Why I am not a dispensationalist

This post is made for my friend Nick Acker, who requested it on facebook.

1. The system is often overly complicated. Christianity can be complicated, but the broad theme of the Bible is that Jesus is Lord and that we should obey him. Therein is contained nothing about ages in which obedience to Jesus is irrelevant.
2. Romans 1:16-18 and 9-11 say that Paul desires both Jews and Gentiles to experience the grace of God by believing the gospel about Jesus Christ.
3. The book of Revelation, though containing a futurist element, is clearly apocalyptic literature. It reveals who is currently King in hyperbolic language. 
4. Paul's gospel is not different from Jesus' gospel.
5. "Rightly dividing the word of truth" means rightly interpreting the gospel itself, not rightly discovering the dispensations in the Bible.