Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require
Defending Dispensationalism Responding to five common criticisms without defending what Scripture does not require Dispensationalism is often criticised by slogans before it is defined. It allegedly b…
Read article →What the historical evidence proves—and what it does not
…ed to the Lord before a coming tribulation. The right claim is not "Ephraem taught modern dispensationalism." It is that Pseudo-Ephraem supplies genuine early evidence for a concept substantially similar to pre-Tribulation removal. Dismissing the passage solely because the name o…
Read article →History, heresy, and the temptation of private Christianity
…ying doctrine differs from Valentinian anthropology. Prophecy becomes a secret-key system Dispensationalism requires special care here. Formally, it is among the least Gnostic eschatologies imaginable. It insists upon a good Creator who acts in history, the bodily resurrection of…
Read article →Sir Robert Anderson · Biblical and apologetic argument · 1897
…hy a particular prayer was not answered. Divine silence Providence Suffering Prayer Grace Dispensationalism Future judgment
View recommendation →The LORD, Zion, and the meaning of Beulah in Isaiah 62:4–5
Isaiah 62 presents Israel as covenantally married to the LORD while describing Israel and the promised land as joined by an enduring, almost marital bond.
Read article →E. W. Bullinger · Sermons · 1892
Ten connected sermons tracing the Bible's testimony to the personal return of Jesus Christ, the prophetic hope woven through Scripture, and the events and purposes gathered around His appearing.
View recommendation →E. W. Bullinger · Verse-by-verse commentary · 1902
An extensive journey through Revelation which examines its language, literary structures, Old Testament connections, recurring themes, sequence of visions, and place within the wider prophetic testimony of Scripture.
View recommendation →Why the final seven is unfinished, future, and centred upon Israel and Jerusalem
…utively. A gap between the sixty-ninth and seventieth is supposedly inserted only because dispensationalism requires one. The text itself creates the chronological problem: "And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the pr…
Read article →A response to Hank Hanegraaff on resurrection, Daniel’s final week, and the Tribulation
…of Tim LaHaye and popular Left Behind presentations. Not every claim made within popular dispensationalism is essential to pretribulationism, and not every rhetorical description of the Tribulation should be defended merely because it came from a pretribulation writer. Revelatio…
Read article →A response to Michael Horton on the land promise, Amos 9, and the people of God
…uld affirm Christ's supremacy. The disagreement concerns what follows from it. Mainstream dispensationalism does not teach multiple ways of salvation. It teaches that salvation in every age rests upon grace, is received through faith, and is objectively grounded in Christ's atoni…
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