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To: topcat54
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.

437 posted on 11/09/2007 6:44:12 AM PST by Uncle Chip (TRUTH : Ignore it. Deride it. Allegorize it. Interpret it. But you can't ESCAPE it.)
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To: Uncle Chip; fortheDeclaration; Lee N. Field; Dr. Eckleburg; 1000 silverlings; Lord_Calvinus
But Spurgeon did believe that the Jews would be regathered to the land of Promise, didn't he???

That view is not unique to Spurgeon. There were many churchmen throughout the centuries, but especially in the last two or three among the Puritans for example, who believe that God would reestablish the Jewish people in the land after they turned to Jesus as Messiah in faith. The key here is after they believed. They also believed that this would happen in conjunction with a general increase in the effectiveness of the gospel throughout all the world. Many people in many nation would be coming to Christ. The Jews would be provoked to jealousy, and they to would come to faith in Messiah.

All this happens without a "great tribulation" or massive murder of Jews living in Israel, and without the secret "rapture" of the Church, without an antichrist, etc. The dispensational scheme is unnecessary to seeing a blessed future for Jewish people who some to faith in Jesus as Messiah and are regrafted into the people of God/body of Christ.

440 posted on 11/09/2007 6:53:08 AM PST by topcat54 ("Dispensationalism is a disease ... as contagious as polio.")
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