[ LISTEN ] Past consequences for the continuous Gentile rebellious spirit toward God were: banishment from the Garden of Eden, the great flood, confounding of the language, separation of the earth’s plates. Having set His work with the Gentiles aside, for the next 2,000 years, God worked through the Nation of Israel, first establishing His unconditional Abrahamic Covenant. Abraham’s demonstration of saving faith is an example of what pleases God in all dispensations, faith in whatever God tells you to be true for you in the dispensation in which you are living. God promised to Abraham the future physical blessing of all the lands he would walk through and reclaim from Satan. The whole earth would be blessed by the seed of Abraham; the Nation of Israel and the future coming Messiah. Abraham and his family would be a special people, a chosen people and a light to the Gentiles. In the book of Exodus, we learn that Abraham’s descendants woul...
[ LISTEN ] What Is a Dispensation? In the Bible, a dispensation is a unique administration, a stage in the outworking of God’s plan throughout history during which man is tested in respect to obedience to a specific revelation of the will of God. A dispensation concerns the accountability, responsibility and faithfulness of man to that revealed will of God, and is incorporated into a literal interpretation of prophecy and mystery in the Bible. Each new administration is a new dispensation. The book of Ephesians offers three divisions, three distinct dispensations: TIME PAST, BUT NOW, and the AGES TO o COME, which is concluded with the FULLNESS OF TIMES. Studying the Bible’s dispensations is the key that unlocks the hidden wisdom of God revealed in the BUT NOW Dispensation of Grace. God has always had a Good News plan for sinful mankind. He has always offered the gift of eternal life to anyone who would choose to tr...
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