Sys & Dispensational Theology Week 14 Eternal Elements of Dispensational Theology 042223

foreign and my mic microphone's good and all that right Okay so we've got uh we are down to the last three weeks right two weeks after this one so that kind of puts us in you know The Grind although I really think this is the best week ever and I know you know I know you think angelology was good bibliology was good all that well I think best from the standpoint should be the best from the standpoint of the most helpful and uh so we're kind of getting down to the end I'll remind you of both your book report and your personal statement of faith so your personal doctrinal statements that you're going to give in lieu of a final exam and uh just remind you of those things we're we're down to two more weeks after this one um you know today comes on a I think a busy day both for it's you know some people here as well as uh some of our other sites I know their stuff going on at some of the other churches and you know we got various things happening uh here today so let me uh start with the word of prayer and we'll get into the kind of the meat of the whole study in terms of the last half of this course is concerned related to dispensations and dispensational theology so father we thank you Lord for the time we can share together today in your words and not just in your word but with your spirit and so father I pray that your Holy Spirit would open open our Enlighten our eyes open our understanding because we know your spirit answers to your word and a lot of the things that we have talked about you know probably refer to the way sound theology relates to things outside of us and happening in the world and contemporary theologies which which will probably say some more things on before we leave this particular class entirely but really what we look at today Lord your Holy Spirit needs to speak because it says more about how we approach your word individually and what we can get out of it so father we trust that as we spend time with you today that you'll speak to us we ask it in Jesus precious name amen so let me suggest that uh you know you go home and pick up a history book I like historical biographies and Memoirs and things like that and just pick up anyone from any place and read a chapter at random and let's say Monday read about George Washington and Tuesday read about Robert E Lee and Wednesday read about George S Patton and Thursday read about Norman H SCH Schwarzkopf and Friday read about Colin Powell and and it and if you try to apply things from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War and from the Civil you know War to the Gulf War and from the Gulf War to World War II you're probably going to be messed up but that is kind of exactly what most Evangelical Christians do to their Bible all the time so open with me to Second Timothy chapter two you know you have to rightly divide history and all colleges and particularly in a fine arts degree you've got entire courses devoted to rightly dividing certain types of History segments of History American history uh history of X Y or Z and put each event in its context and then once you understand it you can learn from that well likewise you've got to rightly divide the Bible by dispensations in order to have scripture in its context and then be able to understand sound Doctrine I think especially as it relates to the past and to Future to Salvation and to prophecy and if you mess those up if you miss that rightly dividing up if you mix and mess up those dispensations well you're kind of doomed in the present so second Timothy 2 verse 15 says study study what well it doesn't it doesn't say study what but study why to show thyself approves unto God a Workman that needeth not to be ashamed now here's what to study after you know why you're going to study it with all of that studious studentaciousness that you need to have so that you can rightly divide the word of Truth so I think the question this morning is is your Bible a maze or a mosaic and for a lot of people who even have otherwise sound Doctrine or at least so so sound Doctrine their Bible is still a maze and it is not amazing you can make your Bible amazing if you understand dispensation so there's no lack of perspective in Prophecy to to God time is a seven dimensional picture the times those times May sometimes overlap just like your carpet overlaps the tile in your bathroom for beauty and just like you have a transitional threshold so that you do not trip going from one room through a doorway to the next but even though even though there's that overlap or even though there's that transition they can still be distinguished and they have to be kept distinct in order to rightly divide the word of God so our thesis for today's study is that God wants you to recognize you cannot understand the Bible without rightly dividing its divisions and unless you understand the dispensations you really can't really understand your Bible so what is a dispensation you know the only way we can keep the big picture of the Bible in focus is to be able to Define and describe its separate sections so today rightly dividing the scriptures goes under the name dispensationalism now I'll let you know up front by way of again comparative theologies and what you might get in any other Bible College or seminary I'll let you know that modern Christian scholarship critiques criticizes deconstructs and delegitimizes dispensationalism and even schools and seminaries that at one time were otherwise the largest seminarians in the entire world dispensational uh even them today back off on the dispensationalism they used to teach they call it Progressive dispensationalism I don't know you know what that means I mean I think I know what that means but I don't know is it like you know Progressive politics is lied I don't know you know but they do that you know though I I'm going to say that the reason they do that is because dispensationalism as Bible defined and as we will present it to you in this class in this particular session you don't have to be a scholar to figure it out and so after Decades of Scholars and their scholarship pounding and hitting on you know the Seminary that was the largest in the world and lo and behold that may be dispensational well they finally backed up because you know they want to get in good with scholarship but all you have to do to understand dispensations is believe the Bible's the mind of God and allow it to Define itself and interpret itself for you so let's start off by saying that all doctrinal error comes from two sources number one from the mind of someone who has not studied the words of God now how many people do you know who talk spiritual but they do not talk biblical and yeah so that goes for most of the stuff in Christian bookstores today or they talk scholarly but they do not talk biblical and that that goes for the commentary uh section in those bookstores today um and it's kind of like modern psychotherapists talking smart but not rational and using words that just don't make sense and supporting ideas that do not even match waking reality so people get ideas in their head about God that do not come from God and then they think something is in the Bible because they heard it so many times from Mama and them I mean mama and them say well that must be a Bible verse somewhere and they don't read the Bible themselves to find out what is in the Bible or if they do read the Bible they do not really study the Bible by cross-referencing the Bible they study books already written about the Bible pushing an agenda over the Bible now there's a second source of bad theology which is worse than a Bad Romance I'm just I'm just telling Lady Gaga it's worse than a bad romance number two it's from not rightly dividing the word of God and applying a Biblical truth you end up therefore applying a Biblical truth in a wrong place or at the wrong time and therefore you have wrong Theology and every cult does this which is why they teach false Doctrine then they build a legalism a legalistic way of Salvation on their particular gimmick based on the specifics of the unrightly divided truth which they are propagating so the worldwide Church of God is like The Seventh-Day Adventist and they have their their own Twisted Sister scripture and the Black Hebrew Israelites are just like that UFO cult called fruit of Islam otherwise known as the black Muslims um they're way off the chain because of their own Twisted Sister scripture and the problem today Solana evangelicals now and the motive doing the same thing only their legalism is to build a legalistic way of sanctification based on how they trim the meat of the word of God and since they do not rightly divide they're either more lean or more fat than their competitive group and they they're you know they either either either less filling or take taste better and and that is their gimmick so let's let's get an absolute biblical definition one of the basic laws of Bible interpretation is the law of first mention and that means that the first time that God uses a term or a concept in what we now have of his complete mind for us today his word of Revelation in in the Bible it will nearly always Define that term or concept or at least govern its usage through the rest of scripture now why is that law valid well that law is valid because the entire Bible was written by the same mind and immediately you can understand when I tell you that Bible College's seminaries and all the scholars do not start there so they do not end at the same place as us and they start with an entirely skeptical view down to the specific letters of ancient texts you know it would seem to me it would be obvious that God did not PR you know let's take the New Testament God did not preserve his word in the Greek I mean that I mean that I mean if you want if you want I mean if inspiration demands preservation well then God really didn't preserve it in the Greek well yeah but Alan we can drive it down to like 98 or seven or six or whatever percentage that would that we really know that it does say and it's only in the small percentage five percent or less that it has these changes which if yeah you could say might affect these doctrines in these ways and whatever and it was only that small percentage well okay uh so so you're simply admitting what I'd state that the God didn't preserve his word in the Greek well why didn't he well I'll put it this way if that 97 accuracy is just fine for any native coin a Greek speaker today how many are there zero it is a dead language God has moved on and so this law is valid because the Bible is the mind of God for Humanity today now um and English evangelists I think articulated this law saying I find in scripture principle of interpretation which I believe if conscientiously adopted will serve as an unfailing guide as to the mind of God contain therein the first mention of a thing the very first words of any subject of which the holy spirit is going to treat are the key stones of the whole matter so just like the first item in a list usually governs things underneath that list the first would place a term is used usually defines it so the doctrine of inspiration means the Bible came from God's mouth to men's lips not God's mouth to men's pens but to their lips because those men were prophets and psalmists and apostles and divine inspiration means that what was spoken was the word of the Lord so many many lips are speaking uh throughout the Bible but there's really only one author speaker and that is the holy spirit now let me illustrate that irrefutable idea with the word Sanctified the word Sanctified first appears in Genesis chapter 2 verse 3 where the seventh day is set apart as a day of rest after completing the work of Creation in six days so the root meaning of sanctification is to separate especially to set apart from common ordinary use so as to be devoted to God's purpose for eternity now turn to Luke chapter 16. so let's say we want to define the term dispensation when we start with a simple English Bible exegesis we find that the word is used only a handful of times in Paul's Epistles and none of those times seems to give a satisfactory definition and he talks about it as though we already ought to know what it is but you know part of being approved unto God is studying like a Workman and it that means it is research in the word as an actual Bible believer so if you have a Strong's Concordance key to a King James Bible and you look up the word dispensation then in the Greek dictionary in the back you find that it is also translated in other ways like with the word stewardship well aha now I can find prior uses of that word and get down to the first one regardless how the King James translators rendered it because in its simplest form a steward is someone entrusted with management of another person's Affairs so Steward the word Steward is a contraction of two English words to Stow which means to place something and then to Ward which means to keep something so a steward is a person who has something placed in his safe keeping and a steward is a mastered servant designated as a manager and the job of a steward is to administrate the household of the master while the owner is away so when Jesus saves us he makes us not only a saint Bound for heaven he makes us a steward bound on Earth and when we try to live for god without being taught biblically structured believing Bible study by rightly dividing well then we fall flat on our face so the first place the word is used is actually Luke 16 and that means Luke 16 is likely going to Define for us what a Bible dispensation is and give us the key to rightly dividing the scriptures Luke 16 verse 1. and Jesus said also unto his disciples there was a certain rich man who had a steward a dispenser an economizer and uh or economon and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods and he called him and said unto him how is it that I hear this of Thee so instead of Distributing my goods and managing my goods so that I and others are benefited from my goods you've wasted my goods give an account of thy stewardship your dispensation your economy your oikonomias for thou mayest no longer be no longer Steward the Spencer CEO head of the firm now wait if you're saved that this question is exactly what you will hear one day at the Judgment seat of Christ Romans 14 12 second Corinthians 5 10. you will you will hear hear it said to us your stewardship is over now give an account well let me let me sift you know Jesus say look let me sift through your life and see what is worthy of reward or did you waste my goods verse 3 then the steward said within himself what shall I do for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship firing me from the board I cannot dig to beg I am ashamed I'm resolved what to do then when I'm put out of the stewardship when this dispensation ends they may receive me into their houses I think in his context houses of Finance banking houses Board of Trade now everybody knows the most powerful person in the army is not the general it's not the captain it's not the commander it's not the uh you know commander on the post it's not you know that the most powerful person in the army is the unit Supply specialist the procurement Clerk otherwise known as the quartermaster of the army now he or she may only hold the rank of Sergeant but he's the most powerful person on base that is the person being talked about right here so the steward takes what is used by the rich man which he thinks the rich man is using it in his estimation as an instrument for unrighteousness and he converts it into friends for the future and everlasting habitations means so that you are set for the rest of your life that's what it means in this cup for us it means so that we are set for the rest of Eternity so this is an incredible power that we have in biblically structured believing Bible study and interpretation and Jesus Likens what this unjust Steward did to having an eternal perspective so that you can act with vision for the future so once we get the definitions down we've got to crystallize the principles and the point is this passage gives us four characteristics which Define a Biblical dispensation so this passage gives us four things to show us how to recognize a dispensation and each time we see these four characteristics occur we got to make a right division in our Bible it's like you know we talk about the four goals of discipleship whenever you see those four things converge you know that you've discipled somebody and somebody's being a disciple uh but with these when we see these four things occur we know we've got a divide right there even if it's a transition threshold with you know something over it so nobody trips and things on one side of that division are not run this way as say things on the other side they're not dispensed the same as things on the other side of that division why because a different quartermaster has been installed now that's what a dispensation is so first off notice if you will every dispensation has a leading Steward there's a management manager dispenser Quartermaster whom God calls out and being called out is an important concept because that's the meaning of the word church called out so Noah found favor or Grace and so he was called out to prepare an ark Abraham was called out of the earth equalities to go to the promised land Moses was called out of the burning bush at the burning bush not just like Hebrews 11 says the response in each case was an expression of faith so second on the other hand each Steward is given a responsibility and that responsibility is to in some way manage and dispense something on behalf of a householder and it means managing something entrusted by God which belongs to God so to manage the goods verse 1 of Luke 16 which God is Distributing and this means to fulfill his stewardship I mean after all think about it what is an economy it's the economy stupid well what is an economy an economy is a way that a government a nation at a particular time distributes the goods necessary for life that is an economy and that is exactly what God does and the leading Steward in this case has to prove that he has the heart of God by administering the Affairs of God and distributing the life of God and the elements resources goods necessary for life on behalf of God and he has to do it like God would so third in every dispensation there is a failure so second a responsibility third a failure to fulfill that responsibility on the part of the steward or his physical or spiritual descendants loser so so humanity is held accountable Abraham's descendants are put in bondage in Egypt Moses descendants are LED into captivity by Assyria and then by Babylon so in the final analysis and this number four in every dispensation God comes down in judgment and takes away the stewardship now what is the purpose of having dispensations why doesn't God just dispense eternal life only one way and do that throughout all human history and let that be that why keep changing the rules of engagement well there are I think at least three purposes to having seven dispensations first to prove that in no conceivable circumstance are humans able to either recover or preserve their own righteousness and to save themselves from the law of indwelling sin second to prove Humanity's only hope lies in a direct intervention by the Holy Spirit as to so as to result in a new nature being imparted God's image being restored to men and women and third to fulfill God's purpose for eternity in glorifying himself by gathering together in one all things in his son Jesus Christ through his body which is his church so once you understand those uh those four distinctions and those three reasons then you can identify very easily seven separate dispensations in the Bible so I think we can summarize the characteristics this way God selects the worker God sets the standards there is the possibility of failure and there's Judgment at the end he that's for that constitutes a dispensation so a lot of people short-handed and say well dispensation is a period of time well obviously anything that happens happens in a period of time but I will say it's when you see God select the worker set the standards there's a possibility of failure and there's Judgment at the end because they do so in the scriptural context a dispensation is a different way God dispenses eternal life with the dual purpose of proving Humanity's inability to earn it for himself or be good enough to keep it and the other purpose of accomplishing his purpose for eternity so the history of dispensationalism is this the original teaching and the belief of Earth's earliest believers was based on the Bible I mean obviously if you go back to the beginning it's nothing more than what the Bible says if you go back what is church history it's the book of Acts that's that's kind of church history and whatever else you can pick up from Paul's Epistles and and the general Epistles and the Book of Revelation uh that's true that's church history and uh you know so it's earliest Believers believed what had was being written and and had been written but to be based on the Bible you had to approach the preserved writing so scripture as God's words in the same way that the Jews did in Jerusalem and Antioch but not like the skeptical Greek Scholars did in Alexandria and Egypt so if you were going to understand things rightly divided as they did in the various earliest age even from what we can pick up from the earliest Church fathers well you had to kind of be a walking concordance like the scribes and uh you couldn't you could you could not be integrating the latest philosophical and scientific theories of Plato into your Bible therefore people got far away from the Bible in the Dark Ages I mean that's pretty obvious just a glance at church history shows you why we call it the Dark Ages and what God had to do to stop them with the Reformation because even though the contents of the Holy Bible had been completed and even defined these are the books that's the Canon of scripture it's these but no common person could have all of it at one time because there was no technology for that I mean unless they were very rich you know no common person could really have it and and if you did not get the straight cut in your Cathedral from the reading of scripture in your Cathedral then as sheep you were LED astray into their Superstition So what had happened was the printing press was invented then first a standard Hebrew and Greek text could now be printed and received and so it's received and preserved by being printed and then translations could be made from that received Hebrew and Greek text and then those translations could be printed and bound economically so even the you know as Wycliffe as Tyndale said in in defending what he was doing making translation to a bishop and Bishop didn't like it he said look I'm going to make the plowboy no more scripture than you do I'm gonna I'm gonna the housewife at her Weaver shuttle it's going to be singing the Psalms they're gonna they're gonna know more scripture than you do so in the case of English wycliffe's manuscript translation goes through seven printed revisions and God stops the process with the seventh which was the King James Bible and it was only 170 years later that the Corruptions from the skeptical Scholars of Alexandria via the Septuagint in changing Old Testament words and via the two surviving Imperial New Testaments preserving those Scholars changes to the New Testament words I mean it was 170 years later before they started to seek to replace the authorized version with other translations they called revisions which was a total eye on the face now that ought to tell you right there whether or not to accept it because 1881 the revised version was not a revision of the King James and they kept it hidden that they had a totally different Greek textile after the fact so historically because of the technology and the tools related to the authority of the King James Bible from 1611 to 1881 in these last days before the second coming we have a Revival of dispensationalism and that is the key word for your quiz it is the word Revival key word so if you're taking this course for credit you you need to know that for the quiz for this session key word is Revival and the Revival of dispensational teaching can be traced to the prophecy conferences in England and America and again I would say all of this is the apex of the best that a King James Bible could produce when you had true scholarship being based on what the words of God actually said and doing Simple English Bible exegesis so when so it's not till after this and other things get mixed in that everything you know goes off the table but the Niagara Bible Conference ran annually from 1876 to 1897 and focused on Christ the Holy Spirit the Bible missions and prophecy and in America we had no revised Bible until 1901. the English revised version of 1881 they had a 20-year lock I mean they had they had a copyright that said on the American side we couldn't make a and our American version of their revision the uh American Standard Version so that didn't come until 1901 so you're still dealing with King James Bible in 1880 evangelist D.L Moody established a series of Summer conferences for Christian workers near his home which at that time was in Northfield Massachusetts African-American Bible conferences sprang up in Georgia In 1902 they all grew annually in attendance and in significance so then in England the writings of Jay and Darby and BW Newton were key and some of the other Brethren authors and in America in 1883 there was a book published by the Baptist pastor J.R Graves entitled the work of Christ consummated in seven dispensations so it's kind of interesting to note that Baptists were on the Leading Edge of this now that was should be natural because hopefully we had the best grounding in the actual words of gods himself itself so after that in 1898 G Campbell Morgan transcribed the teaching he had done at Northfield for D.L Moody into the book God's methods with man to provide a simple statement explaining dispensationalism in 1904 I am Haldeman another prominent Pastor First Baptist Church in New York City transcribed his Friday evening so he had a Friday night bible study and then his book how to study the Bible was born but the thing that made uh Bible study really popular and dispensational bible study most popular was the publication Scofield reference Bible in 1909 by Oxford's press so now that we've got the definition uh down and more or less let's move on to describing uh the dispensations using our biblically derived definition in every time period God seeks to save men and women by his grace therefore he offers every opportunity for us to accept salvation by faith and if you'll take your chart that we've charted for you on your handout and just think through with me these seven different dispensations now different people popularize different names for the correct dispensational divisions a few people some people uh you know tag on eternity you know passed on one end eternity in the future on the other and it's not seven it's nine or you may come up with 11 because they count uh tribulation differently and so forth however and you know and all of that can simply give you the mistaken impression that dispensationalism is a man-made system fostered on the Bible rather than one which originates from believing Bible study of a King James Bible so I am giving them what I think is more biblically descriptive names as well as the typical ones that are given so first the identic dispensation and this is this is how your Bible makes sense for you turn to Genesis chapter 2 dispensationalists uh differentiated these separate times according to the quality of man's character being tested so Scofield and others called this the Age of Innocence but remember all we're doing is locating God's ways with man according to the four elements that we found in the first usage of the word in Luke Chapter 16. so who is the first Steward whom does God call to manage a household for him or a kingdom for him with the same heart that he would have managed it you know obviously God gets the ball rolling with Adam as the first Steward his responsibility is to attend the Garden in Eden on the way to expanding his his kingdom his dominion and his domains but Don Don Henley sang it the End of the Innocence and and and what was it that happened to test man's innocence well here in verse 17 Genesis 2 but in the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil Thou shalt not eat of it for in the day that thou eatest thereof Thou shalt surely die which came first the chicken or the egg well I think the serpent laid the egg but this is God's kind of being the chicken I mean it's if God hadn't said that and if he had not you know and it's like God couldn't you put that tree like on a hill far away and impossible to get to and instead you said it right in the midst I gotta walk by it every day so Adam has one job and in a perfect garden Paradise uh he should be able to do it because basically it's just this do not be a thief and eat of that tree because now that I told you not to eat fearing me and following my words is what will make you wise but if you disobey well then you will know evil as well as good because you will have partaken of evil chapter 3 verse 6 and when the woman saw that the tree was good for food and then it was pleasant to the eyes and a tree had desired to make men make one wine she took of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also unto her husband with her and he did eat So Adam fails when he chooses to eat the fruit knowing it was wrong I mean Eve had been deceived we know that from the word beguiled in Genesis 3 13 and second Corinthians 11 3 and First Timothy 2 13-14 so so Adam's mind failed and his emotions failed but the final fail was in his will so the only solution is when Adam's descendants choose to eat from a new tree of life where Jesus died for our sin so God's first announcement is the gospel I mean as a result of this failure in this dispensation God says in verse 15 Genesis 3 15 and I will put enmity I will make I I will make an enemy between thee The Serpent and the woman and between thy seed and her seed Jesus it her her seed shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel and the failure results in the Judgment which ends this dispensation verse 23 therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken so instead of rising and ascending to the Stars he is dragged back to the dust and God comes down in judgment he removes them out of the garden and he takes away their stewardship and that covers Genesis 1-3 and as far as we know only about a period of a year elapses at least according to uh Archbishop Usher's chronology second what I am calling the adamic dispensation because then God starts over he uses the same individual as a leading Steward but he tests a different characteristic of humanity man fails in innocence innocence does not work well maybe conscience will work because conscience is an understanding of right and wrong as a result of Adam and Eve partaking of that tree of knowledge of Good and Evil so okay let well you know they went ahead and did this let's see if that works but as we see conscience is simply the knowledge of Good and Evil and that alone lacks application of wisdom and understanding in order to avoid it so God tests Humanity in this time period to see if he will apply or follow his conscience it is conscience and not innocence anymore because Humanity now has knowledge so since it was human conscience being tested the Scofield reference Bible popularizes the second dispensation as the rule of conscience and I've chosen to label it label it the adamic following after the identic and if you'll look back in chapter one of Genesis and look with me at verse 28 God bless them and said unto unto them be fruitful and multiply and replenish the Earth and subdue it and have dominion over all over the fish in the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that moveth upon the Earth So Adam and Eve go back under that responsibility of that command given previously in Genesis and it had to do with God's intention for the whole earth not just with the garden because they were now thrown out of the garden so the steward of this second dispensation again is Adam with a commission to multiply there to reproduce and refill planet Earth after their fall it is similarly a similar physically to the spiritual task we have in our mission of the Great Commission Now obviously Adam and Eve fail uh they fail in that because one of their two sons that they've been fruitful to multiply with kills the other one that's kind of a fail I'd say that is a discipleship failure and my point is that a commission is in order uh appointing a specified person to do something with another person's help or resources that is why it is called a commission and we've got a Great Commission uh Romans turn to Romans chapter 2. Adam was the person he is to accomplish something with his wife's help do not make me draw you a picture uh to multiply with the order so it had to be a Cooperative effort to fulfill and affect this mission but now Satan injects himself again to corrupt the conscience of humanity just like he tested their innocence Romans 2 verse 12 makes a uh contrast between those who sin without law and are judged by God and those who sin with full knowledge of the law and are judged by the law uh Romans 2 12 for as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law now speaking of those who do not know the law verse 15. he says verse 15 they which show the work of the law written in their hearts their conscience also bearing witness and their thoughts the meanwhile accusing or else excusing one another why does the Heathen go to hell because they are stuck in the second dispensation and clearly there's a law in their heart called conscience which causes them to be without excuses like Romans 1 20 States so ignorance of the law is no excuse because you have a conscience now turn to Genesis 6. people in the second dispensation are judged by their willingness to obey their conscience the result is three strikes and they're out Cain the first murderer lamech the first polygamist and another murderer and then the sons of God intrude on the daughters of men and this leads to every imagination of the thoughts of man's heart being only evil continually Genesis 6 5. it results in God being grieved and even repenting and having made Mankind and put them on the earth Genesis 6 6. now watch here in Genesis 6 verse 1. and it came to pass when men began to multiple began to multiply in the face of the Earth daughters were born unto them that the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair and they took them wise of all which they chose now turn to job one and the Book of Jude and job one sons of God refers to specific class of Angels in this case they are falling angels uh but but but we proved that job 1 6. now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan came also among them Job 38 verse 7 when the morning Stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for Joy Jude verses 6 and 7 and the angels which kept not their first estate but left their own habitation God hath reserved an everlasting chains under Darkness unto the day Judgment of the great day even as Sodom and Gomorrah in the cities about them in like manner giving themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh now in the case Sodom Gomorrah I mean people want to say well I was born that way Lady Gaga wants to say you were born that way no I know you weren't born that way because you can't do it that way and get a natural birth hello somebody but in the case of the sons of God well they could do it that way and and get a birth out of it that was an illegitimate life form and so they are set for an example suffering the Vengeance of Eternal fire all right well a failure of the steward in this instance lands in the multiplying not in the replenishing that that'll be covered in the next dispensation because the sons of God cohabit with women in an attempt to confuse and mix a race of human hybrids who cannot be saved so back to Genesis 6 clearly the second dispensation shows what would happen if God totally took his hands off the wheel I mean Jesus Take the Wheel because without the Holy Spirit restraining sin what you end up with is seen in this second this this dispensation and that is exactly the reason for it so the Judgment of this second failure seen in Genesis 6 verse 7 the Lord said I'll destroy man whom I've created from the face of the Earth both man and beasts and The Grieving thing and you know I'll I'll kill them all let God sort it out oh I am God well I'll just kill them all then chapter 7 verse 4 for yet seven days and I will cause it to rain upon the Earth 40 days and 40 nights and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off face the Earth verse 23 and every living substance was destroyed so God comes down with a flood of water to take away the stewardship and to start with a new steward who finds Grace in his eyes now turn to Genesis 9. in other words Noah found Grace in the eyes of the Lord there was no reason in Noah it was Grace and that fact is seen in the aftermath we know there is no good reason in Noah because as soon as he exits the ark he gets drunk um there's you know instead of discipling his Three Sons one of whom has a grandson that is seduced by the dark side so it'd be Noah's great grandson that was nimrod well instead of all that his his great-grandson Nimrod begins calling down the sons of God to the Earth again so this dispensation covers Genesis 48 it Embraces a period of 1656 years so so now notice in this our first point for study how part of the consistency of God is at the basis of calling of every Steward is Christ as a matter of fact the whole purpose of time and the unfolding of dispensations at all is so that the beneficial effects of the finished work of Christ can be activated in your faith and I understand that people couldn't look forward to the Cross until they got to the Cross because they didn't know about the cross all they saw were those sacrifices but and however Christ's work was finished before the foundation of the world right I mean he was the lamb slain from the beginning it only showed up in time and okay Revelation 13 8 so it's always grace even when the work that shows your faith is in ascendance as we see with this next man so third what I'm calling noahic uh verse 9 verse 1 Genesis 9 1 and God bless Noah and his sons and said unto them be fruitful multiply and replenish the Earth so the flood lasts one year and 10 days Genesis 8 14. uh they come out of the Ark and it's a new era it is a new world order that is shown by the fact that there is a New Covenant in Genesis 9 confirmed not with blood but with the rainbow sign this third Steward is given the identical responsibility as Adam Schofield and Larkin and others call this the dispensation of human government why because that is what was being tested well how so we'll look at verse 6. who so sheddeth man's blood by man because that was that's kind of an issue all the way back to Cain and Abel and lameck okay let's deal with that who's so sheddeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed for in the image of God made a man so God's in a process of removing all your excuses at the same time he removes all the devil's arguments well God what do you know you never existed as a man well he has now since Jesus but what if man says you know it's just not fair are you just singling one of us out so if if man can't go It Alone who's to say that we can't handle obedience as a group in community so okay God has to give evidence it's it's not possible so if he's going to shut you up into the finished work finished before the foundation of the world work of Christ then he has to show you this won't work so if God says look if I had to Kill Them All to sort it out well who's who is to say that they cannot kill the correct ones themselves and police their own Society but Humanity fails in this aspect also so here's another three strikes and they're out nose drunkenness hams debauchery and a rebellion against God's mission of replenishing the Earth by dispersing and that one is also a rebellion by trying to get back to the gods that their father served on the other side of the flood Joshua 24 verse 14 and 15. now later on they find some of these same Gods depicted in stone in Egypt and they are content to stay there after the famine ends so now Nimrod Genesis 10 10 leads them to unite in a city and to build so that they can touch the sky and fly build a tower and and turn to Genesis chapter 11. it was a city so that they did not have to replenish the Earth and it was a tower so that they could multiply in a way that would make them Mighty Men of renowned Genesis 6 4 and give them a name in history it became called bab l and the tower was constructed of brick that they made not unhewn stones that God made like every altar has to be constructed of this ain't one of God's altars they're trusting in their brick was just compacted dirt and not in God's Rock so they're singing with Prince are we going to let the elevator bring us down oh no let's go let's go crazy let's get nuts till they put us in the truck let's go and of course the irony is you know Prince did let the elevator bring him down but verse verse 4 Genesis 11 and they said go to come on oh no let's go let's go crazy let us build us a city and a tower whose top May reach unto heaven and let us make us a name lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth like God told us to do so the old English go-to means come now come on this time failure is not in the multiplying it's in the replenishing both not replenishing the planet and wanting to have their cake and Kingdom too and have it now and repopulate the heavens uh with the commission making a commission with these sons of God that they had served the other side of the flesh so let me hit you with the definition to replenish is to recover former fullness or completeness by stocking with numbers or abundance so Noah's descendants build a bab L based on the activity of the Gods on the other side of the flood and they rebelliously rebuff replenishing the Earth as commanded they want Dominion in the heavens instead of on Earth so in Genesis 6 the imaginations of their heart is only evil continually now in Genesis 11 nothing has changed there's also nothing restraining them look at verse 6 Genesis 11 6 and the Lord said behold the people is one and they've all won language and this they begin to do and now nothing will be restrained from them which they've imagined to do imagination kind of a big thing you need to get that under control so they're using their Unity to create confusion they are confounding my purpose with their Harmony and boy are we ever repeating those days or not they build a tower to heaven and Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos and the government of us new Romans are shooting Rockets into it we're populating it with satellites which are mainly worldwide communication and intelligence so how does God act by removing the stewardship even so come Lord Jesus verse 7 go to let us go down and there confound their language that they may not understand one another's speech so the Lord scattered them abroad from fence upon the face of all the Earth and they left off to build the city this time God says go to take off a and and comes down in judgment he takes away the stewardship he scatters the unjust stewards and it's taken 4 270 years for us to get back to Babel and this dispensation goes from Genesis 8 to 11 it covers period of 426 years fourth abrahamic Covenant dispensation up to this point God calls one Steward at a time and deals with the consequences they fail individually in conscience then Adam's descendants fail collectively in government so now God calls a man with a family and he deals with him as a nation get Genesis 12 and Genesis 46 ready uh We've now got a new era A New World Order begins at this chapter as shown by the fact there are new covenants that show up in Genesis 12 Genesis 15 Genesis 17 and one of them is confirmed by a sign circumcision and I let me just tell you that old rainbow was looking good about now I'm just saying that's Abraham was like God can you please uh rainbow was good no okay chapter 12 verse 1 now the Lord God now the Lord had said unto Abram get thee out of thy country and from thy Kindred and from thy Father's House unto a land that I will show thee other dispensationalists call this the dispensation of Promise Abraham's called as the leading Steward in Genesis 12. he's uh eventually given responsibility over the land of Palestine being promised and God now tests this man's stewardship an aspect of being given this unconditional Promise chapter 12 verse 7 and the Lord appeared unto Abram and said unto uh and said unto thy seed will I give this land and they're building Abraham Abraham and alter unto the Lord who appeared unto him so Abraham's personal failure is apparent just a few verses later so it's a good thing that God is starting to deal with a family on the way to dealing with a nation because Abraham Abraham fails right away verse 10. there was a famine in the land and Abram went down to Egypt to sojourn there for the famine was Grievous in the land so Abraham's descended his failure is apparent later in the book chapter 46 you look at Genesis 46 verse 5 and Jacob rose up from Beersheba and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father and their little ones and their wives and the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him and they took their cattle and their goods which they got in the land of Canaan and came into Egypt Jacob and all his seed with him his sons and his son Sons with him his daughters and his sons daughters and all his seed brought he with him into Egypt Jacob and his descendants forsake the promised land to go down to Egypt life gets so good to them they find the same God they had worshiped before the flood memorialized in stone and so they didn't return to their inheritance after the famine that was a failure of Faith to trust the Lord God to take care of them while in the land even through a time of famine and then a failure of faith when they got affluent someplace else and so while Pharaoh is being too good to them down south in Egypt land oh oh Dixie the devil is planting Giants in their land and he's he's done the same thing in the century since Israel was destroyed and the nation was deported look at Genesis 15. now that Israel is back in the land they are surrounded by 22 Arab countries who all want to drive them into the sea Israel's total Destruction will not happen because this is an unconditional promise an unconditional promise does not mean that God is going to give you what he promised even if you worship idols just like unconditional love does not mean you keep showing love when you know people may be in sin uh damaging and destroying things unconditional love means you set your affection on them even though you knew they were Sinners to begin with so our second point for study unconditional promises do not mean that God gives you what he promised even if you're in unbelief but God will work so as to call out a remnant of Jews of Israel and fulfill it to those believers takes place the end of the tribulation so that puts the lie to reformed covenant theology and replacement theology Advocates uh like Hank hanagraph and others or fulfillment theology if they want to call it that uh to use their term or supersessionism if you want to use the scholars term because at bottom line they say the church supersedes Israel as a nation and steals their identity as God's covenant people to whom all the Jewish promises belong well God in his foreknowledge knew beforehand what was going to happen so he gives he gives a Abram a preview of in Genesis 15 verse 13. and he said unto Abram no of assurity that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs and Shall Serve them and they shall afflict them 400 years now go to Exodus chapter one God deals with Adam individually then with his descendants consciences he does not make a promise to Noah's seed because he's dealing with human government but now God is operating in promise so he has a special relationship with these people called Hebrews they they fail under promise and we see the terms of their judgment in Exodus 1 verse 8. There Rose up a new king over Egypt which knew not Joseph and he said unto his people behold the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we come on go to let us deal wisely with them lest they multiply like God told him to do and they come to pass that when they're full without any War they join also unto our enemies and fight against us and so get them up out of the land well go to Exodus 3 God sends them Affliction and oppression as judgment or what verses 13 and 14 that call bondage with hard hard bondage with rigor because they're already out of their stewardship so he's judging them with that so this dispensation goes from Genesis 12 to Exodus 19 covers 430 years and let's add rightly to find last three of these dispensations Lord willing the time we got left number uh the fifth one mosaic dispensation of the law Exodus 3 verse 4 and when the Lord saw that Moses turned aside to see the burning bush God called unto him out of the midst of the Bush and said Moses Moses and he said here am I since Egypt is a picture of the world Pharaoh is a picture of Satan well who is going to offer you compromises like he did with Moses okay watch because there are four compromises to worship and Pharaoh offers them to Moses and somebody in the world is going to offer them to you I'm just saying worship God if you want to just just don't leave the world to do it so Egypt a picture in Bible type of the world Pharaoh a picture of the devil the world says you know religion's okay everybody's got one spirituality is good but why why you got to be so narrow-minded that's that's hateful you don't have to let your religion separate you from the lgbtq plus community and make you intolerant toward the twerkers so Satan will tempt you to stay in the world and compromise your worship but you can't worship God's way and stay in the world so number two if you you've got to go out of Egypt to worship at least don't take it too far I mean there's no need to be for now and I've got you know list of the verses for you where he actually says this so there's no need to be fanatical and extremist or a fundamentalist uh if you'll not stay in the world stay as close to it as you possibly can that number three uh let the men go worship but family's got to stay right here so if you must break with the world and serve God then go just don't lead your women and children after you they should be able to choose for themselves uh with the help of you know doctors in the school board and the government they should be able to choose for themselves so finally the one that gets most of us number four okay go but the money stays here do not let your religious commitments get in the way of business prosperity For Heaven's Sake don't be tithing do not do not let it interfere with the economies too but I I keep your investment in the world to fall back on now turn to Exodus 19. so once they finally separate from Egypt they are then given a New Covenant because it was a new era a new world order with a new leading Steward and here comes what is called the dispensation of Law and if Humanity fails with unconditional promises well let's try it with conditional ones so they're given a written law separate from the one written on their conscience God calls the deliverer to be his prophet to the people with whom he has an unconditional promise so Moses becomes God's fifth leading Steward Exodus 19 verse 20 and the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai on the top of the mount and the Lord Called Moses up to the top of the mount and Moses went up go to chapter 32 Exodus 32 under Moses Israel is given certain specific responsibilities in Exodus 20. they're repeated the second time in Deuteronomy they're finally in scripture Aid are on tables of stone they are to keep the law delivered in the mount if they keep it they get unimaginable material blessings if they do not they get diseases and itsy-bitty living space Exodus 32 1 and when the people saw it Moses delayed to come down out of the mouth the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron and said unto him up go to let's go make his Gods which shall go before us for as for this Moses the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt we want not what has become of him and the rest of your Old Testament is an account of their continued failure in that responsibility three strikes and they are called out Book of Judges they fail under the priests Kings and Chronicles they fell under the Kings Prophets You Know major Minor Prophets they fail under the preachers God's response is consistent in second chronicles 36 as he sends Nebuchadnezzar up against Judah and takes their Last King in Fetters to Babylon and Carries away the holy vessels of the Temple so they lose their land as a nation their own rulership uh then 19 years later he comes back again and destroys their Capital City Jerusalem now one thing you can count on is the consistency of God so I think this is significant I mean this is how you know that the Jews that are in the land right now are really true Jews don't let anybody fake you out with all that anti-Semitism no because Israel was restored as a nation in 1948 and then they gained Recon regain complete control in their capital city in Jerusalem 19 years later 1967 and that interval of Gentile World Dominion makes the scripture coverage and years of this dispensation a little complicated uh the relationship is complicated but I can put it kind of into a timeline infographic for you scripture for this dispensations basically Exodus 20 to John 20. plus or minus Revelation 6 through 19. the dispensation uh uh that section of chapters is a throwback because in the tribulation the Antichrist confirms the Mosaic Covenant with the Jews to make them believe God is dispensing eternal life through sacrifices at the temple again and that is why the bodies of church age Believers as the Temple of the Holy Ghost are removed at the Rapture beforehand we are we are hindering because uh we are the temple until we're gone so that makes the years uh 1519 Moses to the cross plus seven in the future the tribulation or I'm saying 1526 years total six dispensation of Grace turn to Ephesians 3. that brings us down to our own dispensation and the change from dealing with one leading Steward to making a promise to a nation that was a big shift but going from law to Grace that's even more of a jolt especially if you are of that family tribe and Nation to whom the promises had originally been made that is why Jesus ministry is confirmed with his signs wonders and miracles Acts 2 verse 22 after he leaves that change is confirmed by the signs of an apostle Matthew 16 Acts 2 14 and 2nd Acts chapter 2 acts 14 second Corinthians 12 Romans 15 that's all part of your verses for English Bible exegesis also I forgot somebody pointed out to me I forgot to include the royal What's called the Royal versus Royal Proverbs from The Book of Proverbs last week so that's on this week's sheet so the Antichrist is going to take the same tact after the Rapture and removal of the church II Thessalonians 2 9. of going back to confirming and outdated Covenant through signs wonders and miracles that he will do because he'll try to get the Jews to believe that he's taking them back to Moses Covenant Matthew 24 30. now what we have until then is a parenthesis of Grace it is a parenthesis of time another dispensational test because it stands between the 69th week of Daniel 9 27 and the 70th seven year week call the tribulation uh we'll see that in just a moment but but right now Focus your lens on Ephesians 3 verse 1 for this cause I Paul the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles if ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which has given me to you word so the leading Steward of this dispensation is the Apostle Paul the Bible name for it is dispensation the grace of God that stewardship has been passed on to Paul's spiritual descendants which we are so we sometimes colloquially call this uh dispensation the church age because it involves a mystery called the church but turned to First Corinthians chapter 1. um the Old Testament talked about the Nations being saved but not in a body outside of Israel they had to come to Israel to get saved they were only saved as they came to the temple just like they will do for a thousand years in the millennium Israel was to be The Shining Light to get them to do that which is why God punished Israel so severely for idolatry it was for the sake of the planet so the church was a mystery something hidden within God's Eternal purpose all along but revealed by God's word after Israel rejected their Messiah so what is what is the spiritual responsibility of this age of grace in which we now live what is God testing us regarding First Corinthians 4 verse 1 let a man sow account of us as of the Ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God moreover it is required in stewards that a man be found faithful ooh that means you gotta stick with the faith kind of like the faith once delivered unto the Saints kind of like kind of like the faith of kind of like the word of God that God gave us and our stewardship and this dispensation is faithfulness to that faith and standing up for the mysteries of God and Bible mystery is you know truth made known through the scriptures and this is a unique stewardship because we live in a unique time and this is the first time in history that the complete Mind Of God is made known to humanity in written format and nothing else not tongues not Visions not dreams not nothing no uh in countries and cultures where they have no Bible God may speak to them in a dream to get them to a Bible and to get them to someone who will give them the gospel but only the Bible has the has the mind of God for us today and this is the first time in history that you can buy it bound together in one volume and the first time you can research it with simple English exegesis based on printed or online concordances and the Ark of God was wood gilded with gold and covered with leather Badger skins and our analog Bible is paper with guilt edging covered in leather or goat skin so when it comes to tongues interpretation and all the sign gifts why am I a secessionist and you should be too not a super sessionist like the church supersedes Israel assess a secessionist the gifts the miraculous scientists have ceased why because this is the only time in history the preservation of scripture has taken place to a degree you don't need Prophets You don't need tongues you don't need night visions you don't need a word of knowledge you don't need a Word of Faith you don't need the other things that people had in the past so what that means is it's our third point for study we are now being tested on our responsibility for and faithfulness to a written authoritative revelation we are now being tested on what we do with Biblical Authority now that plays into manuscript evidence and translations by Bible versions but let me leave all that alone until it comes back around again let me just say in a specific doctrinal sense that there are seven particular Mysteries committed to the church through the Apostle Paul you get those in discipleship too I think maybe we also have even a separate course on that but in a broader sense This concerns you and me as individuals because the Bible term mystery doesn't mean something hidden a Bible mystery is something revealed to you through God's word as you study it through simple English Bible exegesis so get first Timothy 1 and Revelation 3 Revelation 3 first Timothy 1. you have a responsibility to be a faithful Steward of those things God shows you in his words because you are a disciple making discipler you are a discipler making disciples so you're going to fulfill God's Eternal Purpose By committing truth to others by way of evangelism discipleship and Ministry because the central core of the Great Commission is discipleship or making Learners out of others as to the teaching as to All Things Christ taught as to the teaching God has given us now what do you think are we going to win or lose are we going to be the only steward that actually fulfills its Mission and its Commission in this dispensation will we be the first ones in human history what will the church be like at the end of our dispensation will we have guarded the word of God or we will we all be using a paraphrase of the bible translated from the wrong manuscripts to which which is saying they're giving you the message but not the words well let me show you the failure of this Steward first Timothy chapter one verse 3 as I besought Thee to abide still at Ephesus when I went into Macedonia that thou mightest charged some that they teach no other Doctrine verse 19 holding faith and a good conscience which some having put away concerning Faith have made shipwreck that I mean you can be a Castaway or you can be Shipwrecked you can be cast out a Ministry shame on you but if you make shipwreck that means you're taking other people with you and you do that when you put away the words of God and you teach something else to others chapter 4 verse 1 First Timothy 4 1. now the spirit speaketh expressly then the latter times some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils chapter 6 verse 20. Oh Timothy keep that which is committed to thy trust which some professing have heard concerning the faith they do profess to be Evangelical say born again but boy what have they done to the word of God I mean that little survey makes them the failure of our present laodicean Church age all the more plain to it Revelation 3 verse 18. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire that thou mayest be rich and white raiment that thou mayest be clothed and at the shame of thy nakedness do not appear and anoint thine eyes with ice have that thou mayest see okay go to Psalm 119 and Psalm 12 12 and 119. gold is a picture in Bible type of several things in the Bible but the only thing that it pictures which can be bought and is tried in a furnace of Fire is found in Psalm 119 verse 72 the law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver Psalm 12 verse 6 the words of the Lord are pure words as silver tried in a furnace of Earth purified seven times now back in Revelation 3 you might notice what the Philadelphia Church age did in the years from about 1611 to 1881 verse 8 I Know Thy Works behold I have set before thee an Open Door no man can shut it for thou Hast a little strength and has kept my word that's what they did verse 10 because thou Hast kept the word okay it's faithful Steward at least they were faithful stewards go to Second Corinthians chapter five they did not let skeptical Egyptian Scholars steal it or the Imperial Church fathers corrupted but you know I think I could say that laodicean Christians have been unfaithful toward it so we are sleeping around with something besides God's pure words in our lap so there is one other thing we need to note about this dispensation and that is its judgments second Corinthians chapter 5 verse 10 for we must all appear before the Judgment seat of Christ that everyone may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad knowing therefore the terror of the lord we persuade men now turn to First Peter 4. Paul's not talking here about persuading lost men to be saved because of the terror of hell he is talking about First Corinthians 4 verses one and two persuading lukewarm Christians to be faithful stewards because of the terror of the Lord and you you better fear God and do it because the Lord's terror is for us at the Judgment seat of Christ and that is why Peter says first Peter 4 17 for the time has come that judgment must begin at the house of God and we are the house of God in this dispensation the church is and and if it first begin at us what shall be the end of them that disob that obey not the gospel so our fifth point for study if you receive the Gospel of God during the dispensation the grace of God you must become a faithful Steward of the mysteries of God don't fossilize recognize or if you're Honey Boo Boo then redneck a nice because maybe you failed to realize something whenever you pray for the rapture and it's our sixth point for study the Rapture is nothing more than God coming down in judgment to remove an Unfaithful Church from a failed stewardship so this dispensation covers uh Revelation 20 excuse me John 21 to Revelation 3. I guess I'll frame it that way John 21 Revelation 3 it lasts over 1990 years if Jesus was crucified in 80 30. and the final dispensation turned to Revelation 20 Matthew 19 and Daniel 7. Daniel 7 Matthew 19 Revelation 20. what about the tribulation well I don't list the tribulation separately because it is a throwback to the Old Testament and it's simply Daniel's 70th week which starts with a rebuilt Jerusalem is paused at their messiah's crucifixion and returns after the church is caught up to meet the Lord in the air first Thessalonians 4 17. well I'll talk about that shortly so there's only one dispensation we have not covered and we commonly call that a particular rule of righteousness the Millennium Millennium comes from two Latin words melee which means thousand and annum which means year so this dispensation is described here in Revelation 20 who is the leading Steward well Revelation 20 verse 4. and I saw Thrones and they that sat upon them and judgment was given unto them and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus and for the word of God and which had not worshiped the Beast neither his image neither had received his Mark upon their foreheads or in their hands and they lived and reigned with Christ A Thousand Years now there are crowns for us at the Judgment seat of Christ we do inherit a kingdom but it is not time to limit it to A Thousand Years like this one is so who is it the judges from these Thrones for one thousand years uh judging over tribulation Saints both you and Gentile who are entering this Millennial Kingdom will look at Matthew 19 verse 28. and Jesus said unto them the apostles verily I say unto you that ye what you've followed me in the Regeneration meaning the Regeneration of the earth meaning in the millennium when the son of man shall sit in the Throne of his glory ye also shall sit upon twelve Thrones judging the Twelve Tribes of Israel but you got to be careful who you say you know if you say the leading Steward is Jesus because then you got Jesus failing at the end of a thousand years so I think the stewards are the ones sitting on the Thrones uh the 12 apostles assisted by tribulation Saints will act as stewards over the kingdom of heaven so the Kingdom of Heaven has its Thrones its crowns and its judges and the kingdom of God has us judging not the nations in the Millennium but angels as a matter of fact so this time in the dispensation of the Millennium humanity is tested with a perfect environment where the effects of the curse have been reversed and yet it differs from the first test in the garden because this time Satan himself is bound and not allowed to interfere so nature and nurture heredity and environment are uncursed look at Daniel 7 verse 18. but the Saints of the most high the Jewish tribulation Saints which the Antichrist had made war on in Revelation 13 7. they shall take the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever even forever and ever because the Kingdom of Heaven unites back with the kingdom of God and bleeds over into the Eternal Kingdom verse 22 until the Ancient of Days came that's God in Christ at his second Advent and judgment was given to the Saints of the most high and the time came that the Saints possess the kingdom it's what we're seeing right there in Revelation 20 verse 4. now verse 27 and the kingdom and dominion and the greatness of the Kingdom Under the whole Heaven shall be given to the people of the Saints of the most high Gentiles will have to come to God through the Jewish Nation just like God unconditionally promised Abraham whose kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom and all Dominion Shall Serve and Obey him so Everlasting as far as how long the Earth is going to last uh go to Revelation 20. and just as promised in the Old Testament Israel is made the head of the Nations and given rulership over the Gentiles Deuteronomy 28 verses 13 and 44 the Gentiles are the Nations who pass through the sheep goat Judgment at the end of the of the tribulation and enter the millennial Kingdom what about the future well even with a perfect environment humans are not any more successful than Adam was in the garden because as soon as Satan is loosed for a season he finds willing accomplices for Rebellion watch verse 8 Revelation 20 verse 8 and shall go out to deceive the Nations which are in the four quarters of the earth Gog and Magog to gather them together to battle the number of whom is as the sand of the sea and they went up on the breath of the earth Encompass the camp of the Saints about and the Beloved City that's Jerusalem not the New Jerusalem because New Jerusalem comes down out of heaven in the next chapter but they but they Encompass a beloved City and fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured that devoured them Satan and the rebels so the failure in this dispensation is the rebellion of the nations against the rule of the Saints of the most high at the end of the Thousand Years whenever Satan is loosed from his prison what then of the Judgment verse 11. and I saw a great white throne and him that sat on it from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away and there was found no place for them and I saw the dead small and great stand before God and the books were opened and another book was open which is The Book of Life and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works okay either you're dead or alive either either Heaven or Hell but if you're even if you're dead you know some are deader than other others they're like there's you know levels of hell um uh Adolf Hitler will not be on the same level as some deer departed loved one who was not saved and the Sea gave up the dead which were in it death and Hell delivered after dead which were in them and they were judged every man according to their works and death in Hell which is what they wanted all along or else they would have got saved and death and El were cast the Lake of Fire this is the second death and whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast in the Lake of Fire okay Ephesians 1 First Corinthians 15 as we get ready to close the great white Throne is the Judgment that ends this stewardship it covers Revelation 20 a period a thousand years we are seven the times a loser and not three times a lady like the Commodore sang so what happens at the end of seven dispensations and seven ways of failure in seven tests well then you get Seventh Heaven Ephesians 1 10 that in the dispensation of the fullness of times God might gather together in one all things in Christ I mean if he's going to be the steward he will win which are in heaven and which are on earth both Kingdom of Heaven Saints and Saints of the most high and Kingdom of God Saints even in Him First Corinthians 15 24 then cometh the end when he shall have delivered up the kingdom the United combined the kingdoms the spiritual and physical the terrestrial and galactical to God even the father when he shall have put down all rule in all authority and Power well then you have the eighth dispensation the octave the fullness of times ushering us into eternity and now the proof is finally complete and no matter what method of dispensation there is man proves he is utterly helpless apart from the finished work of Christ being activated by your faith whether that was Faith to bring your own offering your faith his just saved by his faith or whether that is Faith to Simply believe Jesus and and pray and ask him to save you God's salvation by grace through faith so dispensational theology proves you can either forsake your works and get saved or you can be judged by your works in the end and apart from God's grace your work of faith in response to God's words apart from that you are always lost you are utterly lost you are totally lost but the word of God will do the work because the spirit of God always answers to the word so there's no hope in the pope and there's no hope for Humanity apart from God's provision but in each dispensation the trend is away from God in each one there is a head of evil a world crisis and an intervention of God as we show you on the final chart and then gave you a select bibliography for those of you that are you know uh bookish and my time is up I thank you for years let me have a word of prayer father we thank you Lord for uh the time we share together today all that you've given us in in your word the way that we can see how the Bible actually does fit together no contradictions I mean there's no there's no springs left over there are no strings hanging out um you know you really it all fits and let us take those Mysteries what has now been revealed to us through our King James Bible and Lord give us the power of your spirit to show them to share them to get the gospel out to make disciples and Lord to prepare our own souls for your purpose and Eternity for we ask it in Jesus precious and Powerful name amen problems