9. Dispensationalism in America

[melaniebrown]

I just learned the truth after October 7 and we all know what happened then. I kept saying something wasn’t right about this then a mortification popped up on X and I didn’t have notifications on X and it all of a sudden pops up?!?! It was Chuck Baldwin from Liberty Fellowship in Montana on scoffield - like this video is. SO to unlearn what I have been taught for 50 yrs was scary with a ton of anxiety but now so thankful and grateful ! I truly believe God had s hand with that video popping up. At that time I hardly ever looked on X and certainly wouldn’t have watched a video but something made me and what a blessing!!!

[mleeb]

Such a blessing! I am a newly saved Christian and very bothered by the doctrine of dispensationalism and the pre-trib rapture. No one simply reading the Bible would come to these conclusions and just like you've said, it has become a distraction.

[roberthunt]

Dispensationalism is so ingrained into the background of modern Christianity teachings that I grew up being told all of this and didn't even know what the term "dispensationalism" meant. I finally sat down to watch this video to see what its definition is and Bruce does a phenomenal job laying it all out. Thanks!

[caedmonnoeske]

I grew up Pentecostal and Dispensationalist. Thankfully though, my parents, God bless them, also gave me a solid grounding in basic orthodoxy and taught me to think for myself. Several years ago, I began listening to a pastor by the name of Chuck Baldwin. He's the one who really pulled me out of Dispensationalism. Then it was guys like Doug Wilson, Jeff Durbin, and Bruce Gore who pulled me into Postmillennialism. I thank God for all of them!!! FREE PALESTINE!🇵🇸🇵🇸✝️✝️

[titianmom]

I grew up dispensationalist, although I had never heard the term. I never knew of Darby, either, and I believe this is common among most evangelicals out there. They accept the pre-trib rapture because that is all they know, including the pastors. Most couldn't tell you why they believe it other than "Well that is what my pastor told me, " and I wonder what Bible schools are telling their students, and how much history is conveniently left out. Or worse--are they being told that this teaching originated with the Apostles.

I abandoned Dispensationalism several years ago when the Lord lead me to study eschatology on my own. I love (and minored) in history and art history and had a great interest in Church history already. I started with the Scripture and reading all verses in context, I couldn't justify a belief in Dispensationalism. Then, of course, I had to find out where in the world Dispensationalism came from and discovered it was more "Darbism" than Christian doctrine passed down from the Apostles. So yeah, we Protestants are also guilty of adding to Church teaching which is not good.

I believe the Lord purposely left much of the future as a mystery with many clues, to be unveiled in due season. We are called to watch, to stay alert, and to follow and trust Him, not decipher prophecies. Read and study them, yes. Learn them well, but allow God room to reveal in His good time.

Blessings to all...

[AmillennialMillenial]

These lectures are university-level quality. Well...maybe that’s an insult these days, but you know what I mean. Great work!

[wolfhound]

I came to faith in 1982 in a church that extensively (and nearly exclusively) used the Scofield Reference Bible in their teaching and preaching. It was a wonderful church and I am glad that God lovingly used it to help me grow in my young faith. But I can see in retrospect how flawed their teachings were and continue to be. Forty years ago I would have rejected out of hand your teaching using all of the arguments you just articulated. And today I am so thankful that you took the time to (in Christian love) present the truth. I thoroughly enjoy your teaching and recommend you to all of my fellow believers.

[joshnelson]

The part about the conferences the dispensationalists held where they went through the newspapers to find evidence that they were living in the last days and Christ’s return was just around the corner…dispensationalists STILL do this today!

[capa]

Man my toes were getting stepped on... but so good. Thank you again for this amazing tour of Church History.

[varasuetamminga]

Bruce thank you for these lessons.  I have never heard of most of this history and these religious figures.  But I live in a conservative Texas which Has been deeply influenced by these fundamentalist traditions.  I am usually bewildered by these people.  I have studied comparative religion and mysticism most of my life.  I am glad to finally understand what is helpful in this conservative tradition and what throws many of these people away from the all embracing compassion which I see Jesus teaching in the Gospels.  I hope I can learn to love those who disagree with me more even though many of them sometimes persecute those who are different from them.

[davidkugel]

This is the best explanation of Dispensationalism that I have ever heard. John Nelson Darby was a young Irish-Anglo lawyer who fell off his horse. While he was recuperating he saw things in the Bible that Augustine of Hippo, Luther, Calvin, Edwards, Wesley and Spurgeon never saw. Darby was very creative.

[SoldierofChrist]

It is only a matter of time when dispensationalism will be a heresy.

[jonsmith]

This is by far the best teachings on the subject that I have ever heard.

[markpatterson]

Keep up the awesome job you are doing!!! You are liberating and freeing Gods people from a doctrine of men! Keep your hand to the plow, don't quit, and I'll see you at the banqueting table with our King the Lord Jesus!

[tebbhattz]

This playlist about the apocalypse and history of eschatological views keeps me occupied during this pandemic. Such eye-opening lectures.

[Mike]

There is no end to the church age. There is glory to God to be given in the church for all ages, so the church never ends: "Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,  unto him be glory IN THE CHURCH by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen" (Eph. 3:20-21).

[swhip]

I'm glad I found this. You answered Why You now are a Presbyterian. God Bless... gonna pray. I've been raised apparently, as a dispensationalist

[adseventy]

Wonderful teaching. God bless you Brother Bruce

[sarawilson]

Amen. Let's never be distracted from the fundamental foundational truth that Jesus Christ is King, Lord of our lives. Thank you for sharing your research and knowledge (including your own journey in dispensationalism) on this topic. This helps me greatly. My father was a Lutheran minister, who took a year off from college (or seminary) to attend Moody Bible Institute with a friend. I now understand more of his history.

[seanmoore]

3 of the greatest heresies being taught in Evangelical Churches today:
Dispensationalism, Zionism, and Futurism.