“I simply did not grow up with this notion in my 1960s Southern Baptist church”
You needed to be in SoCal where Chuck Smith and Calvary Chapel were taking off. You’d have been saturated with it. Chuck and Hal Lindsey were big factors in popularizing Dispensationalism with its Israel focused End Times eschatology.
Chuck Smith often mentioned his close connection with big players in the Israeli government and military.
Dispensationalism has its own paradigm for interpreting the Bible that has its followers heavily invested in what happens to the modern state of Israel.
——>Dispensationalism has its own paradigm for interpreting the Bible that has its followers heavily invested in what happens to the modern state of Israel.
I agree.
Why do they do this?