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Dispensation of TIME PAST:  Gentiles in Prophecy (Ephesians 2:11) 

 

God piled up innumerable gifts in the big, perfect Garden of Eden for Adam and Eve. 

 

To enjoy these blessing with God for all eternity, all they needed to do was to not eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (Genesis 2:17). 

 

When they failed, God clothed them with the first blood sacrifice/sin atonement/temporary sin covering (Genesis 3:21). 

 

Adam and Eve received a very harsh judgment (Genesis 3:16-19). 

 

God banished them from the Garden of Eden and from the Tree of Life.  

 

They were separated from comfort and from their intimate, loving relationship with God, the One with whom they had walked in the cool of the day in the Garden (Genesis 3:8). 

 

They now had to make their own way in a sin-cursed world (Genesis 3:22-24) and face a future physical death. 

 

12 Wherefore, as by one man (Adam) sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned (Romans 5:12). 

 

Immediately after Adam fell, God prophesied that from the seed of Eve, the Mother of all living (Genesis 3:20), would come a Redeemer. 

 

15 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel (Genesis 3:15).

In time, mankind became so evil that God offered through Noah, the tenth generation, a way of salvation through an ark (Genesis 6:14-19). 

 

Noah believed God, and God called him a righteous man (Genesis 7:1). 

 

During the 100 year construction project, anyone could have believed God, helped build (Genesis 5:32, 7:6) or gotten into the ark, but only Noah, his family, and animals survived the judgment of the great flood (I Peter 3:8). 

 

God set a bow in the sky as a token of the Everlasting Covenant (Genesis 9:13, 16) 

 

He made with Noah and with every living creature that was with him, that 11 by water of flood shall no flesh be cut off or destroy the earth any more (Genesis 9:11). 

 

28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years. 

 

29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died (Genesis 9:28-29).
 

During the days of Nimrod, from the line of Noah’s son Ham (Genesis 10:6-10), man rejected God’s instruction to replenish the whole earth (Genesis 9:1). 

 

Having one language, they settled in one area of the earth. 

 

Nimrod and the people began building Nimrod’s Kingdom (Genesis 10:10) and the Tower of Babel, not as a means to approach God, but to make a name for themselves, 4 lest they be scattered abroad across the face of the whole earth (Genesis 11:4). 

 

God judged man, confounded their language (Genesis 11:7-9), scattered the people, and during the days of Peleg, the sixteenth generation from the line of Shem (Genesis 11:16), God divided the earth bringing about subsequent continents (Genesis 10:25) and nations began to be established. 

 

26 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation (Acts:17:26).
 

Prior to having the written Word, God had eyewitnesses, those with personal knowledge of God. 

 

For a period of 930 years (Genesis 5:5), almost a millennium, Adam lived and revealed the nature of God and the coming of a future redeemer to the pre-flood generations, primarily through his line of Seth (Genesis 4:25-26). 

 

Enoch, the seventh generation, walked with God, pleased God, and prophesied, saying, 14 Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints (Jude 1:14, Genesis 5:24). 

 

God translated, raptured, took, caught up this man of faith so that he should not see death (Hebrews 11:5). 

 

Methuselah, the eighth generation, lived for almost a millennium, 969 years (Genesis 5:27), and died in the year of the flood, approximately 1,500 years after creation. 

All the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years (Genesis 10:29). 

 

Noah, the tenth generation, had special knowledge of God to proclaim for 100 years prior to the flood and 350 years (Genesis 9:28) after the flood. 

 

Those born post-flood should have visibly seen the remains of the debris from the flood and were without excuse for their rebellious nature toward God in the days of Nimrod.

 
After focusing on the Gentiles for 2,000 years, one-third of man’s history, God judged the Gentiles. 

 

He temporarily postponed His focus on them. 

 

He set them aside (Joshua 24:2-3; Romans 1:25-28) and turned His focus on the restoration of the earth through the line of Abraham, the twenty-first generation from Noah’s line of Shem (Genesis 11:26). 

 

In the future, after the Nation of Israel will have rejected God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, God will return His focus toward the Gentiles and at that time He will concentrate on the restoration of heaven.