Rapture Fever

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WHEN “BABYLON” FELL, SO DID
DISPENSATIONALISM
[1 sent this to my subscribers as a cover letter in September,
1991. I have not changed my opinions.]
Did you hear it? Thud. Babylon the Great is fallen! No, I
don’t mean the Soviet Union. I mean Jerusalem in 70 A.D.l
The fall of the Communist Party in Russia and the break-up of
the Soviet Union makes it clear that the USSR was never prophetic
Babylon. (Dispensationalism: “Red alert! The Reds are
gone. Russia’s invasion of national Israel has been indefinitely
postponed. Damage control!”)
When KGB Group A refused to follow orders on Monday
morning, August 19, 1991- orders to arrest Boris Yeltsin and
shoot him if he tried to escape – the end of Soviet Communism
was only 63 hours away. So was the end of pop-dispensationalism’s
“ticking clock.” Rapture postponed! Popular dispensationalism
is now in its terminal generation.
As midnight approached on August 21, the Moscow crowd
pulled down the statue of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the
1. See David Chilton, The Days of Wrsgeance. An Exposition of the Book of Reveldwn,
Dominion Press, 1987, $24.95. PO. Box 7999, Tyler, Texas 75711