Musing on the origin of a major shift in American Christianity

                                 No wonder it took 1800 years to come up with

During the period I was avidly researching Christianity and denominations I very much appreciated the scholarship and clarity of Bruce Gore.  Here (link below) he discusses dispensationalism.  At 18:20 starts on Scofield.   He leaves the explanation of the 'breathtaking' spread (and, necessarily who underwrote it) to conjecture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvnMTDW25S4

A more direct look at Scofield and his annotated bible is provided here.  Accepting the source has a distinct pro-palestinian slant, it looks good in the whole.
http://themillenniumreport.com/2018/02/the-zionist-created-scofield-bible/
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That article introduces Samuel Untermyer as a sponsor of Scofield.

From wiki -  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Untermyer

"Untermyer also identified as a Zionist and served as president of the
Keren Hayesod, the agency through which the movement was then and still
is conducted in America."

(also interesting ... "He took an active part in preparing the Federal Reserve Act")

"He was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1904, 1908
and 1912; and delegate-at-large for the state of New York in 1916.
Accordingly, he was a strong supporter of Woodrow Wilson's administration."

Quite the sponsor!

Another link explains the significance of Untermyer and the connection with Oxford University Press - the agency which owns the Scofield bible and continued making zionist revisions even after Scofield's death.
https://www.wrmea.org/015-october/the-scofield-bible-the-book-that-made-zionists-of-americas-evangelical-christians.html  

"Being a “born again” preacher did not preclude Scofield from becoming a
member of an exclusive New York men’s club in 1901, either. In his
devastating biography, The Incredible Scofield and His Book, Joseph M.
Canfield suggests, “The admission of Scofield to the Lotus Club, which
could not have been sought by Scofield, strengthens the suspicion that
has cropped up before, that someone was directing the career of C.I. Scofield.”

That someone, Canfield suspects, was associated with one of the club’s
committee members, the Wall Street lawyer Samuel Untermeyer. As Canfield
intimates, Scofield’s theology was “most helpful in getting Fundamentalist
 Christians to back the international interest in one of Untermeyer's
pet projects—the Zionist Movement."

Why Oxford University Press publishing?  (Same source)

"On one of these European trips, Oxford University Press publisher Henry Frowde
“expressed immediate interest” in Scofield’s project. According to a biography
of Frowde, although the OUP publisher was “[n]ot demonstrative in his religious
views, all his Christian life he was associated with brethren known as
‘Exclusive.’” The “Exclusive Brethren” refers to the group of Christian
evangelicals that, in an 1848 split in the Plymouth Brethren, followed John
Nelson Darby, the Anglo-Irish missionary generally considered to have been
the most influential figure in the development of Christian Zionism, and a
major influence on Scofield."

 

               Dispensationalist 

have ready access to the White House

 

 

8/25/20 - found an excellent debate on an element of dispensationalism with Gary DeMar.
https://youtu.be/uKJwH7_5QqU