The Mosaic Age (From Mount Sinai to Mount Calvary — Exodus 19:8 – Matthew 27:35) The law, which was “given by Moses” (John 1:17), falls into three divisions, each essential to the others, and together forming the Mosaic Covenant. The divisions are...
The Abrahamic Age (From the Call of Abram to the Giving of the Law — Genesis 12:1 – Exodus 19:7) Two covenants between God and Abram are distinguished in the book of Genesis. One is a conditional covenant and the other is everlasting. Each of these covenants...
The Noahic Age (From the Flood to the Tower of Babel — Genesis 8:20-11:32) This the third dispensation is called “The dispensation of human government” because it is the age in which man was first privileged to govern himself. From the days of Noah on down...
The Adamic Age (From the Expulsion to the Flood — Genesis 3:22-8:19) The expulsion of man from the garden of Eden closes the dispensation of innocence and opens the dispensation of conscience. Man is no longer without a knowledge of good and evil. He knows good and he...
The Edenic Age (From the Creation of Man to the Fall — Genesis 1-3) This age extended from the creation of man to the expulsion from the garden. The record of this first period of testing is found in Genesis 1:28 through Genesis 3:21. During this dispensation, the...
Only three creative acts of God are mentioned in the opening chapter of the Book of Genesis. First He created “The heaven and the earth” (verse 1), second He created all animal life (verse 21), and third He created human life (verses 26-27). The word...
