Pre-Trib researchers Dr. Thomas Ice and Dr. William Watson among others have revealed a growing and/or flowering Puritan Zionism throughout the 1600’s. In other words, not only did many Puritans recover a much stronger interest in eschatology that had become lost in the Catholic Church, but they also came back with a much more pronounced Zionism – something lacking in the early ancient church in spite of its Pre-Millennial views....Armed with such important historical research, Dispensationalists can now easily credit many Puritan divines as their rightful forefathers long before John Nelson Darby (1800-1882) systematized their views into a coherent systematic theology that became part and parcel of the Protestant Reformation.
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2 posted on 01/14/2014 1:15:37 PM PST by Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")