Day: January 30, 2026

Friday, January 30, 2026

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,…” (1 Peter 1:3,4 KJV).

Perhaps we can search the Scriptures to resolve an apparent contradiction, thereby perfecting that which is lacking in superficial readers….

We Pauline dispensational Bible students have been charged with wrongdoing—the accusation being utterly false. Never do we confine our reading and studying to Paul’s epistles of Romans to Philemon. We throw away none of the 66 Books of the Bible, Genesis to Revelation. (What is true is that some in Christendom throw away Paul’s epistles altogether!) Dispensational Bible study allows us to think of God’s words in an orderly fashion, arranged on a timeline… instead of jumbled thoughts and disparate activities that make people lose the overall “big picture” of God’s plan for the ages. We will easily demonstrate this, and, in doing so, provide the solution to that aforementioned “contradiction.”

Read today’s Scripture in context: “Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time” (1 Peter 1:1-5).

Dispensational Bible students distinguish between the nation Israel (God’s earthly people) and the Church the Body of Christ (His heavenly people). Consequently, it comes as quite a shock to them (as it did to me so long ago) to learn that the Bible links Israel with Heaven. How could this be? Does that not challenge the very premise of right division? Here is where we have to exercise exceptional spiritual discernment….