The Use of Eschatological Arguments in Polemics with Baptists and Neo-Pentecostals

Abstract

Pretribulationism is not just a successor to Ancient Chiliasm, but a concept that destroys Ecclesiology of the special salvation of Jews outside and apart from the Church, which for this purpose will soon be allegedly secretly «caught up» from the Earth and thereby removed from bearing its Cross and the enduring of sorrows commanded by the Son of God. The system of successive Dispensations (households) underlying Pretribulationism, in turn, places an emphasis on exclusively external pleasing God and contradicts the teachings of St. Paul on Justification by Faith. The analysis shows the inconsistency of Dispensationalism with the Apostolic Teaching on the unity of the Church and the abolition of the Old Testament way of pleasing God. In turn, the prophecy about the Remnant of Israel (Rom. 9–11) means the entry of the remnant of Jews into the Church at the End of time.