Dispensationalism: Was the church an accident for Christ’s failure to establish the kingdom? The theology that teaches that Christ postponed the kingdom and yet await its establishment at the millennium is what’s known as Dispensationalism. It is a rather recent teaching (past 200 years) in the area of eschatology (study of last things) which includes the second coming and its related events. We believe that Dispensationalism errs by charging God with failure to keep his promise regarding the imminent (from a first century perspective) establishment of the kingdom. In that view, the church became a substitute, an interim entity to “pacify” the world until God fulfills his promises to “ethnic” ...