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To: topcat54
[Moreover, Matthew isn't speaking to Jewish Christians, it is speaking to Jews, since the book of Matthew is a book directed to the Jew (note the genealogy back to Abraham), while Luke is a book for Gentiles, going back to Adam.]

A dispensational presupposition not supported by anything actually in the Bible.

Yes, it is supported by the genealogies that I gave you.

That is why Matthew only goes back to Abraham while Luke goes back to Adam.

Understanding the Bible means understanding differences as well as similitaries (rightly dividing)

420 posted on 11/08/2007 11:28:31 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (We must beat the Democrats or the country will be ruined! - Lincoln)
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To: Uncle Chip; xzins; P-Marlowe; Quix
I posted Scofield's note to Luke 21 in case someone hasn't seen it.

Amazing that the note was originally written in 1907 (this is from 1917).

No Israel-yet.

Jerusalem not in Jewish hands-yet.

Still Scofield wrote about it in his notes as a certain future event that hadn't happened-yet.

In the last days scoffers would come because the Lord hadn't returned-yet.(2Pe.3

422 posted on 11/09/2007 5:08:32 AM PST by fortheDeclaration (We must beat the Democrats or the country will be ruined! - Lincoln)
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To: fortheDeclaration; Uncle Chip; Lee N. Field; Dr. Eckleburg; 1000 silverlings; Lord_Calvinus
Understanding the Bible means understanding differences as well as similitaries (rightly dividing)

Yes, but not slicing and dicing per Scofield's Notes.

The notion that Matthew was for a primarily Jewish audience and Luke for a gentile audience clearly supports the reading that Matthew 24 was using "abomination of desolation" (familiar to Jewish audience) while Luke 21 would use Jerusalem surrounded by armies to describe the same event.

Where the dispensationalist goes overboard is to assume that Matthew is exclusively to the Jews while Luke is somehow exclusively to gentiles, and use that to cloud their interpretation of the texts, and, in this case, to foresee two entirely different events.

423 posted on 11/09/2007 5:37:23 AM PST by topcat54 ("Dispensationalism is a disease ... as contagious as polio.")
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