonomous in its practices and beliefs.

I am interested in why you think that they are Arminian and believe in a "second blessing" of the HS? I have never ran across any such teachings within in any PB writings or teachings.