In reply to:[color:"blue"]Therefore the A-Mil position believes that God does not have a separate purpose for Israel over and aginst the N.T. Church.......Did Christ have two different blood types? Were the red corpuscles for the Church and the white for Israel? Did Christ have two different bodies, one to die for Israel and another for the Gentiles? NO! Now since the partition has been removed how can we imagine that it shall be erected again in a dispensation yet to come?
In the dispensation of the Kingdom, all will be believers. After children are born they will still be believers, (how could they not be, since Christ will be right there?), but some will be rebellious and eventually fight on the side of Satan. This is not as far-fetched as it sounds. After all, the Demons believe, Satan believes.
The partition has been removed. We Christins are spiritual decendents of Abraham. God made promises to the Jews. The Jews were unfaithful, God was not. Just because the Jews didn't fulfill their part of the "bargain" doesn't mean God won't. When God makes a promise, He always keeps it, no matter what. He promised them a King, and He will deliver. As far as what will happen in the future, we must not try to paint God in a corner, and say You must always do things this way. I don't know what kinds of partitions will be in Heaven, and neither do you.
In reply to:[color:"blue"]The A-Mil position biblically presents a progressive revelation of God's unfolding plan of salvation. However, the DPM offers a somewhat discontinuous plan that bares no relation to other dispensations and favor disunity rather than unity.
Not true. God's plan of salvation is the same in each of these periods of history. All of these dispensations lead up to, in one way or another, the substitutionary death of Christ on the cross.
I want to quote a paragraph I found in "Dispensationalism Today" by Charles C. Ryrie: Theoretically the sine qua non ought to lie in the recognition of the fact the God has distinquishably different economies in governing the affairs of the world. Covenant theologians hold that there are various dispensations (and even use the word!) within the outworking of the covenant of grace. Hodge, for instance, believed that there are four dispensations after the Fall - Adam to Abraham, Abraham to Moses, Moses to Christ, and Christ to the end. Louis Berkhof writes of only two basic dispensations - the Old and the New, but within the Old he sees four periods and all of these are revelation of the covenant of grace. In other words, a man can believe in dispensations, and even see them in relation to progressive relation, without being a dispensationalist.
Most of the criticisms you have made in other posts about "Dispy" are answered by Ryrie in this book.
Matt. 21:43 means taken from that generation. The Kingdom of God was taken from them and given to the Church.
Joe, I do understand that after what the Jews did to Christ that everything changed for them, and it changed for the worse, unless they became Christians, and most didn't. They did lose their special place - in some way. I'm not missing that.
