1844 JEWISH PROPHECY. Anti-Dispensational - Israel National Restoration not Prophesied in Scripture

John D. Paxton’s No Future Return of the Jews Called for by Prophecy (1844) is a significant theological rebuttal to the "adventist fever" that swept mid-19th-century America. Paxton, a Presbyterian minister whose career was marked by his abolitionist convictions—which eventually led to his forced departure from his Virginia pulpit—spent years as a missionary in Palestine. This firsthand experience gave him a unique, grounded perspective that stood in stark contrast to the speculative eschatology then gaining popularity in the United States.

Upon his return, Paxton was alarmed by the growing focus on premillennialism, specifically the belief that the physical restoration of national Israel was a prerequisite for the end times. In these two addresses, he employs a rigorous biblical hermeneutic to argue that there is no scriptural mandate for a political or spiritual ingathering of the Jews as a distinct national entity.

The work is particularly notable for its lengthy addendum, which serves as a direct polemic against the influential pamphlet by George Bush (the prominent Hebrew scholar and professor) who championed the opposite view. This scarce volume captures a pivotal moment in American religious history when the debate over prophecy, mission work, and the "restoration of the Jews" was fundamentally reshaping Protestant theology.

Paxton, J.[ohn] D. No Future Return of the Jews Called for by Prophecy; Two Sermons Preached at Mulberry, August, 1844. Louisville, Kentucky. C. C. Hull & Brothers. 1844. 46pp + 10pp [Addendum]

In good condition; textually complete, some moderate foxing, heaviest on title. Flotsam from previous gathering as part of a sammelband. Should be resewn.