Posted on 03/25/2026 10:16:07 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
To the average observer, “dispensationalism” sounds like academic jargon. To its adherents, it is a roadmap of the end times. It teaches that history is divided into distinct “dispensations”... In this scheme, we are currently in a “parenthesis” that will end with a secret “Rapture” and seven years of blood-soaked tribulation in the Middle East, culminating in Jesus’ return to fight a war.
But here is the problem: This two-stage return of Christ contradicts 2,000 years of Christian orthodoxy. The Nicene Creed, the foundational statement of faith for nearly every Christian tradition, affirms that Christ “shall come again, with glory, to judge the quick and the dead.”
Note the language: It is a unified sequence. One event. One judgment.
By bifurcating the Second Coming into two distinct phases, dispensationalism contradicts the historic faith and meets the conciliar definition of heresy. It is in direct opposition to the teachings established by the ecumenical councils of the early church. Historically, the Council of Ephesus (431) already took aim at the “fanciful theories” of millennialist teachers (like Apollinarius).
While the church always has held to a future coming of Jesus Christ, it has consistently rejected the kind of sensual, sensational, worldly and blood-soaked “comic book” eschatology that characterizes dispensationalism.
When a theology claims the church is a “parenthesis” and that the “real” work of God involves a return to Old Testament-style temple sacrifices, it is not conservative or biblical. It is a Christological and ecclesiological heresy...
The New Testament teaches that Jesus Christ himself is the temple. He is the Final and Sufficient Sacrifice. To suggest that God “needs” a third temple with animal sacrifices is to say Christ’s death on the Cross was insufficient.
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Victor Davis Hanson being one. Numerous Iranian Christians pray for regime change to be seen through.
Personally I don't subscribe to any of them. But I note that the statements of the insane maniacs who have been running Iran since 1979 subscribe to their Islamic version, and almost certainly believe that their 45+ year long war against the "Satans" (America and Israel) is part of their Final Days version of Armageddon.
The dispensationalists are pretty wild and crazy people too, no argument. But I think the Iranians are the ones that are more likely to succeed in "getting us all killed", at least in the short run, if we don't manage to wipe them out first.
Millenialistic Dispensationalism is simply heresy, false doctrine. It is an attempt to read all of the New Testament - and Old Testament! - through the lens of a fanciful reading of Revelation. John Nelson Darby and Cyrus Scofield brought this old heresy out of mothballs and into the modern world.
Anyone who looks deeply into the 18 centuries of Christianity that were before them will not find this teaching given any level of credence - if you can even find any evidence of it in those 18 centuries.
It’s popularization in our era by Hal Lindsay (The Late, Great Planet Earth) is embarrassing to read today ... but it made big money for Lindsay. It is, in a sense, part of the 1960’s era divorcement from reality, but this in a pseudo-Christian veneer. The 1960’s was a disaster for any clear thinking examination of anything.
What a load of hogwash!...Fact is the Islam is Satan’s copy of Christianity, a counterfeit if you will and Judaism rejected Christ and that is why they will be fooled by the Lawless one in the latter days...Just look around and proof is all around you...
David Bumgardner is a New Age religion practitioner who wallows in Liberalism as his writings ooze with Leftist buzzwords and Liberal catchphrases and slogans often center on themes of progress, social justice, collective responsibility, and equality.
The church ia never mentioned after the 3rd chapter of Revelation. The rapture. The church is never mentioned after the third chapter of Revelation. I say it twice so you can check it out yourself.
“The New Testament teaches that Jesus Christ himself is the temple. He is the Final and Sufficient Sacrifice. To suggest that God “needs” a third temple with animal sacrifices is to say Christ’s death on the Cross was insufficient.”
Total bullschiff. Scripture says explicitly that the man of lawlessness will sit in the temple of God and proclaim himself to be god. Plans have been drawn for the rebuilding of the temple and the search for the red heifer is ongoing. Check the Temple Institute website.
Must be Catholic. You guys have plenty of your own problems with scripture.
No kidding
Here they come lol
Interesting. Thanks to all posters.
I’ll stick with what the Bible says, not “tradition.” Thanks.
Pete Hegseth is sounding pretty Rapture Ready lately
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I totally agree with you
Darbyites, like the Millerites and the followers of Joseph Smith, all propose that Christians everywhere, and the Church, believed and taught falsehood for 18 or 19 Centuries.
This is not consistent with the promises of the Lord to his followers when He walked on the Earth.
You must choose. Christ, or Schofield.
It’s really not that hard.
——>Total bullschiff. Scripture says explicitly that the man of lawlessness will sit in the temple of God and proclaim himself to be god. Plans have been drawn for the rebuilding of the temple and the search for the red heifer is ongoing. Check the Temple Institute website.
Gill’s exposition of the whole bible:
SO THAT HE AS GOD SITTETH IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD... not in the temple of Jerusalem, which was to be destroyed and never to be rebuilt more, and was destroyed before this man of sin was revealed; but in the church of God, so called, 1 Corinthians 3:16 the Ethiopic version renders it, “in the house of God”; for antichrist rose up out of, and in the midst of the church; and it was a true church in which he first appeared, and over which he usurped power and authority; though it has been so corrupted by him, as now to be only nominally so; here he sits, and has homage done him by his creatures, as if he was a god, and is not only styled Christ’s vicar, but a god on earth, and our Lord God the Pope; so in the triumphal arch at the entry of Pope Sixtus IV, these lines were put, “oraculo vocis, mundi moderaris habenas, et merito in terris crederis esse Dens”; the sense is, that he governed the world by his word, and was deservedly believed to be God on earth; and their canon law g says,
“it is clearly enough shown, that the Pope cannot be loosed or bound by any secular power; since it is evident that he is called God by that pious prince, Constantine, and it is manifest that God cannot be judged by men:’’
and Pope John XXII is expressly called h “our Lord God the Pope”: the Ethiopic version reads, “he shall say to all, I am the Lord God”; see Ezekiel 28:2, the Alexandrian copy, and some others, and the Vulgate Latin version, leave out the phrase, “as God”, but the Syriac retains it: however, the same blasphemy is expressed in the next clause,
SHEWING HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD... by usurping a power over the consciences and souls of men; by dispensing with the laws of God and man; by assuming to himself all power in heaven and in earth; by taking upon him to open and shut the gates of heaven at pleasure; and by pardoning sin, which none but God can do; this is the mouth speaking blasphemies, Revelation 13:5.
“that will end with a secret “Rapture” “, Why do folks think it will happen secretly or the remaining will not know what happened when the Bible says
“1 Thessalonians 4:16: “For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God...”
Everyone will hear that shout and trumpet. No one will be wondering what just happened.
Dispensationalism comes from Catholic “futurism.” It literally comes from the Little Horn/Antichrist/2nd beast of Revelation power. It was designed by Satan to be a red herring. Dispensationalists will almost certainly take the MARK OF THE BEAST, if alive, at that time in history. It will certainly get them killed. No coming back from that.
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