A word was secretly brought to me,my ears caught a whisper of it. Amid disquieting dreams in the night,when deep sleep falls on men, fear and trembling seized me and made all my bones shake. A spirit glided past my face, and the hair on my body stood on end. It stopped, but I could not tell what it was. A form stood before my eyes, and I heard a hushed voice: “Never eat hot dogs with sauerkraut and chili with beer before going to bed!! And, by the way, we left you a classic Broadway tune to help explain the problem.”
Altogether now, “You say tomato; I say tomatoe, you say potato; I say potatoe, tomato-tomatoe; poatato-potatoe, let’s call the whole thing off.”
Dispensation of innocence (Gen 1:1–3:7), prior to Adam’s fall,
The Adamic Covenant -——— Dispensation of conscience (Gen 3:8–8:22), Adam to Noah,
The Noahic Covenant -——— Dispensation of government (Gen 9:1–11:32), Noah to Abraham,
The Abrahamic Covenant -——— Dispensation of patriarchal rule (Gen 12:1–Exod 19:25), Abraham to Moses
The Sinaitic Covenant -——— Dispensation of the Mosaic Law (Exod 20:1–Acts 2:4), Moses to Christ,
The Davidic Covenant
The Messianic Covenant ——— Dispensation of grace (Acts 2:4–Rev 20:3), the current church age.
Wow!! There’s enough heresy here to go to war over.
You could have saved yourself some trouble and just pointed to the correct page in Scofield's Notes.
***The Messianic Covenant ——— Dispensation of grace (Acts 2:4–Rev 20:3), the current church age.***
And Dan wonders why I phrased what I said a certain way the other day.
***Wow!! There’s enough heresy here to go to war over.***
When Calvinists deny that salvation is by the grace of God, then, perhaps. ;^) Hopefully, that is not how to read this. Hopefully, you really do belive that the dispensation of Grace began IN Eden and that no man in the history of mankind found salvation in any other way.
I would cut it down to 3 Dispensations, since a Dispensation is God dealing with a particular group of men.
Gen 3-12-Dispensation of Gentiles
Gen.12-Acts 2-Dispensation of Jews
Acts 2-Rev.4-Dispensation of Church