Prophetic writers viewed Israel becoming a nation as the end-time sign that the “rapture” could not be far off

http://photos.denverpost.com/2013/05/14/photos-65-years-of-israel-as-a-…

I don’t care much for Gary DeMars hobby horse rides against Dispensationalism. But I wholly agree that too much of popular Dispensationalism has been sensationalistic. I’ve often told my congregation that we should not be sensationalist Dispensationalists.