Dispensationalism

Dispensationalism may not be a household term, but it is considered to be the most influential tradition in evangelical theology. “A significant change presently taking place in dispensational interpretations of Scripture. This change affects the way dispensationalists understand key biblical themes such as the kingdom of God, the church in God's redemptive program, the interrelationship of the biblical covenants, the historical and prophetic fulfillment of those covenants, and the role of Christ in that fulfillment”. “Dispensationalism is a system of theology that began in the mid-19th century. It is primarily associated with the Reformed wing of Protestantism and has been defined as a philosophy of history delineating God's relationship to human affairs, a hermeneutical methodology defining how Scripture is to be interpreted, and more popularly as a particular form of eschatology, a futurist premillennialism with an apocalyptic view of the end times”. The question to consider for this paper is whether dispensationalism is the key to biblical prophecy. Dan Mitchell proposes the fundamental differences between dispensational and non- dispensational eschatological systems lie in hermeneutical methods. In the mid-nineteen century, the recovery of…

Darby made numerous trips between 1859 and 1877 to talk about his new dispensationalist ideas. His theology began to spread rapidly with the publication of the Scofield Reference Bible, a bible which had annotated ideas published right alongside the King James text. The annotations outlined the theology of Dispensationalism and the respective ages that went along with it. The Scofield Reference Bible outlines seven dispensations and names them by a characteristic of the age. The ages go as such:…

Daniel’s 70 weeks lay out God’s plan for the nation, Israel (see Daniel 9:24-27). According to most scholars within both the Dispensational and Covenantal camps, the Messiah (Jesus) is cut off (crucified) after the 7 and 62 (7+62=69) weeks. These are weeks of years, not days. Dispensationalists teach a parenthesis (2000-year gap) between the 69th and 70th week, which becomes the church age of grace, essentially starting from Christ’s resurrection and extending all the way until the rapture of…

Among Christians, there are debates on many various theologies. Two of the more popular theologies which are debated are New Covenant Theology and dispensationalism. Both sides hold dear to their beliefs and stress very opposite opinions. While dispensationalists hold to the belief that “Israel” always means a literal, physical descendants of Jacob Covenant Theologians believe that “Israel” can mean either literal, physical descendants of Jacob or figurative, spiritual Israel. An example in…

organizations like the Moral Majority and the Christian Coalition, CUFI has recently become the new dynamic reality of US Conservative Evangelicalism: it claims “426,000 active members, 40 events per month, a growing network on college campuses, and Hispanic and African American outreach.” At the 2007 summit, held in Washington, DC., Hagee insisted that CUFI’s motives are entirely unrelated to eschatology. “Our support of Israel has nothing to do with end-times prophecy. It has absolutely…

Christ will reign for 1000 years, bodily staying on Earth. The righteous will be resurrected. Christ will reign with tlem. There will be a short-lived rebellion ofSatan at the end of the millennium. Besides, it will be quickly suppressed, the wicked dead will be brought to justice, aryl after this cones eternity. In the eschatology of historE:al premillennialism, the apparent coming of Jesus Christ and tie admiration of the Church is preceded by great tribulation, aryl in tie dispensati»nal…

birth. Millennium Theory which quite simply connects the coming of the new Millennium golden age on earth with the second coming of Christ was important, as 2000 years since Christ’s traditional birth date was imminently approaching. Millennialism had its followers even before the birth of Christian Protestantism, but it was never official Church doctrine. However, the Bible which was newly made available by the Reformation allowed people to interpret scripture independent of clergy and…

Premillennialists believed that peace of the world can only be granted by a catastrophic event or a supernatural force. They believed the oncoming of Christ was the only way for the world to have any sort of salvation. Another millennialism is Amillennialism. Amillennialism is formed from biblical references. They are important to the hearts of the millennialists. Finally the last millennial mentioned is dispensationalism. The way they work is that Christ will die and end up resurrected,…

interview that he did not know when the end of the world would come and made no public comment after October 21st, passed without his predicted apocalypse. Belief in the Rapture is often connected with a belief in the literal coming of the millennium, the 1,000 year rule of Jesus Christ after his return, as mentioned in chapter 20 of The Book of Revelation, although there are also amillennial interpretations of the belief that reject that concept. There is also a divide among…

The social aspect of sin, though overlooked by many, carries significant theological weight in understanding and overcoming sin holistically. The first step in recognizing social sin is to be aware of the fallenness of creation with all things considered. Secondly, we should pay heed to the warnings of Paul against the rulers, authorities, cosmic powers…(Eph. 6:12). It underscores that there are things that works in opposition to the force of light that affects everybody and cannot simply be…