Your entire post assumes I am a Dispensationalist, I am not, I am Premillennialist, however. As to yourself, you never said clearly what position you hold to. In my 40 years of being in the middle of the “prophecy wars” I have learned not to trust someone who hides what he believes. Preterists and Postmills do it all the time.
I’ll sum up your post in a few words, don’t throw the baby out with the wash water. Granted, people tend to interpret prophesied future events prematurely.
Read the Pseudipigrapha if you want to see a prime example of it. These were Jews in the years before Christ who contrived all sorts of scenarios about the Messianic future, all of them premature and wrong. Yet Christ arrived right on time fulfilling the messianic prophesies despite all their schemes.
The same today with the Dispensationalists, they’ve been wrong on so many things it isn’t funny. But the prophetic scripture will be fulfilled precisely despite them.
Same with the Preterists and Postmills, and yourself whatever you are, you are disgusted with the Dispensationalists and you throw the baby out, opting instead for even more false prophetic schemes. Prophecy will be fulfilled no matter what people do with it.
Your entire post assumes I am a Dispensationalist, I am not, I am Premillennialist
My sincere apologies for what clearly would appear to be an insult on my part. Please forgive me.
Nevertheless, you can delete much of that stuff except my problems with your system's fantasy about Christ making blood animal sacrifices to Himself in a physically restored Temple.
Chiliasts have been rightly dismissed over the millennia, and I shall continue to honor that fine tradition since I believe that our LORD reigns right now in a heavenly Kingdom and doesn't need to subject Himself to the profane and reprobate for a literal thousand years. The physical earthly rule has been a Jewish fantasy for ages and it is sad to see that some within the Church community are thinking like the pre-Pentecost disciples.
I have learned not to trust someone who hides what he believes.
I agree, and that is why I appreciate your truth in labeling. I believe I have been pretty forward in expressing my eschatological views in the past bunch of months, so all should be well between us.
...opting instead for even more false prophetic schemes....
You may think so, but they are the majority views since Paul's day to present - at least none of the schemes you assume I hold are blasphemous, like Chiliasts who wish to see a restored blood animal sacrificial system because Christ's apparently wasn't good enough. Or a system that rejects Christ's reign right now because it is based on apocalyptic Judaic literature (Esdras, Enoch, etc.) that has forever expected a physical "throne of David" sort of earthly reign.
(I just plowed through Hill's "Regnum Caloreum", interesting take on the ante-Nicene claims by the Chiliasts)"
Nevertheless, I don't have a beef with Chiliasts or Semi preterist PostMills since I understand where y'all get your respective foundations. I'm just resisting this Age's Apostasy which is the American Religion's Dysfunctionalism.