What does the SCOFIELD REFERENCE BIBLE have to do with Restorationism and Dispensationalism?

Question

Restorationism is the belief of some Christians in a large scale end times conversion of Jews to Christianity. Dispensational Conservative Christian groups reject supersessionism and hold that at a future time God will return his focus to the Jewish nation, whence a national conversion will take place where all or almost all Jews will miraculously convert to Christianity, citing the book of Romans chapter 11 and verse 26 which literally says:

And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: (KJV) SSB

Many also believe that these are either the literal or symbolic number of Jews spoken of as the 144 000 from the tribes of Israel in the Book of Revelation. Such ideas are often used in support of Christian Zionism.

Others dispensationalists hold that it does not say every Israelite shall be saved (in Romans 11:26); the nation as a whole will be saved, just like the nation as a whole committed the unpardonable sin. It will still be up to individuals to accept the Gospel of the Kingdom or reject it, but the nation as a whole will be blessed because of its leadership. This happened several times in the Old Testament: when Israel had a good king, it was blessed; when evil kings ruled over Israel and promoted idolatry, the nation was cursed and foreign invaders attacked them. In the future, all Israel will be saved from these curses and foreign invaders.

Answer 1

The energetic efforts of C. I. Scofield and his associates introduced dispensationalism to a wider audience in America and bestowed a measure of respectability through his Scofield Reference Bible. The publication of the Scofield Reference Bible in 1909 by the Oxford University Press was something of an innovative literary coup for the movement, since for the first time, overtly dispensationalist notes were added to the pages of the biblical text. The Scofield Reference Bible became the leading bible used by independent Evangelicals and Fundamentalists in the U.S. for the next sixty years. Lewis Sperry Chafer (1871–1952), strongly influenced by C. I. Scofield, founded Dallas Theological Seminary in 1924, which has become the flagship of dispensationalism in America.