[wmfights]

First, HERE is a nifty little history and critique of dispensationalism which began in England around 1830 and drifted to the U.S. by 1870...

What about the Thessalonians that thought they had missed the Rapture. They predate Augustinian Replacement Theology by about 300 yrs.

What about Chiliasm that predates the idea that a state church will pave the way for Jesus Christ to return.

From what I can tell dispensationalism is consistent with these earlier premillenial views.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

There will be no rapture. There is time and space, and then one day Christ will return to earth and history will end and all will be judged.

In the blink of an eye.

[Lee N. Field]

What about the Thessalonians that thought they had missed the Rapture. They predate Augustinian Replacement Theology by about 300 yrs.

What about Chiliasm that predates the idea that a state church will pave the way for Jesus Christ to return.

From what I can tell dispensationalism is consistent with these earlier premillenial views.

You strike me as someone who might actually read something. Could I suggest Regnum Caelorum: Patterns of Millennial Thought in Early Christianity.

The executive summary is, no, modern dispensationalism does not greatly resemble the eschatology of those early Christians who were chiliasts (and not all were).

[Quix]

What about the Thessalonians that thought they had missed the Rapture. They predate Augustinian Replacement Theology by about 300 yrs.

What about Chiliasm that predates the idea that a state church will pave the way for Jesus Christ to return.

From what I can tell dispensationalism is consistent with these earlier premillenial views.

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ABSOLUTELY, INDEED.

THX.