Thanks for your excellent summary! When I read comments such as yours I am encouraged in my faith. I realize that I'm not alone in how I view the broad scope of scripture.
I've been in "the Way" for about 42 years. Sadly, for the 1st 20 years of my Christian walk I was a dispensationalist. In fact I taught dispensationalism to junior high, high school and college age young people. I can't believe I missed the clear teachings of scripture for so long. At any rate I've since "repented" of my ignorant and unlearned ways.
Matthew 23 is a powerful condemnation of apostate Israel. The fig tree in Mark 11 along with the olive tree in Romans 11 gives us a picture of the true Israel of God. In Revelation John spoke against those who call themselves "Jews" but are of the synagogue of Satan (Rev. 2:9 & 3:9).
The replica that DJT has could just be for the benefit of dispensational/evangelical Christians who are still tied up with the necessity of a 3rd Temple in Jerusalem. Or a hat tip to his Chabad family entanglements - or both!
Maybe Trump is just a huge fan of Raiders of the Lost Ark? My friend who used to work for McFarlane Toys has a casting from the original gold Hovitos idol prop used in the beginning of the movie.
Good stuff. Yes, I also had my dispensational phase decades ago. And tried to convince others in those errors, ugh. But we can't beat ourselves up too much, the end times campaigns and intricacy with how those Dispie bible teachers isolated and chopped up prophetic sections of scripture seemed so convincing, since they worked without an overarching framework. When there is no sense of the drama and progression of redemptive history from Genesis to Revelation, it's easy to misunderstand or ignore how Paul argued for example in Romans 4 and Galatians 3-4 how the blessings promised to Abraham were meant to be for all nations through the Seed promise fulfilled in Christ.
Yes indeed - "end time campaigns & intricacy" - introduced to American Chrisitians compliments of the Scofield Reference Bible! Which was funded by who?
Thanks for your excellent summary! When I read comments such as yours I am encouraged in my faith. I realize that I'm not alone in how I view the broad scope of scripture.
I've been in "the Way" for about 42 years. Sadly, for the 1st 20 years of my Christian walk I was a dispensationalist. In fact I taught dispensationalism to junior high, high school and college age young people. I can't believe I missed the clear teachings of scripture for so long. At any rate I've since "repented" of my ignorant and unlearned ways.
Matthew 23 is a powerful condemnation of apostate Israel. The fig tree in Mark 11 along with the olive tree in Romans 11 gives us a picture of the true Israel of God. In Revelation John spoke against those who call themselves "Jews" but are of the synagogue of Satan (Rev. 2:9 & 3:9).
The replica that DJT has could just be for the benefit of dispensational/evangelical Christians who are still tied up with the necessity of a 3rd Temple in Jerusalem. Or a hat tip to his Chabad family entanglements - or both!
Maybe Trump is just a huge fan of Raiders of the Lost Ark? My friend who used to work for McFarlane Toys has a casting from the original gold Hovitos idol prop used in the beginning of the movie.
Good stuff. Yes, I also had my dispensational phase decades ago. And tried to convince others in those errors, ugh. But we can't beat ourselves up too much, the end times campaigns and intricacy with how those Dispie bible teachers isolated and chopped up prophetic sections of scripture seemed so convincing, since they worked without an overarching framework. When there is no sense of the drama and progression of redemptive history from Genesis to Revelation, it's easy to misunderstand or ignore how Paul argued for example in Romans 4 and Galatians 3-4 how the blessings promised to Abraham were meant to be for all nations through the Seed promise fulfilled in Christ.
Yes indeed - "end time campaigns & intricacy" - introduced to American Chrisitians compliments of the Scofield Reference Bible! Which was funded by who?