Rapture Fever

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dispensational system. Moral revulsion against the silence of the
leaders on the part of laymen who are willing to take risks
continues to erode their confidence in dispensational theology
and the academic leaders produced by it. Dispensationalist
professors today can neither defend their theological system
nor defend the right to life. Dis#ensationali.sm today is visibly bankrupt;
theologically, it always has been, but this fact was not
publicly visible until after the legalization of abortion. This
moral defection by seminary faculties is an extension of their
intellectual defection after the publication of Allis’ Prophecy and
the Church. One by one, these seminaries are going bankrupt.
Leadership is slipping away from them, as well it should.
Conclusion
I will say it once again, just to be sure that everyone understands:
Dominion Theology: Blessing or Curse? (1988) was a public
admission of the death of dispensationalism. So is the failure of
any dispensationalist scholar to respond to House Divided. House
and Ice provided the first full-scale statement of the dispensational
position - by way of refuting theonomy - that we have
seen since Ryrie’s brief and ineffective 1965 book, Dispen.sationalism
Today. That book failed to answer the critics of dispensationalism.
Dominion Theology: Blessing or Curse? is far worse, from
the point of view of Scofieldism: it raised even more explosive
questions, yet pretended to have answers to theonomy. House
Divided disproved this claim within months. No one has challenged
House Divided, least of all ex-professor House.
I will say it once again: the theological debate is over. I said this
in 1989, and I am saying it again. Christian Reconstructionism
has not yet won the debate with every known theological critic
(although we are working on it), but it has won the debate with
the dispensationalists. By engaging dispensationalism directly,
Dr. Bahnsen and Dr. Gentry brought up to date the brilliant
and deliberately long-ignored work of O. T. Allis. Allis inflicted