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THE
ETERNAL
PURPOSE
(Ephesians 3:11). Appendix 198 To The Companion Bible. |
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| THE DISPENSATIONAL PLAN OF THE BIBLE. |
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THE PRIMAL CREATION. HEAVENS AND EARTH. "The world (Greek kosmos) that then was." Genesis 1:1, 2-. 2 Peter 3:6. |
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SATAN'S FIRST REBELLION. The earth became waste and a ruin (Hebrew tohu va bohu). Genesis 1:2-. God created it not a ruin (Isaiah 45:18, Hebrew tohu) nor waste ("confusion"). |
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THE EARTH RESTORED AND BLESSED. "The heavens and the earth which are now." Genesis 1:-2—2:3. 2 Peter 3:7. |
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| D | SATAN ENTERS AND THE CONSEQUENCE. Genesis 3. | |||||||||||||||
| E | MANKIND DEALT WITH AS A WHOLE. Genesis 4—11:26. | |||||||||||||||
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THE CHOSEN NATION CALLED AND BLESSED. Genesis 11:27—Malachi 4:6. (Jehovah and His kingdom rejected. Israel scattered.) |
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THE FIRST ADVENT (Micah 5:2. Zechariah 9:9). The Four Gospels (Romans 15:8). The King and the kingdom proclaimed and rejected, and the King crucified. |
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THE KINGDOM RE-PROCLAIMED. Acts 3:19, 20, etc. The church of God called and taken out, Acts 13 and on, and earlier Pauline Epistles. The kingdom again rejected and Israel again scattered. |
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THE KINGDOM POSTPONED AND IN ABEYANCE. "Not yet" (Hebrews 2:8). The later, or Prison, Epistles (Pauline). The MYSTERY revealed and proclaimed. Ephesians 3:2‑11. Colossians 1:25; 2:2, 3. 1 Timothy 3:16. THE NEW HOPE. Philippians 3:11, 14. Titus 2:13. "The church which is His body" called, and taken up. Philippians 3:11, 14. |
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THE SECOND ADVENT. "The first resurrection." The kingdom established. The King enthroned. "The day of the Lord." Matthew 24; 25:31. Luke 19:11‑27. Isaiah 2:11‑19. Joel 2; etc. |
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THE CHOSEN NATION RECALLED AND BLESSED. Romans 11:11‑36. Acts 15:16. Isaiah 60, 61, 62. Jeremiah 30, 31. Zechariah 12:13, 14; etc. |
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MANKIND DEALT WITH AS A WHOLE. Joel 3:2. Matthew 25:31‑46. Acts 15:17. Romans 15:8‑12. Revelation 4‑19. |
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| D | SATAN BOUND AND THE CONSEQUENCES. Revelations 20:1‑3. | |||||||||||||||
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THE EARTH RESTORED AND BLESSED. Revelation 20:4‑6. Isaiah 35; etc. The Millennium. |
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SATAN'S FINAL REBELLION. Revelation 20:7‑10. Followed by the second resurrection and the judgment of the "great white throne". The destruction of "all things that offend". Revelation 20:11‑15. |
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THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW EARTH. The day of God. Revelation 21, 22. 2 Peter 3:12, 13. Isaiah 65:17; 66:22. |
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1.
The above Structure
shows the respective
dispensations in which
God has been and is
dealing with the Jew,
the Gentile,
and the church of God
(1 Corinthians
10:32).
The
"church which
is His body"
occupies the
central position,
and its present
standing is seen
to be separated
from its future
destiny and hope.
The two rebellions
of Satan also are
seen to be in direct
correspondence;
suggesting the
necessity why
he must be loosed,
and the loosing,
for a little season
(Revelation
20:3, 7).
2.
All things were
created by Him
"Who
IS
before all things and by
Whom all things consist"
(literally hang together,
Colossians
1:17);
Who is now
"upholding all things by
the word of His power"
(Hebrews
1:3).
The Structure shows
in almost pictorial
form the great lesson
that God sets before
us from Genesis
to Revelation,
namely,
that no created being
can stand (upright)
apart from Christ
the Creator.
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Hence the necessity
for a
"new heaven and
a new earth"
wherein abideth
righteousness,
inhabited by a
"new creation"
of beings who have
by grace been made
"partakers of
the Divine nature"
(2 Peter
1:4).
3.
Further,
it will be seen that it
is not God's purpose to
bring in the new heaven
and new earth by means
of the
"church".
The new creation will be
full of physical marvels,
brought about by physical
means and not
"spiritual agencies".
These means and their results
are set before us in
Revelation.
Well may we exclaim with
Paul,—"O
the depth of the riches
both of the wisdom and
knowledge of God!
how unsearchable
are His judgments,
and His ways past
finding out!
For who hath known
the mind of the Lord?
or who hath been
His counselor?
Or who hath first
given to Him,
and it shall be
recompensed
unto him again?
For of Him,
and through Him,
and to Him,
are all things:
to
WHOM BE GLORY
FOR EVER.
AMEN."
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