Dispensations and Crises

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Dispensations and Crises
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(Each Dispensation is followed by crisis,
judgment, next testing)
Innocence
Law
Family
Grace
Self -Government
Messianic
Conscience
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Ages and Dispensations
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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
• Gods repeated display of fallen mans
  insufficiency Without Me ye can do nothing
  (right)

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Dispensation of Innocence (Edenic)

• From creation of Adam till the expulsion from the
  garden
• Purpose Eph 24-10
• Innocence morally neutral
• Confirmed in Holiness or reprobation
• Result of fall Depravity of race Gen 53

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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 119-32
• Result Gen 611-13

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Ante-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 91-6 Romans 131-6
• Purpose Show man that in his depravity he is
  incapable of self government.
• The sanctity of human government is short lived
  Genesis 111-9

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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 1310-14
• Noahs descendants become idolaters. (Terah)
  Josh 242
• A family feud develops here which plagues us
  today . Gen 2738-45 But it has an end
  Obadiah 11-21

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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 324
• Law is a curse to sinners Gal 310-13
• Never intended as a means of salvation Rom 320
  Heb 719

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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 112
• Church was a mystery until now I Cor 26-10
• Dispensation of longsuffering and Divine Favor
  II Pet 39
• Dispensation to end in perilous times I Tim
  41-4, II Tim 31-5 Jude 14-19

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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 179
• Dispensation of unparalleled opportunity satan
  bound Rev 201-3 Curse removed- no poverty
  Gen 317 , Ezek 3625-38

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Millennium mille-annum 1000 years