JND has been called the father of Dispensationalism, he is not. He IS the father of modern pre-tribulation rapture.
If you believe in covenants you must also believe in dispensations, the covenants differ in the way God has dispensed them to different people. This is so apparently true that it seems strange that any would deny it.
Darby in his study read the latter day promises God made to Israel, that Israel would be visited with great earthly blessings, Israel would be the greatest nation, Righteousness, peace and prosperity would mark her last days, as God indeed has spoken by the mouth of all His prophets since Abraham.
He saw at once that these promises could never belong to the church and he was right.
But then he made in my view an odd judgement, an illogical leap in his thinking, he deduced from this that Israel must go through the great tribulation while the church escaped. It does not make sense. For the very reason that he made the first judgement.
That Israel is distinguished from the church in the latter days by opposite conditions, the latter days of Israel are characterized by peace and prosperity while the end of the church age by war and famine.
The promises concerning Israel are strictly for the new age, the restoration of all things promised for when Christ returns, the new dispensation, the millennium when creation will be set free from it's bondage to decay.
But I think Israel will become a super power before the end of this age.
If you believe in covenants you must also believe in dispensations, the covenants differ in the way God has dispensed them to different people. This is so apparently true that it seems strange that any would deny it.
Darby in his study read the latter day promises God made to Israel, that Israel would be visited with great earthly blessings, Israel would be the greatest nation, Righteousness, peace and prosperity would mark her last days, as God indeed has spoken by the mouth of all His prophets since Abraham.
He saw at once that these promises could never belong to the church and he was right.
But then he made in my view an odd judgement, an illogical leap in his thinking, he deduced from this that Israel must go through the great tribulation while the church escaped. It does not make sense. For the very reason that he made the first judgement.
That Israel is distinguished from the church in the latter days by opposite conditions, the latter days of Israel are characterized by peace and prosperity while the end of the church age by war and famine.
The promises concerning Israel are strictly for the new age, the restoration of all things promised for when Christ returns, the new dispensation, the millennium when creation will be set free from it's bondage to decay.
But I think Israel will become a super power before the end of this age.
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