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Reverse it. Dispensationalism is dependent on pre-wrath eschatology.

 

That may be your point but you are going to be hard-pressed to find a pre-wrath eschatology outside of Dispensationalism. My textbook copy of Dispensationalism Today is buried in a box in my garage but if I remember Ryrie correctly, he said that both the separation of Israel and the Church and a pre-wrath rapture are the hinges on which Dispensationalism turns.

Now I have to go and break open old boxes to go find that book. Thanks a lot, Jon! LOL

 

This has been a very good discussion but I am going to bow out now.

 

I believe that the Great Tribulation is grossly misunderstood. Why would one that believes God already need to go through the Great Tribulation? We have believed without seeing and have acknowledged His chastening as to our benefit. The Great Tribulation is full of seen evidences of God's Sovereign power and chastening, designed to prod along the Thomas types into faith. Have we not seen that some children just trust and obey with little chastening needed, while other children require seemingly perpetual chastening to develop that child like faith? Do we give up on the difficult child? We must remember that God's love is long-suffering, a characteristic not natural to man and difficult for us to comprehend. Have any of us really ever forgave seventy times seven, except it were our own child?

 

You make it hard to "bow out" when asking questions. LOL

Let me try and make sense.

Dispensationalism does depend on a pre-wrath eschatology. If there is no pre-wrath eschatology, Dispensationalism crumbles. So, rhetorically, is can be said (for example) that a pre-tribulational or even a mid-tribulational eschatological view is Dispensationalism. It is like saying that a pre-wrath view is so essential to the Dispensational system that it is Dispensationalism's real identity.

For the sake of clarity, let me offer a non-theological comparison. I am a New York Giant fan. Back during the Bill Parcels era, the greatest player the Giants had was #56, Lawrence Taylor. Arguably, "L.T." is the greatest linebacker who ever played the game. Historically, the Giants have always been known for their defense. As the greatest defensive player the Giants ever had, some New York sportswriters actually said he was the Giants. What they meant was that he embodied everything it meant to be a Giant. It was a rhetorical instrument used for effect. A pre-wrath eschatology is so critical to Dispensationalism that it is impossible to think of it in other than a dispensational context. Id est, a pre-wrath eschatology embodies Dispensationalism (it is Dispensationalism)!

OK. Now I am really bowing out.

 

". . . And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: . . . And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. . . ." -- Revelation 21:12-14. The Bride of Christ is made up of both Israel and His church.

 

It goes deeper than that. Dispensationalism, at its core, recognizes that God interacts with humanity differently in different times. He does not interact with humanity the same way he did with Adam, nor the same way he did at the time of the Prophets, or the same way he did while Christ was on earth. Everyone recognizes that, hopefully.

 

David. Its called Civenants Theology!! The covenants continue to reveal God. Lol

 

For those who want to understand the differences between Baptist C.T, and Paedobaptist C.T., there is an excellent book, The Distinctiveness of Baptist Covenant Theology by Pascal Denault (SGCB, ISBN 978-1-59925-325-1).
The very earliest Particular Baptists believed in Covenant Theology, and the very first book, by a P.B., A Treatise concerning the Lawfull Subjects of Baptisme by John Spilsbury (1646), is basically covenantal.