There is no such thing Biblically as “Dispensationalism.” It is a fancy word
that some puffed-up scholar invented in the late 19th century. Although the
word “dispensation” appears four times in the Holy Bible, it means
“stewardship” in all four uses. For example: Paul said in 1st Corinthians
9:17, “For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my
will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me.” Paul was
saying that God had given a stewardship of the Gospel. A “steward” is a
person who manages (or administrates) the property or affairs of another
person. Thus, Paul said that God had put him in charge of being a steward of
the Gospel—to defend, teach and preach it to the world. This has absolutely
NOTHING to do with time periods, which is the bizarre teaching of
Dispensationalism.
I have written a helpful article exposing Dispensationalism...
http://www.lovethetruth.com/false_doctrine/dispensationalism.htm
The lie of Dispensationalism errantly divides
the Holy Bible into SEVEN sections, but God has already divided His Word
into TWO great divisions of OLD and NEW Testaments (or LAW and GRACE). Law
and Grace focus on the Gospel. The LAW shows mankind that we are
guilty sinners (Romans 3:19-20), which then brings us to Jesus Christ to be
saved by God's GRACE (Galatians 3:24-26). That is very simple to
grasp. Whereas in the system of Dispensationalism, the Bible is divided into
different segments of time, and the focus errantly becomes Israel instead of
the Gospel. Dispensationalism is a complicated unbiblical system from which
many doctrinal heresies and bizarre teachings arise. This is why good men
like Dr. Peter S. Ruckman (1921-1916) go haywire doctrinally, who taught
multiple plans of salvation. Other heretics include Dr. William P. Grady,
and Robert Breaker on YouTube, who both teach multiple plans of salvation.
Dispensationalism was allegedly intended to “help” (go figure) the Bible
student, but from what I have seen firsthand, it does the exact opposite,
confusing the student by introducing new concepts that are foreign to the
Holy Scriptures. For example: There never was a “dispensation of law” under
Moses! That term was invented by pseudo-scholars. The dark New World Order
agenda behind Dispensationalism is the evil of Zionism, which was fully
intended to deceive the churches into supporting a modern manmade state of
Israel. Zionists knew long before World War II that there would be a new
re-birthed state of Israel. They made it happen!
As tragic and horrifying as it may seem, there is historical evidence to
prove that the Rothschilds and others actually planned World War II, as a
pretext to drive out the Palestinians and forcefully rob them of their
homes, to establish a new state of Israel in 1948. You must know that
present-day manmade Israel was put there by evil men, and not by God. The
true nation of Israel went into Babylonian captivity in 586 BC and hasn't
existed since. Hosea 3:4-5 teaches that when the Lord Jesus Christ returns,
and the Israelites repent toward God, only then will God regather and
restore true Israel. Jesus will be their rightful King, Who shall sit upon
the throne of David and reign for 1,000 years during the Millennium. What a
day that will be!!!
Here is a news article published from 1829, which evidences that the
Rothschild were buying land in Judea for a future rebirth of Israel...
This is the woeful motivation behind
Dispensationalism, a clever way to theologically brainwash Bible students to
support a manmade, wicked, secular, state of Israel that rejects the Gospel,
rejects the Messiah Jesus Christ, and spits in God's face. Literally
hundreds of thousands of churches worldwide foolishly praise, idolize and
bestow outlandish financial donations and generous gifts upon these
Christ-rejecting wicked people (many of whom aren't even biological Jews)!
It is another episode of The Twilight Zone! For this reason, and many more,
I strongly reject Dispensationalism in all it's creepy forms! God wrote the
Bible so simple, so that the common man could understand it. If you just sit
back and listen to Alexander Scourby read the King James Bible, the truth
becomes self evident over time. Too many people over-analyze the Bible,
digging too deep, finding things that don't exist, fabricating all manner of
heresy and fables based upon mere human conjecture and not sound doctrine.
Dispensationalism is a prime example. I just wrote a couple articles
addressing this very topic...
http://www.jesusisprecious.org/fundamentals/one_gospel.htm
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Truths/submitting_to_gods_righteousness.htm
Peter Ruckman teaches that Abraham was saved by
faith, but then under Moses' law they were saved by works, and he says that
the people saved in Acts 2:38 on the Day of Pentecost needed to be water
baptized (under the Mosaic law) to be saved, but then for Gentiles in Acts
it changed back to faith, and it was stayed by faith under Paul, but then he
says salvation will revert back to works again after the future Rapture.
WHAT A HERETIC!!! This is what Dispensationalism does to a thinking mind,
like bad drugs!
There was never such a thing as a “dispensation of law”! The same moral laws
given under Moses are all still in effect today! The ceremonial laws
(physical rituals which pictured divine truths) were only for Israel, not
for the Gentiles in the Old Testament. So clearly it couldn't have been a
“dispensation” is it only applied to Israel. Old Testament Gentiles were not
required to keep Israel's ceremonial laws. Jews and Gentiles alike in the
Old Testament were saved by entering into God's rest, that is, submitting to
God's righteousness through faith in the Lamb of God, which is what the
Sabbath Day symbolized (Hebrews 4:1-11). Romans 4:2 says that if Abraham
were saved by faith, then he would have had a right to “BOAST” of his own
righteousness, but he didn't. Why in the world would God allow people to be
saved by works at any other time in human civilization, so they could
rightfully boast? That has never happened and never will. Ephesians
2:8-9, “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:
it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” This
Bible verse was true under Abraham, under Moses, and under all Old and New
Testament saints! Salvation has ALWAYS been solely by God's undeserving
grace through faith in Christ (Acts 10:43).
And so, I have shared with you some of the main reasons why I detest and
reject the heresy of dispensational teaching. Kindly said, I know pastors
who cannot open their mouth in the pulpit without mentioning the word
“dispensation,” because it is so ingrained into their thinking. I think that
is very bad, in lieu of the fact that the Scriptures do not even teach this
manmade concept! Prior to modern times, no one had ever heard of
Dispensationalism. ...
http://www.reformedreader.org/hda.htm
As correctly stated in the preceding insightful
article, Dispensationalism offers a different view of God's grace, the law
and salvation. It corrupts the Scriptures in my opinion. I do know of some
excellent Bible teachers who use Dispensationalism, but they are the
exception, and not the rule. One such teacher is Pastor Harry Ironside
(1876-1951). I love that man! Dr. Ironside is a brilliant Bible scholar, who
had no formal theological training. He led Moody Bible Institute for
decades. I have diligently studied his writings and discovered something
that I doubt if anyone noticed, that is, when he speaks of the rebirth of
Israel, he always speaks of Christ's return. This is simply because ALL of
Dr. Ironside's books were written long before manmade Israel was birthed in
May of 1948. So in Dr. Ironside's mind, he fully expected to see true
Israel, not a manmade counterfeit (which is what Israel is today). For this
reason I can fully appreciate Dr. Ironside's writings, even though I still
don't agree with Dispensationalism. I explain all this in my article
exposing Dispensationalism, which I shared with you earlier...
http://www.lovethetruth.com/false_doctrine/dispensationalism.htm
I tell my web visitors to run as fast as they
can away from the ugly monster of Dispensationalism! It will corrupt your
thinking and mess with your head! Another great book that I recommend on the
subject is by Dr. Phillip Mauro, called, “The Gospel Of The Kingdom”...
https://www.preteristarchive.com/Books/1927_mauro_gospel-kingdom.html
More specifically, I recommend this excellent
portion of his book...
http://www.lovethetruth.com/books/philip_mauro/the_two_covenants.pdf
The entire Holy Bible, all 1189 chapters, was
written to all Christians. We read in 1st Corinthians 2:14-16 that the
natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit. The unregenerate man (or
unsaved man) cannot comprehend divine truths. He must get saved first, and
then the indwelling Holy Spirit will teach and guide him into all truth
(John 16:13). Most cult are started by people who attempt to study the Bible
without the presence of the Author (God). The Holy Spirit teaches us! So the
Lord never intended for the unsaved person to understand the Bible, except
for the Gospel. This is why it is senseless to continually rewrite the Bible
in a foolish attempt to make it easier and easier for the unsaved person to
read. God made the Bible the exact way He wanted it, out of order and
difficult at times to understand (2nd Peter 3:16-17). This is why we are
taught to “study” to show ourselves “approved unto God” (2nd Timothy 2:15).
No portion of the Holy Bible was written only to the Jew! Furthermore,
salvation is only for believing Jews (i.e., the elect) and not for
unbelievers. Romans 11:7, “What then? Israel hath not obtained that which
he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were
blinded.” Unsaved Jews go to Hell, just like unsaved Gentiles. Galatians
3:26-29 plainly teaches that among God's children there is neither male nor
female, bond nor free, Jew nor Gentile, for we are ALL ONE IN CHRIST! Being
Jewish means nothing as far as salvation is concerned. God is not a
respecter of persons (Romans 2:11). God wrote all of the Bible to all of
humanity, desiring for all men to repent (2nd Peter 3:9), but only a saved
person can understand spiritual things. John 20:31 teaches that God wrote
the Gospel of John to convince all men that Jesus is the only begotten Son
of God, and by believing on Christ they will be saved. So this must include
unsaved people! It would be ridiculous for someone to say that only Paul's
writings are for us today, when John 20:31 plainly says otherwise.
The bottom line is this: “WHAT SAITH THE SCRIPTURE?” (Romans 4:3a).
There is nothing in the Holy Bible, which teaches that only certain portions
of Scripture were intended only for certain peoples. The Old Testament LAW
still does its work today, convincing the world of their sinnership,
“that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before
God” (Romans 3:19).
When the rich young ruler bragged to Jesus that
he had perfectly kept the law since his childhood, Jesus pointed out that he
was covetous, and he became very sad when Jesus told him to go sell all his
earthly possessions, for he was very rich! Ray Comfort, Billy Graham, Paul
Washer and John MacArthur all get it wrong, teaching that the wealthy young
ruler didn't get saved because he refused to turn from his sin of
covetousness. That is not what happened! Jesus used the LAW as it was
intended to be used, which is to make men guilty before God. Jesus used the
law to convince the young man that he was a sinner, and it worked! So, this
same law still convinces men and women in 2018 that we are guilty sinners,
and then the law brings them to Jesus Christ to be saved by God's grace!
This is why the world hates the Holy Bible, it makes them feel guilty and
bad about themselves! Amen for that! That is the first necessary step to
salvation (Romans 3:19-20), because the law then brings us to Christ to be
saved by faith (Galatians 3:24-26). “CHRIST IS THE END OF THE LAW”
(Romans 10:3-4).
I do not like Dispensationalism for many
reasons, but primarily because it elevates manmade dogma to that of the
Scriptures. We do not need man's help, an overlay so-to-speak, over the
Scriptures to understand them. The law points us to grace, and then grace
fulfills the law in Christ. It is that simple! Dispensationalism opens a
Pandora's Box of complex twists and misgivings of the Scriptures! When it
comes to Bible doctrine, anything that is not simple is not Scriptural! God
meant for His Word to be easy, free and simple!
Dispensationalists get it wrong, because they
teach that there are many different types of covenants and numerous ways of
getting saved in the Old Testament era. But the Bible teaches that there are
two essential covenants: the Old and the New - and that every covenant in
the Bible ultimately has its source in Genesis 3:15, which was the promise
of the coming Messiah, Jesus, through the seed of Eve. Dispensationalism is
an over-complicated and man-made systematic philosophy imposed on the purity
of Bible teaching. There are only Two Covenants, both of which speak
of Jesus Christ! It all goes back to the seed of the Gospel in Genesis 3:15.
Adam and Eve sinned, and their fall is recorded in Genesis 3. A blood
sacrifice was required to atone for their sins, which pictured Christ,
“the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:29).
It is all very simple: We are sinners and Jesus is the Savior!
There is ONE PROMISE in God's Word, and that
one promise is Jesus Christ, fulfilled by the shed blood of the slain Lamb
of God!!! Dispensationalists foolishly take a manmade system of theology and
place it as a filter over the Holy Bible, and they want you to view the
Bible through their manmade, systematic, system of theology, which makes
everything complicated. Religion wants to fit us with glasses, but the Lord
wants to open our eyes! Dispensationalism is manmade religion!!!
