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I think the evidence points to dispensationalism being an expedient rationalization for a political agenda.

What agenda is that and what is the ultimate goal of that agenda? You are the first person who has said dispensationalism is linked to a political agenda. Now you have my interest.

You are the first person who has said dispensationalism is linked to a political agenda. Now you have my interest.

I have to run, but that is clearly not true. Perhaps you've not heard this perspective, but it's a familiar one. I didn't make it up. I only swipe positions that have evidence behind them. 8~)

I'll get back to you soon. Thanks for the comments.

First, HERE is a nifty little history and critique of dispensationalism which began in England around 1830 and drifted to the U.S. by 1870, no so coincidentally coinciding with the rise of spiritualism in this country.

It also coincides with the advent of the industrial age and its emphasis on oil. What better way to ensure our interests in Middle Eastern oil fields than to surround that area with a religious aura of significance?

Geopolitics crept in and many people were unaware.

Additionally, what better way to destroy Christian particularism than to say faith in Christ is a requirement for all...but not quite all. Not now.

This assertion undermines the Scriptural mandate to believe the Gospel THIS VERY DAY because none of us knows the time of either our death or Christ's return.

So it's a two-fer for those who work against the Gospel of grace.

But as I said earlier, this is not a salvation issue. It's more a parlor game; it's a guess. Some guesses are better than others; some guesses actually work against the word of God. But they are just guesses. All of them. And we are cautioned in Scripture to "avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain." (Titus 3:9)

Suffice it to know that all believing Jews and all believing Gentiles are "all one in Christ Jesus."

And so we preach Christ risen to all men, confident all those who are His, at a time of His choosing, will hear the truth, love the truth and believe the truth to the saving of their eternal souls.

Here's a good book which addresses all the perspectives, with an emphasis on amillennialism...

A CASE FOR AMILLENNIALISM
UNDERSTANDING THE END TIMES

And of course, extolling the Scriptural assurance of the Gospel's success in this world, here's another very good book explaining the postmillennial perspective...

POSTMILLENNIALISM
ESCATOLOGY OF HOPE

And finally, as final support for this pov, I think dispensationalists tend to be aggressively one-sided which is not quite the case with the amils and postmils. Check out postmil Lorraine Boettner's elegant short discussion of the primary schools of thought. He not only presents the postmil position, but he also says positive things about and offers books detailing premillennialism and dispensationalism.

Postmillennialism: Representative Theologians