In my search for decent articles on the four views of the Millennium (many thanks to Frumanchu for offering to format and post the best candidate), the most consistent element that differentiated Dispensationalism from all other eschatological systems was that in Dispensationalism, God has a different redemptive plan for racial Jews - unique, separate and even superior to any other redemptive plan offered to any other racial group (Greeks, gentiles, etc). Some dispensationalists (Hal Lindsey for one) have even gone so far as to claim that fellow Christians are anti-semites for holding to other eschatological views.
Incredulously, we're the ones who are anti-semitic, for not supporting a racially-divided, two-redemptive-plan dispensational view of history, one that discounts the Body of Christ - His Church - as being merely a "great parenthesis" in God's prophetic timetable for man.
Sorry Buggman, but I have to side with OP on this one. I think he makes a good point with this thread. No offense meant, hopefully none taken.
The wording on that is a bit vague: In what way do you perceive Dispensationalism presenting "a different redemptive plan for racial Jews"?
the most consistent element that differentiated Dispensationalism from all other eschatological systems was that in Dispensationalism, God has a different redemptive plan for racial Jews - unique, separate and even superior to any other redemptive plan offered to any other racial group (Greeks, gentiles, etc).
Is this two peoples of God scheme a given (an axiom, unproven), or do they get it from somewhere?
There is not a different redemptive plan for racial Jews. How can one read the bible and come to that conclusion. Very simply, John 3:16 was spoken to a Jew.
My sense, without reading up on those that you mention, is that there is a possibility of a different redemptive plan (1) After the rapture, and (2) during the Millennium.
With a different situation entailing, that is something that it would be fair to speculate on. I think it would be because of Jesus' words to Thomas: "Blessed are those who see and believe, but more blessed are those who do not see and yet believe."
Just My Humble Speculation (JMHS?)