It is very hard not to be very ambivalent about politics in Israel. There is no party that has representation in the Knesset that represents me. My Facebook friends may or may not have an understanding of this. Here is …
Climate Change / Global Warming
The rigorous moderate position of Bjorn Lomborg. I decided to buy Bjorn Lomborg’s recent book “False Alarm” after hearing a few interviews. This scholarly Dane was quite persuasive. I have read material asserting that we are in an existential crisis …
Who Dominates the Media
I was planning to write this post when Bill O’Reilly wrote a commentary that partly covered my concerns. He opined that the reason the Republicans did not do better in the election was that the dominant media magnified the talking …
A call to Messianic Jews in Israel, Essay 24
We have now come to this last short essay. We have covered the basics of Classical Dispensationalism and our difficulties with this theology. Now I want to address Israel. I believe that Classical Dispensational theology is a foreign imposition upon …
Are there Dispensations, Essay 23
Sometimes Dispensationalists ask us if we cannot see that it is obvious that there are dispensations, different periods demarked in Scripture that show God’s working in different periods of time with different requirements and tests for the human race. The …
The Gifts of the Spirit, the Power of God and Dispensationalism, Essay 22
Reformed theology (Calvin, Reformed Church theologians, and Presbyterian theologians) generally taught that the supernatural gifts of the Spirit and power of God’s manifestations were for the purpose of launching the first-century Ecclesia and are not for today. Once the Bible …
Oswald T. Allis, Prophecy and the Church, Essay 21
Oswald T. Allis was a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and then Westminster Theological Seminary. Allis provides a blistering critique of Classical Dispensational theology that is unequaled though published over 75 years ago. He takes them to task on many …
Yuval Noah Harari, His Dark Futurism
Yuval Harari is a professor historian at Hebrew University whose approach to history and the future is based on radical evolutionary atheism. He has become friends with the World Economic Forum and its leader Klaus Schwab. He should be taken …
Progressive Dispensationalism, Essay 20
A new movement with the name “Progressive Dispensationalism” is growing and gives some hope for breaking the impasse in theology between Dispensationalism and other classical Evangelical views. Most progressives are still pre-tribulation rapture proponents. One cannot teach at Dallas …
Revival and the Last Days and Dispensationalism: Essay 19
A historic interpretation in Protestantism asserts the importance of powerful outpourings of the Holy Spirit that will lead to a great worldwide outpouring of the Holy Spirit before the return of Yeshua. This interpretation comes both from the examination of …