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WHO REALLY OWNS THE 'HOLY LAND'?
By. Dr. Robert L. Reymond
Editor’s note: This essay is an address delivered by Dr. Robert L. Reymond, former Professor Emeritus at Knox Theological Seminary, to “Advancing Reformation Truth and Spirituality” (ARTS) on April 21, 2006, at DeVos Chapel, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
The Challenge Facing Covenant Theology
A gigantic effort is underway today to convince the evangelical citizenry of the United States of America that the political state of Israel rightfully owns in perpetuity the so-called “Holy Land”1 at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea by virtue of God’s bequeathing it to Abraham and his descendants in the Old Testament. This effort is being made not so much today by the secular leadership of the state of Israel as by self-acclaimed Christian scholars and televangelists who claim to speak for over seventy million evangelical Christians. These men, including Assemblies of God preacher and televangelist John Hagee, founder and pastor of the Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas;2 Kenneth Copeland, televangelist; Paul and Matt Crouch of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN); Jack Hayford, founder and pastor of the Church on the Way in Van Nuys, California, and president of the Foursquare Gospel Church; Benny Hinn, pastor of the yet-to-be-built World Healing Center in Dallas, Texas; Rod Parsley, pastor of the World Harvest Church in Columbus, Ohio; Pat Robertson, founder and chief executive officer of the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) and the Bible teacher on the 700 Club;3 and Jerry Falwell, founder and pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church and founder of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, are all purveyors of that system of hermeneutics known as Dispensationalism. CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE
MAL COUCH OF SCOFIELD MINISTRIES TO RESPOND TO 95 THESES
Mal Couch, general editor of the Dictionary of Premillennial Theology is gathering a "team of scholars" to refute The Ninety-Five Theses of Contention Against Dispensationalism point by point. Needless to say we welcome the critique, though we do not believe Mal and company will really respond (come on boys prove us wrong - please.) Dr. Couch, who heads up the scofieldprophecystuides.org was responding to a question asked by one of his devotees,
"I understand you and a team of dispensationalists will be answering the 95 Theses Against Dispensationalism produced by Robert Reymond and the Nicene Council Group. Will each objection they raise against dispensationalism be answered?"
CLICK HERE FOR DR. COUCH'S COMPLETE RESPONSE.
New PODCAST -THE ANTINOMIAN GOSPEL OF DISPENSATIONALISM
All evangelicals would agree that the Law is not the gospel. But is the gospel lawless? Does dispensationalism by its very construct promote antinominism? And does this make the gospel preached in most pulpits today "another gospel"? And what about those who have believed this other gospel - are they truly saved?
Join Jerry Johnson, President of NiceneCouncil.com and Dr. W. Gary Crampton, author of Sola Scriptura and An Introduction to the Theology of John Calvin as they discuss dispensationalism, antinominism and its effects on the gospel and evangelism.
This podcast is a minstiry of NiceneCouncil.com’s and is a free download. On this broadcast we will discuss all the subjects your mother told you to stay away from; politics, theology (religion), the Christian family, radical environmentalism and much more. To us being "politically incorrect" is more than a moniker; it is a world and life view.
CHECK OUT NEW BLOG ARTICLE BY JERRY JOHNSON
Rapture Theology: The Arrogance of the West
WEBSITE CLAIM'S DENYING OF RAPTURE IS TOOL OF SATAN TO KEEP CHURCH DIVIDED
When the Christian community gets united behind something we're a force to be reckoned with. The 2004 Presidential election was a good example. Many of those 35 million extra votes George Bush got were from Evangelical Christians. Sadly, things like that don't happen very often anymore. Even 9/11 didn't produce any long term change toward unifying the Body. But try to imagine this if you can. Imagine how different this country would be today if all Christians held a Christian world view, were convinced that the Lord was coming back for us very soon, and were living their lives accordingly. Can you even begin to see the difference we'd be making? It would be amazing. America would be compared to the Israel of Solomon's day.
To prevent the tremendous effect we would have for good, the enemy has implemented a divide and conquer strategy. He knows that as long as he can keep the Body of Christ fractured he can keep us weak. Over the years, he's mounted a number of campaigns to implement this strategy. Gifts vs. no gifts, the inerrancy issue, and the proper method of interpretation come to mind. But one of his most successful efforts has been to take advantage of the fact that for His own reasons, God has chosen to keep the Rapture's timing a secret.
The clues He's given us point to our departure happening prior to the beginning of Daniel's 70th Week. But right from the beginning Satan influenced Church leaders to conclude that denying the pre-trib pre millennial view would keep us focused on the things of this world instead of always looking up, waiting for the Lord. So even though Paul very clearly taught a pre-trib rapture of the Church, and John revealed a 1000 year Kingdom to follow it, alternate views have sprung up almost continuously since then...READ MORE.
NICENECOUNCIL.COM'S 2008 CONFERENCE: AGAINST DISPENSATIONALISM -
Israel, the Church & Bible Prophecy
All Bible believing Christians would agree that God has a love for Israel. But the question arises: Which Israel? Millions of Christians have adopted the prophetic and theological views of the popular Left Behind series. But there is an alternative evangelical perspective. And it is quite reasonable and compelling. Join in fellowship and dialogue from this years speakers: Dr. Kenneth L. Gentry, Dr. Kenneth G. Talbot and Jerry Johnson. Conference dates are Friday, October 3 and Saturday, October 4. Come, bring your Bibles and an open mind and study with us October 3 and 4 in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of southwest Virginia. Seating is limited so don't delay. Click HERE to register or for more information.
WV GROUP TIES MARKS OF THE BEAST TO DRIVER'S LICENSE
August 8, 2008, The Register-HeraldCharleston, WV Mannix Porterfield Register-Herald Reporter
“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads. And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name” — Rev. 13: 16-17
Physics teacher Phillip Hudok, a fundamentalist Christian who once lost his job temporarily over bar-coded student ID cards, is driving now with an alternate license, sans the digitized photograph he fears is a step in putting the entire world under an end-time dictator, known in the Bible as the Antichrist.
Hudok traveled Friday to Charleston to pick up his new driver’s license, accompanied by Pastor Butch Paugh, a Nettie resident who pastors two fellowships, in Huttonsville and in Summersville.
Paugh views the digitized photograph on West Virginia operator’s cards as a prelude to the coming Antichrist, which the Book of Revelation says will exert global control on every human being via the number of his name, 666.
“We believe it pertains heavily to the ‘mark of the beast’ and the coming ‘mark of the beast,’” Paugh said, while en route to the Capitol.
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THE LATE GREAT PLANET CHURCH: THE RISE OF DISPENSATIONALISM (DVD)
The much anticipated and long awaited documentary The Late Great Planet Church: The Rise of Dispensationalism is scheduled for release in October 2008. Hosted by Jerry Johnson, President of The Apologetics Group Media and NiceneCouncil.com features many former dispensationalists and authors such as Dr. Thomas Ascol, Dr. Kenneth L. Gentry, Dr. Gary DeMar, Dr. Kenneth G. Talbot, Dr. Tom Nettles, Dr. R. Fowler White, Dr. E. Calvin Beisner, Dr. George Jospeh Gatis, Pastor Michael Leach and Mr. David Lutzweiler.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH DISPENSATIONALISM?
“…dispensationalists have followed the course of “end times” events with the consuming fascination of a betting man at a race track. In so doing they have virtually turned their backs on the world in which they live.” Os Guinness, Fit Bodies Fat Minds (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1994), p. 67
"But there is further reason, and a pressing one today, why we should write upon our present subject, and that is to expose the modern and pernicious error of Dispensationalism. This is a device of the Enemy, designed to rob the children of no small part of that bread which their heavenly Father has provided for their souls; a device wherein the wily serpent appears as an angel of light, feigning to “make the Bible a new book” by simplifying much in it which perplexes the spiritually unlearned." -- A.W. Pink
“The issue…is not a few minors disagreements between those who hold basically the same position, but whether dispensationalism provides us with God’s good news and plan for history, or instead, the opinions of man imposed on the Bible.” Dr. Curtis A. Crenshaw, graduate of Dallas Seminary and co-author of Dispensationalism: Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow
“…the theology of dispensationalism, though intending evangelicalism, is a serious deviation from Biblical doctrine and even threatens its own evangelicalism.” -- The Late Dr. John Gerstner, author of Wrongly Dividing the Word: A Critique of Dispensational Theology
“True Christians are thus faced with a choice. The decision is whether to submit to the compelling witness of Scripture or continue believing in a doctrinal system void of Biblical basis simply because that system is what one has always been taught. I urge my dispensational brothers and sisters to consider this choice prayerfully, and to eagerly embrace the Word of truth.” -- Dr. Keith A Mathison, graduate of Dallas Seminary and author of Dispensationalism: Rightly Dividing the People of God?
“…[the] Plymouth Brethren who follow Mr. Darby. As on all hands, with a diligence never exceeded, and a subtlety never equaled, they are laboring to seduce the members of our churches to the subversion of the truth and the overthrow of the needful order and discipline…” Charles H. Spurgeon, author and Pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle