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Originally Posted by Stephen  Thank you, David for the link to your website. You have some great resources on the site that are so refreshing to see in this day of millenial madness. I would be curious to see if you have done any research in the rise of millenialism since the 1800's. All of the millenial cults, such as Adventism, Armstrongism, JW's, and other sects came about the same time when there was a great interest in millenialism.  |
Stephen, yes, in
LEFT BEHIND Answered Verse by Verse I do discuss the rise of dispensationalist teaching in the context of the early 1800's: Baptist layman William Miller's predictions that Christ would return in 1843 or 1844, and how that led to the formation of Adventist sects including the JWs, and how the Watchtower's founder Charles Taze Russell prominently featured dispensationalist time-charts in his book
The Divine Plan of the Ages. There is even more on this particular aspect in my earlier book
Blood on the Altar: Confessions of a Jehovah's Witness Minister (Prometheus Books). But in the new book I relate it to
Left Behind and its popularising of dispensationalist belief among church-goers and non-church-goers alike.