Dispensations and Crises (Page 43½)

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(Each Dispensation is followed by crisis, judgment, next testing)

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Ages and Dispensations (Page 17½)

Dispensation:

• Periods of time in history when God deals with man in a specific manner (Law, Grace,ect)

• A probationary period in history always ending in moral failure

• God’s repeated display of fallen man’s insufficiency “Without Me ye can do nothing (right)”

Dispensation of Innocence (Edenic)

• From creation of Adam till the expulsion from the garden

• Purpose: Eph 2:4-10

• Innocence morally neutral

• Confirmed in Holiness or reprobation

• Result of fall: Depravity of race Gen 5:3

Edenic = In The Garden

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Antediluvian Dispensation (Conscience)

• From the fall till the flood

• Purpose: To show conscience insufficient for moral perfection Rom 1:19-32

• Result: Gen 6:11-13Ante-Diluvian = Before the Flood

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Post Diluvian Dispensation Human (self) Government

• From flood to tower of babel

• Man, having failed the tests of innocence and conscience is now given the test of human government. Genesis 9:1-6 Romans 13:1-6

• Purpose: Show man that in his depravity he is incapable of self government.

• The sanctity of human government is short lived Genesis 11:1-9

Post Diluvian = After the Flood

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Patriarchal Dispensation (Family)

• From call of Abram to Exodus

• Purpose: To show even best of family influence not enough. (Lot) Gen 13:10-14

• Noah’s descendants become idolaters. (Terah) Josh 24:2

• A family feud develops here which plagues us today …. Gen 27:38-45 But it has an end Obadiah 1:1-21

Dispensation of Family

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Dispensation of the Law

• From Sinai to Christ• Purpose: To show fallen man

that he cannot keep the law- needs Grace Gal 3:24

• Law is a curse to sinners Gal 3:10-13

• Never intended as a means of salvation Rom 3:20 Heb 7:19 Law of Moses (Legal)

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Dispensation of Grace

• From Pentecost to Rapture• Purpose: Calling out of the

Bride of Christ II Cor 11:2• Church was a mystery until now

I Cor 2:6-10• Dispensation of longsuffering

and Divine Favor II Pet 3:9• Dispensation to end in “perilous

times” I Tim 4:1-4, II Tim 3:1-5 Jude 14-19

Ecclesiastical (Church) Dispensation

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Millennial Dispensation

• From Second Coming (Second Phase) till “Little Season”

• Purpose: Show man that even under the most ideal environs he cannot please God “All have sinned…” Jer 17:9

• Dispensation of unparalleled opportunity: satan bound Rev 20:1-3; Curse removed- no poverty Gen 3:17 , Ezek 36:25-38

Millennium = “mille-annum= 1000 years

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