Dispensationalism is rebellion against God

2 Timothy 2:15 "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."

Dispensationalists will always bring up this verse to condemn those who disagree with their doctrines. As what a sister has also observed in the case of false prophets, and I quote her words here "... that's something I noticed, they keep repeating the same doctrine, which really is their word." That is exactly what dispensationalists do. They will always repeat 2 Timothy 2:15 at your face in a circular fashion and bluntly tell you that you are in error for not "rightly dividing the word of truth" as long as you disagree with them.

In the words of A.W. Pink, dispensationalists have very little or nothing to say about the first two clauses of 2 Timothy 2:15, but on the third one, that is, "rightly dividing the word of truth", this is what they believe: "correctly partitioning the Scriptures unto the different peoples to whom they belong." Indeed, these mutilators of the Word tell us that all of the Old Testament from Genesis 12 onwards belongs entirely to Israel after the flesh, and that none of its precepts (as such) are binding upon those who are members of the church which is the body of Christ, nor may any of the promises found therein be legitimately appropriated by them.

Not satisfied with their determined efforts to deprive us of the Old Testament, these wannabe super-expositors dogmatically assert that the four Gospels are Jewish, and that the Epistles of James and Peter, John and Jude are designed for a "godly Jewish remnant" in a future "tribulation period", that nothing but the Pauline Epistles contain "Church truth". They further assert that those who decline their doctrine of dividing the Scripture are to be regarded as untaught and superficial, yet God himself has not uttered a single word to that effect.

Not too long ago, I was asked by someone to explain dispensationalism in simple layman terms, particularly on 2 Timothy 2:15 "... rightly dividing the word of truth". Simply said, dispensationalism is a philosophical framework that undergirds the interpretation of scriptures. To demonstrate, I would use the analogy of a pizza. Suppose the whole counsel of God is a pizza of one flavour. The 66 books of the Holy Bible is one volume, and of one accord, one spirit and one mind. No matter how many slices the Hawaiian pizza (my personal favourite) is divided, it is still one flavour.

But dispensationalism is like a pizza of seven different flavours. There is a slice with ham & cheese topping, there is a slice with seafood topping, there is a slice with vegetarian topping, there is a slice with mushroom topping, there is a slice with BBQ chicken topping, there is a slice with pepperoni topping, and finally there is a slice with margherita topping. All these seven flavours are made into one pizza so that one slice don't taste the same as the other. It is confusion! God is not the author of confusion!

1 Corinthians 14:33 "For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints."

Do you now get the picture?

Yes, both are pizzas but they are not the same, aren't they? Instead of rightly dividing the word of God according to 2 Timothy 2:15, the system of doctrine in dispensationalism is to cut up (think Delilah!) the whole counsel of God into sets of scripture and arbitarily assign them to different people born in different "dispensations" (ages). Associated with each of these dispensations is a set of philosophy governing the interpretation of scriptures i.e. the word of God is made subject to the doctrine, and not the other way round. The Bible calls it "rebellion".

1 Samuel 15:23 "For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king."

Notice the word "witchcraft" is embedded in this verse? The same word is also found in:

2 Kings 9:22 "And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?"

The spirit of rebellion is linked to Jezebel, because she was not only a harlot, but she was also a witch.

Genesis 3:16 "Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee."

However, notice how the ESV puts it in the same verse:

“I will surely multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children. Your desire shall be contrary to your husband, but he shall rule over you.”

These two bibles don't say the same thing, don't they? While the King James Bible teaches obedience, the ESV promotes disobedience. That is the spirit of Jezebel and her witchcraft! Notice that God put man as the head of the house i.e. he made woman subject to the man. There is a difference between the function of a man and a woman in the house, and this was clear from the beginning when God made woman to be the "help meet" for man (Genesis 2:18).

Proverbs 1:8 "My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:"

The Bible puts a difference between "instruction" and "law" according to this verse. By the way, that was an excellent example of the word of truth rightly divided. God must be the one who divides the word of truth for us, but we are to discern them according to 1 Corinthians 2:13-14, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. Instruction comes from the father, but law comes from the mother. The word of God is instruction (Psalms 50:17), and the law of God is doctrine (Proverbs 4:2).

Genesis 2:22 "And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man."

Woman was taken out from man, even as doctrine should be derived from the word of God. Doctrine is subject to the word of God as much as woman is subject to the man. Therefore, to subject the word of God to a system of doctrine, as in the case of dispensationalism, is rebellion.

James 3:15 "This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish."

This is also the word of God exposing Jezebel. As the wisdom that descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual and devilish, she is the wisdom behind dispensationalism, and the same is also behind Roman Catholicism (Mary worship), and all the Vatican-supervised modern bible versions, which by the way, go hand-in-hand with dispensationalism. It is no coincidence!

Hebrews 13:8-9 "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. 9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein."

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever. The will of God concerning salvation is the same yesterday, today and forever. Yet, according to dispensationalism, God has a different plan for men in each of the so-called "dispensations" whereby man is tested for his obedience to God's will as condition for his salvation. This is a direct contradiction to Scripture, and proof that dispensationalism really belongs to the "divers and strange doctrines" (verse 9). Notice the word "strange" in this verse? It is not an accident, because the same word is reference to the "strange woman" (Jezebel) in the book of Proverbs and elsewhere.