Rapture Fever

PREFACE
(also to be read)
Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he
heareth not. The LORD is well pleased fm his righteousness’ sake; he will
mugnijj the law, and mahe it honorable. But this h a people robbed
and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hzii in
prison houses: thq are for a @q, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and
none saith, Restore. Who among you mull p“ve ear to thk? who will
hearhen am.d hear for the time to come? (Isaiah 42:20-23).
It is time for Christians to begin to restore. But what, exactly,
are Christians morally obligated by God to restore? hd how
are they supposed to do this? On these two crucial questions,
dispensationalism is self-consciously silent. This is why it is
paralyzed. This is why it has entered its terminal phase. Let me
offer some indirect evidence.
Except in the historically rare instance when a nation goes to
war to defend an idea and then loses the war, movements do
not give up their ideas overnight. Large numbers of people do
not march out of a movement, nor do they as a unit openly
abandon their former belief systems. Then why do movements
disappear? Attrition. They fail to recruit new followers, either
from the outside or from the youth within their ranks.
This is now happening to dispensationalism. It is not that
millions of die-hard dispensationalists have openly abandoned
premillennialism for either amillennialism or postmillennialism.