Dear Friends,
As evangelicals we have all been indoctrinated. We have had some some wonderful scriptural truths hammered into us such as
1. the all sufficiency of the blood of Christ to save,
2. salvation by grace through faith,
3. the priesthood of all believers etc..
All these are firmly established in holy scripture. Some of our indoctrinations, however, we discover is not so well established on the teachings of the Bible. One of these is the "seven dispensations" of Clarence Larkin.
In the past we could let these steel compartments chop up the people of God locking them up in manmade, Hellenised, Vaticanised, Masonic style rooms as it were and not have any problems with it. But now things are changing. This dispensationalist doctrine is now beginning to become a huge problem when we try to sort out what God is doing and will do in the church and in Israel in the endtime and beyond. Does the so called "Age of Grace" and so called "Church Age" extend just from Pentecost to the beginning of the 70th week? Did God have a church/congregation/ekklesia/called out company in old testament times? Of course He did! Will He have a church during the Tribulation? Of course He will! Does God have two people's, two elects, two congregation/churches of YHVH/God? Of course not?
As we can see, we have some serious problems with this dispensationalist doctrine. Yet this 7 box dispensationalism is still the mindset of most evangelicals. This manmade dispensationalist doctrine of Larkin copied by Darby and Scofield is failing us badly as we seek to base our understanding on the simple faithful Berean interpretation of scripture. It is time to hold fast to that which is good and to reject those things that do not square with scripture.
So what DOES the Bible teach as far as dispensations are concerned? Just how many ages are there really?
If we search the scriptures we discover that the Bible and indeed Jesus Himself only spoke of two ages,
those two ages being "this age" and "the age to come".
Here is an article in powerpoint by a friend of mine, Richard Perry.
http://lastdaysmystery.info/Power%20Point/Age%20to%20Come/Age%20to%20Come.PPT
Blessings to all,
Gavin
http://endtimepilgrim.org
As evangelicals we have all been indoctrinated. We have had some some wonderful scriptural truths hammered into us such as
1. the all sufficiency of the blood of Christ to save,
2. salvation by grace through faith,
3. the priesthood of all believers etc..
All these are firmly established in holy scripture. Some of our indoctrinations, however, we discover is not so well established on the teachings of the Bible. One of these is the "seven dispensations" of Clarence Larkin.
In the past we could let these steel compartments chop up the people of God locking them up in manmade, Hellenised, Vaticanised, Masonic style rooms as it were and not have any problems with it. But now things are changing. This dispensationalist doctrine is now beginning to become a huge problem when we try to sort out what God is doing and will do in the church and in Israel in the endtime and beyond. Does the so called "Age of Grace" and so called "Church Age" extend just from Pentecost to the beginning of the 70th week? Did God have a church/congregation/ekklesia/called out company in old testament times? Of course He did! Will He have a church during the Tribulation? Of course He will! Does God have two people's, two elects, two congregation/churches of YHVH/God? Of course not?
As we can see, we have some serious problems with this dispensationalist doctrine. Yet this 7 box dispensationalism is still the mindset of most evangelicals. This manmade dispensationalist doctrine of Larkin copied by Darby and Scofield is failing us badly as we seek to base our understanding on the simple faithful Berean interpretation of scripture. It is time to hold fast to that which is good and to reject those things that do not square with scripture.
So what DOES the Bible teach as far as dispensations are concerned? Just how many ages are there really?
If we search the scriptures we discover that the Bible and indeed Jesus Himself only spoke of two ages,
those two ages being "this age" and "the age to come".
Here is an article in powerpoint by a friend of mine, Richard Perry.
http://lastdaysmystery.info/Power%20Point/Age%20to%20Come/Age%20to%20Come.PPT
Blessings to all,
Gavin
http://endtimepilgrim.org