Wow, Starbucks, you must be desperate.
If you read the history you will find that dispensationalism is a fairly recent introduction to America in about 1900 in NY. Some took it there during the civil war. In the UK it began in the early 18th century, but was mainly confined to the Irvingites who seem to be the main originators, and The Plymouth Brethren.and was widely considered to be a new heresy.
Philip Mauro a NY lawyer, writing about 1923 said he was one of the first believers in the "new system". He wrote books when he believed that from about 1908. He later studied the scriptures more thoroughly he left what he saw as error. He came, they say, a preterist but he believed the antichrist was still future.+
I was in the Brethren for years so I know the teaching. When I asked, "How do you know that the let and hindrance refers to the church and the Holy Spirit, they quoted Gen.6:3, which of course has nothing to do with that.
And seeing as you quote ECF as futurist, a slander, they taught that it referred to the emperor and the Empire, and the temple in Revelation referred to the church.
There were one or two in history, who had odd views, usually nothing like what is taught today, but the church never taught it.
if you really want an unbiased, expert, non-dispensational view, I recommend that you abandon Wikipedia and read J. Barton Payne, Encyclopedia of Biblical Prophecy.
