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