Beliefs of Dispensationalism:
📖 Consistent literal interpretation
📜 All covenant dimensions fulfilled literally
🇮🇱 Ongoing role of national Israel
⛪ Church is NT entity
🔀 Israel ≠ Church
⏳ Futurism
👑 Premillennialism
🌍 Nations retain future significance
—via @mikevlach
"A man may get to heaven without money, learning, health, or friends - but without Bible knowledge he will never get there at all. (...) And yet if that very man has heard Bible truth with his ears, and believed it with his heart, he knows enough to save his soul." (J.C.Ryle)
For the record: The disciples and the church are not "the new people of God". That Israel as "the old people of God" has been replaced is FALSE. This goes against everything the Bible teaches about God's faithfulness, covenants, Israel and the Church.
No baptism, no communion, no confirmation, no speaking in tongues, no mission trip, no volunteerism, no financial gifts, and no church clothes. He couldn't even bend his knees to pray. He didn't say the sinner's prayer.
He only believed 🙌
Modern Jews are the same people Scripture has always identified as Israel.
They are the physical descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, preserved through exile and dispersion. The Bible never redefines or replaces their ethnic identity. Paul calls the Jews of his own day “Israelites according to the flesh” and says plainly, “Has God rejected His people? By no means.”
History confirms this continuity. Jewish identity, lineage, and practice endured across centuries, exactly as the prophets said it would. Their continued existence is not a problem for theology. It is evidence that God keeps His covenants.
“I also shall make him My firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.” (Psalm 89:27)
“Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth.” (Revelation 1:5)
Both the Hebrew and the Greek indicate that Jesus will rule as the supreme King AMONG the kings of the earth.
Jesus will rule specifically from Mount Zion (Ps 2:6; Ps 110:2), while sitting on David’s throne (Isa 9:7; Jer 23:5; Luke 1:32–33).
David's throne was never in heaven.
The location of Jesus' future throne was always prophesied to be on "this mountain," (the earthly Mount Zion), never "that mountain" (up in heaven).
Biblical faith awaits the return of Jesus to rule the nations as King over the whole earth, from Mount Zion.