Dispensationalism deconstructed

Writ by Max Anton on the Postmillennialism - The Eschatology of Hope group.

Dispensationalism is the most damaging ideology in modern history.

Dispensationalism is not murderous or malicious like Marxism. But Marxism would never have found a foothold in the West were it not for Dispensationalism and its trend of turning well-meaning Believers into unwitting accessories of the Adversary. It is a hermeneutical Trojan Horse that has allowed toxic policies and deadly ideologies to seep into our cultural fabric, largely unchecked, for over 120 years. You can trace most of the assaults on our civilization back to the rise of Dispensational Premillennialism at the turn of the last century. And it all started with an errant interpretation of Scripture.

This is how it went down:

The philosophical failings of the Age of Reason sparked a religious response in the form of Christian mysticism in the 1800s. This era of highly subjective Biblical interpretation saw the rise of numerous quasi-Christian cults, including Christian Scientism, Mormonism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Seventh Day Adventism. None of these rose to such prominence, however, as Dispensationalism, led by the Irish preacher John Nelson Darby. A man with no training in language, translation, or epistemology, Darby taught his followers to divide Biblical history into seven dispensations, culminating with the rapture of the Gentile church before seven years of tribulation, followed by a 1000-year reign of Christ and the Jews from the temple in earthly Jerusalem. This fringe viewpoint became mainstream when Dwight L. Moody adopted Darby’s theology and began preaching it. After Moody’s underling, Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, published the Scofield Reference Bible by the millions in 1909, Dispensationalism quickly dominated the American Church.

Dispensationalism’s questionable hermeneutic encouraged Christians to interpret the Bible in ways it was never intended to be. Symbolic imagery became literal events in the reader’s imagination. Prophesies fulfilled became prophecies awaited. What was past became future, and passages that were once crystal clear turned cloudy and impenetrable. Faulty interpretations led to much confusion, intense conflict, and many doubts about the reliability of Scripture, leaving the Church open and vulnerable to spiritual infection. Infections took root and manifested as mass apostasy, doctrinal compromises, and numerous, serious heresies such as Progressive theology and the false gospel of social justice. The cultural ramifications of these developments require no elaboration. Dispensationalism paved the way for the moral dark age of modernity.

For centuries, the Church understood that the Christ’s kingdom had been established during Jesus’s ministry, and that it was now the Church’s mission to bring the Gospel to the nations until “the knowledge of the glory of God cover the earth as the waters cover the sea” (Habakkuk 2:14). They did not anticipate the imminent return of Christ, “for He must reign [sitting at the right hand of God the Father] until God has put all His enemies under His feet” (1 Corinthians 15:25). This goal of transforming the world with the Gospel not only provided the ideological foundation for successful Christian civilizations like the Puritans who settled New England, but also the launchpad for the first global missions. Thanks to these efforts by early evangelists, millions of people came to faith in China, Africa, and India between the 16th and 19th centuries, bridging oceans and turning savage wastes into civilized communities.

Dispensationalism turned this 1,800 year-old doctrine on its head, likewise inverting the trend of global Christianization. Whereas the Church once understood that Revelation’s apocalyptic prophesies were fulfilled by the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70, it now imagines all those terrifying prophecies as a future Great Tribulation awaiting the whole world. Contrary to Postmillennialism’s faith in the totally transformative power of the Gospel, Dispensational Premillennialism promises an inevitable downward slide into persecution, destruction, and defeat. It says that the world will only get worse no matter how far the Gospel spreads, and we will only escape the worst of it when Christ raptures us away. Dispensationalism is an eschatology of fatalism and failure, denying God’s divine vision of victory.

The consequences of this warped eschatology may not be obvious, but they are devastating. Essentially, Dispensational Premillennialism has turned the focus of the Church from subduing the earth in Christ’s name to merely surviving it in His absence. Far from the Postmillennial call to storm the gates of Hell, the Premillennial promise of cultural entropy has taken most of the fight out of our faith. Millions of Christians, convinced of Christ’s return at any moment, are just waiting out the clock instead of warring against evil. They believe Christ is coming soon because they see their world getting darker every day. Every news headline and natural disaster only strengthens their assurance in the rapture’s imminency. They point to humanitarian horrors as heralds of the coming tribulation. But they do not realize that it was their own premillennial passivity that permitted many of the very tragedies they use to justify their eschatology. Dispensational Christians took their hands off the steering wheel, thinking the race was almost over. The globalists gleefully gripped that wheel and took a hard left turn. That is why our country is in a ditch today. These unfaithful servants will die in relative comfort and prosperity, thinking their children will surely see the return of Christ in their lifetimes. But their great-great-grandchildren will live to suffer the consequences their ancestors’ inaction. Relying on the rapture has led our nation to ruin.

Finally, Dispensationalism teaches that the Jews are God's chosen people, and that God commands us to bless and support the nation of Israel. This belief makes two critical errors: First, it radically redefines the meaning of Israel. Second, it obstinately overlooks the evils of Judaism. Dispensationalism preaches a kind of Jewish exceptionalism among evangelical Christians, which is why the religious Right Wing is so radically pro-Israel. This is ironic because the roots of most leftist movements and anti-Christian agendas in West can be traced back to Zionist influence with staggering consistency.

Judaism and Christianity are ideologically opposed to each other. A cursory survey of Jewish political attitudes make this abundantly clear. 86% of Jews support late term abortion (even more than collective atheists). Over 80% of Jews support homosexual unions. The largest pedophilia advocacy group in America was founded by Jews. Fully half of all donations to liberal Democrat campaigns come from Jewish pockets. Jews spearhead the transgender movement, produce nearly all pornographic media, and lead the fight against the nuclear family. Marxism was developed and disseminated by Jewish intellectuals. Roughly 85% of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Revolution were Jews. Subsequently, the Chinese Communist Party was born from Mao Zedong’s alliance with Jewish Marxists. At the height of American slavery, less than 3% of Americans owned slaves, but 78% of those slave owners were Jewish. Jews also ran the slave markets, which were always closed on Saturday. This is just the tip of a very dirty iceberg.

"Judeo-Christian” is an oxymoron. This is because Judaism is not a continuation of the Hebrew worship of YHWH, but a false religion that blatantly rejects the Jewish Messiah, and thus denies God Himself. “No one who denies the Son has the Father.” (1 John 2:23) Jews who were faithful to God recognized their Messiah and became a new creation in Christ, joining Gentiles to form the Church. The unbelieving and apostate Jews, such as the Pharisees, fell away from God and became what Jesus called the Synagog of Satan (Revelation 2:9, 3:9). These are the same Jews to whom Jesus said, “You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” (John 8:44)

It is no wonder, then, that the original motto of Mossad was, “By way of deception, thou shalt do war.” The state of Israel itself was won with treachery and mass murder. The Balfour Declaration was the secret, illegal, and deeply immoral pact between Jewish bankers in Germany and the British government to purchase Palestine in 1917 at the price of millions of innocent Europeans. Israel became a nation in 1948 after brutalizing thousands of native Palestinians (including many Christians) and displacing over a million more. Modern Israel is not a restoration the Biblical nation of Israel. It is an amoral menace masquerading as an oppressed people, and Dispensationalists let them get away with murder. Literally.

Israel is still God’s chosen people. But who are the people of Israel? Dispensationalists believe Israel are the Jews exclusively, and they very often conflate the two, calling the Jews God’s chosen people. But that is not what the Bible says at all. “For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel,” (Romans 9:6). The true Israel are the redeemed of Jesus the Messiah, from every nation, tribe, and tongue. "If you belong to Christ, then you are children of Abraham, and heirs according to the promise." (Galatians 3:29) Dispensationalists fail to realize the Church and Israel are one and the same, and always have been. And because they eagerly attribute divine favor to a fraudulent and fundamentally anti-Christian Israel, they fling wide the doors to the Zionists. Dispensationalists inadvertently usher in the Jewish monsters of Marxism, globalism, feminism, and every pernicious poison of this postmodern age.

Dispensationalism is the rotten root of Christian Zionism. It is the shield that protects the most vicious enemies of Christianity, a poison that undermines the Gospel of salvation, a lash that blinds the eyes of the Church, and a chain that binds the true people of God to the Synagogue of Satan. This Judeophilic worldview must be destroyed before it destroys what is left of the West.

The point is this: eschatology matters, and therefore, so does our school of interpretation. What you believe about the end times absolutely affects the way you view your role in God’s story, and how you use the short time He gives you. The Church has been effectively castrated by a false doctrine of imminent rescue. This has weakened our Christian influence for over a century, leading to the moral decay and multicultural conflicts that currently beset us. People say it’s no use polishing brass on a sinking ship. But the ship isn’t sinking. The ship is very much intact, and still on course for its destination. Nevertheless, the ship is falling into disrepair, because most of the deckhands are standing in the lifeboats waiting for the captain to send them off. What madness! Let us live as though another 2,000 years of civilization are guaranteed to follow us. Christ may return long before then, and well may we hope so. But whenever He does, He will find His real servants working faithfully, with minds fixed on their tasks, not the tribulation.

The cure for postmodernism is postmillennialism.