Dispensationalists Will Try To Compromise the Absolute Truth of John 10: 16 and Hebrews 10: 9 John Darby said that the Church has sought to settle itself here, but it has no place on the earth... [Though] making a most constructive parenthesis, it forms no part of the regular order of Gods earthly plans, but is merely an interruption of them to give a fuller character and meaning to them... John. N. Darby, The Character of Office in The Present Dispensation Collected Writings., Eccl. I, Vol. I, p. 94. Them are all physical Israel. The church, for Darby exists to give fuller character and meaning to all physical Israel. Darby thought that the purpose of the Christian church, the ekklesia as a meeting, assembly or congregation of Israel reborn in Christ as a spiritual house (I Peter 2: 5-9), the Israel of God, made into The Body of Christ like the Catholic capital C Church, was to honor all physical Israel. Charles Ryrie writes in his book, Dispensationalism Today (Moody, 1965, pp. 44, 45): The dispensationalist believes that throughout the ages God is pursuing two distinct purposes: one related to the earth with earthly people and earthly objectives involved which is Judaism; while the other is related to heaven with heavenly people and heavenly objectives involved, which is Christianity’ . . . This is probably the most basic theological test of whether or not a man is a dispensationalist, and it is undoubtedly the most practical and conclusive. A man who fails to distinguish Israel and the Church will inevitably not hold to dispensational distinctives; and the one who does, will. J. Dwight Pentecost is another dispensationalist theologian who in his book Things To Come ( 1965) says The church and Israel are two distinct groups with whom God has a divine plan. The church is a mystery, unrevealed in the Old Testament. This mystery program must be completed before God can resume His program with Israel and bring it to completion. These considerations all arise from a literal method of interpretation. (page 193, J. Dwight Pentecost, Things To Come, Zondervan, 1965).
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