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The Mystery of the “Seventy Weeks” in Daniel 9, Chapter XX Gabriel the Messenger From God’s Throne (con’t.) 

The So-called Dispensation of the “Kingdom”—the “Seventh Dispensation”.  It is with extreme difficulty that one tries to follow the Dispensational presentation of the “seven dispensations.”  The difficulty of understanding this hodge-podge of teaching is that it is a very confusing presentation of the most simple and lucid Bible truths. It is a veritable heterogeneous mixture of truth and error. One thing is clear, that it stems from a refusal to believe all the prophetic Scriptures. 

The so-called Dispensation of the “Kingdom”—the “Seventh Dispensation” (continued). When Scofield speaks of the Kingdom being “at hand” he refers this to a very vague and conditional realization of the Kingdom of God as promised to David and as foretold in the prophecies. It merely means that there is not going to be some great event intervening, another “dispensation.” Evidently this means that the “millennium” is at hand as spoken of by the prophets as he interprets those prophecies.

George C. Lubbers is a minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches. “And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, between thy seed and her seed. He shall bruise thy head and thou shall bruise his heel.” Gen. 3:15 The hope of heaven and earth is expressed in the words, “He shall bruise thy head.” This “seed of the woman’ is a person; it refers to someone and not merely to something. In the Hebrew this is quite emphatic. We have the personal pronoun hu, referring to the seed of the woman. In fact this “he” is the representative head...

George C. Lubbers is a minister emeritus in the Protestant Reformed Churches. Adam Driven Out of the Garden of Eden—Upon Hope (Genesis 3:22, 23) It is of the utmost importance that we read the sacred text carefully. It reads as follows: “And the LORD God said, Behold the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil. And, now, lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and live forever: therefore he drove out the man from the garden of Eden to till the ground iron1 whence he was taken” (Gen....

For the next few issues of the Standard Bearer we will write on such Scripture passages that speak rather directly of the suffering and death of Jesus Christ. This will give us a little change in menu and will at once afford a wonderful opportunity to write on the matters of Scripture which may be considered the very heart of the gospel in Jesus Christ. For what else is there to preach but Jesus Christ and Him crucified? 

This .beautiful, passage of Scripture calls .attention to the living hope that is ours through the resurrection of Jesus Christ. More particularly it admonishes us concretely to live in this hope as this is manifested in a walk of conversion, the putting off of the old man and the putting on of the new man. The central manifestation of such a walk of hope and conversion is in the fervency of the brotherly love that we have for one another. In this fervency of love we see love perfected. Sanctification will thus be finished and completed in the fear of God. 

The truth of the heading of this article flashed into my mind when I read the latest editorial from the hand of Rev. Hofman in the Jan. 28, 1954 issue of Concordia. I looked at my good wife and said: the trouble with this writing of brother Hofman is in what he does not write. And the thing that saddens me is that brother Hofman errs so grievously in the sin not only of omission, but also of commission. There is method in this madness. 

This beautiful passage from the Word of God to which we call attention in this essay reads as follows: “Now the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, meekness, longsuffering; against such there is no law.”