The Dangers of Dispensationalism

You may not realize this, but many Christian authors, radio hosts, and television producers who talk about “the end times” have accepted a system of prophetic interpretation called dispensationalism. Whether or not these teachers themselves even recognize this, one thing is obvious: they usually place the Jewish people at the epicenter of events predicted to strike planet Earth before the world’s end. Unfortunately, the system of dispensationalism itself has major flaws. Furthermore, it also includes some surprisingly anti-Jewish elements, as you are about to see.

What is Dispensationalism?

Generally speaking, dispensationalism teaches that God has worked throughout fallen human history in distinct phases, epochs, or “dispensations.” In Old Testament times, He worked through Israel and required Jews to keep the Law, whereas in these New Testament times He operates through the church and proclaims salvation by grace—that is, until an event called the rapture whisks the church up