Dispensational Truth, or “God’s Plan and Purpose in the Ages”: Text
Overview
This book represents thirty-years of Larkin’s careful study of the prophetic Scriptures, and “aims to give not the opinions of men, but the teaching of the Word of God, to prepare a standard work on ‘Dispensational Truth.’ ” But this book is anything but standard! For almost one hundred years this book has endured as one of the top books on dispensationalism, and is filled with Larkin's beautiful artwork and clear writing. A must-have book for any student of prophecy.
Top Highlights
“There can be no question but what the original creation required millions of years, and here we have ample time for all the ‘geologic Ages’ that science reveals to us were necessary. There is no conflict between the Bible and science.” (Page 14)
“The ‘Futurist School’ interprets the language of the Apocalypse ‘literally,’ except such symbols as are named as such, and holds that the whole of the Book, from the end of the third chapter, is yet ‘future’ and unfulfilled, and that the greater part of the Book, from the beginning of chapter six to the end of chapter nineteen, describes what shall come to pass during the last week of ‘Daniel’s Seventy Weeks.’ This view, while it dates in modern times only from the close of the Sixteenth Century, is really the most ancient of the three.” (Page 9)
“In short, ‘Post-Millennialism,’ as advocated in our day, is barely 200 years old, while ‘Pre-Millennialism’ dates back to the days of Isaiah and Daniel.” (Page 8)
“The work then of the Holy Spirit in these days is not to impart some new revelation to men, or to inspire them to write or speak as the Prophets and Apostles of old, but to so illuminate men’s minds and open up their understanding of the Scriptures that their heart will burn within them as they compare Scripture with Scripture, and have revealed to them God’s Plan and Purpose in the Ages as disclosed in His Holy Word.” (Page 5)
“In the words ‘replenish the earth’ we have unmistakeable evidence that the earth had been peopled before it was thrown into a chaotic condition, and that its inhabitants in some way had been destroyed. It does not follow however that those inhabitants were human beings like ourselves. No human remains have been found antedating the creation of man.” (Page 19)
- Title: Dispensational Truth, or “God’s Plan and Purpose in the Ages”
- Author: Clarence Larkin
- Publisher: Clarence Larkin
- Print Publication Date: 1918
- Logos Release Date: 2011
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Covenant theology
- Resource ID: LLS:DISPENTRTH
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-11T18:26:06Z