Ten Fatal Flaws in Dispensationalism

Dispensationalism cannot make sense of the biblical data. It cannot move and have its being in the Bible because it must depend on externalized news cycles to make sense of its interpretive method.

Dispensationalism is not faulty because of its adherents. As the prevailing evangelical ethos in our country, I have met thousands of faithful, Bible-believing, zealous saints who subscribe to various dispensational features. It's the mode of operation of the American church. Most American evangelicals make dispensationalism their default eschatology. It best explains the weather, the wars, and the worst human behavior.

John MacArthur once observed, “Getting your eschatology right will bless you, and getting your eschatology right will purify you.” MacArthur believes that any deviation from Dispensational categories damages our understanding of the Scriptures and even ourselves.

But why is dispensationalism undergoing such a blow? Why have its adherents become aged while struggling to pass on the propositions to the next generation? And why has dispensationalism gone through so many variations which bring it ever so closely to standard covenantal principles? Ken Gentry rightly noted in 1993:

Dispensationalism is being forsaken by many and, among those who remain behind, it is being radically altered in a covenantal directional. The bad news is: Like the Roman Empire, dispensationalism is so massive that it will take a long time to collapse.