One BIG advantage of being 80 is, I can see if dispensationalists' prophecies came true!
"Hal Lindsey, author of The Late Great Planet Earth, believed he had unlocked the secrets of this passage in Matthew 24:32-33, suggesting the generation that saw the 1948 rebirth of Israel as a nation—purportedly symbolized by the fig tree—would see the return of Jesus Christ. In what became the world’s best-selling nonfiction book of the 1970s, Lindsey wrote a biblical generation is “something like 40 years” and suggested that “within 40 years or so of 1948, all these things could take place.”
https://charismamag.com/spriritled-...ble-scholar-the-new-date-for-christ-s-return/
I had bought the book, and it has been 74 years since 1948 and I'm still waiting! I also remember being taught that the man of sin, the antiChrist was to be a Jew, of the tribe of Dan. This was taught as described by Pink in the following:
From Arthur W. Pink (1886-1952)
"The Antichrist will be a Jew, though his connections, his governmental position, his sphere of dominion, will by no means confine him to the Israelitish people. It should, however, be pointed out that there is no express declaration of Scripture which says in so many words that this daring Rebel will be "a Jew;" nevertheless, the hints given are so plain, the conclusions which must be drawn from certain statements of Holy Writ are so obvious, and the requirements of the case are so inevitable, that we are forced to believe he must be a Jew...we may add, that it was the common belief among Christians during the first four centuries A.D., that the Antichrist would come from the tribe of Dan. Whether this will be the case or no, we do not know. Gen.49:17, 18 may have ultimate reference to this Son of Perdition. Certainly Dan is the most mysterious of all the twelve tribes."
https://biblehub.com/library/pink/the_antichrist/i_the_antichrist_will_be.htm
Many years later, as I was getting my eyes opened, I obtained the Bible commentary, written in the 17th century by the Puritan Matthew Poole and, was shocked to read where that idea of came from, as seen next:
Matthew Poole (1624-1679) commentary on 2 Thess. 2:3
"...why then should we take the man of sin to be a single man, as the papists do? viz. a Jew of the tribe of Dan, that shall erect his kingdom and temple in Jerusalem, seduce the Jews, continue three years and a half, make great havoc of the church, to be opposed by Enoch and Elias, and is to come a little before the end of the world. Ridiculous!"
https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/mpc/2-thessalonians-2.html
In 1957 the Common Market was formed and the agreement signed in Rome. The ten nations of the Common Market was to be the key to the 2nd coming, the 'revived Roman Empire' , but when formed there were not yet 10. So, we sat eagerly awaiting the added nations to make up the ten... and this was based on these Scriptures:
"...the final 10-king (10-horned) revived global Roman Empire. These represent the sequential (and existing) gentile world reigns that oppress Israel. These are the kings (and nations) about which Daniel says, “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people” (Daniel 2:44).
https://www.raptureready.com/2015/0...-of-the-revived-roman-empire-by-wilfred-hahn/
I remember the 10 nations came eventually and then it went past ten nations, but no 2nd coming yet! But dispensationalists do, as dispenationalists do, their predictions are constantly adjusted, just like the SDA had to revise and change when their prediction of the return of Christ passed without coming true.
"If you wonder, ‘How are we to recognize a word that the Lord has not uttered?’ here is the answer: When a word spoken by a prophet in the name of the Lord is not fulfilled and does not come true, it is not a word spoken by the Lord. The prophet has spoken presumptuously; have no fear of him." (Deut 18:21-22, REB)
I take that to mean I should just ignore such foolishness of man-made systems.
"Hal Lindsey, author of The Late Great Planet Earth, believed he had unlocked the secrets of this passage in Matthew 24:32-33, suggesting the generation that saw the 1948 rebirth of Israel as a nation—purportedly symbolized by the fig tree—would see the return of Jesus Christ. In what became the world’s best-selling nonfiction book of the 1970s, Lindsey wrote a biblical generation is “something like 40 years” and suggested that “within 40 years or so of 1948, all these things could take place.”
https://charismamag.com/spriritled-...ble-scholar-the-new-date-for-christ-s-return/
I had bought the book, and it has been 74 years since 1948 and I'm still waiting! I also remember being taught that the man of sin, the antiChrist was to be a Jew, of the tribe of Dan. This was taught as described by Pink in the following:
From Arthur W. Pink (1886-1952)
"The Antichrist will be a Jew, though his connections, his governmental position, his sphere of dominion, will by no means confine him to the Israelitish people. It should, however, be pointed out that there is no express declaration of Scripture which says in so many words that this daring Rebel will be "a Jew;" nevertheless, the hints given are so plain, the conclusions which must be drawn from certain statements of Holy Writ are so obvious, and the requirements of the case are so inevitable, that we are forced to believe he must be a Jew...we may add, that it was the common belief among Christians during the first four centuries A.D., that the Antichrist would come from the tribe of Dan. Whether this will be the case or no, we do not know. Gen.49:17, 18 may have ultimate reference to this Son of Perdition. Certainly Dan is the most mysterious of all the twelve tribes."
https://biblehub.com/library/pink/the_antichrist/i_the_antichrist_will_be.htm
Many years later, as I was getting my eyes opened, I obtained the Bible commentary, written in the 17th century by the Puritan Matthew Poole and, was shocked to read where that idea of came from, as seen next:
Matthew Poole (1624-1679) commentary on 2 Thess. 2:3
"...why then should we take the man of sin to be a single man, as the papists do? viz. a Jew of the tribe of Dan, that shall erect his kingdom and temple in Jerusalem, seduce the Jews, continue three years and a half, make great havoc of the church, to be opposed by Enoch and Elias, and is to come a little before the end of the world. Ridiculous!"
https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/eng/mpc/2-thessalonians-2.html
In 1957 the Common Market was formed and the agreement signed in Rome. The ten nations of the Common Market was to be the key to the 2nd coming, the 'revived Roman Empire' , but when formed there were not yet 10. So, we sat eagerly awaiting the added nations to make up the ten... and this was based on these Scriptures:
"...the final 10-king (10-horned) revived global Roman Empire. These represent the sequential (and existing) gentile world reigns that oppress Israel. These are the kings (and nations) about which Daniel says, “In the time of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people” (Daniel 2:44).
https://www.raptureready.com/2015/0...-of-the-revived-roman-empire-by-wilfred-hahn/
I remember the 10 nations came eventually and then it went past ten nations, but no 2nd coming yet! But dispensationalists do, as dispenationalists do, their predictions are constantly adjusted, just like the SDA had to revise and change when their prediction of the return of Christ passed without coming true.
"If you wonder, ‘How are we to recognize a word that the Lord has not uttered?’ here is the answer: When a word spoken by a prophet in the name of the Lord is not fulfilled and does not come true, it is not a word spoken by the Lord. The prophet has spoken presumptuously; have no fear of him." (Deut 18:21-22, REB)
I take that to mean I should just ignore such foolishness of man-made systems.
