Another Big Lie we have been taught is Dispensationalism.

 

The following article was done by Diane Wilder of House of Joseph Ministries.

 

During the 1820's and 1830's a Christian theologian named John Darby {founder of the Plymouth Brethren} developed a new systematic theology called Dispensationalism.

 

Dispensationalism has since become very popular in Christendom. Somehow this late Christian invention has gained the favor of many claiming to be returning to the Jewish roots of the original followers of Yeshua.

 

It is a fact that Dispensationalism did not exist until the nineteenth century. It has no Hebrew roots whatsoever and did not even exist in Christianity until the 19th century. Like most 19th century theologians, John Darby was an anti nomian, {against Torah}. He believed that the Law of Moses had passed away at the cross.

 

Darby was disturbed however, with certain problems created by that theology. Darby noticed that during the seven years of Daniel's final week, the offerings are being made at the Temple.

 

Since the Law of Moses was clearly being kept during this seven year tribulation, Darby concluded that the Law comes back into effect at the beginning of the tribulation. This train of thought caused Darby to divide biblical and prophetic history into compartmentalized ages.

 

Darby theorized an "age of Law" that ended at the cross an "age of grace" or church age that began at the cross. Then at the seven year tribulation, the age of Law kicks back in and the church age of grace ends. This created a problem for Darby's theory.

 

How can the age of Law return if the Church is still here? Darby saw the age of Law as an age in which God dealt with Israel {the Jews} and the tribulation as a return to God dealing with physical Israel. So what happens to the Church?

 

Surely the Church will not leave Grace and come under the Law of Moses. As a result, Darby adopted the idea of a pre-trib rapture, which had become popular among the Irvingites. This idea had the Church leave the earth at the beginning of the tribulation, leaving Israel behind to enter the tribulation and the age of Law's return.

 

Darby now had another problem. If the Church is raptured leaving pysical Israel behind, then what about so-called "Jewish Christians?" Do they get raptured with the Church, or stay behind with Israel?

 

Darby proposed yet another solution: The Church/Israel dichotomy. This theory taught that a Jew who becomes a believer in Messiah becomes part of the Church and is no longer part of Israel. As a result no one can be both a part of the Church and Israel.

 

Jewish believers, according to this theory, stop being Jews and become part of the Church of God, which he taught contained people that are not Jews or gentiles.

 

Thus the three pillars of Dispensationalism are:

 

1} The Law - teachings & instructions

2} The pre-trib rapture

3} Church Israel - dichotomy

 

Now Messianic believers cannot accept number one or number 3. Number two was only needed because of a belief in number 1. Number 2 does not work without number 3, which was created to solves problems created by number 2.

 

As a result, Messianic believers are incompatable with Dispensationalism. Two of the three pillars which must be present to support dispensationalism are noncompatable with Messianic Judaism or Messianic believers in general.

 

Morever, the only remaining pillar cannot stand alone, it only exists to solve a problem created by number 1 and it cannot stand without number 3.

 

When examined in light of the truth, the whole structure of Dispensationalism comes crashing down.

 

It is a late 19th century invention of Christendom with NO roots in the first century walk of Yeshua at all.

 

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Below are excerpts from the article "The Heresy of Dispensationalism-Dispensationalism A Return to Biblical Theology or Pseudo Christian Cult." 

 

What is Dispensationalism?

 

The father of dispensationalism, John Nelson Darby, educated as a lawyer and ordained Anglican priest, was one of the chief founders of the Plymouth Brethren movement, which arose in reaction against the perceived empty formalism of the Church of England. To the Brethren the true “invisible” church was to come out of the apostate “visible” Church, rejecting such forms as priesthood and sacraments.

 

Dispensational theology centers upon the concept of God’s dealings with mankind being divided into (usually) seven distinct economies or “dispensations”, in which man is tested as to his obedience to the will of God as revealed under each dispensation.

 

Dispensationalists see God as pursuing two distinct purposes throughout history, one related to an earthly goal and an earthly people (the Jews), the other to heavenly goals and a heavenly people (the church).

 

Dispensationalists believe that in the Old Testament God promised the Jewish people an earthly kingdom ruled by Messiah ben David, and that when Christ came He offered this prophesied kingdom to the Jews. When the Jews of the time rejected Christ and the earthly kingdom, the promise was postponed, and the “mystery form” of the kingdom – the church – was established. Anna's Note: YHVH promised ALL TWELVE tribes of Israel the kingdom, not just Judah.

 

The church, according to dispensational doctrine, was unforeseen in the Old Testament and constitutes a “parenthesis” in God’s plan for Israel. In the future, the distinction between Jew and Gentile will be reestablished and will continue throughout all eternity. Anna's Note: Many so-called Gentiles are really descended from one of the twelve tribes of Israel.

 

The “parenthesis”, or church age, will end at the rapture when Christ comes invisibly to take all believers (excepting OT saints) to heaven to celebrate the “marriage feast of the Lamb” with Christ for a period of seven years. God’s program for the Jews then resumes with the tribulation, Antichrist, bowls of wrath, 144,000 Jews preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom, and Armageddon. Anna's Note: Read Revelation 7:4-8. It is 12,000 from each of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, not 144,000 from Yahudah {Judah}.

 

Then, the Second (third, if you count the preTrib rapture) Coming, the instantaneous conversion of the entire nation of Israel, the resurrection of the Tribulation and Old Testament saints, and the “sheep and goats” judgment. The “goats” will be cast into hell, the “sheep” and the believing Jews will enter the millennium in natural human bodies, marrying, reproducing, and dying. The “mystery church” and the resurrected Tribulation and Old Testament saints will live in the heavenly Jerusalem suspended above the earthly city.

 

This millennium will be a time of great peace and prosperity, with Christ ruling on David’s throne. After 1,000 yrs. Satan will be released from the chain with which he had been bound at the beginning of the millennium and many of the children born to the “sheep” and the Israelites will follow him in revolt against Christ.

 

The King will again destroy His enemies, followed by another resurrection of the righteous, another resurrection of the unrighteous, a final judgment, and at last the New Heavens and the New Earth.

 

Although premillennial thought has been recorded in the early church, dispensational theology and its pursuant eschatology are new, as even the father of the system admitted -”I think we ought to have something more of direct testimony as to the Lord’s coming, and its bearing also on the state of the church: ordinarily, it would not be well to have it so clear, as it frightens people. We must pursue it steadily; it works like leaven, and its fruit is by no means seen yet; I do not mean leaven as ill, but the thoughts are new, and people’s minds work on them, and all the old habits are against their feelings – all the gain of situation, and every worldly motive; we must not be surprised at its effect being slow on the mass, the ordinary instruments of acting upon others having been trained in most opposite habits.” – LETTERS OF J.N.D., vol.1 pg.25-26

 

The new doctrine was widely accepted in America, due to popular prophetic meetings such as the Niagara Bible Conferences. C.I. Scofield promulgated dispensational thought in his Scofield Reference Bible. Dispensational Bible institutes by the hundreds have sprung up across the continent – notably Moody Bible Institute and Dallas Theological Seminary.

 

Media evangelists such as Jerry Fallwell, Dave Hunt, Howard Conder, Charles Capps, Pat Robertson, Jack Van Impe, and Hal Lindsey popularize dispensational eschatology today. Most likely you have heard these doctrines taught over Christian radio programs, and yes, from your own church’s pulpit, though probably no one defined the theological system as dispensationalism nor the origination as Darby circa 1832

 

Dispensationalists view the teaching as a return to Biblical theology, after nearly 1,800 years of darkness.

 

 

But, since the day Darby began to preach the doctrine, Godly men have opposed.Many books have been published exposing the flaws in the intricate system. Most hack away at the branches, arguing peripheral issues.

 

We intend to lay the axe to the root of the tree.”My brother, I am a constant reader of my Bible, and I soon found that what I was taught to believe (by Darby’s doctrine) did not always agree with what my Bible said. I came to see that I must either part company with John Darby, or my precious Bible, and I chose to cling to my Bible and part from Mr. Darby.” - George Müeller, a contemporary and one time supporter of Darby quoted by Robert Cameron in his book SCRIPTURAL TRUTH ABOUT THE LORD’S RETURN, pp.146-7

 

"Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the Only Eloah,  

be honor and glory forever and ever. Amein!"

1 Timothy 1:17 

 

Shalom and abundant blessings,

Anna Constance