The Danger of Dispensational Prophecy

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“Hypocrites! You can discern the face of the sky and of the earth, but how is it you do not discern this time?” (Luke 12:56). I love Biblical prophecy. God made sure nearly a quarter of the Bible is prophecy, so it is important. However, while I am a committed pre-millennial, pre-tribulational, Dispensentionalist, I cringe
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In the Days of Herod (Luke 1:5a)

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Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities opens with the memorable line, “It was the best of the times, it was the worst of times…” Some periods are infamous for their difficulty. Merely naming the age evokes the hard times that people experienced, as with the Irish Potato Famine, the Holodomor, the Great Depression, Vietnam,
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Four Reasons to Study Prophecy

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The Evangelical Free Church recently removed premillennialism from their statement of faith (see here). I wonder if that signals a decline in the study of prophecy in that denomination. Not every pastor preaches prophecy. Not every person studies it. I can think of several reasons why that might be. Frankly, unfulfilled prophecy takes effort to
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