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Originally Posted by Ohio
Dispensationalism is a valuable tool in Bible interpretation. I don’t dismiss is merely because Darby popularized it. Granted it, like any other interpretation, can be taken to extremes. Many opposed this parallel track of Israel/Church long before there were any signs of the restoration of the nation of Israel.
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I'm okay with dispensationalism as well, just not an extreme form. I lean towards progressive dispensationalism and am open to commonwealth theology as well.
https://www.biola.edu/blogs/good-boo...pensationalism
When Jesus died and rose he definitely ushered in a new age. The law came through Moses but grace & reality came through Jesus. Nevertheless the OT saints were also saved by faith in God (Hebrews 11) but the test of faith and expectations were different yet Jesus taught that repentance from sin was required just like in the OT.
Ezekiel 18:27
Again, when a wicked person turns away from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he shall save his life.
Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions that he had committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
Acts 3:19 (NLT)
Now repent of your sins and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped away.
Acts 3:26 (NLT)
When God raised up his servant, Jesus, he sent him first to you people of Israel, to bless you by
turning each of you back from your sinful ways.
Luke 13:2-3 (NLT)
Do you think those Galileans were worse sinners than all the other people from Galilee?” Jesus asked. “Is that why they suffered? Not at all!
And you will perish, too, unless you repent of your sins and turn to God.
Another difference between myself and Darby would be that I believe the church will go through the tribulation which is Satan's wrath but will be raptured before God's wrath which is around the sixth seal which is a pre-wrath view of the end times. So I would interpret the Olivet discourse applying to Jesus' audience who were his followers and not unbelieving Jews. Hence warnings such as Matthew 24:13 "But the one who endures to the end will be saved." would apply to us as well.
I agree Preterism is a heresy.