Reply to Bob Anderson

http://www.fivedoves.com/letters/aug2013/boba82.htm

Bob, you said that I'm starting to echo Bullinger?? I had never even read Bullinger prior to your post, and I certainly don't agree with what you wrote, apparently reciting his views. I did an Internet search and came up with the information at the bottom about Bullinger. 

Briefly, my message is this: Don't ignore Christ's warnings to Repent and be Ready (Luke 21:34-36, Rev 3:14-22). I believe the Lukewarm Laodicean Church is saved, but needs to Repent. They love to claim they're Philadelphians, but their lives indicate otherwise. Unless they Repent, they will be left behind at the First "Open Door" Rapture event, to face the persecution of Antichrist in the Great Tribulation. After the Sixth Seal (Rev 6:12-17), All the dead in Christ will be raised, then All remaining living Born Again Believers will be caught up with them in the sky, to meet the Lord in the air in the 2nd Main Pre-Wrath Rapture event, called the "gathering together of the elect" (Matt 24:29-31, Mark 13:24-27). The Wrath of God follows the opening of the Seventh Seal (Rev 8:1-2) and includes all the 7 Trumpet judgments, and then all the 7 Bowl judgments in numerical order. Bob, I seriously doubt that what Bullinger said matches this!

YBIC,

Bill Griese 

Link: http://www.ask.com/wiki/E._W._Bullinger?o=2801&qsrc=999  

Bullinger's views were often unique, and sometimes controversial. He is so closely tied to what is now called "hyperdispensationalism" that it is sometimes referred to as Bullingerism. Noted dispensationalist Harry A. Ironside (1876–1951) declared Bullingerism an "absolutely Satanic perversion of the truth". Bullingerism differs from mainstream dispensationalism with regard to the beginning of the church. Mainstream dispensationalism holds that the Church began at Pentecost as described early in the New Testament book entitled "Acts of the Apostles". In stark contrast, Bullinger held that the Church, which the Apostle Paul revealed as the Body of Christ, began after the close of Acts, only revealed in the Prison Epistles of the Apostle Paul. Other dispensationalists (often described as "mid-Acts" dispensationalists, i.e., Acts 9 or 13) hold that the Church, the Body of Christ, began at or shortly after Saul's conversion.

Bullinger described dispensations as divine "administrations" or "arrangements" wherein God deals at distinct time periods and with distinct groups of people "on distinct principles, and the doctrine relating to each must be kept distinct". He emphasizes that "Nothing but confusion can arise from reading into one dispensation that which relates to another.", and lists seven dispensations

Outside of ultradispensationalism, many other examples of Bullinger's unique views can be found. For example, Bullinger argues that Jesus was crucified with four, not just two, criminals. Bullinger argued for mortality of the soul, the cessation of the soul between death and resurrection. While Bullinger did not express any views concerning the final state of the lost, many of his followers did hold to annihilationism. Purportedly, Bullinger was also a member of the Universal Zetetic Society.