Posted by John Tasso on August 23, 2003 at 00:56:25:
In Reply to: Re: Daniel's 70 Weeks posted by Pastor Reckart on August 23, 2003 at 00:02:12:
Well, think of this... you say the dispensationalists pervert the Word of God, and I agree. But I disagree with you on the severity of this perversion. 1st- Amillennialism is primarily the belief of a few mainline traditional churches who have never been known for outreach especially not on the basis of end times theories. While dispensationalists are the fastest growing segment of any end time group and are fanatical about converting everyone they meet to their viewpoint. This fact alone makes dispensationalism much more dangerous to the new or unschooled believer. 2nd- while you may find the amillennialist method for interpreting prophecy faulty, they are not imposing completely foreign and anti-Christ ideas into Scripture as the ultra-dispensationalists do. You will never find an amillennialist saying that the Gospels are not relevent for the church today, The Lord's supper is part of another dispensation, and only New Testament books authored by Paul apply to the Church. But Ultra-dispensationalists are teaching these heresies all the time including the idea that the great commission is irrelevant today, all the teachings of Jesus Himself are for Jews only and will not be important until the millennial Kingdom, which was postponed because He failed to convince Jews He was really the Messiah. So you are right the lies and Heresy of the ultra-dispensationalist do not compare with the partial Preterist and Amillennialist... they are FAR, FAR worse and much more destructive.
As H.A. Ironside has written so eloquently re: ultra-dispensationalism (and as you know he is a pre-millennialist) "But the rapid spread of these pernicious views and their evident detrimental effect upon so many who hold them, has led to the conclusion that it would be unfaithfulness to God and to His people if one refused to seek to give any help he could in regard to these teachings." He pulls no punches when he says, "in most instances where it has been long tolerated, it has absolutely throttled Gospel effort at home and sown discord on missionary fields abroad. So true are these things of this system that I have no hesitancy in saying it is an absolutely Satanic perversion of the truth."
I have no hesitation in accepting as orthodox anyone professing a historical pre-millenial viewpoint, but anyone spreading the distortions of dispensationalism is not teaching the same gospel once delivered to the saints. I urge you to denounce this new outbreak of Marcionism with the same level of zeal you greet others you disagree with.
To know Him better,
John
Truth there is... here are two to see:
1. there is a God
2. you are not HE!