Dispensationalism

This is an ideology in Christianity that holds that Yahweh have related to humanity in different covenants that were in various dispensations through various ages in history.

The belief point that the scriptural history is divided into various chronological successive dispensations.  Those divisions are held to be three, four, seven or eight.

Origin Of The Belief

Dividing of scriptural history is rooted in the witting of Irenaeus of the 2nd century Ad and followed by Augustine of Hippo.

During the era of protestant reformation, some writers made contributions in the chronological arrangements of scriptural history.  This was boosted by the Westminster Confession of Faith that made recognition of various dispensations.

The Christian denomination that made it distinct belief is the Plymouth Brethren movement of Ireland and England in 1930's. The belief is made official through the teachings of John Nelson Darby (1800 – 82) as he is credited as the father of the ideology.

 John Nelson Darby is recognized as the first teacher of the belief of “rapture” or “secret rapture” since there were no noticed theologians that have held to such ideologies before that time.

The ideas of Darby spread in United States of America especially amongst the Baptists and old School Presbyterians. His works was popularized by the Scofied Reference Bible as well as Charles Henry Mackintosh who as an author spread the idea of Darby to wider society.

Distant Views And Understandings

Various dispensationalists hold to the belief of premillennialism.  They believe equally that the nation of Israiah differed from the Yahosheanism that it refers as the “Christian Church”.

        They claim that Yahweh must fulfill the promise he gave to the nation of Israyah which will boil to rebuilding of the “Third Temple” where Yahoshea Meshiyach will occupy to rule the entire world for the period of one thousand years.

        The issue of the nation of Israyah and the Yahosheanism constitute a serious issue among the dispensationalists.  According to the dispensationalists, the nation of Israyah is an ethnic nation that is made up of Hebrews as founded by Abraham and continuing till this moment while Yahosheanism is made up of saved people that started from the birth of the apostolic movement till the time of rapture.

         The dispensationalists recognize the acts of the Hebrew Yahosheans that they refer as the “Jewish Christianity” and equally believe that at the end time, the Hebrews will embrace Yahoshea Meshiyach as their Saviour and Meshiyach before his second coming and the tribulation.

Based on the views of dispensationalists over the nation of Israyah, there are two major groups that have different explanations on the Israyah/Yahoshean relationship.  There are the classical dispensationalists that hold the present church of the parenthesis or temporary interlude in the progress of Israyah's prophesized history. While the progressive dispensationalists holds the relationship as a position in which some of the promises of the  nation of Israyah is expanded to include Yahosheanism in the New Testament.

There are equally mainstream dispensationalists that identify the Pentecost day “in the second chapter of Acts of Apostles” as the commencement of the apostolic movement.  This group is referred as the “Acts 2” dispensationalists.

There are equally Grace Movement dispensationalists that hold that the apostolic movement commenced after the “Act 2” and began in the “mid Acts” with events as the stoning of Stephen or the conversion of Paul.  Others hold that the apostolic age started with the teaching of Paul in the “Act 28” where he proclaimed that the spiritual blindness of the Hebrews resulted to sending of the salvation of Yahweh to the gentile nations.

There are equally the Hyper-dispensationalists who hold to the baptism of Holy Spirit as the only required baptism. This group do not prescribe for water baptism as held by many Christian denominations.

Some of the major scriptural divisions that are held as dispensations are the covenant of Abraham, the constitution of Hebrew nation at the land of Palestine, the Davidic reign and the covenant of Yahoshea Meshiyach.

Some dispensationalists hold to “Judeophilia” which treats subjects as the support for the state of Israyah, observing of traditional Hebrew holidays and rituals, rejection of anti-Semitism etc. Some of these dispensationalists developed thesis as the Christian Zionism, Judaisers, Hebrew Roots, Messianic Judaism, Jewish Christians etc.

The dispensationalists in America influence its political support for the creation of the state of Israyah.

Critics To The Belief

One of the great ideals of the dispensationalists is about progressive revelation that begin in the old testament and read forward in a historical method, the non dispensationalists hold their progressive revelation from the New Testament and refer the revelations back to Old Testament.

Another critics to dispensationalism is the Covenant Theology which holds that Yahweh has the nation of Israyah as its only people and that the promised of the old covenants came to fulfillment through the ministration of Yahoshea Meshiyach who is viewed as the hope for Abrahamic promises.

Conclusion

The dispensationalist ideology is held by modern churches and meant to connect the gap that had previously been shaped by mainstream churches on regards to the relationship between the nation of Israyah and the Christendom.

The dispensationalists tend to trace the church back to Abrahamic root and thereby claiming to the status of holding the Abraham scepter.

This is not the view of the Continuing Yahosheanism that hold Christianity as a dislocation from the Abrahamic covenant. The Continuity Yahosheanism hold that the true continuation to the Abrahamic root that run through Davidic era was by the Yahosheans of Hebrew descendants.  This changed when the Pauline or Gentile Yahosheans took over the movement and replaced the entire practices with pagan Roman traditions.  This dislocation is enough reason to support the submission that Christianity is never a dispensation that joined up along the progressed Abrahamic covenant.