...and there it is, the 'parenthesis Church' that you all mock OR for correctly pointing out.
Ohhhhhhhh:laugh:
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...and there it is, the 'parenthesis Church' that you all mock OR for correctly pointing out.
It's really irrelevant what people want to "think". God's plan for Israel, as a Nation, is well explained in Romans ch. 9,10,11.
For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. Rom 10:3 Israel, as a Nation, doesn't understand the righteousness of God... for now.
There will be a time when "all Israel will be saved". This salvation of the Nation is necessary for them to serve Messiah, on the earth, from Jerusalem.
And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
The Body of Christ has no part in this. This is the "time of Jacob's trouble". This Tribulation is for the purification of the Nation of Israel.
God's Plan for Israel... "in a nutshell"
For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance (irrevocable).
Feel free to disagree, and by all means discuss it. While the parenthetical church was brought up in my OP, I'd appreciate it if it was only brought up for further clarification or identification of a correlation, rather than as a discussion on it's own merit. I'd like to keep the thread more focused on dispensationalist theology.
Conclusion
We have seen from Ephesians 3 that Paul teaches that the church age is a unique phase in God' s master plan, contrary to Dr. Gentry' s claims. This Pauline revealed mystery concerning the Body of Christ does support the notion that the church is a parenthesis in God' s plan. Not an afterthought, but a temporary intercalation in God' s program for Israel! In concert with Paul' s mystery, James said in Acts 15:14-16 that God is " taking from among the Gentiles a people for His name" (verse 14), then He will return and restore Israel (verse 16). Coupled with Paul' s teaching in Ephesians 2 and 3, we know that those elect Gentiles of this church age are combined in a co-equal way with the Jewish remnant of the same period. When God' s purpose for the church is complete He will end this temporary age with the rapture before the tribulation. Then He will work through Israel to bring her into the bond of the covenant and then all redeemed peoples of the ages will reign in their own order with Messiah in the millennial kingdom. Maranatha!
http://www.raptureready.com/featured/ice/TheUniquenessofTheChurch.html
There's no way to present the reality of it in a 'warm and fuzzy' context. It doesn't take a genius to see that there is someday coming a reckoning for our abandoning sound judgment.
...and there it is, the 'parenthesis Church' that you all mock OR for correctly pointing out.
Briefly, concisely, without lobbing your gobs of c & p, where zactly did Paul say that?
Like it or not the Church as a "parenthesis" an intercalation in GOD's program for Israel is pre-trib-dispensational doctrine. Thankfully some, called progressive dispensationalists, are shuffling their feet and trying to divorce themselves of that horrendous doctrine.
I should mention that Dr. Thomas Ice is a current dispensational scholar, not one of the golden oldies!
Another sickening, disgusting aspect of it is the utter shallowness of the 'adrenaline rush Sensationalism' of it all. Spoiled, soft, sheltered Christian Zionists over here unconditionally support Israel politically, religiously, financially while taking their ease at home and gleefully indulging in the excitement of living in the last days and watching the great tribulation materialize before their eyes, like sitting on the couch and watching a really good thriller or playing a video game in their living rooms, totally oblivious to the human misery being directly caused by U.S. interventionism, funding, and support. As long as all this 'last days' stuff goes on 'over there', they're just snug as a bug in a rug with their heresy. But's it's eventually going to 'come home and roost'. This incredible debt load we've left our children with is going to bring it home in a very real way.
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Paul definitely taught dispensations does he too fall under your disdain too?
Ephesians 1:21 from the imterlinear, that is straight from Greek to English,
21 OVER-UP OF-EVERY ORIGINal sovereignty AND authority AND ABILITY power AND masterdom AND EVERY NAME beING-NAMED NOT ONLY IN THE eon this but AND also IN THE beING-ABOUT one-impending
Notice the word Eon = alternative spelling of aeon, an indefinite long period of time. That would be in this EON and the EON to come. More to show the dispensations that Paul taught. Thus from the straight Greek to English we see that God deals with mankind through EON's, long periods of time followed by another. That would be what we call a dispenstaion wouldn't it?
The KJV,
21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:
Only a rabid pre-trib-Rapture Ready dispensationalist could find dispensationalism in the posted Scripture.
Not true.
And you know that is why you will not answer a simple question: when exactly did that Wall come down?
Only a rabid pre-trib-Rapture Ready dispensationalist could find dispensationalism in the posted Scripture. But then John Nelson Darby found the pre-trib-"snatching away" of the Church in Isaiah 32. He claims God revealed it to him!
Holding to a premil, pretrib rapture without being dispensationalist is called historical premillenialism, and many have held it down through the years, including John R. Rice, who was never a dispensationalist, though he liked Scofield. (He was somewhat disappointed when I joined a dispensationalist mission board."Always avoid annoying alliteration." That was one of my grammar rules. But it popped into my head, and I decided to make it the title of the thread.
I make no apologies for being pre-trib, pre-mil. But that is always associated with dispensationalist theology, and I wasn't sure where I stood on it, because I honestly don't know much about it. It is brought up by a poster here in a negative fashion, always associated with the parenthetical church idea.
Well, I don't believe in the parenthetical church (defined as the current church is just a parenthesis between God's working with Israel - feel free to help define this as well as the current subject), and I assumed that if it was associated with dispensationalist theology then I wasn't a dispensationalist, either.
So I started studying.
Turns out, they aren't correlated at all. You can be one and not the other. It's like saying "I don't like apples, and there's a such thing as apple pie. So I don't like pie."
Holding to a premil, pretrib rapture without being dispensationalist is called historical premillenialism, and many have held it down through the years, including John R. Rice, who was never a dispensationalist, though he liked Scofield. (He was somewhat disappointed when I joined a dispensationalist mission board.)
Holding to a premil, pretrib rapture without being dispensationalist is called historical premillenialism, and many have held it down through the years, including John R. Rice, who was never a dispensationalist, though he liked Scofield. (He was somewhat disappointed when I joined a dispensationalist mission board.)
Actually historical premillennialism does not believe in a pretrib rapture. A pretrib rapture is the defining point in whether a premillennial view is dispensational or covenantal.
Not true at all.
Not all Dispensationalists are Pre-Trib and not all Dispensationalism can be defined by Eschatological view.
God bless.
I actually didn't say that. I said the vice versa...all pre-trib premillennials are dispensationalists.
Originally Posted by robustheologian View Post
Actually historical premillennialism does not believe in a pretrib rapture. A pretrib rapture is the defining point in whether a premillennial view is dispensational or covenantal.
Actually historical premillennialism does not believe in a pretrib rapture.
A pretrib rapture is the defining point in whether a premillennial view is dispensational or covenantal
Ephesians 1:21 from the imterlinear, that is straight from Greek to English,
21 OVER-UP OF-EVERY ORIGINal sovereignty AND authority AND ABILITY power AND masterdom AND EVERY NAME beING-NAMED NOT ONLY IN THE eon this but AND also IN THE beING-ABOUT one-impending.
Then you explain it from the interlinear translation especially the Greek word "EON."
Holding to a premil, pretrib rapture without being dispensationalist is called historical premillenialism, and many have held it down through the years, including John R. Rice, who was never a dispensationalist, though he liked Scofield. (He was somewhat disappointed when I joined a dispensationalist mission board.)
I responded to what you said:
And you have no justification of saying that a First Century teaching is Dispensationalism.
The Rapture is a First Century Teaching, and it's timing is also derived from the First Century teachings.
That is the fact. The teaching has not changed in 2,000 years.
Actually History is recorded in Scripture, and it is hard for me to imagine Paul embracing a view other than a Pre-Trib position. Of course we have to consider that Paul died before Revelation was circulated. But based on his teaching in 2 Thessalonians it seems fairly clear to me that Paul taught a Pre-Trib Rapture.
I am pre-trib and I am not a Dispensationalist.
God bless.