J. Dwight Pentecost

My, my road was s- more similar to Ben's because, um, I was raised in charismatic Pentecostal circles, so very dispensational.

Um, I remember probably as a pretty young Christian I read Dwight Pentecost's book, but I had also grown up with a Ryrie study Bible, which is ne- next to a Scofield, I mean, your Ryrie is about as dispy as you can get, as a Bible.

Yeah.

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They understand how dispensationalism has to do with the pre-trib rapture, and, uh, the- their, their theology on the Jews, basically.

That's it.

So the way I understand it, and I, again, I've read Dwight Pentecost, I've, you know, the, I- I've read the guys, right? Like, they, they arrive at the pre-trib position because they believe, uh, history is a series of dispensations in which God is teaching the lesson that I'm gonna give you a set of rules, and this is how you get saved in the system.

But you're always gonna fail the system, and so at the end of the system, it always ends with man's failure, and so God giving them a new system.

And so there are great hermeneutical implications.

One of my professors, I can still hear it ringing in my ears, Dr. Dwight Pentecost, he said, when the plain sense makes good sense, seek no other sense.

Otherwise, you come up with nonsense.

And anyone reading Genesis chapter 1 could never come up with anything than six literal days of creation.

Famine, death, cosmic disturbances.

J. Dwight Pentecost was right when he wrote, "No passage can be found to alleviate to any degree whatsoever the severity of this time that shall come upon the earth." The tribulation shall be the darkest hour in human history.

In your heart, you should thank the Lord Jesus right now that you will not be here to be a part of it.

Such a depressing chapter of human history, unlike anything that the world has ever seen.