William E. Cox
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William E. Cox was an American Baptist pastor and author best known as a clear popular defender of amillennialism. His Amillennialism Today (1966) and An Examination of Dispensationalism remain accessible introductions to the non-dispensational position, written from a conservative, Scripture-focused standpoint.
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C. I. Scofield
The father of dispensationalism, Darby, as well as his teachings, probably would be unheard of today were it not for his devoted follower, Scofield. The writer became increasingly aware of this fact as he did research for this book. Darby's books are gathering dust on the shelves of the…
Dispensationalism - A Summary
Dispensationalists begin by clearing the board of all opinions except their own; they dismiss as useless and false all historic interpretations. Next they divide the human race and the Bible into three distinct groups (this is convenient since any scripture which would otherwise refute their…
Dispensationalist Beliefs - Israel and the Kingdom of God
According to dispensationalists, God has two distinct bodies of people with whom he is working: Israel and the church. There is a separate plan for each of these two peoples. Israel is said to be an earthly people, while the church represents a heavenly body. National Israel's expectation is an…
Dispensationalist Beliefs - Salvation
Dispensationalists derive their name from their teaching that the entire program of God is divided into seven dispensations. Five of these have passed into history, we are living in the sixth, and the seventh dispensation will be an earthly reign of one thousand years (the millennium) following the…
Dispensationalist Beliefs - The Church (Part I)
With reference to the Christian church, dispensationalists believe it came into being as a result of the rejection of the alleged earthly kingdom. They teach that the church was kept hidden in the mind of God until he was ready to establish it. Although Jesus may have hinted at it, they say, it did…
Dispensationalist Beliefs - The Church (Part II)
Dispensationalist teaching on the church is one of so many doctrines where the wish is father to the thought; for the Bible simply will not bear out Darby's 'rediscovered truth.' While much of the New Testament could be used to refute this doctrine, one of Paul's epistles alone will serve to…
Dispensationalist Beliefs - The Scriptures
In keeping with dispensationalist views on the completely separate dispensations, the Scriptures are said to have been given dispensationally, i.e., different passages of the Bible are directed to different dispensations. Unless one interprets each passage of Scripture dispensationally, one is in a…
John Darby
It is impossible to understand fully the dispensational view of eschatology apart from some history of its origin and main spokesmen. Biographers of John Darby refer to him as the father of modern dispensationalism. Around 1825 many dissenting groups were beginning to pull away from the established…
The Bible Without Comment
Proverbs 30:5,6 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him. Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar. Most Protestants, certainly all evangelicals, accept the Scriptures as an all sufficient guide in matters of practice and…
Revelation Twenty - The Binding of Satan
'And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand. And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and cast him into the abyss, and shut it and sealed it over him, that he…
Revelation Twenty - The Millenial Reign
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as worshipped not the beast, neither his image, and received not the mark upon their forehead and upon their…
Revelation Twenty – Conclusion
Far from being a key, Revelation 20 is a recapitulation of many clear teachings of the Bible. While its language is apocalyptic, it does not contradict the clear passages. It reiterates those teachings. In studying the Revelation one needs constantly to keep in mind Paul's admonition that the…
Revelation Twenty – The General Judgment
'And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of…
Revelation Twenty – The Loosing of Satan
'And when the thousand years are finished, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, and shall come forth to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up over the…