Rapture Fever

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DISPENSATIONALISM REMOVES
EARTHLY HOPE
A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He
maheth W= to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still
watens. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteoumwss
for hti namek sake. lba, though I walk through th vallq of the shadow
of death, I mull fear no m-l: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy stafl
thej comfort me. Thou preparest a table bejbre me in tb presence of
mine enemies: thou anoink?st my head with oil; my cup runneth ova
Surely goodness and nwny shall follow nw all the days of mj lfe: and I
will dweU in the house of the LORD fm ever (Psa. 23:1-6).
One of the great evils of dispensationalism is that it selfconsciously
strips from Christians the Old Testament’s many
comforts offered by God to His people. Dispensationalists regard
the 23rd psalm as the equivalent of Santa Claus: a comforting
story fit for children but not for adults. There are many
dispensational local churches that refuse to recite any of the
psalms. There are even some local assemblies that refuse to
recite the Lord’s Prayer, consigning it to the “pre-crucifixion
Jewish dispensation.” They refuse to acknowledge the lawful
inheritance of the Church in history