Dispensationalism
240Times Change
16 Mar 2026
4:44¶ 18
“This is something that classic Dispensationalism really had a problem with. Even when they were willing to admit that for the New Testament era…”
5:06¶ 19
“Have you read Hebrews?” When God said something, and by its very nature or by his own external word says, “This is temporary,” that…”
6:21¶ 23
“Unfortunately, classical Dispensationalism was very much of the same mind. “Jesus will come and set up a local kingdom, and there will be a…”
237Peter's Pattern for Preaching - Part 2
11 May 2026
6:56¶ 23
“This was the plan, and this is important for our understanding of the Old Testament, obviously. Classic dispensationalism in its worst form – not…”
7:39¶ 24
“For that reason, anything that happened in the new covenant theoretically was unforeseen by the prophets. The prophets literally could not prophesy of that,…”
7:54¶ 25
“This is why so much of the Bible was closed off to classic dispensationalism. The church gets the Pauline epistles and maybe the gospels,…”
236Peter's Pattern for Preaching - Part 1
13 Apr 2026
10:28¶ 28
“Building on what Rachel said, there’s an old dispensational tendency to fasten on a verse in Christ’s upper room discourse where he says, “The…”
11:17¶ 29
“You could say, “Well, that’s a type and a figure.” No, it’s a reality, too. It’s the beginnings of something. It’s not everything, and…”
215The Life of John the Baptizer
21 Apr 2025
5:01¶ 15
“It’s coming and could be here anytime,” anytime meaning tomorrow or 1,000 years from now. The problem with dispensationalism – and I’m talking traditional…”
5:40¶ 16
“So it came near, it poked its head around the corner, but then when the Jews snapped at it God withdrew it and pushed…”
6:48¶ 18
“John is introducing Jesus to be their king. They don’t want a king, so Jesus turns aside and takes the cross instead and the…”
182By Faith Abraham
26 Feb 2024
1:48¶ 6
“What that means has been the subject of debate in the church particularly over the past couple hundred years, since someplace in the 1840s…”
3:43¶ 13
“So one day Israel has to go back to the land and then Jesus can come back and rule over them, because he is…”
4:05¶ 14
“This is called dispensationalism. Were either of you reared in this hermeneutic?”
164Holiness to the Lord
12 Jun 2023
11:21¶ 33
“First of all, the standard dispensational interpretation is this has not literally happened yet, and it must literally happen, so after the tribulation period…”
26:17¶ 81
“Now, the New Testament has abolished the old shadows, that’s very clear, so is God going to revive them? Well, dispensationalism says yes. God’s…”
11:58¶ 34
“Now, if this were the only chapter in the Bible that talked about these things, you could probably make an argument for some of…”
159The Restoration Era
20 Mar 2023
1:26¶ 6
“Because it’s one covenant, and that’s covenantal theology speaking. It’s not broken up dispensations where each one closes and God tries something relatively brand…”
4:26¶ 12
“This is where dispensationalists missed. They understood that there were some changes, but they failed to understand that God does not change the gospel.…”
152A New Law (Part 1)
9 Jan 2023
9:06¶ 41
“I think the next step – and certainly this was inherent in dispensationalism originally – was, “It’s just that it’s not law. Law comes…”
19:57¶ 81
“When Schofield was trying to introduce dispensationalism to America, he actually said the Sermon on the Mount is law and does not belong to…”
147The Course of Empire
5 Dec 2022
34:39¶ 111
“The reason for this is Dispensationalism – and they’re extreme but they’re not alone – which has trouble looking at this picture of the…”
35:05¶ 112
“The keystone of classical Dispensationalism – I don’t think any famous well-known Dispensationalists hold this anymore, I hope not, but the idea was that…”
35:48¶ 113
“The church would just percolate along winning souls to Christ by this method that was not exactly foreknown or foreseen, but there would come…”
137Unto Us A Child Is Born
26 Sep 2022
41:16¶ 167
“Yeah, “I saw that coming!” No, nobody saw that coming, and looking back we still often misunderstand. Classical dispensationalism, which not many people hold…”
41:41¶ 168
“Then one day God will go back and pick up that other plan, and the solution will be Jesus coming back and reigning by…”
31:22¶ 125
“Some while back I was talking to a young woman for whom I have a great deal of affection and respect, but she had…”
136The Lost Empire
19 Sep 2022
48:04¶ 170
“The young man who visited our Bible study the other day seems like a very nice young man. He’s from a Slavic country, Slavic…”
48:46¶ 171
“It was amazing to see this thing that was brewed in America mostly, then got transported across the seas to non-American and non-English-speaking nations…”
49:10¶ 172
“He described the time when the Iron Curtain came down and the Soviet Union fell, and the Christian churches in surrounding former satellites were…”
129Of Contracts and Covenants (Part 2) - Dispensationalism v. Covenant Theology
1 Aug 2022
4:14¶ 11
“Now, since God doesn’t lie and God doesn’t give up, God, as it were, switched sales pitches for a little while. He out of…”
6:11¶ 15
“What’s happened here is we just disconnected the Church from everything in the Old Testament and from everything after the rapture. It’s this little…”
2:08¶ 6
“You also had asked, “How did all this come about?” It’s interesting that you should contrast dispensationalism’s eschatology with dispensationalism as basically hermeneutics, because…”
121Elijah's Job
6 Jun 2022
33:44¶ 132
“Dispensationalism has thrived in this country so long because people – evangelical Christians – have been convinced that the rapture means they will never…”
34:23¶ 133
“Now, he’s a 12-year-old kid, give or take. He can be forgiven for thinking like that, but he picked up that idea someplace from…”
35:58¶ 136
“I mean yes, Scopes was convicted and had to pay $10 or something – I don’t remember what the fine was – but the…”
114Divided Kingdom
18 Apr 2022
33:12¶ 109
“And part of that is drawing the line and saying, “It’s over. The church has failed.” That was Dispensationalism. When John Darby in England,…”
33:50¶ 110
“All the prophecies about the success of God’s kingdom are in terms of power and glory and the returning king and armies and angels…”
34:15¶ 111
“Somewhere in there somebody – you can read the various church histories to try to decide who it was – came up with this…”
110Rulers
21 Mar 2022
28:51¶ 69
“Dispensationalism, particularly the old-school [inaudible 28:51] version, tended to turn the covenant with David into a political arrangement whereby Israel would rule the world…”
29:13¶ 70
“It’s everlasting. It’s not just for a millennium or for some limited time here on earth. It is sure and he says it is…”
108The Davidic Covenant
7 Mar 2022
6:53¶ 24
“As a child of the 70s I was reading theology books written in the 40s and 50s because they were relatively modern. One of…”
7:34¶ 25
“One of the distinguishing marks of dispensationalism was the insistence that God had promised David a political kingdom over Israel, Canaan, and ultimately the…”
8:12¶ 26
“Reformed Presbyterian Christians pointedly said, “Matthew 28. Jesus ascends into heaven and says ‘All power is given to me in heaven and earth.’” Dispensationalists…”
103Rebellion and Witchcraft
31 Jan 2022
40:20¶ 153
“Just contra-dispensational anxiety-inducing theories. There isn’t a single mark of the beast. In favor of the anxiety-inducing, there’s a lot of marks of the…”
51:32¶ 192
“You mention that, but again in dispensational circles that is something you encounter sometimes. “Oh no, I did this. Did I receive the mark…”
41:26¶ 155
“That makes so much sense. When I was growing up and starting to think about Revelation – I say think about and not study,…”
79The Promised Land
16 Aug 2021
3:23¶ 13
“When I was a kid, the Schofield Reference Bible was a very popular thing. Most Christians who weren’t explicitly Presbyterian, Reformed, or Lutheran generally…”
3:02¶ 12
“There’s still that view of prophecy that seems very fascinated with and centered around Israel, Canaan, the land, and the physical structure, the temple,…”
1:05¶ 4
“…that hath foundations whose builder and maker is God. He saw things by faith, and that gives a lot of people trouble. For the…”
60Facing Giants
21 Feb 2021
18:18¶ 44
“We’re at a point now where I’m not even sure where the Church stands eschatologically anymore. When I was younger, Dispensationalism was the big…”
19:13¶ 46
“Maybe so. But the culture I grew up in was very much a bugout kind of culture. “The bad guys are coming, but Jesus…”
19:31¶ 47
“How we said this with a straight face to Christians in Russia and China, I’m not sure, because somehow we didn’t translate it cross-culturally.…”
55The Sociology of Sacrifice (Part 1)
17 Jan 2021
3:05¶ 9
“I think the starting point possibly is to – well, in the original article I didn’t deal with dispensationalism, but this is a good…”
3:54¶ 12
“Yeah, it’s a completely separate track and, continuing that point, classic Dispensationalism said that the Church and the gospel mystery was something unforeseen by…”
4:37¶ 14
“Isaiah 53 and so on – “Behold the Lamb of God.” And yet that’s what Dispensationalism is trying to say. If nothing else, they…”
51Prophecy and the Ten Commandments
20 Dec 2020
28:11¶ 95
“Secondly, because of this, this system made a hard and fast distinction between Israel as the old covenant people of God, and the church…”
28:52¶ 96
“They used the word ‘parenthesis’ in history. God introduced the church, which is composed mostly of Gentiles, that has no roots in the Old…”
27:23¶ 93
“First, in this new form of pre-millennialism there was a heavy emphasis upon literal interpretation. That always had kind of been implied in the…”
32Identity Crisis: Passover, Community, and Freedom
9 Aug 2020
13:42¶ 36
“This is something that Dispensationalism struggled with in multiple previous generations. They tend to look at Judaism and say, “Well, they’re Jewish. That’s what…”
13:58¶ 37
“No, that was never what it was all about. Read the New Testament, please. God can raise up, from a stone, children of Abraham.…”
14:20¶ 38
“It’s really cool to be that important player who’s going to pass the ball on at this key moment so other people may be…”
16Of One Blood
19 Apr 2020
31:20¶ 83
“Then along comes Dispensationalism and says, “But wait. All we really need to do is save a few people from every group. As long…”
12OOPArts, Social Theory, and Progress
22 Mar 2020
38:56¶ 130
“It wasn’t until dispensationalism set in that that trend began to die off. As long as there was belief that what the prophets said…”
39:12¶ 131
“When the Church became convinced that, “Jesus is coming back next week. We’re done here,” missionary activity took a very different direction. “Let’s go…”