The issue continues to be the reformed theologians total inability to rightly exegete the OT. They cannot interpret the OT without casting it in the light of the NT. They see every prophecy about Israel that wasn't fulfilled as applying to the church ... and where it doesn't make sense ... they pull out the "spiritual sense" interpretation.
The dispensational premillenial position is the natural result of the historical grammatical approach to interpretation coupled with proper theological method. Since both camps would claim to use the historical grammatical approach to interpretation the larger issues are with theological method.
The Dispensational position would use the following theological method when dealing with matters of interpretation:
1. Recognize preunderstanding.
2. Form a Biblical Theology of the OT using a literal interpretation of the OT text.
3. Form a Biblical Theology of the NT using a literal interpretation of the NT text.
4. Synthesize results into a Systematic Theology.
The non-Dispensational method would use the following:
1. Recognize preunderstanding.
2. Form a Biblical Theology of the NT using a literal interpretation of the NT text.
3. Form a Biblical Theology of the OT based upon the NT understanding of the OT text.
4. Synthesize results into a Systematic Theology.
This is the heart of the matter ... they read the NT back into the Old and cannot interpret the OT outside that framework. It is why they must insist that Matt 24 was totally fulfilled in 70 AD.
WELL PUT
Though it leaves out human perversity in the equation.
It's the weekly dispensational bashing from the usual suspects.The issue continues to be the reformed theologians total inability to rightly exegete the OT.
Did all the dispy's get up on the wrong side of the bed this morning? Been a while since I've seen it this deep.
The 70 AD destruction of the temple is not the fulfilling of Matthew 24 because Israel was not a nation at that time.
In Matthew 24:32 Jesus states, “Now learn a parable of the fig tree...:
Whenever Christ states “now learn” and then speaks in another parable, the fig tree is obviously not the literal fig tree but representative of something. In this case, Israel.