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THERE IS NO TRUTH THAT IS NOT DISPENSATIONAL.
The attitude of many critics is therefore not only misleading but fatal. The cry
"ultra-dispensationalism" which apparently is the battle cry of many of the self-styled
defenders of the Faith, has really the same effect as the veil, by which the god of this
world blinds the eye of the believer, dangling in front of him Scriptures that belong to
another calling in order that he shall not see the truth of his own. That friendly person
who says in effect: "Dispensational Truth is just a `bee in the bonnet' of certain teachers,
particularly followers of Dr. Bullinger and of Charles H. Welch. We do not object to you
entertaining this peculiar idea, providing you keep it to yourself, and soft pedal this
aspect of your teaching, allowing us to continue our mixture of Jew, Gentile and Church
of God, heavenly places, earth, Jerusalem, body, bride and the like, and to continue in
that state of `bliss where it is folly to be wise' " is but helping to veil the eyes of the
believer. It is our conviction, which we hope to demonstrate in these pages, that
Dispensational Truth, instead of being the pet theory of a fanatical few, is "the key of
knowledge" which tradition, orthodoxy and "churchianity" have hidden from the seeking
believer.
EVERY WORD NEEDED AND UNALTERED IS OUR CLAIM.
One great claim of those whose studies are guided and guarded by Dispensational
Truth is, that under this system of interpretation, and under this system alone, every word
that is written in Holy Scripture is seen to be necessary, not one statement needs to be
altered, modified or omitted. Jew will always mean Jew, the Israel of God will not mean
the church, Gentile will always mean Gentile. The meek that inherit the earth, cannot be
the same company whose blessings are "in heavenly places"; the Church which is "the
Perfect Man" (aner, male, bridegroom, husband) cannot be "the Bride the Lamb's wife".
We therefore re-arrange the list set out on page 46 to show that the different subdivisions
of truth are all subdivisions of the one great all-covering principle--Dispensational Truth.
«-----------------------------DISPENSATIONAL TRUTH-------------------------------»
Doctrinal
Practical
Prophetic
Church
Kingdom
Truth
Truth
Truth
Truth
Truth
Kingdom of God or
Israel or
Body or Bride
Law and Grace
Calling or walk
Kingdom of Heaven
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It must be our privilege and our responsibility to consider these items and to show that
apart from Dispensational Truth we are always liable to confound things that differ and to
affirm as present truth that which has waxed old and is vanishing away.
By dispensational truth therefore we mean that particular revelation of God's will to
man during some particular administration or economy, and specially appertaining
thereto. When we speak of some teaching or practice as being undispensational, we
mean that owing to the introduction of a new administration, certain things that obtained
under a previous regime have become obsolete. By the term undispensational teaching,
therefore, we mean that the teaching peculiar to one dispensation has been imported into