Why, Marlowe, You ought to know better than that!
Replacementarians build theological kingdoms in the sky—the high sky—the verrrrry high sky.
With visions of sugar plums dancing about . . .
and fluffy cotton candy for which to shout . . .
Just envision the Replacementarian heaven . . .
Fantasies upon top of fantasies
& nary a one touching reality
All just ectoplasms of their rantasies.
In their rubber Bible rearranged heaven,
There’s no 4 and 20 elders!
The Jewish Patriarchs have been errr
Fantasized out—very out—of existence.
In fact, any reference to Israel and
the children of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
has been whitewashed into oblivion.
Though there are a few hasty cases of
SPIRITUAL being plastered over a few
chisled in stone references to ISRAEL.
Usually with very garish bumper sticker
pieces of stretched rubber sorts of things.
And there’s no fruit trees by the River of LIfe.
There’s no music or dancing about.
There’s only dreary little boxes
on solitary little clouds with
Gabriel going around occasionally
whacking heavenly souls on their
knuckles for not reading Josephus
Studiously enough.
Some heaven! No wonder there are
few Jews there. At some point,
even they know an imposter SHAM!
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But I guess we shouldn’t be too hard on the Replacmentarian perspective.
It must be quite a trick to get the rubberized Bible into a Gordian knot sufficiently complex to provide for a sterile, dead, tiny white boxed little cell filled heaven
AND
Christ currently reigning over the earth with satan bound and sin and crime banished . . .
and still have to put up with CNN CENTER in Atlanta and all that CONTRARY evidence.
I wonder . . . does Contrarian Preterist Replacementarian theology come out of CNN Center?
I get the feeling that our local group of non-preterist-Preterists and non-replacementatian-replacementarianists have no idea what they believe about the prophecies of the Bible (other than that they do not relate to Israel).
They claim that Christ was being totally and entirely literal when talking about "This Generation" in the Olivet Discourse, but then they allegorize every other event in that sermon to the point that it has no discernable meaning whatsoever.
They are entirely inconsistent in their insistence that they are being entirely consistent.