Premillennalists And Some Parables

By Dudley Ross Spears The premillennial teaching concerning the church and the kingdom does not harmonize with the Lord’s teaching in some of His parables. The Schofield Reference Bible refers to the church as “the mystery parenthesis.” The church, in the premillennial concept is a second thought, a stop-gap or a last-minute alternative to the establishment …

Millennialism and The American Political Dream

By Steve Wolfgang That Americans have long perceived a special relationship between their country and their God is a fact obvious enough to be a truism. Historians have spent considerable time in the past 15 years explaining “the civil religion,”(1) producing reams of articles, essays, and book-length manuscripts. The phrase “the civil religion” (used by Robert Bellah …

Premillennialism & American Politics

By Rodney M. Miller The close link between dispensationalism and the American political scene cannot be denied. Dispensationalism is the form of premillennialism that has split the country and, actually, the Christian world in the last few years. The key to understanding the dispensationalist, like Hal Lindsey, is to separate the church age and the kingdom …