Charles Nelson Darby-
That's right, it's time to talk about eschatology form a biblical standpoint instead of Darby's view point which has sadly captivated 90% or more of evangelical Christianity. Eschatology is the study of end events and as such the gathering together of God's elect. Many today teach a premillennial pre tribulational "secret gathering" of God's elect before He returns in Christ to judge the world. No doubt a church you attend or know of teaches this heresy which we will see is anything but what the reformers taught and most of all what early church fathers taught who were instructed by the very ones who penned Holy Writ. Darby, an ordained Anglican priest in Dublin Ireland, came to his own view of premillennialism when, after an accident falling off a horse, he sought an occultist by the name of Margret MacDonald who spoke to the dead "church" and confessed that the gathering of God's elect would be before the tribulation. This is clearly divination! Many scholars have tried to repudiate these facts but many of those scholars hold steadfast to the heretical doctrine of Darby's. As a member of the Plymouth Brethren, Darby divided the sect into the Darbyites and the Open Brethren. Darby developed a new premillennialism, which he called "dispensationalism" after the division of history into eras or dispensations. Though later dispensationalists quibbled over the number and names of these periods, most agreed with Darby that there were seven, like the seven days of creation. Darby listed the ages as: Paradise, Noah, Abraham, Israel, Gentiles, the Spirit, and the Millennium.
Darby saw history as a "progressive revelation," and his system sought to explain the stages in God's redemptive plan for the universe. There was nothing especially radical about dividing history into periods although Scofield furthered this fantasy with his reference bible. What separated Darby's dispensationalism was his novel method of biblical interpretation, which consisted of a strict literalism, the absolute separation of Israel and the church into two distinct peoples of God, and the separation of the rapture (the "catching away" of the church) from Christ's Second Coming. At the rapture, he said, Christ will come for his saints; and at the Second Coming, he will come with his saints.
Now, Premillennialism was taught by the Apostles, Jesus and the early church fathers but waned after the Nicene Council in the middle of the 4th century. 1500 years later we have a man who, unsatisfied with biblical eschatology and perhaps no sound teaching from Dublin's Trinity College, takes to the conjuring of spirits for his theology on eschatology. This should be a red flag for any bible believing Christian! The bible clearly is our litmus test for the events of the end. The bible is also not quiet in reference to these things. The bible shows God's redemptive plan in different eras of time and the Apostle Paul even uses the word "dispensation of times" in his address to the church at Ephesus. Explaining how God, "before the foundation of the world" chose us and predestinated us and who, in the dispensation of the fullness times, might gather together all things in Christ. Eph 1:10. Which HAS BEEN DONE! The bible also correctly speaks of a physical return of Jesus to the earth to set up a millennial kingdom. However, the bible DOES NOT, speak of a secret gathering of God's elect and DOES NOT draw a huge divide between Israel and the Church nor does it single handily hold God into being subject to His creation, mainly the flow of time or specific eras. Although Israel is being punished for her unbelief she will be grafted back into the olive tree, the only way of Salvation, which is in Christ. Most dispensationalist are staunch zionist as well. Seeing Israel as protected when in scripturally it is God's wrath that brings them to the cross at the end. People like John Haggee preach Israel needs not a savior and stands right before the Lord. This is wrong and goes against Romans 11. Finally, the bible doesn't speak of a secret rapture where the church is removed form tribulation and persecution and later a second coming but rather teaches that all who live Godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution (2 Tim 3:12) and Jesus himself said that when he comes he will gather His ELECT!. Elect has always meant "THE CHURCH". Now the timing has always been at the heart of every believer. Darby sought to minimize the effect of what the bible actually teaches and what the Apostles clearly taught and the early church fathers spread. Which is, the rapture or (harpazo) of Christ and His Second Coming are the same event. Darby sought to crush this biblical doctrine for a more comfortable heresy. Yet everywhere in scripture the opposite is foretold. Matt 24:29-33, Rev 6:12-13, I Thess 4:13-5:11, Joel 2:10;15, Zechariah 12:9-12, Daniel 12:1-4, Isaiah 13:10, Eze 32:7. God, in His Word, has foretold how the times will go and how those (both Jew and Gentile) will be saved. Peter made this clear in Acts 4:12. No other name exists by which man must be saved. So if any teacher is teaching anything different than what the bible clearly says he's teaching another gospel. Israel will be saved but BIBLICALLY the same way gentile believers were and are saved. Read Zechariah 12:9-10 and Romans 11 and see that God is not through with Israel but the way of Salvation hasn't changed in all of our history. The Just shall live by faith. God's plan for HIS chosen has and always will be the same because He chose us by His good Will. The Church will suffer persecution and see the antichrist and will be literally gathered but not how Darby has foretold. It is clear form what early church fathers wrote, "christians" have either been troubled by the end (darby, pre-tribbers) or they "the true church" look, wait and watch for the signs of the Coming of the Son of Man: Matthew 24:30. Many early fathers spoke against the pretrib escapism mentality and taught clear sound Apostolic Doctrine on endtime events:
"Those, therefore, who continue steadfast, and are put through the fire, will be purified by means of it. For as gold casts away its dross, so also will ye cast away all sadness and straitness, and will be made pure so as to fit into the building of the tower. But the white part is the age that is to come, in which the elect of God will dwell, since those elected by God to eternal life will be spotless and pure. Wherefore cease not speaking these things into the ears of the saints. This then is the type of the great tribulation that is to come." —The Pastor of Hermas [160 AD]
Who are the ravening wolves but those deceitful senses and spirits which are lurking within to waste the flock of Christ? Who are the false prophets but deceptive predictors of the future? Who are the false apostles butthe preachers of a spurious gospel? Who also are the Antichrists, both now and evermore, but the men who rebel against Christ? Heresies, at the present time, will no less rend the church by their perversion of doctrine, than will Antichrist persecute her at that day by the cruelty of his attacks, except that persecution makes even martyrs, [but] heresy only apostates. —Tertullian, The Prescription Against Heretics [190-210 AD]
"And therefore throughout all time, man, having been molded at the beginning by the hands of God, that is, of the Son and of the Spirit, is made after the image and likeness of God: the chaff, indeed, which is the apostasy, being cast away; but the wheat, that is, those who bring forth fruit to God in faith, being gathered into the barn. And for this cause tribulation is necessary for those who are saved, that having been after a manner broken up, and rendered fine, and sprinkled over by the patience of the Word of God, and set on fire [for purification], they may be fitted for the royal banquet. As a certain man of ours said, when he was condemned to the wild beasts because of his testimony with respect to God: "I am the wheat of Christ, and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of God." Moreover, another danger, by no means trifling, shall overtake those who falsely presume that they know the name of Antichrist. For if these men assume one [number], when this [Antichrist] shall come having another, they will be easily led away by him, as supposing him not to be the expected one, who must be guarded againstÉ. It is therefore more certain, and less hazardous, to await the fulfillment of the prophecy, than to be making surmises, and casting about for any names that may present themselves, inasmuch as many names can be found possessing the number mentioned; and thesame question will, after all, remain unsolvedÉ. But he indicates the number of the name now, that when this man comes we may avoid him, being aware who he is. —Ireneaus, Against Heresies (Book 5) [182-188 AD]
Being questioned by His disciples when those things were to come to pass which He had just been uttering about the destruction of the temple, He discourses to them first of the order of Jewish events until the overthrow of Jerusalem, and then of such as concerned all nations up to the very end of the world. For after He had declared that "Jerusalem was to be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles should be fulfilled"—meaning, of course, those which were to be chosen of God, and gathered in with the remnant of Israel—He then goes on to proclaim, against this world and dispensation (even as Joel had done, and Daniel, and all the prophets with one consent), that "there should be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars, distress of nations with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring, men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth." "For," says He, "the powers of heaven shall be shaken; and then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds, with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth nigh." He spake of its "drawing nigh," not of its being present already; and of "those things beginning to come to pass," not of their having happened: because when they have come to pass, then our redemption shall be at hand, which is said to be approaching up to that time, raising and exciting our minds to what is then the proximate harvest of our hope. He immediately annexes a parable of this in "the trees which are tenderly sprouting into a flower-stalk, and then developing the flower, which is the precursor of the fruit." "So likewise ye," (He adds), "when ye shall see all these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of heaven is nigh at hand. Watch ye, therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all those things, and to stand before the Son of man;" that is, no doubt, at the resurrection, after all these things have been previously transacted. Therefore, although there is a sprouting in the acknowledgment of all this mystery, yet it is only in the actual presence of the Lord that the flower is developed and the fruit borne. Who is it then, that has aroused the Lord, now at God's right hand, so unseasonably and with such severity to "shake terribly" (as Isaiah expresses it ("that earth," which, I suppose, is as yet unshattered? Who has thus early put "Christ's enemies beneath His feet" (to use the language of David), making Him more hurried than the Father, whilst every crowd in our popular assemblies is still with shouts consigning "the Christians to the lions?" Who has yet beheld Jesus descending from heaven in like manner as the apostles saw Him ascend, according to the appointment of the two angels? Up to the present moment they have not, tribe by tribe, smitten their breasts, looking on Him whom they pierced. No one has as yet fallen in with Elias; no one has as yet escaped from AntichristÉ. In the Revelation of John, again, the order of these times is spread out to view, which "the souls of the martyrs" are taught to wait for beneath the altar, whilst they earnestly pray to be avenged and judged: (taught, I say, to wait) ... and that the beast Antichrist with his false prophet may wage war on the Church of God É Since, then, the Scriptures both indicate the stages of the last times, and concentrate the harvest of the Christian hope in the very end of the world. —Tertullian, On the Resurrection of the Flesh [190-210 AD]
Don't fall for a false gospel and a erroneous doctrine.
That's right, it's time to talk about eschatology form a biblical standpoint instead of Darby's view point which has sadly captivated 90% or more of evangelical Christianity. Eschatology is the study of end events and as such the gathering together of God's elect. Many today teach a premillennial pre tribulational "secret gathering" of God's elect before He returns in Christ to judge the world. No doubt a church you attend or know of teaches this heresy which we will see is anything but what the reformers taught and most of all what early church fathers taught who were instructed by the very ones who penned Holy Writ. Darby, an ordained Anglican priest in Dublin Ireland, came to his own view of premillennialism when, after an accident falling off a horse, he sought an occultist by the name of Margret MacDonald who spoke to the dead "church" and confessed that the gathering of God's elect would be before the tribulation. This is clearly divination! Many scholars have tried to repudiate these facts but many of those scholars hold steadfast to the heretical doctrine of Darby's. As a member of the Plymouth Brethren, Darby divided the sect into the Darbyites and the Open Brethren. Darby developed a new premillennialism, which he called "dispensationalism" after the division of history into eras or dispensations. Though later dispensationalists quibbled over the number and names of these periods, most agreed with Darby that there were seven, like the seven days of creation. Darby listed the ages as: Paradise, Noah, Abraham, Israel, Gentiles, the Spirit, and the Millennium.
Darby saw history as a "progressive revelation," and his system sought to explain the stages in God's redemptive plan for the universe. There was nothing especially radical about dividing history into periods although Scofield furthered this fantasy with his reference bible. What separated Darby's dispensationalism was his novel method of biblical interpretation, which consisted of a strict literalism, the absolute separation of Israel and the church into two distinct peoples of God, and the separation of the rapture (the "catching away" of the church) from Christ's Second Coming. At the rapture, he said, Christ will come for his saints; and at the Second Coming, he will come with his saints.
Now, Premillennialism was taught by the Apostles, Jesus and the early church fathers but waned after the Nicene Council in the middle of the 4th century. 1500 years later we have a man who, unsatisfied with biblical eschatology and perhaps no sound teaching from Dublin's Trinity College, takes to the conjuring of spirits for his theology on eschatology. This should be a red flag for any bible believing Christian! The bible clearly is our litmus test for the events of the end. The bible is also not quiet in reference to these things. The bible shows God's redemptive plan in different eras of time and the Apostle Paul even uses the word "dispensation of times" in his address to the church at Ephesus. Explaining how God, "before the foundation of the world" chose us and predestinated us and who, in the dispensation of the fullness times, might gather together all things in Christ. Eph 1:10. Which HAS BEEN DONE! The bible also correctly speaks of a physical return of Jesus to the earth to set up a millennial kingdom. However, the bible DOES NOT, speak of a secret gathering of God's elect and DOES NOT draw a huge divide between Israel and the Church nor does it single handily hold God into being subject to His creation, mainly the flow of time or specific eras. Although Israel is being punished for her unbelief she will be grafted back into the olive tree, the only way of Salvation, which is in Christ. Most dispensationalist are staunch zionist as well. Seeing Israel as protected when in scripturally it is God's wrath that brings them to the cross at the end. People like John Haggee preach Israel needs not a savior and stands right before the Lord. This is wrong and goes against Romans 11. Finally, the bible doesn't speak of a secret rapture where the church is removed form tribulation and persecution and later a second coming but rather teaches that all who live Godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution (2 Tim 3:12) and Jesus himself said that when he comes he will gather His ELECT!. Elect has always meant "THE CHURCH". Now the timing has always been at the heart of every believer. Darby sought to minimize the effect of what the bible actually teaches and what the Apostles clearly taught and the early church fathers spread. Which is, the rapture or (harpazo) of Christ and His Second Coming are the same event. Darby sought to crush this biblical doctrine for a more comfortable heresy. Yet everywhere in scripture the opposite is foretold. Matt 24:29-33, Rev 6:12-13, I Thess 4:13-5:11, Joel 2:10;15, Zechariah 12:9-12, Daniel 12:1-4, Isaiah 13:10, Eze 32:7. God, in His Word, has foretold how the times will go and how those (both Jew and Gentile) will be saved. Peter made this clear in Acts 4:12. No other name exists by which man must be saved. So if any teacher is teaching anything different than what the bible clearly says he's teaching another gospel. Israel will be saved but BIBLICALLY the same way gentile believers were and are saved. Read Zechariah 12:9-10 and Romans 11 and see that God is not through with Israel but the way of Salvation hasn't changed in all of our history. The Just shall live by faith. God's plan for HIS chosen has and always will be the same because He chose us by His good Will. The Church will suffer persecution and see the antichrist and will be literally gathered but not how Darby has foretold. It is clear form what early church fathers wrote, "christians" have either been troubled by the end (darby, pre-tribbers) or they "the true church" look, wait and watch for the signs of the Coming of the Son of Man: Matthew 24:30. Many early fathers spoke against the pretrib escapism mentality and taught clear sound Apostolic Doctrine on endtime events:
"Those, therefore, who continue steadfast, and are put through the fire, will be purified by means of it. For as gold casts away its dross, so also will ye cast away all sadness and straitness, and will be made pure so as to fit into the building of the tower. But the white part is the age that is to come, in which the elect of God will dwell, since those elected by God to eternal life will be spotless and pure. Wherefore cease not speaking these things into the ears of the saints. This then is the type of the great tribulation that is to come." —The Pastor of Hermas [160 AD]
Who are the ravening wolves but those deceitful senses and spirits which are lurking within to waste the flock of Christ? Who are the false prophets but deceptive predictors of the future? Who are the false apostles butthe preachers of a spurious gospel? Who also are the Antichrists, both now and evermore, but the men who rebel against Christ? Heresies, at the present time, will no less rend the church by their perversion of doctrine, than will Antichrist persecute her at that day by the cruelty of his attacks, except that persecution makes even martyrs, [but] heresy only apostates. —Tertullian, The Prescription Against Heretics [190-210 AD]
"And therefore throughout all time, man, having been molded at the beginning by the hands of God, that is, of the Son and of the Spirit, is made after the image and likeness of God: the chaff, indeed, which is the apostasy, being cast away; but the wheat, that is, those who bring forth fruit to God in faith, being gathered into the barn. And for this cause tribulation is necessary for those who are saved, that having been after a manner broken up, and rendered fine, and sprinkled over by the patience of the Word of God, and set on fire [for purification], they may be fitted for the royal banquet. As a certain man of ours said, when he was condemned to the wild beasts because of his testimony with respect to God: "I am the wheat of Christ, and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of God." Moreover, another danger, by no means trifling, shall overtake those who falsely presume that they know the name of Antichrist. For if these men assume one [number], when this [Antichrist] shall come having another, they will be easily led away by him, as supposing him not to be the expected one, who must be guarded againstÉ. It is therefore more certain, and less hazardous, to await the fulfillment of the prophecy, than to be making surmises, and casting about for any names that may present themselves, inasmuch as many names can be found possessing the number mentioned; and thesame question will, after all, remain unsolvedÉ. But he indicates the number of the name now, that when this man comes we may avoid him, being aware who he is. —Ireneaus, Against Heresies (Book 5) [182-188 AD]
Being questioned by His disciples when those things were to come to pass which He had just been uttering about the destruction of the temple, He discourses to them first of the order of Jewish events until the overthrow of Jerusalem, and then of such as concerned all nations up to the very end of the world. For after He had declared that "Jerusalem was to be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles should be fulfilled"—meaning, of course, those which were to be chosen of God, and gathered in with the remnant of Israel—He then goes on to proclaim, against this world and dispensation (even as Joel had done, and Daniel, and all the prophets with one consent), that "there should be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars, distress of nations with perplexity, the sea and the waves roaring, men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth." "For," says He, "the powers of heaven shall be shaken; and then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds, with power and great glory. And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads, for your redemption draweth nigh." He spake of its "drawing nigh," not of its being present already; and of "those things beginning to come to pass," not of their having happened: because when they have come to pass, then our redemption shall be at hand, which is said to be approaching up to that time, raising and exciting our minds to what is then the proximate harvest of our hope. He immediately annexes a parable of this in "the trees which are tenderly sprouting into a flower-stalk, and then developing the flower, which is the precursor of the fruit." "So likewise ye," (He adds), "when ye shall see all these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of heaven is nigh at hand. Watch ye, therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all those things, and to stand before the Son of man;" that is, no doubt, at the resurrection, after all these things have been previously transacted. Therefore, although there is a sprouting in the acknowledgment of all this mystery, yet it is only in the actual presence of the Lord that the flower is developed and the fruit borne. Who is it then, that has aroused the Lord, now at God's right hand, so unseasonably and with such severity to "shake terribly" (as Isaiah expresses it ("that earth," which, I suppose, is as yet unshattered? Who has thus early put "Christ's enemies beneath His feet" (to use the language of David), making Him more hurried than the Father, whilst every crowd in our popular assemblies is still with shouts consigning "the Christians to the lions?" Who has yet beheld Jesus descending from heaven in like manner as the apostles saw Him ascend, according to the appointment of the two angels? Up to the present moment they have not, tribe by tribe, smitten their breasts, looking on Him whom they pierced. No one has as yet fallen in with Elias; no one has as yet escaped from AntichristÉ. In the Revelation of John, again, the order of these times is spread out to view, which "the souls of the martyrs" are taught to wait for beneath the altar, whilst they earnestly pray to be avenged and judged: (taught, I say, to wait) ... and that the beast Antichrist with his false prophet may wage war on the Church of God É Since, then, the Scriptures both indicate the stages of the last times, and concentrate the harvest of the Christian hope in the very end of the world. —Tertullian, On the Resurrection of the Flesh [190-210 AD]
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