Is a Dhamma follower always a stream entrant? Is a Dhamma follower always a stream entrant?

According to MN 70:


  “What kind of person is a Dhamma-follower? Here some person does not
  contact with the body and abide in those liberations that are peaceful
  and immaterial, transcending forms, and his taints are not yet
  destroyed by his seeing with wisdom, but those teachings proclaimed by
  the Tathāgata are accepted by him after reflecting on them
  sufficiently with wisdom. Furthermore, he has these qualities: the
  faith faculty, the energy faculty, the mindfulness faculty, the
  concentration faculty, and the wisdom faculty. This kind of person is
  called a Dhamma-follower. I say of such a bhikkhu that he still has
  work to do with diligence. Why is that? Because when that venerable
  one…into homelessness. Seeing this fruit of diligence for such a
  bhikkhu, I say that he still has work to do with diligence.
It appears that the Dhamma-follower has assured Strem entry in this very life. He is in the Sotapanna path (Magga) but not experience fruits (Phala) He is a stream entrant to be.


  "One who, after pondering with a modicum of discernment, has accepted that these phenomena are this way is called a Dhamma-follower: one who has entered the orderliness of rightness, entered the plane of people of integrity, transcended the plane of the run-of-the-mill. He is incapable of doing any deed by which he might be reborn in hell, in the animal womb, or in the realm of hungry shades. He is incapable of passing away until he has realized the fruit of stream-entry.


SN 25.1

See also this topic Regarding Cula Sotapanna