Midweek Bible Study 101 Lesson 5 part 1 Dispensationalism
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INTRODUCTION:
Dispensation: Grk: oikonamous: management of a household-transliterated to the English word economy.

Dispensationalism is a method of interpreting history that divides God’s work and purposes toward mankind into different periods of time. It is important to note that these dispensations are a man-made way of understanding what the Bible has revealed to us about God’s purposes towards men. Dispensationalism is not a biblical concept, nor is it found anywhere in the Bible. It is a theological system of organizing and understanding God’s work, but it is not itself Scripture.

DISPENSATION DESCRIPTION DURATION CONCLUSION SYMBOL

Age of Innocence
Perfection

Creation of Man to Fall of Man

Expulsion

Garden of Eden

Age of Conscience
Permissiveness

The Fall to the Flood

The Flood

Rainbow

Age of Human Government
Lawlessness

The Flood to Tower of Babel

Confusion of Languages

Capital Punishment

Age of Promise/Patriarchs
Pilgrimage

Abraham to Joseph

Slavery in Egypt

Circumcision

Age of the Law
Disobedience

Moses to Jesus

Crucifixion

Tablets of Stone

Church Age or Age of Grace
Grace

Jesus to Tribulation

Church

Cross/Church

Tribulation

Judgement

Covenant signed to Battle of Armageddon

The Triumphant Return

Mark of the Beast

Kingdom or Eternal Age
Perfection

Millennium to Eternity

NO Conclusion

New Jerusalem