The Dispensationalist’s End-Time Remnant People of God in Revelation: An Exegetical Evaluation

Abstract

Biblical scholars from different schools of thought have already written so much about the “Remnant” theme in the Scripture both from OT and NT. It appears to me that one area that needs to be explored is the appraisal of one of these ideas in the light of sound biblical exegesis and biblical principles of interpretation. This paper attempts to exegetically evaluate the Dispensationalist’s interpretation of the “Remnant” of Revelation. The Dispensationalist, with Futuristic approach to the book, asserts that the “Remnant” of Revelation represents the literal Israel that would believe the Messiah at the Parousia and would reign with Him on earth during the Millennium while the Church would be in heaven. However, after the exegetical evaluation of such view, it was found out that the evidences and arguments presented by the Dispensationalist biblical scholars and theologians are not exegetically founded.