Name: Romeo Fadriquela

Subject: Dispensation

Professor: Ptr. Francis Dait

SUBJECT TO BE REPORTED

The Edenic Dispensation

The Antideluvian Dispensation

SOURCES:

1. http://www.biblebeliever.com/scofield/scofield_rightly02.htm/rightly02.html

2. Bible Dispensation - Lesson No. 46 (MBBE)

3. Bible Dispensation Lesson No. 47 (MBBE)

4. Bible Dispensation Lesson No. 48 (MBBE)

5. C.I. Scofield

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Bible Dispensation

An Overview of the Subject

The Scripture divide time (by which is meant the entire period from the creation of

Adam to theNew heaven and a new earth of Revelation 21:1) into seven unequal

periods, usually called dispensations (Eph. 3:2), although these periods are also called

ages (Eph. 2:7) and days, as in day of the Lord. These periods are marked in Scripture

by some change in Gods method of dealing with mankind or a portion of mankind, in

respect of the two questions: of sin, and of mans responsibility. Each of the

dispensation may be regarded as a new test of the natural man, and each ends in

judgment, marking his utter failure in every dispensation. Five of these dispensation on

periods of time have been fulfilled; we are living in the sixth, probably towards its close,

and live before us the seventh and last: the millennium C.I. Scofield

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The Seven Dispensation

1. The Edenic Dispensation

Dispensation fo Innocence

2. The Antideluvian Dispensation

Conscience

3. The Post Diluvian Dispensation

(The Dispensation of the Human Government)

4. The Patriarchal Dispensation

(The Dispensation of the Family)

5. The Legal Dispensation

(The Dispensation of the Law)

6. The Ecclesiastical Dispensation

(This is the Dispensation of Grace)

7. The Millenial Dispensation

(This is a Dual Age and includes the Millenial Age and the Perfect Age)

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Duration of Every Dispensation

The Edenic Dispensation

Extends from the creation of Adam to the Expulsion from the Garden.

Duration: We know nothing. It was probably very short.

The Antidiluvian Dispensation

Extends from the Fall to the Flood

It lasted for 1,656 years

The Post Diluvian Dispensation

Extends from the Flood to the Second stages of Christs 2nd coming called

revelation

The Patriarchal Dispensation

Extends from the call of Abraham to the Exodus

Duration: 430 years

The Legal Dispensation

Extended from Exodus to the Birth of Christ

Duration: 1,491 years

The Ecclesiastical Dispensation

Extends from the Cross to the Crown

The Millennial Dispensation

To be ushered in by the Revelation of Christ when He shall return to the earth

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Message

The Edenic Dispensation

This Dispensation extends from the creation of Adam to the expulsion from the

Garden. As to tits duration we know nothing. It was probably very short and was the

Dispensation of Innocence. Adam and Eve were created innocent. Innocence is not

righteousness. It cannot became Righteousness until tested. If Adam and Eve had stood

the Test, they would have became Morally righteous but they failed and became sinners.

Now man cannot be righteous without the new Birth.

Lesson to consider and learn from Edenic Dispensation

Introduction:

The Edenic Dispensation (Genesis 2:7 3:24). This Dispensation extends from the

creation of Adam to the Expulsion from the Garden. Act its duration we know nothing.

It was probably very short, and was the Dispensation of Innocence. Adam and Eve

were created innocent. Innocence is not Righteousness. It cannot became

Righteousness until tested. If Adam and Eve had stood the test, they would have became

morally righteous but they failed and became SINNERS. Now man cannot be Righteous

without the New Birth.

1. The inducement that Satan held out to Eve, that the acquisition of knowledge

would put here and Adam as the same plane with God and make them god-like, is

the same inducement that Satan offers to ambitious men today, and he is seeking
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 through his dupes to build up a magnificent civilization in the discoveries and

inventions of men, and exalt man without God, and his aim is the final

Deitification of Man, that will final its culmination in his superman. The

Anti-Christ who will sit in the Temple of Jerusalem and proclaim himself God (2

Thess. 2:3-4)

Lesson to Consider and Learn from Edenic Dispensation

This accounts for all the World System of today for the social religion, political

and commercial betterment and advancement of the race.

2. In the Fall of Man, the triumph of Satan was complete. The first effect of

disobedience of Adam and Eve was self-consciousness. They saw that they were

naked: the result of this knowledge led them to invent clothing made of Fig

leaves. All living creatures are clothed by nature. Fish have scales, birds have

feathers, beasts have hair, or fur, or wool, even serpents have beautifully colored

skin. Man is naked when ushered into existence, but it is not long until nature

provides clothing. Man alone of all Gods creatures is left without clothing, and is

compelled to have recourse to artificial covering. Why is this? It is the result of

Sin.

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3. By questioning them the Lord God got them to sit in judgment on their own

conduct.

Adam blamed his fall on Eve, blamed her all on the Serpent. God patiently

listened to them and gave them an opportunity to justify their conduct, then He

passed judgment on them. But o the serpent He gave no opportunity for

justification.

4. Why did not the Lord God provide a more refined and beautiful dress?

When Adam sinned did he became so animalized that skins were the only

suitable dress for him to wear? No. The skins were typical. They could only be

secured by the killing of some innocent animals, probably lambs, and were a type

of the Lamb of God, and shedding of Blood (Hebrews 9:22) And almost all

things are by the law purged with blood, and without the shedding of blood is no

remission.

5. While the World System of this world are under the dominion of Satan, and God

for some good reason permits them to be, He is not to be charged with inability to

prevent Satans work or as being cruelty in different to mans lost condition, or

blamed for not having stopped at once the reign of evil powers in the universe, for

immediately upon the Fall of Man God provided a redemptive remedy in the

promise the Seed of the woman (Christ) should bruise the serpents head, and

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 men are lost not because there is no way of escape from the toils of Satan, but

because they will not escape and accept Gods way of escape through Christ.

6. The world would not be deluded by Satans devices (2 Cor. 2:11) if it would

give heed to the more sure word of prophecy (2 Peter 1:19) which reveals his

origins, purpose and doom. But the study of prophecy is not only neglected, but

discouraged because of the way in which the Scripture are wrested. (2 Peter

3:16) by those who use prophecy to further their own doctrinal ends, so that many

condemn the study of prophesy, and read the Scriptures as if they said We have

a very uncertain word of prophecy, to which you do well to pay no attention

whatever.

7. The Edenic Dispensation as perfectly unique, it was characterized by the absence

of sin and the presence of God. There will be nothing like it again until The

tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them in the new earth

(Rev. 21:3). In the Edenic Dispensation, God dealt with Adam in the basis of

innocence, and He can never treat with man again in the same basis until the

curse of sin shall be removed from the earth.

Man is no longer under probation, but rather condemnation (John 3:18). Ever

since the fall, God has had to deal with man as a guilty, lost, helpless and ruined

sinner.

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 And not only a ruined sinner, a ruined creature. There is no good thing in him, he

is at enmity with God, and is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can

be. (Romans 8:6-7) Man is a failure.

Conclusion:

In mercy, God drove the guilt, but forgiven pain from the garden lest they eat of

the Tree of Life and be doomed to live forever in this sinful mortal bodies. Thus the

first Dispensation ended in failure, the human race under condemnation, and the whole

earth cursed. Men claim that innocence and a perfect environment are safeguards against

wrong doing, but the catastrophe of Eden proves that this is not true.

-C. Larkin, Dispensational Truth/BMA Message 12/08/13

The Antideluvian Dispensation

This Dispensation extends from Fall to the Flood. It lasted for 1,656 years and

was the Dispensation of Conscience. It shows what man will do when guided only by

the conscience. Adam and Eve had no conscience before the Fall. Conscience is a

knowledge of good and evil, and this Adam and Eve did not have until they ate of the

fruit of the forbidden tree. Conscience may produce fear and remorse, but it will not keep

men from doing wrong, for conscience imparts no power.

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1. In the Antidiluvian Dispensation mankind was treated as a whole.

There was no nations that Dispensation called in (Acts 17:30), the Times of

Ignorance and is contacted with the Times that are now, and we are told in that

Dispensation God Winked at what He could not Overlook in the legal

Dispensation. Conscience was then the standard of human conduct. It was the

standard by which men accused on excused themselves (Romans 2:15) the Sinaitic

Law was not given until after the Exodus. Being without Law there was no legal

standard for sin for by the Law is the knowledge of sin Romans 3:20). But they

were without excuse for God was very near to mankind in those days, and His

voice was heard in rebuke as in to Cain (Gen. 4:14), in communion with Enoch

(Gen. 5:22-24) or in counsel as with Noah (Gen. 6:3). They were therefore not

without knowledge of God, but they glorified Him not, and God gave them over

to vile affections.

2. While there was no Written Law in the Dispensation before the flood, there was

an Unwritten Law and when the Gentiles who have not the Law, do by Nature

the things contained in the Law, they show that they have the Law Written in

Their Hearts, for not the hearers of the Law are just (justified) before God, but the

Doers or those who keep it (Romans 2:11-16). These answer the questions as to

the salvation of the heathen without the Written or Spoken Gospel. If they by

nature seek after God, and show by their faith and conduct, according to their

light, like Cornelius (Acts 10:1-6) that in their heart they have received Him, who

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 dare say they will not be saved? But this does not excuse us from taking the

Gospel to them.

3. The Characteristics of the Antidiluvian Dispensation as outlined by the late Dr.

A.T. Peirson were:

a. An advance fullness and cleanness of revelation.

b. Gradual spirit declension (moral deterioration)

c. Conformity to the World, ending with amalgamation with the World.

d. A gigantic civilization, brilliant but godless.

e. Parallel development of evil and good.

f. Apostasy

g. Catastrophe

Summary

1. Edenic Dispensation (man innocent)

This dispensation extends from the creation of Adam in (Gen. 2:7) to

expulsion from Eden. Adam, created innocent and ignorant of good and

evil, was placed in the garden of Eden with his wife, Eve, and put under

responsibility to abstain from the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good

and evil. The dispensation of innocence resulted in the first failure of man,

and in its far-reaching effects, the most disastrous. It closed in judgment:

So He drove out the man (Gen. 1:26; 2:16-17; 3:6; 3:22-24)

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2. Antidiluvian Dispensation (Conscience)

By the fall of Adam and Eve required and transmitted to the race the

knowledge of good and evil. This gave conscience a basis for right moral

judgment, and hence the race came under this measure of responsibility, to

do good and eschew evil. The result of the dispensation of conscience from

Eden to the flood (while there was no institution of government and of

law), was that all flesh had corrupted his way on the earth, that the

wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the

thoughts of this heart was under evil continually, and God closed the

second testing of the natural man with judgment of the flood. (Gen. 3:7,22;

6:5,11-12; 7:11-12, 23)

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