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Quiz for Wednesday
 Questions 1-5 (Worth 10 Points)
 List Each of the 5 major Old Testament Covenants and
whether they are Conditional or Unconditional
 N
 M
 L
 D
 N
 Questions 7-13 (Worth 10 Points)
 What are the 3 covenants in CT
 Between whom were each made?
 Extra Credit—Name a Covenant Theologian mentioned in
our notes yesterday
Follow-Up to Yesterday’s
Discussion
 How should a believer relate to the Mosaic Law today?
 Romans 7
 Galatians 3:1, 13, 19-29
 What is the teaching of the Wheat and Tares referring to in
Matthew 13?
 This is Jesus first teaching in parables (para + ballo)-to throw
alongside. A parable is a throwing a known truth alongside and
unknown truth
 These parables seem to be teaching truth about the coming age
(Church) and its consummation (v. 49). Thus the wheat and tares
judgment could rightly be connected to the end of the tribulation.
This would also lend support to a view that the Tribulation period is
connected to our current age.
 Matthew 13:17 also tells us that Jesus is revealing previously hidden
truth that appears to parallel 1 Peter 1:10-12
Objectives for Day 8
 What are the changes in Progressive and
Ultradispensationalism as compared with classical
Dispensationalism?
 Why do these difference matter?
Progressive Dispensationalism
(see Dr. Stallard’s article)
 Developed about 1986 with leaders being Craig
Blaising and Darrell Bock-Dallas Theological
Seminary. Robert Saucy for Talbot School of Theology
in California joined them.
 Dispensationalism, Israel and the Church by
Blaising and Bock (1992)
 Case for Progressive Dispensationalism by Saucy
(1993)
 Progressive Dispensationalism by Blaising and Bock
Traditional or Progressive
Dispensationalism:
Does It Matter?
Mike Stallard
Baptist Bible Seminary
PROGRESSIVE
DISPENSATIONALISM
Started in the middle 1980s
 Three major proponents:

Darrell
Bock
Craig
Blaising
Robert
Saucy
GENERAL THRUST OF
PROGRESSIVE DISPENSATIONALISM
DESIRES TO SEE UNITY IN THE
FLOW OF DISPENSATIONS
 DIPS MORE OFTEN INTO THE USE
OF HIGHER CRITICAL METHODS,
i.e. Literary Structure, Midrash, etc.
 DESIRES A HALF-WAY HOUSE
BETWEEN DISPENSATIONAL AND
NON-DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY

Progressives generally believe:

Traditional
dispensationalists
do a better job in
the OT.

Covenant theology
does a better job in
the NT.
PD

TD
#1
The church age as a
dispensation is best
seen as a harmonious
continuation in
succession of the entire
sequence of
dispensations in God’s
plan rather than as a
parenthesis in God’s
plan for Israel.

The present
dispensation is a
parenthesis with
respect to God’s
dealing with Israel
(explains the delay in
His dealing with that
nation) but is a
harmonious
continuation of God’s
plan with respect to
the plan of the ages.
PD VIEW OF DISPENSATIONS
PROMISE
LAW
CHURCH
KINGDOM
ONE TRACK/UNBROKEN PROGRESSION/UNITY
TD VIEW OF DISPENSATIONS
PROMISE
LAW
KINGDOM
CHURCH AGE IS A PARENTHESIS
IN GOD’S PLAN WITH ISRAEL
CHURCH
UNITY IN GOD’S OVERALL MULTI-FACETED PLAN
PD

TD
#2
Rejection of any
essential core beliefs
to dispensationalism
(no sine qua non) –
only a list of
hermeneutical and
theological concerns

Acceptance of a core
set of beliefs that is
generally true of all
dispensationalists of
all times, i.e., there is
a common thread to
the tradition that is
rather substantial
PD
TD
List of Concerns:
 Premillennialism
 Pretribulationalism
 Universal Church
 Future for Israel
 Etc.
List of Essentials:
 Consistent literal
interpretation
 Distinction between
Israel and the
Church
 Doxological purpose
for biblical history
Emile Guers
1856
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La Future D’Israel
The Principle of
Literalism
The Principle of
Diversity of Classes
and Privileges in the
Entire Body of the
Redeemed
The Literal Value of
the Word Day in
Prophecy
Charles Ryrie
1965
Dispensationalism Today
 Consistent literal
interpretation
 Distinction between
Israel and the Church

Doxological purpose
for biblical history
PD
TD
Emphasizes
Discontinuity
in the
History of
Dispensationalism
Emphasizes
Continuity
in the History
of Dispensationalism
PD

Rejection of literal
interpretation as a
major issue in the
debate between
covenant theology
and
dispensationalism
TD
#3

Acceptance of literal
interpretation as a
major issue in the
debate between
covenant theology
and
dispensationalism
OSWALD T. ALLIS
(Amillennialist)
Literal interpretation has always been a
marked feature of Premillennialism; in
Dispensationalism it has been carried to
an extreme. We have seen that this
literalism found its most thoroughgoing
expression in the claim that Israel must
mean Israel, and that the Church was a
mystery, unknown to the prophets and
first made known to the apostle Paul.
OSWALD T. ALLIS
(Amillennialist)
Now if the principle of interpretation
is adopted that Israel always means
Israel, that it does not mean the
Church, then it follows of necessity
that practically all of our information
regarding the millennium will
concern a Jewish or Israelitish age.
PD

TD
#4
Historical
distinction
between Israel and
the Church
accepted but
rejection of
transcendental
(heavenly/earthly)
distinction
between them

Acceptance of
both a historical
distinction and
some measure of
heavenly/earthly
dichotomy
between Israel and
the Church
Israel’s Earthly Inheritance
PD

TD
#5
One people of God
(soteriological –
similar to covenant
theology); God’s plan
is a single track

One people of God
soteriologically, but
two peoples of God
(or programs of God)
historically and
teleologically (God’s
purposes); God’s
plan is multi-faceted
which better gives
glory to Him
THE FOCUS ON INDIVIDUAL REDEMPTION
IN COVENANT THEOLOGY
OT
Covenant of Grace:
NT
Focus On
Individual
Redemption
Covenant of Works:
Adam in the Garden
THE FALL
GENESIS 3
COMMUNITY AND NATIONAL
PROMISES TO ISRAEL
IGNORED OR DOWNPLAYED
INDIVIDUAL REDEMPTION
IN THE CHURCH
EMPHASIZED
THE NEW READ BACK INTO THE OLD
THE FOCUS ON THE GLORY OF GOD
IN DISPENSATIONALISM
CREATION
REDEMPTION
Creation of the Church
(Acts 2)
God’s
Plan for
Angels
Rapture of the Church
(I Thess. 4:13-18)
Creation of Israel
Restoration of Israel
(Gen. 11-12ff)
(Amos 9, Rom. 11)
Creation of the Nations
(Gen. 10)
God’s Plan
for the Salvation
of Individual Men
Creation of the World
(Gen. 1)
God’s Plan for the Lost
Judgment of the Nations
(Isa. 2, Matt. 25)
Redemption of Creation
(Rom. 8:19-22, Rev. 21)
PD

TD
#6
Many OT and NT
passages are
integrated and
harmonized using a
complementary
hermeneutic. This
leads to an “alreadynot yet” paradigm
for interpretation.

While such
integration is
possible, it does not
override the
distinction between
Israel and the
Church and it does
not apply to the
fulfillment of the
Davidic Covenant.
COMPLEMENTARY
HERMENEUTICS
This concept refers to the fact that some OT
promises can be expanded by the NT.
However, this expansion is never viewed as
replacing or undoing the implications of that
OT promise to its original audience, Israel. For
example, the Church’s participation in the
blessings of the New Covenant taught in the NT
can add the Church to the list of recipients of
the New Covenant promises made in the OT.
COMPLEMENTARY
HERMENEUTICS
However, such participation does not rule out
the future fulfillment of the OT New Covenant
promises to Israel at the beginning of the
Millennium. Thus, the promise can have a
coinciding or overlapping fulfillment through
NT expansions of the promise. Usually the
Church is being added to some form of blessing
in the present age while Israel still awaits its
fulfillment in the age to come. This concept
helps form the basis of an “already, not yet”
approach to various texts in the Bible.
THE KINGDOM OF GOD IN GEORGE LADD
OT
ISRAEL
NT
CHURCH
The
Inauguration
of the Kingdom
(Already...)
THE
MILLENNIAL
KINGDOM
The
Consummation
of the Kingdom
(...Not Yet)
THE KINGDOM OF GOD IN
PROGRESSIVE DISPENSATIONALISM
OT
ISRAEL
NT
CHURCH
The
Inauguration
of the Kingdom
(Already...)
THE
MILLENNIAL
KINGDOM
The
Consummation
of the Kingdom
(...Not Yet)
Two differences with Ladd: Ladd starts the kingdom in the
Gospels and has no concrete future for Israel.
PD

Believes that the NT
writers are doing
midrash when they
write (e.g., Peter’s
sermon in Acts 2)
TD
#7

Believes that extrabiblical forms such
as midrash, while
having a place in the
discussion of
backgrounds, can not
be used to unravel
the literal
interpretation or the
clarity of the Bible.
A Sample of Integration in PD
OT
NT
2 Samuel 7
Luke-Acts
7:12
“I will raise up
your descendant
after you . . .”
Acts 2:24
“God raised
Him (Jesus) up
again”
Raise up in history
Raise from dead
Promise to David fulfilled in Acts 1-2 at Ascension of Christ:
Messianic Kingdom starts in Acts 1-2
A Sample of Integration in TD
OT
Daniel 7:13-14
The Son of Man
comes to the
Ancient of Days
to receive a
kingdom at the
destruction of
Antichrist
NT
Luke-Acts
Rev. 19
Luke 19:11ff
Parable of
Delay
Jesus
Christ
comes
back and
destroys
Antichrist
Jesus receives
the kingdom
The Messianic (Davidic) kingdom begins at the Second
Coming of Christ when Antichrist is destroyed.
PD

The Messianic
Kingdom started at
the Ascension (Acts
1-2).
TD
#8

The Messianic
Kingdom will start at
the Second Coming
(Dan. 7, Rev. 19).
PD

TD
#9
Kingdom rule in the
present age should be
emphasized in order
to pursue the
rebuilding of social
structures according
to the ways of Christ.

Christ’s headship of the
Church and His general
sovereignty (reigning) in
the world at large is
recognized but it is
denied that this is
fulfillment of Davidic
rule promised in the OT.
Furthermore, no Davidic
“kingdom authority” is
needed to right injustices
and demonstrate love for
people in social action.
MAJESTY
Jack Hayford
Majesty, worship His majesty
Unto Jesus be all glory, honor, and praise
Majesty, kingdom authority
Flow from His throne unto His own
His anthem raise.
So exalt, lift up on high the name of Jesus
Magnify, come glorify Christ Jesus the King
Majesty, worship His majesty
Jesus who died, now glorified,
King of all kings.
PD
 The
pre-trib
rapture of
the Church
is not a
significant
doctrine
#10

TD
The pre-trib
rapture is a
significant
doctrine since it
has a relationship
to the distinction
between Israel and
the Church
PD

Seeks theological
harmony with
covenant theology.
#11

TD
Seeks no harmony
with covenant
theology other than
spiritual kinship in
Christ.
Questions

Is PD the “dominion theology wing” of
dispensationalism?

Is PD the “postmodern wing” of
dispensationalism?
Questions

Is PD (along with the rest of
evangelicalism) leading to a technical
elitism for interpreting the Bible?

Is PD leading to an abandonment of a firm
belief in the cessation of sign gifts?
7 Tenets of Progressive
Dispensationalism according to Ryre
1.
2.
3.
4.
Kingdom of God is the unifying them of biblical
history—”church
Within Biblical history there are 4 dispensational
eras
Christ has already inaugurated the Davidic reign
in heaven at the right hand of the father (Hebrews
10:11-18)
New Covenant has already been inaugurated,
though its blessings are not yet fully realized
until the millennium.
7 Tenets of Progressive
Dispensationalism according to Ryre
5.
6.
7.
Concept of Church being completely distinct
from Israel as a mystery not revealed in OT
needs to be revisited
A complementary hermeneutic must be used
alongside a literal hermeneutic
The one divine holistic redemption encompasses
all people and areas of human life-personal,
societal, cultural and political
Ultradispensationalists
chapter 11 in Ryrie
 This group is not very common so little time will be
devoted to covering their view.
 Two school of thought-moderate and extreme ultra
dispensationalists
 Founder-Ethelbert W. Bullinger (1837-1913)-Kings
College in London-Anglican
 Also believed in extinction of the soul between death
and resurrection
 Many of his followers were annihilationists
Ultradispensationalism
Extreme
Moderate
AE Knoch and Bladimir Gelesnoff
Grace Mission, Grace Gospel Fellowship
and Berean Bible Society, Berean
Searchlight and Turth
Cornelius R. Stam, JC O’Hair, Charles F.
Baker
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Great Commission is not for today
Ministry of the 12 was a continuation of Christ’ ministry
Water Baptism Not for this church age
Israel, not the church, is the Bride of Christ
Church began in Acts 28
Church Began before Acts 28
Transitional period is all of Acts
Transitional period is until Acts 9 or 13
Lord’s Supper has no place
Lord’s supper should be observed by the
church
Only Prison epistles are for the church
Other Pauline epistles are also for the
church
REVIEW FOR FINAL EXAM
 What are the 3 Major Tenets (Sine Qua Non) of
Dispensationalism
 Consistent Literal Hermeneutic
 Distinction between Israel and the Church
 Focus on the Glory of God
DISPENSATIONAL CHART
Name
Responsibilty
Judgment
Innocence
Don’t Eat the fruit
Fill and Subdue the earth
Death
Cast from the Garden
Conscience
Do Good
Flood
Civil Gov’t
Fill Earth, capital
punishment
Tower of Babel
Patriarchal/Promise
Believe and Obey God
Stay in the land
Egyptian
bondage/wilderness
wanderings
Mosaic Law
Keep the law
Walk with God
Captivities
Cross ends this period
Grace
Believe on Christ
Walk with Christ
Death
Loss of rewards
Millennium
Believe and obey Christ
Obey His Government
Death, Great White
Throne Judgment
REVIEW FOR FINAL
 Key figures of Dispensationalism
JN Darby
Brookes
Guers
Scofield
Gaebelein
Chafer (Dallas Theological Seminary-flagship!)
Walvoord (DTS)
Pentecost & Ryrie (DTS)
McClain (Grace Seminary)
REVIEW FOR FINAL
SALVATION IN DISPENSATIONALSIM
One Way of Salvation
BASIS OF SALVATION
CHRIST’S DEATH AND RESURRECTION
REQUIREMENT OF SALVATION FAITH
OBJECT OF SALVATION
GOD
CONTENT OF SALVATION
(HOW ONE DEMONSTRATES
THEIR FAITH)
CHANGES IN RESPECT TO DISPENSATION
 CHURCH DOES NOT EQUAL ISRAEL: ROMANS 11
AND REVELATION 21
REVIEW FOR FINAL (Essay)
 How do Romans 11 and Revelation 21 demonstrate that
Israel and the church are distinct from one another
forever.
 What insights or observations have you made from Dr.
Kevin Bauder’s messages
 What areas of DT will be the most beneficial to you in
future ministry, study and teaching.
 To whom was the New Covenant given and explain
your current understanding of the church’s
relationship to the New Covenant
REVIEW FOR FINAL
What are the 5 main views of the rapture AND give a
brief description of each one
 Pre-Tribulational Rapture
 Post-Tribulational Rapture
 Partial Rapture
 Mid-Tribulational Rapture
 Pre-Wrath Rapture
REVIEW FOR FINAL
 To what time period does Matthew 24 and 25 refer.
 Explain Daniel’s 70 weeks prophecy from Daniel 9:24-
27
 List 3 of the 5 main tenets of Progressive
Dispensationalism and give a brief description of each
 List the 5 main covenants in the Bible including the
Land Covenant but excluding the Edenic/Adamic
Covenant
 What are the 3 Covenants in CT and share the parties
involved in each covenant
REVIEW FOR FINAL
Chart of End Times