Hi Doves

I'm sure everyone has had the experience during web wanderings in

search of DIY truth of stumbling into sites that can best be described

as "unhelpful".

My experience recently was while exploring dual fulfillment of

prophecy, mostly as might be applied to Matthew 24. I came across this

blogspot:

http://covenant-theology.blogspot.com/2008/12/dual-fulfillment-and-future-tribulation.html

It is all very eloquent and erudite (in the blog vernacular) until

this paragraph:

"In short, using the "dual fulfillment" principle to warn of a future

Great Tribulation is a practice of sensational desperation, not sound

Biblical exegesis. Dispensationalism in any form is a theology with an

exiled Christ, with no kingdom today relevant to the earth in which we

live. While we may not know the exact order of events leading up to

the Second Advent, we can know that the Great Tribulation, as well as

the other events of the Olivet Discourse, is past history. They

happened within the apostle's generation (Matthew 24:34), never to be

repeated."

Whew, that's a relief. There I was thinking that the Saints were going

to be subjected to 3 1/2 years of great tribulation at the hands of

the Antichrist - silly me.

The comments section seems to have been plucked from Enid Blyton's Famous Five.

Puritan Lad classifies himself as a "lite theonomist" (Huh)

Bryan at least allows us to speculate on the prophesies of Revelation

(Puritan Lad says..."right on Bryan")

Apart from earning my nomination for "Dodgy Doctrine of the Month" all

was not lost for me at Covenant Theology. I looked up some of the

really big words in Wikipedia and discovered that I must be a

dispensational premillennialist rather than a supersessionist but I'm

not too sure about that.

Richard