THE HOPE OF ISRAEL - The Preterist Archive

52 The Hope of Israel: What Is It?
shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent
heat" (v. 12).
Manifestly it is impossible that we should be "looking
for," and more so that we should be "hasting unto,"
the coming of that day, if a millennial age is to intervene.
This passage in Second Peter is referred to again
in Chapter XV.
ERRONEOUS TEACHING CONCERNING THE SINAITIC
COVENANT
Dr. Charles W. Rankin, President of the Fundamentalist
College in Shanghai, China, calls attention
in a recently published booklet to the grievous doctrine
of the leading Dispensationalists concerning the Law
of God which He gave the Israelites at Mount Sinai.
Dr. Rankin cites several notes on Exodus 19:3 in the
popular "Reference Bible," referred to above, which
state that :
"the law was not imposed until it had been proposed
and voluntarily accepted";
Also the note on Gen. 12 :
"The dispensation of Promise ended when Israel
rashly accepted the law (Ex. 19:8)."
And Dr. Rankin comments as follows:
"In other words, God did not intend the Mosaic Law to
be accepted by the Jews, the Jews 'rashly' accepted it,
did something God did not want them to do. Therefore
God did not intend the Mosaic Law to be a part of
the Bible. He merely proposed it to the Jews, of course
not desiring them to do a rash thing and accept it, and
so it was the Jews who put it into the Bible by their
'rash' action. It was not even put into the Bible by human
wisdom, as avowed Modernists teach, but was put in by
man's will when acting xashly. Therefore having thus