A Study of How the Apostles Teach Us to Read the Bible “These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.” — Acts 17:11 (KJV) Jump to Table of Contents How to Read This Series…
(Truth in the Last Days — Post 18) Why Dispensational Expectation Can Distort the Gospel One of the most revealing tests of theology is this simple question: Where is the kingdom Christ came to bring? If the answer is primarily future, earthly, political, and territorial, then the center of Christianity quietly shifts away from what…
(Truth in the Last Days — Post 11) When a Theory Demands More Than the Text Gives Why Revelation 20 Is Not About a Future Gospel—and Never Was One of the most common objections raised against covenantal or amillennial interpretations of Revelation 20 is this: “If Satan is bound, evil shouldn’t exist. Since evil clearly…
1. The Initial Question I asked Grok a direct and simple biblical question: “Where do the apostles teach a future ethnic-national restoration of Israel and a literal land inheritance after Christ?” Not OT shadows, not prophetic assumptions — an apostolic text. In other words: One verse. One apostle. One teaching. This question became the fulcrum…
Series: Twisting the Scriptures — Post 10 Doctrinal Distortions in the Name of Right Division “Study to shew thyself approved unto God… rightly dividing the word of truth.” — 2 Timothy 2:15“All scripture is given by inspiration of God… and is profitable…” — 2 Timothy 3:16 Rightly dividing the Word of God is essential. But…
Why Future-Only Thinking Disarms the Church It sounds spiritual. It even echoes the Lord’s Prayer: “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10). But what happens when the Church prays this as if Christ’s Kingdom hasn’t already come in power? This is not a small issue. It’s…
And Why They Crumble Under Scripture Purpose: To biblically and clearly dismantle the core tenets listed in Mike Vlach’s post by showing how they contradict the New Testament revelation of Christ, the nature of the Church, and the fulfilled promises of God. His post here lays out the standard framework of Dispensational theology in compact…
How Dispensationalism Binds the Church to the World Why “the spirits of just men made perfect” calls us upward, not backward. But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem… to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to…
Two Roads, Same Destination: How Dispensationalism and Christian Zionism Overlap — and Where They Diverge Dispensationalism and Christian Zionism are often seen as two sides of the same coin. In fact, in the modern evangelical world, the two are nearly synonymous — both champion the ongoing prophetic role of national Israel, and both anticipate a…
Dispensationalism presents itself as a method of rightly dividing the Word of truth. But as we’ve seen throughout this series, it often divides what God has joined — and obscures what the New Testament has clarified in Christ. Let’s summarize the case. A System of Separation — Not Unity in Christ Dispensationalism builds walls where…