Origin of Dispensationanlism and The Zionist Connection Part 3

The relationship of Political Zionism and John Darby's dispensationalism was being developed from the very beginning. Darby began his millennial teachings in 1830 in England. He traveled to the U.S. holding seminars and evangelistic conferences in 1870. In the U.S. he met Charles Moody who formed the Moody Bible Institute. Here, the dogma of dispensationalism spread even further.

Morgan Edwards (1722-1795) preceded John Darby by about 40-50 years. He offered a millennial system well before the Roman Jesuit, Manuel Lacunza (1731-1801) offered his 1790 document under the pseudonum, Ben-Ezra (Manuel De Lacunza Y Diaz, which is the apparent basis of modern millennialism. (Death of the Church Victorius, by Ovid Need, Jr., p. 7)

In 1788, Edwards began to lecture throughout the Middle Colonies on two of his writings, titled: Millennium and Last-Novelties. His millennial ideas were based upon taking Scripture sliterally, except when such understanding leads to contradictions or absurdity.

Edwards also exalted a restored Jewish nation over a the Blood-Bought Church, a veiew that was not new. Already in the air, he may have simply offered the old Jewish hope. Many years before Edwards, Trapp said concerning Isaiah 11:11, shall set his hand again a second time. Thus, these doctrines were taught by Trapp, then by Edwards, then Lacunza and popularized by John Darby.