[topcat54]

Are you sure about that??? Are you sure that others before him, like for example Spurgeon, didn't also foresee the return of the Jews to the Land of Promise when they read the words of the prophets in their Sola Scriptura Bibles.

The context of this discussion is the destruction of the temple, and whether Matthew and Luke have two different events in view. If you have some evidence that would contradict my statement that no one taught this notion of two different events, one past and one future, before it appeared in Scofield’s Notes (or some other Irvingite/Darbyite pedigree), then please share it.

This interpretation is a direct outgrowth of the dispensational notion of the radical distinction between Israel and the Church. Spurgeon did not hold to any such erroneous view.

[Uncle Chip]

This interpretation is a direct outgrowth of the dispensational notion of the radical distinction between Israel and the Church. Spurgeon did not hold to any such erroneous view.

But Spurgeon did believe that the Jews would be regathered to the land of Promise, didn't he??? Perhaps Schofield read some of his notes on the subject, and was influenced by them.