Dispensationalism
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Depends on the context.
One idea is that God treats man differently according to the "dispensation" he is currently in.
The "Dispensation of Grace" would be the current one.
There was a "dispensation of the law", a pre-law dispensation.
There is a millennial dispensation coming.
THere is hot debate on this... most Christians hold to some sort of dispensational concept, even if they do not call it such.
Been a long time since I studied on the subject.
There is also a series of books written in the early part of the last centruy by a man named Clarence Larkin. One was a lap book called Dispensational Truth. He was famous for the charts and diagrams found in his books. You can still get these books online.
http://www.larkinestate.com/
Very interesting and fun to study. He was one of the first strong proponents of the rapture theory and he has whole books and chapters devoted to the topic. I remember getting the collection back in the seventies.
Here is a teaser:
http://members.citynet.net/morton/charts.htm
One idea is that God treats man differently according to the "dispensation" he is currently in.
The "Dispensation of Grace" would be the current one.
There was a "dispensation of the law", a pre-law dispensation.
There is a millennial dispensation coming.
THere is hot debate on this... most Christians hold to some sort of dispensational concept, even if they do not call it such.
Been a long time since I studied on the subject.
There is also a series of books written in the early part of the last centruy by a man named Clarence Larkin. One was a lap book called Dispensational Truth. He was famous for the charts and diagrams found in his books. You can still get these books online.
http://www.larkinestate.com/
Very interesting and fun to study. He was one of the first strong proponents of the rapture theory and he has whole books and chapters devoted to the topic. I remember getting the collection back in the seventies.
Here is a teaser:
http://members.citynet.net/morton/charts.htm
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Hi G4G!
Tried tp PM this... did not seem to work.
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I find it is fasinating and a lot of fun to study. I think it helps you in that it frames all the main parts of the Bible into components that can be studied and remembered. Dake of Dakes Annotated Reference Bible also bases his entire Bible on this concept. I recommend it to you if you really want to study it. Dakes also wrote a book entitled "God's Plan for Man" which draws it out quite well.
http://www.ministryhelps.com/Catalog/Dake/DakeProducts.htm
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In my early Christian days I was definately pre-trib... mainly because that is all that was offered. As time went by I discovered the scripture and am now post. But the early dispensational views were all pretrib. This is true about Dakes and Larkin also.
As with anything... read it with prayer and salt.
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I thought I was post trib but I think I'm pre wrath (not mid trib)... Pre wrath makes a lot of sense to me.
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Don't take Matthew 24 in isolation, but line up Mark 13 and Luke 21 beside it. The Rapture takes place between verse 14 and 15 of Matt. 24. The *end* can't come until the saints are *snatched up* and the abomination of desolation* can't be set up until the Divine Restrainer is moved out of the way. *There shall not an hair of your head perish* (Lk. 21:18) tells us that the saints are not subjected wrath but to obtain salvation. Some believe this means a pre-wrath rapture, but that does not fit with 2 Thess 2. The world will be subjected to *strong delusion* in the first half of the tribultion, and this too is a judgement (wrath) of God on unbelievers.
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Hey Ezra 
Matt 24:14-15:"And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, [whoso readeth, let him understand:]"
I dont understand where you get a rapture in between these two verses, Christ is stating very plainly and simply that the last of the birth pangs is Gospel having been preached to all the nations "THEN the end shall come" He's obvioulsy not referring to the rapture as he goes on to explain the 'end' beginning with the Abomination of Desolation in the temple. Your also assuming that the Restrainer is the Holy Spirit which I believe the evidence is against. I never understood why the Restrainer if its the Holy Spirit is removed before the tribulation to simply be sent right back again at the beginning of the tribulation so the tribulation saints can believe.
"There shall not a hair on your head perish" There is nothing in the verse to indicate a rapture at all, its a proverbial expression used in the Old and New Testaments. In context our Lord is speaking about how "ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death." and "ye shall be hated of all men for my name`s sake." Then in verse 18 "There shall not a hair of your head perish" because no matter what they do to us physically they cant hurt us spiritually.
I dont believe either that God will subject his followers to his wrath either. The triblulation is for unbelievers, followers of Antichrist etc. But that doesnt mean he's going to remove everyone of them from the earth. (and make the elect that come after endure it) When the Temple was destroyed in 70 AD the unbelieving majority of the Jews suffered Gods wrath, the Christians left the city beforehand, historians believe that hardly any Christians died in the war. Why werent the Christians raptured before 70 AD? Was that not Gods wrath, or could be that God can deliver his people in times of need like he did with Noah during the flood. He didnt rapture them nor did he rapture Lott and his family during the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. He just told them to leave the city, much like how the Christians in 70 AD heeded Christs warning and left Jerusalem. When Gods wrath was put on the Egyptians before the exodous, God protected his people then and he will during the tribulation. Matt 24:22 states that "and except those days be shortened, there should no flesh be saved; but for the elects sake those days shall be shortened."
Agreed.
Matt 24:14-15:"And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, [whoso readeth, let him understand:]"
I dont understand where you get a rapture in between these two verses, Christ is stating very plainly and simply that the last of the birth pangs is Gospel having been preached to all the nations "THEN the end shall come" He's obvioulsy not referring to the rapture as he goes on to explain the 'end' beginning with the Abomination of Desolation in the temple. Your also assuming that the Restrainer is the Holy Spirit which I believe the evidence is against. I never understood why the Restrainer if its the Holy Spirit is removed before the tribulation to simply be sent right back again at the beginning of the tribulation so the tribulation saints can believe.
"There shall not a hair on your head perish" There is nothing in the verse to indicate a rapture at all, its a proverbial expression used in the Old and New Testaments. In context our Lord is speaking about how "ye shall be betrayed both by parents, and brethren, and kinsfolks, and friends; and some of you shall they cause to be put to death." and "ye shall be hated of all men for my name`s sake." Then in verse 18 "There shall not a hair of your head perish" because no matter what they do to us physically they cant hurt us spiritually.
I dont believe either that God will subject his followers to his wrath either. The triblulation is for unbelievers, followers of Antichrist etc. But that doesnt mean he's going to remove everyone of them from the earth. (and make the elect that come after endure it) When the Temple was destroyed in 70 AD the unbelieving majority of the Jews suffered Gods wrath, the Christians left the city beforehand, historians believe that hardly any Christians died in the war. Why werent the Christians raptured before 70 AD? Was that not Gods wrath, or could be that God can deliver his people in times of need like he did with Noah during the flood. He didnt rapture them nor did he rapture Lott and his family during the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. He just told them to leave the city, much like how the Christians in 70 AD heeded Christs warning and left Jerusalem. When Gods wrath was put on the Egyptians before the exodous, God protected his people then and he will during the tribulation. Matt 24:22 states that "and except those days be shortened, there should no flesh be saved; but for the elects sake those days shall be shortened."
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