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[color:"blue"]I must tell you that even as far back as 1982, MacArthur was teaching the perpetuity of the Moral Law. For, I heard him present this historic view personally. However, fredman would be most qualified to deal with the discontinuities between MacArthur's teaching and that of C.I. Scofield and John Nelson Darby.



John wrote a rather lengthy chapter explaining his dispensationalism and critiquing classic dispensationalism in his second book dealing with the Lordship of Christ, "Faithworks: the gospel according to the apostles." I don't have a copy in front of me at the moment, but I believe it was an appendix at the end of the book. In a nut shell, his main emphasis is a distinction between the people of Israel and the Church. His take is that the promises to bless the people of Israel will be literally fulfilled.

Personally, I think Joe's apparent contradiction between premillennialism and Calvinism is rather imaginary. I have found nothing in the scripture that in any way disturbs my understanding of Revelation 20 as describing a physical reign of Christ upon the earth over all his people, and the doctrines of grace.

Fred


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