during each of these dispensations. At this point some of the distinctiveness is a matter of degree. Scofield may emphasize more sharply the discontinuities between dispensations. But the most outstanding point of difference lies in Scofield’s views concerning the church age in relation to the Millennium. During the church age God’s program for earthly Israel is put to one side. It is then taken up again when the church is raptured. The time of the church is a “parenthesis” with respect to earthly