Josheb
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It is common practice for Dispensational Premillennialists, or those who subscribe to a Dispensationalist version of modern futurism, to make "prognostications" about events they believe are soon to occur. I use the word "prognostication" because futurists have learned not to make the mistakes made in the 1980s and 90s when preachers used to predict a specific date. Prognostication is vaguer. It's time-frame setting, not date-setting, even though it proves difficult to get a Dispensationalist to be forthcoming and commit to when their prognostication might occur. Whether it is one month, three, six, twelve months or a year, three, five or ten we Christians are told something prophetic of eschatological significance is going to happen sometime "soon." We're all supposed to be on the lookout for this event (a red Heffer, a third temple, the rapture, etc.). My question, and for now it is just one, single, solitary question, has to do with the fact no one within Dispensational Premillennialism has yet to make an accurate prognostication in the last 195 years (going back to the origin of DPism. The question is......
What makes your prognostications and different from all the other Dispensational Premillennialist prognostications Given the 100% fail rate of all your predecessors, what makes your prognostication(s) different?
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What makes your prognostications and different from all the other Dispensational Premillennialist prognostications Given the 100% fail rate of all your predecessors, what makes your prognostication(s) different?
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