Rapture Fever

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DISPENSATIONALISM VS.
SIX-DAY CREATIONISM
FW in six days the Lord de heaven and earth, the sea, and all that
in them is, and restid the seventh day; wherefore, the Lord blessed the
sabbath day, and hullowed it (Ex. 20:11).
Thejirst creative act refm to the dateless @st, and gives scope fm all
the geolog”c ages.
Scofield Reference Bible (1909) 1
Scri$ture g“ves no data for determining how long ago the univeme
was creatid.
New Scofield Refmce Bible (1967) 2
The Fourth Commandment makes it plain: God created the
world in six days, not six ages. God rested the seventh day, not
for an age. He hallowed this day, meaning that He set it apart.
The very structure of the week is supposed to reflect the six
days and one day pattern of God’s first week. From the early
days of the Christian Church, its Bible-believing religious lead-
1. C. I. Scofield, Scojield Refwerue Bibt% (New York: Oxford University Press,
1909), p. 3, note 2: Genesis 1:1.
2. The New Scofield Bibb (Oxford, 1967), p. 1.