Philip Mauro (1859-1952) was a brilliant lawyer who
practiced before the Supreme Court, popular author, and well known
Bible
Teacher. He contributed articles to
The Fundamentals,
(ed. R. A.
Torrey) and published several popular books including:
The
Seventy Weeks
and the
Great Tribulation,
The Gospel of the Kingdom: Examining
Dispensationalism,
The Wonders of Bible Chronology,
The Hope
Of Israel, and
Which
Version? Authorized or Revised?
Other writings by Mauro are Last Call To The Godly Remnant,
James, The Epistle of Reality,
The Wonders of Bible
Chronology, Ruth The
Satisfied Stranger, The
Church, The Churches
and the Kingdom, Evolution
at the Bar, Never Man
Spake Like This Man, The
Number of Man; The
Climax of Civilization, and Dispensationalism Justifies the
Crucifixion
Philip Mauro is popular among dispensationalists because of some of his
early works. After years of study Mauro rexamined this theological
convictions and dismissed his earlier convictions on eschatology as
'error'. Two quotes will show his later thoughts towards
dispensationalism and the pretrib error:
"Dispensationalism may be fascinating
as a work of art, but as a
revelation it rests upon a foundation of sand. The entire system of
dispensational teaching is modernistic in the strictest sense: it is
modernism, moreover of a very pernicious sort, such that it must have a
Bible of its own (i.e., the Scofield Reference Bible) for the
propaganda of its peculiar doctrines since they are not in the Word of
God."
Of the "two stage secret rapture" theory:
"It is mortifying to remember that I
not only held and taught these
novelties myself, but that I even enjoyed a complacent sense of
superiority because thereof, and regarded with feelings of pity and
contempt those who had not received the ‘new light’ and were
unacquainted with this up-to-date method of ‘rightly dividing the word
of truth’... The time came... when the inconsistencies and
self-contradictions of the system itself, and above all, the
impossibility of reconciling its main positions with the plain
statement of the Word of God, became so glaringly evident that I could
not do otherwise than to renounce it" (The Gospel Of
The Kingdom, pp.177,178).