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When the entire Church Era is reviewed, the cultic teaching of Dispensationalism may emerge as the most destructive heresy of all.
One enormous error of Dispensationalism is the forcing of a division between Israel and the so-called "Gentile Church." Thus we have a Gentile Church ruling in Heaven and a Jewish Kingdom ruling on the earth. There are two kingdoms, two Brides of the Lamb, two elects of God.
Dispensationalism is not only totally unscriptural, being easily disproved by an alert high school student, but it is totally impractical as well.
The first Christian church consisted of five thousand Jews in Jerusalem, all Orthodox, all fervently following Moses. No doubt all of these were born again but they knew little or nothing of the doctrine of grace. None of them were Gentiles.
Now, do these Jews form an earthly kingdom or a heavenly church? It may be noticed in Acts that Paul never made a distinction in his message between Jews and Gentiles, nor did he in his Epistles. In fact Paul proclaimed one new man comprising elect Jews and Gentiles.
The truth is, there is no heavenly church. Several statements in the New Testament inform us that the saints will rule, being a royal priesthood, but no passage indicates the saints will rule in Heaven.
And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. (Revelation 5:10)
There is only the one Kingdom of God, the kingdom that will come down from Heaven above. The members no longer have racial identity. Each has been born again and now is part of the Life of Christ. This is taught so clearly by the Apostle Paul as to be undeniable.
Not only is Dispensationalism destructive of Kingdom thinking, it also is destructive of righteous behavior on the part of Christians. It is one of the four horsemen of error along with humanism, Gnosticism, and antinomianism.
Dispensationalism teaches us we are in a "dispensation of grace." The idea is that in the previous dispensation, that of the Law of Moses, people were commanded to live righteously. Under the dispensation of grace we (Gentiles) are brought to Heaven to live forever (an unscriptural goal) on the basis of our acceptance of an abstract grace, an eternal amnesty unrelated to our behavior.
God would never usher in such a dispensation. The reason for bringing in a new covenant was that people were not behaving righteously under the old. The purpose of the new covenant is to write the law of God in our mind and heart so we behave righteously.
For finding fault with them [the people], he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. (Hebrews 8:8,9)
The immediate purpose of the new covenant is to create people who walk in righteousness, holiness, and obedience to God. The ultimate purpose of the new covenant is to remove all rebellion and every other form of sin from the entire universe of God, imprisoning it for eternity in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur.
We now, historically, are in the beginning of the Day of Atonement, particularly the spiritual activity associated with the second goat, the scapegoat. As such there is a major emphasis on repentance, on God’s people gaining victory over sin through Christ.
We see the tares of evil coming to maturity in the world around us. It is time now for the wheat of righteousness to come to maturity.
Satan has anticipated the day when the Spirit of God would begin to warn the Christian churches that it is time to become serious about gaining the victory over sin and so he has sent forth in advance the four horsemen of error.
Satan has injected the poison of humanism, Gnosticism, antinomianism, and Dispensationalism into Christian thinking. These four errors are spiritual. They are supernatural. They lay like a great weight on the minds and spirits of the believers to the point they cannot see what is written plainly in the New Testament.
Once while riding in an airplane we were writing on our portable computer. One of the stewardesses glanced over our shoulder, noticing we were writing something about the Christian life.
"I am a Christian," she informed us. Then she asked us about the topic we were pursuing.
We responded, "the need for righteousness in the Christian churches."
"Oh," she said, "I hate that word!"
This is the result of today’s Christian preaching and teaching—a hatred of the term "righteousness." Yet one might have a problem finding a topic more central to the Scriptures, a virtue closer to the heart of God.
It may be impossible for the adults of today to rid themselves of such thinking. We may be looking to our children, or to the generation after them, to attain the iron necessary to finally gain the victory that is required if Satan is to be hurled down from the heavens.
We stated in the beginning that our booklet may not be for everyone. But it is for you if you have the faith and determination to look up to the Lord Jesus right now and ask Him to rid you of the current errors and give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation that will enable you to understand the Scriptures.
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