In one sense this was a story as old as new premillennialism, harkening to the efforts of James Brookes, Joseph Seiss, and Dwight Moody in the nineteenth century. But in another sense, the Jesus People’s embrace of apocalyptic theology helped to undermine the legacy and future of dispensationalism on scholastic terms. The same cultural logic that extended pop dispensationalism’s reach made it vulnerable to the whims of culture and commerce. When cultural trends shifted and consumer tastes changed, pop dispensationalism would be forced to further adapt or die.
