StephenMartyr
Puritan Board Freshman
I hope everyone here doesn't mind my questions. I have quite a lot as I go through Reformed teaching! I'll talk slow
I'm just beginning a new book I got by Gerstner called Wrongly Dividing the Word of Truth. In the first chapter he says:
"One area of innovation is in the interpretation of the book of Revelation. Dispensationalism uniformly follows the futurist interpretation. Everything from Revelation chapter 4 through the end of the book is yet to be fulfilled. While classic millenarians have seen the prophecies of Revelation fulfilled in various historical men and movements, dispensationalists regard the Beast, Antichrist, seals and trumpets, and so forth as yet to be manifested." (pgs 11 and 12)
I'm not a dispensationalist (ask questions on what I think -- helps me out too ) but I have to wonder. If everything has been done already and suddenly something comes up, do those signs conclude dispensationalism has some things right? If a cashless society comes up (it seems close) that would be a "future" event for that group.
This post isn't so much a want to discuss dispensationalism as much as how would a well-seasoned covenant theologian discuss this? If money quits and we have to get a chip or something, how does that fit in covenant theology that seems to say that Revelation 4 on already happened?
I'm just beginning a new book I got by Gerstner called Wrongly Dividing the Word of Truth. In the first chapter he says:
"One area of innovation is in the interpretation of the book of Revelation. Dispensationalism uniformly follows the futurist interpretation. Everything from Revelation chapter 4 through the end of the book is yet to be fulfilled. While classic millenarians have seen the prophecies of Revelation fulfilled in various historical men and movements, dispensationalists regard the Beast, Antichrist, seals and trumpets, and so forth as yet to be manifested." (pgs 11 and 12)
I'm not a dispensationalist (ask questions on what I think -- helps me out too ) but I have to wonder. If everything has been done already and suddenly something comes up, do those signs conclude dispensationalism has some things right? If a cashless society comes up (it seems close) that would be a "future" event for that group.
This post isn't so much a want to discuss dispensationalism as much as how would a well-seasoned covenant theologian discuss this? If money quits and we have to get a chip or something, how does that fit in covenant theology that seems to say that Revelation 4 on already happened?