But, in fact, the charts and predictions manifest a Christianity that believes it is above history. History is the regrettable grind of waiting, the churn of degeneration, the countdown of demise. Long chunks of history, including a long phase of Christianity between the death of the apostles and the momentous 1928 insights of John Nelson Darby, are devoid of the Spirit, eras of disillusion, superstition, and deception. Instead of discerning history, dispensationalism is a nowhen Christianity that mostly demonizes history.
