My brother is a Dispensensationalist and sends me videos he's watched from time to time to try to persuade me or to get my take on them. Here's one he sent me today, which reminded me of this post. I only could stand a few minutes of it, but it helped me see why Dispensensationalism is like Neo-Gnosticism: they claim to have special or esoteric knowledge about the End Times and when things take place, despite the fact that Jesus told His disciples it's not for you to know (Acts 1:7).
Discussion
it also says that as time gets closer more will be revealed
my father determined by intensive research that this year would be the year in which a war would start in palestine and mark the beginning of the tribulation: *check*
i also read last year a book just published that gives ample references to some hypothesis that we might expect the return of Jesus about 2028 and suggests that it is going to be associated with an alignment between sun, moon and jupiter and the pleiades *check*
said book suggested that the reason for all this had to do with a cluster of rocks that are in a ~12500year orbit of the sun in the angle of the star constellation of taurus, in which you find the pleiades and nearby the star sirius, both of which are also very close to us relative to stars in the sky elsewhere (that's why sirius is so bright)
and that "heaven" was a colony of humans that have also been called the "atlanteans" and were probably the people running the ship that got shot down in 1943 over new mexico
the very book itself, the book of enoch, was hidden (apocryphal) and only reappeared in the 17th century out of the ethiopian orthodox church, the catholics eradicated it from europe, and this book talks extensively about the end times and leaves you in no doubt after reading it that angels are humans
What's your source for"it also says that as time gets closer more will be revealed"?
My brother believes that and calls it "progressive revelation."
Don't get me wrong, I would love to see the Second Coming happen soon as well, but I can't base my theology on what I want to happen.