JBaldwin
Puritan Board Post-Graduate
When it comes to eschatology, I left the dispensational camp years ago, because I could find little support of that view in Scripture. I was, however, deeply indoctrinated into that line of thinking, and I can't help looking at what is going on in the world and wondering if maybe, at least to some point, the dispensationalists were right. And truthfully, no one that I have talked to in the theological cirlces (with the exception of the PB, and not much here from what I can tell), has anyone been able to help me look at the world scene and give me an explanation of world events from Scripture as nicely as the dispensationalists.
Before you all go nuts on me, please hear me out, I am not a dispensationalist. While I cannot go along with, seven years tribulation, church age, rapture ideas, etc. it is uncanny to me how the dispensationalists have been able (for decades) to predict what will happen on the world scene, and I wonder if there is any validity to their arguments.
Here are some of my questions. And even while I ask them, I realize that I shouldn't be trying to squish current events into Scripture.
Will there be ONE Antichrist (above all the hundreds who have shown up over the centuries) who rule the entire world? Is that taught in Scripture?
Will the USA fall into oblivian as the dispensationalists have predicted, because it is not mentioned in Scripture?
If the dispensaltionalists are so wrong, how is it that they were able to predict the reunification of Europe under the EU 50 years ago?
What do the Scriptures teach about the end of the last days before Christ's return? "But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." comes to mind.
Does anyone out there have some answers? I really don't want to start a debate on viewpoints, but rather discuss the views and how they fit in with current events.
Before you all go nuts on me, please hear me out, I am not a dispensationalist. While I cannot go along with, seven years tribulation, church age, rapture ideas, etc. it is uncanny to me how the dispensationalists have been able (for decades) to predict what will happen on the world scene, and I wonder if there is any validity to their arguments.
Here are some of my questions. And even while I ask them, I realize that I shouldn't be trying to squish current events into Scripture.
Will there be ONE Antichrist (above all the hundreds who have shown up over the centuries) who rule the entire world? Is that taught in Scripture?
Will the USA fall into oblivian as the dispensationalists have predicted, because it is not mentioned in Scripture?
If the dispensaltionalists are so wrong, how is it that they were able to predict the reunification of Europe under the EU 50 years ago?
What do the Scriptures teach about the end of the last days before Christ's return? "But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." comes to mind.
Does anyone out there have some answers? I really don't want to start a debate on viewpoints, but rather discuss the views and how they fit in with current events.