What are the seven dispensations? | GotQuestions.org
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- What are the seven dispensations? We're going to answer that question. You can also discover more on GotQuestions .org.
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- Dispensationalism is a method of interpreting history that divides God's work and purposes toward mankind into different periods of time.
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- Our focus will be on the main seven dispensations, although some theologians believe there are as few as three or as many as thirty -seven.
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- The first is called Dispensation of Innocence. This dispensation covered the period of Adam and Eve in the
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- Garden of Eden. These were God's commands in this dispensation. The Dispensation of Innocence was short -lived and ended with Adam and Eve's disobedience and ultimate expulsion from the
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- Garden. The second dispensation is called the Dispensation of Conscience, and it lasted 1 ,656 years from the time of Adam and Eve's eviction until the
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- Flood. This dispensation demonstrates what mankind will do if left to his own tainted will and conscience.
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- The third dispensation is that of Human Government, which began in Genesis 8. God had destroyed life on earth with a flood, saving just one family to restart the entire human race.
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- God made these promises and commands to Noah and his family. Noah's descendants failed to scatter and fill the earth as God had commanded.
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- About 325 years later, the earth's inhabitants began building a tower monument to their solidarity and pride.
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- God halted construction, created different languages, and enforced his command to fill the earth.
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- The result was the rise of different nations and cultures. From that point on, human governments have been a reality.
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- The fourth dispensation, called the Dispensation of Promise, started with the call of Abraham, continued through the lives of the patriarchs, and ended with the exodus of the
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- Jewish people from Egypt, a period of about 430 years. During this dispensation,
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- God developed a great nation that he had chosen as his people. The basic promise during the
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- Dispensation of Promise was the Abrahamic Covenant, highlighted here. The fifth is called the
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- Dispensation of Law. It lasted almost 1500 years, from the exodus until after Jesus Christ's death.
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- During the Dispensation of Law, God dealt specifically with the Jewish nation through the Mosaic Covenant, or the
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- Law. The dispensation involved temple worship directed by priests, with further direction by the prophets.
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- Eventually, due to the people's disobedience to the covenant, the tribes of Israel lost the promised land and were subjected to bondage.
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- The sixth dispensation, the one in which we live now, is the Dispensation of Grace.
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- It began with a new covenant in Christ's blood. This Age of Grace, or Church Age, started with the coming of the
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- Spirit on the day of Pentecost. This dispensation has lasted for almost 2000 years, and it will end with the rapture of the
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- Church. The seventh dispensation is called the Millennial Kingdom of Christ, and it will last for 1000 years as Christ Himself rules on earth.
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- The only people allowed to enter the kingdom are the born -again believers from this present dispensation of grace, as well as the righteous survivors of the seven years of tribulation and the resurrected
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- Old Testament saints. This period ends with the Final Judgment. That answers the question, what are the seven dispensations?
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