God and Man Through the Ages

UNDERSTANDING BIBLE PROPHECY

Session 1: GOD AND MAN THROUGH THE AGES

The Dispensations

Dispensationalism is the classic way to take the Bible and see it as an entire unit.

Dispensation: A divinely ordained period of history where requirements are made of God’s people or of mankind in general. Periods of history where God will change in His requirements of man.

In dispensationalism,

• doesn’t change; doesn’t change; doesn’t change… only the way God man changes.
• Salvation is also represented by and the mercy of God who grants .

The Sequence of a Dispensation:

1. God man to do or not do something.
2. Man God.
3. God man and begins a new dispensation.

SEVEN DISPENSATIONS IN SCRIPTURE

First Age: (Gen. 1-3)

• God’s Command:

• Man’s Disobedience:

• God’s Judgement:

Second Age: (Gen. 4-8)

• God’s Command:
• Man’s Disobedience:
• God’s Judgment:

Third Age: (Gen. 9-11)

• God’s Command:
• Man’s Disobedience:
• God’s Judgment:

Fourth Age: (Gen. 12- Ex. 18)

In this dispensation, God gives a to a .

• God’s Command: The requirement in this dispensation is 3-fold:
  1. in the .
  2. . Trust in Jehovah . Don’t sacrifice to another God.
  3. Do . your household to God.
• Man’s Disobedience:
• God’s Judgement:

Fifth Age: (Ex. 19- John 14:30)

• God’s Command: God tells them to do 3 things:

1. the
2. When you fail, for .
3. Wait for the of the .

• Man’s Disobedience:

• God’s Judgment:

Sixth Age: (Acts 2:1-Revelation 19:21)

• God’s Command:

• Man’s Disobedience:

• God’s Discipline:

The Tribulation will do TWO things:

1. It will judge for their of God, from the Garden of Eden on.
2. It will bring to its knees.

Seventh Age: (Revelation 20:1-15)

• God’s Command:

• Man’s Disobedience:

• God’s Judgement:

DISTINCTIVES OF DISPENSATIONALISM