First, the Church is real and the volume of the New Testament is about it to the Glory of God. The Church IS the body of Christ. [See Col 1:24]
Second, the word dispensation and the meaning thereof is a theme in Paul's letters. [See 1Cor9:17 ; Eph1:10 ; Eph3:2 ; Col 1:25] The Great Tribulation (second half of the seventieth week of Daniel) centers around Israel, and specifically Jerusalem because it is in the Temple that the abomination of desolation will appear, and be seen --probably via CNN-- around the world as he desecrates the Holy of Holies in the rebuilt temple. The Church will be in Heaven at this time, as revealed by John in The Revelation.
The Church Age is the parenthesis between Daniel's sixty-ninth week and the Seventieth week ending in the Day of The Lord. The candlesticks of the seven Churches are just that, the illumination of each of the Churches written to by Jesus in Rev 2 and 3. The Philadelphia Church (a specific church and segment of the Church Age found sprinkled throughout the entire Church Age) is promised by Jesus, ‘Because thou didst keep the word of my endurance, I also will keep thee from the hour of the trial that is about to come upon all the world, to try those dwelling upon the earth.' [Rev3:10]
.
Stop trying to twist Paul’s words!
Dispensationalism will send millions to the lake of fire, and it is not Paul’s fault that they yearned for delusion.
.