Jerusalem Blade
Puritan Board Professor
I was recently made aware of this movie. Surprised I had not heard of it before (it came out in 2020, I believe).
It is thoroughly Dispensational, and quite awful, to my thinking. I wonder how popular it has been among Dispensational folks in the states?
Las week I went to an "Evangelical Alliance" prayer meeting for pastors in my city (Limassol, Cyprus), desiring to meet other ministers, and of the 6 or so that attended all but 2 were highly Charismatic (and, I think, Dispensational), and of the 2 one was Baptist and strongly Dispensational. Not only was I the only Reformed person there, but there is no other Presbyterian church in my city, and only two Reformed/Presbyterian churches in the entire nation (not including one house church). One 1689 Baptist church across the border in the Turkish-occupied territory.
I am increasingly aware of the widespread Dispensational presence in this country – holding that the Jewish state of Israel is the fulfillment of prophecy, the rapture will come before the Tribulation, then the 1,000-year reign of Christ in Jerusalem, the 7 years of antichrist, etc.
(The JWs here outnumber the "Evangelicals" around 5 to 1.)
I have been challenged twice by pastors here on my Amillennial view – as well, by one, on my Reformed (Calvinist) soteriology – and am preparing to make our Reformed presence and teaching more well-known here. At stake, really, is the integrity of the gospel purely preached and taught. It is sad – grievous – that one's performance and merit is the means by which we are accepted by God, rather than Christ's performance and merit.
That the distinction between Israel and the Church – that the two are quite separate entities – is held to, is also grievous.
It is thoroughly Dispensational, and quite awful, to my thinking. I wonder how popular it has been among Dispensational folks in the states?
Las week I went to an "Evangelical Alliance" prayer meeting for pastors in my city (Limassol, Cyprus), desiring to meet other ministers, and of the 6 or so that attended all but 2 were highly Charismatic (and, I think, Dispensational), and of the 2 one was Baptist and strongly Dispensational. Not only was I the only Reformed person there, but there is no other Presbyterian church in my city, and only two Reformed/Presbyterian churches in the entire nation (not including one house church). One 1689 Baptist church across the border in the Turkish-occupied territory.
I am increasingly aware of the widespread Dispensational presence in this country – holding that the Jewish state of Israel is the fulfillment of prophecy, the rapture will come before the Tribulation, then the 1,000-year reign of Christ in Jerusalem, the 7 years of antichrist, etc.
(The JWs here outnumber the "Evangelicals" around 5 to 1.)
I have been challenged twice by pastors here on my Amillennial view – as well, by one, on my Reformed (Calvinist) soteriology – and am preparing to make our Reformed presence and teaching more well-known here. At stake, really, is the integrity of the gospel purely preached and taught. It is sad – grievous – that one's performance and merit is the means by which we are accepted by God, rather than Christ's performance and merit.
That the distinction between Israel and the Church – that the two are quite separate entities – is held to, is also grievous.