Will do, thanks.
I have to say that it was dispensationalists that got me out of a very legalist church. While I took to the disp eagerly I noticed some disturbing things about their "prophecy" studies.
1. the fig tree parable does not mean the end times. Christ was merely showing them that they look for signs of season changes, they needed to look for the signs he gave them concerning the destruction of the temple.
2. The map of the Holy Land in the 1000 year reign. It streched from the Nile, in some books or the River of Egypt (wadi el arish) tothe Euphrates east.
If that was the Holy land then Moses was already there while in Egypt. there was no need to invade Cannan as they were already there. the generation that was to die in the desert were denied enterance to the Holy Land, but by these maps they were already there. Moses was forbidden to enter the Holy Land but got to look into it. the maps show he was already there.
4. too much hinges on the book of revelation. Yet the early Christians considered Revelation fulfilled by the time of Costantine. Take away revelation and their whole prophecy program collapses.
5.John R. Rice has an entire different end time doctrine than Curtis T. Hudston of the Independent Baptists.
so, i'm moving toward a more traditional Calvanist posititon. I no longer use Schofield's bible but use a KJV ( I was raised with it and understand it.)
I have found that the Southern Baptist conference has never accepted Schofield but his bible has taken the baptist churches by storm. Before him they were the equivalent of "dipping Presbeterians".
It is no wonder that the late Duane Edward Spencer of San Antonio (Word Keys Which Unlock Scriptures)moved away from the Disp position and toward traditional Calvanism way back about 1975.