The Traditional Dispensational View<\/span>, by Robert L. Thomas, Professor of New Testament emeritus at The Master\u2019s Seminary. Thomas deals with Israel in the OT and the NT. In the OT Thomas shows that the land promise has never been fulfilled literally to Israel. He says, \u201cA literal approach interprets the words as God intended\u00a0 them and as Abram understood them. No typology. No spiritualizing. No symbolism. No preunderstanding of how the words must fit into a system of theology.\u201d In the NT he shows how \u201cJesus might have canceled God\u2019s promises to Abraham but did not.\u201d Here Thomas reviews 10 times in the life of Christ where this could have been done if that is what Christ intended. Obviously He did not. Then Thomas reviews 6 ways in which the \u201cApostles might have canceled God\u2019s promises to Abraham but did not.\u201d After reviewing the biblical covenants showing the literal promises to Israel, Thomas reviews the book of Revelation (about which he is well-known for his large 2-volume commentary) and writes, \u201cThe book of Revelation is full of references to God\u2019s faithfulness in fulfilling his promises to national Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n The Progressive Dispensational View<\/span>, by Robert L. Saucy, distinguished professor of Systematic Theology at Talbot School of Theology. In the early 1990s Saucy of Talbot along with Craig Blaising and Darrell Bock of Dallas Seminary, and many others since, introduced significant changes to traditional dispensationalism. These include hermeneutical and ecclesiastical changes, prophetic and covenantal changes. Saucy includes three in this volume. 1) Israel is still God\u2019s special people with promises of a millennial future. 2) The church participates with Israel in the new covenant as one combined people of God, not as a uniquely separate entity. 3) The kingdom of God exists now in an inaugurated form called \u201calready-not yet.\u201d It is here already in an inaugurated, or spiritual, form but will also come later in a material form. Prominent in Saucy\u2019s presentation is the view that the church is establishing the kingdom by its evangelism to the Gentile world. Saved Jews and Gentiles will eventually inhabit the millennial kingdom as a united people of God. The eternal state is often included as a renewed earth and an eternal earthly kingdom. It should be noted also that the description of \u201cprogressive\u201d does not mean culturally contemporary, but rather as a more biblical theological, i.e., progressive revelatory view. The view also necessarily includes much more typical and allegorical hermeneutics than its predecessors.<\/p>\n
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