The Gospel books do not contain the primary location of our mail for this age the reader must be cautioned concerning some unfortunate Bible study pitfalls. Alerting the reader to four prominent errors associated to the mishandling of God's mail should help avoid some of the troublesome outcomes: • Retroactive misapplication: forcing upon past dispensations revealed truths specifically for the age in which we live. This results from taking the full revelation of today's truth and forcing equal accountability upon past generations for truths yet unrevealed or hidden at that time. • Prospective misapplication: forcing upon the present age dispensation doctrinal instructions intended by God to be binding only upon past or yet future ages. • Replacement theology: teaching that Israel has been permanently replaced by the Church in God's purpose and plan. This error negates God's future relationship with Israel by usurping yet unfulfilled promises of God and ignoring Israel's prominent future reinstatement as God's chosen people. • Hyperdispensationalism: forcing a false division upon the Bible, resulting in the exclusion of any part of the Bible or its precepts from their intended application today. [This particular aspect will be thoroughly covered in later chapters.] Progressive Revelation and Illumination These four dangerous pitfalls each successive time period has more light (and spiritual insight) than any preceding periods. God has chosen to make His word known progressively through scriptural revelation and spiritual illumination (culminating with the eventual full illumination of John's Revelation). In other words, earlier generations have lower levels of spiritual
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