<blockquote><font size=1>In reply to:</font><hr>[color:"blue"]I must tell you that even as far back as 1982, MacArthur was teaching the perpetuity of the Moral Law. For, I heard him present this historic view personally. However, fredman would be most qualified to deal with the discontinuities between MacArthur's teaching and that of C.I. Scofield and John Nelson Darby.</font><hr></blockquote><p><br><br>John wrote a rather lengthy chapter explaining his dispensationalism and critiquing classic dispensationalism in his second book dealing with the Lordship of Christ, "Faithworks: the gospel according to the apostles." I don't have a copy in front of me at the moment, but I believe it was an appendix at the end of the book. In a nut shell, his main emphasis is a distinction between the people of Israel and the Church. His take is that the promises to bless the people of Israel will be literally fulfilled. <br><br>Personally, I think Joe's apparent contradiction between premillennialism and Calvinism is rather imaginary. I have found nothing in the scripture that in any way disturbs my understanding of Revelation 20 as describing a physical reign of Christ upon the earth over all his people, and the doctrines of grace. <br><br>Fred