How many dispensations are there anyway?
One of the strongest arguments against a pre-tribulation rapture is the idea that there must be a new 7-year dispensation for the Jews in which God deals with them as He did in the Old Testament. According to some methods of interpreting scripture there are many dispensations in which God works in a separate and distinct way. Some writers come up with many more than others. To create many dispensations and decide how God must operate in each one is to limit God and make him do as you wish. It is dangerous to bring in so many dispensations that you begin to limit God. Unfortunately some bring in a dispensation that says Israel must again be dealt with by God in the same way that He did in the Old Testament and the old sacrificial system is reinstated. In order for this to happen then the church is raptured out of the way for this dispensation. This is contrary to many scriptures. Gal 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: f
