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Fearless Dave MacPhearson
Posted : 25 Jul, 2011 06:24 AM
Fearless Dave MacPhearson
http://truthkeepers.com/dave_mcpherson.htm
"The following is a short biography of Dave MacPherson, the man who has done the most to expose the relatively new and false doctrine of the Pretribulation Rapture.
After earning a B. A. in English at California State University in Long Beach in 1955, Dave MacPherson was a newsman for many years in the Los Angeles and Kansas City areas.
His second career, which has been underway for several decades, involves research into the origin and early development of the pretribulation rapture view. He has produced several books on this subject, three of which are still in print. His earlier book The Incredible Cover-up is easily obtainable at Christian bookstores."
MacPhearson wrote the book, The Three R�s: Rapture, Revisionism and Robbery. Pre-tribulation Rapturism from 1830 to Hal Lindsey, 1998. In part, its about the many celebrity dispensationalists who plagiarized the writings of other writers. Plagiarism means to steal the writing of another and claim it as one's own. Theft is a sin.
On http://www.poweredbychrist.com/Pretrib_Rapture_Dishonesty.html
MacPhearson shows that a number of celebrity dispensationalist writers stole the writings of others and published them as their own.
Here are just a few examples of dispensationalist plagiarism:
"After John Walvoord's "The Blessed Hope and the Tribulation" (1976) brutally twisted Robert Gundry's "The Church and the Tribulation" (1973), Gundry composed and circulated a 35-page open letter to Walvoord which repeatedly charged the Dallas Seminary president with "misrepresentation," "misrepresentations" (and variations)!"
"Greg Bahnsen and Kenneth Gentry produced evidence in 1989 that Lindsey's book "The Road to Holocaust" (1989) plagiarized "Dominion Theology" (1988) by H. Wayne House and Thomas Ice."
"Tim LaHaye's "No Fear of the Storm" (1992) plagiarized Walvoord's "The Blessed Hope and the Tribulation" (1976)."
"This was when the Los Angeles Times revealed that "The Magog Factor" (1992) by Hal Lindsey and Chuck Missler was a monstrous plagiarism of Prof. Edwin Yamauchi's scholarly 1982 work "Foes from the Northern Frontier." Four months after this exposure, Lindsey and Missler stated they had stopped publishing and promoting their book. But in 1996 Dr. Yamauchi learned that the dishonest duo had issued a 1995 book called "The Magog Invasion" which still had a substantial amount of the same plagiarism! (If Lindsey and Missler ever need hernia operations, I predict that the doctors will tell them not to lift anything for a long time!"
There are many more examples of plagiarism cited by Dave MacPhearson in this Internet article. Something is not quite right about the sanctification of these celebrity dispensationalists who steal the writings of others.
We call him "Fearless" because he has stood up to the dispensationalists for years and has not backed down. Being critical of dispensationalist's doctrines and exposing their dishonesty will often result in the dispensationalists being nasty in some way. Many people would not want to have to take their flak.
On Christian debate forums, the "dispys," or dispensationalists, will sometimes bend the rules of decent interaction
and try to harass those who are critical of dispensationalist teachings. One tactic I have noticed here on "Dispensationalist Dating For Free" is the attempt of a dispensationalist to change the topic of discussion, and even to keep posting the same thing ("Will All Israel Be Saved In the Tribulation?" on more than one of his opponents threads, which is not relevant to the current topic.
On http://www.scionofzion.com/revisers.htm
Dave MacPherson makes a number of statements about the origins of dispensationalism. He says, for example, "MacPherson says "John Walvoord truthfully viewed as one of the "early" pretribs!), have also claimed that Darby first "understood" pretrib in either late 1826 or early 1827, and that Darby based his earliest development primarily on the "distinction" between the "church" and "Israel" which, he said, would necessitate a separation between both groups that only a pretrib rapture could attain."
A big part of the problem with dispensationalist began when Darby postulated that there will be a new dispensation during the tribulation period. To postulate means to assume the existence, fact, or truth of something. In logic, an axiom or postulate is a proposition that is not proved, but is assumed as the starting point of a system of thought. That is, Darby did not get his starting principle that there would be a different dispensation from scripture, but just made it up himself.
However, this postulate does probably come out of the belief that the Old Covenant was not completely replaced by the New Covenant, and was not taken away as Hebrews 10: 9 states. In other words, to Darby, the promise of God to Abraham in Genesis 17: 7, 19, etc about his seed having a covenant with God and being God's special people was limited to Abraham's physical seed, those having his DNA. This is the fundamental mistake of Darby and dispenationalism. The system rejects Paul's teaching in Galatians 3: 28-29 that at Christians, those who are Christ's, are the spiritual seed of Abraham. And Paul refers to this in Romans 9: 8, when he explains that
the children of the promise are counted for the seed (the seed of Abraham, and also of God), and no longer are the physical seed of Abraham counted as the spiritual seed just because they have Abraham's DNA, or claim to have it.
ohn Darby (1800-1882) said that the dispensation of law ended at the cross when the dispensation of grace began. But then when the seven year dispensationalist tribulation period begins, another dispensation of law begins - so proposed Darby. This created a problem for Darby's thery. How could another dispensation of law go on when the Church was still on earth? He thought that in the dispensation of law during the tribulation, God would be dealing with the Jews. Would the Church in the
tribulation return to be under the law? The solution was that Darby postulated that before the events of the tribulation began and the one man dispensationalist Anti-Christ appeared, the Church would be raptured off the earth. With the Church gone, God would then turned to deal with the Jews during the tribulation. This point of Darby's theory may be the origin of the claim that the Book of Revelation is only for the Jews, since only they of God's people will be on earth in the tribulation.
In the dispensationalist system the church is raptured off the earth and then a different dispensation begins, and God will save all the Jews. Later dispensationalists may not stress this new dispensation but it is there as the point of origin of the Jewish supremacy assumption of dispensationalism. Darby and later dispensationalists do not seem to deal with Messianic Jews, or with the fact that most Jews follow the Babylonian Talmud rather than Old Testament teachings in Genesis, Exodus,Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, without these teachings being distorted by the Talmud.
Darby proposed a radical separation between the Church and the Jews, something the New Testament does not support.
A few days ago I received a letter from Dave MacPhearson. I had written to him when a Facebook Friend said Dave and his wife were flooded out by a Kansas storm. Dave says "I noted your Bible studies and the web and
they are very good....Glad we're on the same channel,
prophetically - thanks again for writing - keep up the good work. Its
hard to correspond very much since we often have to be traveling.
Lord Bless -Dave"
From Dave's date of graduation from college. 1955, it can be seen that he is not young. But he is still "on the road," (giving talks) as Willie Nelson sings, and Ol Willie is also still on the road at 78.
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