Chart of the Dispensations
DISPENSATIONS EVENTS ON EARTH | BEGINNING EVENT & WITH WHOM | DISPENSATIONAL REQUIREMENT | FAILURE | RESULTANT JUDGMENT |
1. Innocence - sinless | Gen 1:26-27 - Adam created sinless, lacking of inner governance | Gen 2:17 Eat Tree of K&E "ye shall surely die" | Gen 3:1-6 - Ate of tree of K&E wanting "to be as gods" Gen 3:5 | Cast out of garden, kept from tree of life Gen 3:16-24. SIN nature added into man's flesh Eph 2:3, Rom 8:3b |
2. Conscience – active by the Knowledge of Good/ Evil | Gen 3:24 Adam & Eve cast out of the garden. | Gen 4:1-7 - Bring an acceptable blood offering. | Gen 6:5 – man became continually wicked | Gen 6:17 Flood judgment on the earth, save Noah’s Family |
3. Human Government | Noah & Family on the Cleansed Earth | Gen 9:3, 7 multiply, spread, replenish the earth | Gen 11:4 congregated, confederation built Tower | Gen 11:5-9 Language confounded, people scattered |
4. Promise - God's Covenant with Abraham unconditional | Gen 12:1 Abraham called, to be peculiar people, "above all people" (Exo 19:5) | Trust the Lord and Don't go to Egypt Gen 26:2 | Israel went down to Egypt, due to famine | All Israel enslaved in Egypt for 400 yrs, delaying God's promises to the Millennium. |
5. The LAW given to Israel and for Israel only. Event: Jesus comes to Israel on earth Mat 15:24, not to the Gentiles Mat 10:5-6
Event: The Lord’s death, resurrection, ascension. Starts the period of the re-offer of The Messianic Kingdom | Israel given Law, Exo 12 Jesus & Baptist preach: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Matt 3:2
The Kingdom re-offered to Israel’s leaders during early Acts 2-3 | Keep the whole Law Law intensified (Sermon on the Mount): Repent and be baptized.
REPENT: Acts 3:19-20 Peter preached "Repent" and he shall send Jesus Christ back | Law Broken consistently Israel Rejects Messiah & His Kingdom by the cross.
Israel's 3 Rejections: 1) God in O.T., 2) The Son at the Cross, 3) Holy Spirit in Acts 7 when Stephen is stoned to death | Several Gentile Captivities 2nd chance, Luke 13:7-9, 23:34, offered in Early Acts, until Stephen stoned
Israel fallen, set-aside, Kingdom postponed until Gentile age of grace completed Rom 11:11, 25 |
6. GRACE - Paul given the Dispensation of the Grace of God Eph 3:2 Event: RAPTURE - The Lord’s coming to Rapture believers Event: Begin events leading to the 7-yr Tribulation at time of Rapture of Church | Paul's Call, Salvation, Revelation, of Jesus Christ, Acts 9:4, Gal 1:12 RAPTURE of "body of Christ" to dwell "eternal in the Heaven" 2Cor 5:1 Anti-Christ signs covenant to protect Israel bringing Tribulation and God's wrath on all men Matt 24 | Have believing faith in Christ’s; offered to ALL men. Eph 2:8-9 Members have been Saved By Grace Through Faith Alone In Christ Jews & Gentiles on earth must look to Him who was pierced (Zech 12:10) unto His 2nd coming. | Failure is to simply Not receive salvation in Christ as the Grace of God, by faith Once Saved there is No Failing Possible "in Christ" To Fail is to not remain faithful to the end, or take mark of Beast. | Non-believers Die or live on into the Tribulation to believe and be save unto the kingdom. Judged to receive Rewards, 1Cor 3:14, reign in heaven 2Tim 2:12 All the non-believing Jews & Gentiles will die. Mat 24:40-44, 25:31-46. Beast false Prophet cast in Lake of Fire |
7. Satan bound, the unfruitful branches, and chaff burned, Begin the Millennial Reign of Christ on earth from Jerusalem | Begins with The Lord’s 2nd coming to Reign as The Righteous King over believers on earth | The Righteous King, the Twelve, and the believing remnant of Israel, to co-reign and bless the nations of the earth, Rev 2:10, 20:6 |
Ends with Satan loosed, the deceived newborns of Millennium gathered against Christ's Israel - fire devoured them all.
| Satan cast into Lake of Fire. |
8. Eternal Kingdom On | The New Earth |
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