The Popularization of Dispensationalism

Michael Glodo discusses the historical and sociological factors at work to popularize dispensationalism in the 1970s.

[ryangallmeier]

Excellent discussion; especially the longer interview.
But it should be titled, "The Popularization of Dispensational FUTURIST Eschatology".
Dispensational eschatology is in fact a Futurist system of prophetic interpretation, as opposed to the HISTORICISM of, for example, the Westminster and 1689 Baptist confessions of Faith.
One cannot be either a Futurist, or a Preterist and hold to either of these confessions, as they are both Historicist documents.
It's an historical fact that the authors of these confessions would have denied that the discovery of the Antichrist was to be found in either the 1st century A.D. (as in the "Nero" hypothesis), or in the line of Caesars leading up to the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century A.D (Preterism); or, that the Antichrist was yet to be revealed in the last 7-years of earth's history, just before the return of Christ (Futurism).

They knew that the "little horn" of Dan. 7 was the same entity as Paul's, "man of sin, son of perdition" (2 Thes. 2:3-4), and that this was the same entity as the "sea beast" (Rev. 13:1-10), and the same entity as the "scarlet harlot" (Rev. 17), and that these appellations were all describing the Antichrist.
They knew the identity of the Antichrist, not only in history but in Scripture as well. It is a sad fact that Christ's Church is "sleeping" with respect to this issue (reflective of the Laodicean church age in which we currently reside).
It is also a sad result of this "lukewarmness" with regard to the study of Bible prophecy that Christians will be caught unaware as the "false prophet" (aka., the "earth beast"; Rev. 13:11-17) takes increasing steps to eventually enforce (by force of LAW) the "mark of the [sea] beast".  

Questions? 
Let me know. 

*Soli Deo Gloria*