Quote: Can you imagine an allegorical pastor teaching oÂÂn the greatest literal timetable in Scripture, Daniel’s Seventy Weeks in Dan. 9, or teaching that the Righteous Branch "of David" who will execute justice and righteous in the earth" and that Judah and Jerusalem" will dwell safely when the kingdom is established for the 1000 year rule of Christ (Jer. 33)?
How will the allegorist handle the Lord’s Words that He will bring the Jews back to their land, give them oÂÂne heart, and plant them back in their own Holy Land (see 32:37-42)?
They will say this IS THE CHURCH! Like the amill Ellicott who says that the return of Israel to the promised land mentioned in Ezek. 37 are promises that prepare the way for the great and final attack of the enemies of the Church!! Does this not make you angry to see the Word of God so distorted from its original intended meaning.
I plead guilty! I am angry with such distortion!
As to the rapture of the church being different than the second coming of Christ, have you not noted that in 1 Thess. 4:13-18 what Paul says? He writes about THE Church saints, those IN JESUS being resurrected, not the OT saints (v. 14). He writes about the church saints WHO ARE ALIVE until the coming of the Lord (v. 15), the WE who will be CAUGHT UP TOGETHER with the resurrected CHURCH SAINTS, not Israel, "to meet the Lord in the air, with the Church saints (not Israel) (v. 17)!!! The resurrection in 1 Thess. 4 is about "those in Christ" not the OT saints (v. 16). WE go with THEM (the church resurrected) and We shall always be with the Lord.
How could, with good OBSERVATION, the church be mixed with the OT resurrected saints! And you wonder why I am frustrated with those who call dispensationalists wrong, when it is clearly the allegorists who are wrong. The Bible is not hard to figure out if oÂÂne just looks at what the Lord says in the text and stops listening to the covenant guys who have a theological bias and who do not observe the text carefully. Dr. Mal Couch
How will the allegorist handle the Lord’s Words that He will bring the Jews back to their land, give them oÂÂne heart, and plant them back in their own Holy Land (see 32:37-42)?
They will say this IS THE CHURCH! Like the amill Ellicott who says that the return of Israel to the promised land mentioned in Ezek. 37 are promises that prepare the way for the great and final attack of the enemies of the Church!! Does this not make you angry to see the Word of God so distorted from its original intended meaning.
I plead guilty! I am angry with such distortion!
As to the rapture of the church being different than the second coming of Christ, have you not noted that in 1 Thess. 4:13-18 what Paul says? He writes about THE Church saints, those IN JESUS being resurrected, not the OT saints (v. 14). He writes about the church saints WHO ARE ALIVE until the coming of the Lord (v. 15), the WE who will be CAUGHT UP TOGETHER with the resurrected CHURCH SAINTS, not Israel, "to meet the Lord in the air, with the Church saints (not Israel) (v. 17)!!! The resurrection in 1 Thess. 4 is about "those in Christ" not the OT saints (v. 16). WE go with THEM (the church resurrected) and We shall always be with the Lord.
How could, with good OBSERVATION, the church be mixed with the OT resurrected saints! And you wonder why I am frustrated with those who call dispensationalists wrong, when it is clearly the allegorists who are wrong. The Bible is not hard to figure out if oÂÂne just looks at what the Lord says in the text and stops listening to the covenant guys who have a theological bias and who do not observe the text carefully. Dr. Mal Couch
