ISRAEL UNDER DIFFERENT DISPENSATIONS!

FROM  ADAM TO MOSES’ there was no LAW; for the LAW was given by Moses. (John 1:17 . . . Romans 5:12 to 14) . The LAW ENTERED (Romans 5:20), the LAW WAS ADDED (Galatians 3:19), about 2500 years after sin entered by Adam. Moses was 80 years old when Jehovah and Israel entered into the LAW CONTRACT at Sinai. That was 330 years after Abraham died. It was after Isaac, Jacob, Judah and Joseph had died. The Book of Genesis begins with the first man, Adam, and closes with the death and burial of Joseph. No one from Adam to Joseph was an Old Testament character. The LAW COVENANT, added at Sinai some years after the death of Joseph, was a very, very new Covenant when it was added to the Abrahamic promise and oath. The promise to Abraham and his seed, that he should be heir of the world, was not through the LAW. (Romans 4:13). The LAW is called ‘THE YOKE OF BONDAGE’. (Galatians 5:1 . . . Acts 15:10 . . . Hebrews 12:20 . . . Colossians 2:14). The LAW is called the ‘MINISTRATION OF DEATH AND CONDEMNATION’. (II Corinthians 3:7 and 9). Therefore, ‘THE LAW WORKETH WRATH’. (Romans 4:15). The LAW COVENANT was taken out of the way and became ‘OLD’ after the death of Christ. (Hebrews 8:13).


The Abrahamic Covenant is still in force, although that phase of the inheritance which guarantees Israel’s national redemption and occupation of Canaan has been interrupted. The prophesied kingdom has been postponed until God, who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will (Ephesians 1:11), Accomplishes, in this present age and dispensation, His ETERNAL ‘GRACE’ PURPOSE concerning Christ and the Church, ONE FLESH. (II Timothy 1:9—Ephesians 1:4, 5 and 11). Surely we have seen the utter folly of calling, Abraham or Jacob or any of Jacob’s twelve sons, ‘Old Testament’ characters.


There is not one line in Genesis concerning the ‘Old Testament’; which began with the twentieth chapter of Exodus. In Genesis, the eleventh chapter, we read of BABEL, meaning ‘confusion’, and of Peleg, meaning ‘division’ (I Chronicles 1:19). Then we read in Romans 1:21 to 32 how God GAVE UP THE GENTILES. Out of the wreck and ruin God called an uncircumcised heathen, Abram, and then and there God began a NEW MOVEMENT. When God did what He did for Abram, according to Genesis 15:6 to 8, the Scriptures foresaw ‘THE GOSPEL OF THE UNCIRCUMCISION’ by which many uncircumcised heathen would be saved in the same way. (Galatians 3:8 . . . 2:7 . . . Romans 4:4 and 5 . . . Romans 4:18 to 23). Another something new was added 24 years after Abram responded to God’s call; namely, ‘THE COVENANT OF CIRCUMCISION’. Then 406 years later at Sinai God erected the middle‑wall of partition between Israel and the nations, which stood until God broke it down. (Ephesians 2:14 to 17).


When the LAW was ADDED that sin might abound (Romans 5:20), that sin might be exceedingly sinful (Romans 7:13), that by the LAW every mouth should be stopped and all the world become guilty before God (Romans 3:19), that LAW was given to be Israel’s SCHOOLMASTER to bring Israel to Christ, that they might be justified by faith. (Galatians 3:24). When Israel passed under ‘THE YOKE OF BONDAGE’ at Sinai, the REIGN of LAW began. Israel knew that a most radical change had taken place. They knew that they were entering a very different DISPENSATION, with a very complicated religious system imposed on them with the ten commandments until the time of the reformation. (Hebrews 9:10). ‘THE LAW WAS ADDED TILL’ . . . (Galatians 3:19). When the LAW had served its purpose Israel was no longer under the LAW SCHOOLMASTER. (Galatians 3:25). After the resurrection of Christ, Israel was slow to learn that Christ was the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth. (Romans 10:4). Read Acts 21:20 to 25.


It was a great change when Israel went from ‘NOT UNDER THE LAW’ to ‘UNDER THE LAW’ at Sinai. It was just as great a change when they went from ‘UNDER THE LAW’ to ‘NOT UNDER THE LAW’ after the death and resurrection of Christ. They learned the truth of Romans 6:14, ‘ye are not under the law’.


Do you know a better name for this than ‘DISPENSATIONAL BIBLE STUDY’.


After reading Luke 2:39, Galatians 4:4, Matthew 5:17 and 18, Matthew 8:1 to 4 and Matthew 23:1 to 3, would you not say that Christ with His nation, including His disciples, lived on earth ‘under the law’ before His death and resurrection?


No minister of Christ need be a profound student of the Scriptures to know the great difference between the message of John the Baptist, ‘baptism unto repentance for the remission of sins’, (Mark 1:4), before the FALL of Israel, and ‘the washing of regeneration’ of Titus 3:5 and 6, after the FALL of Israel. There is a very great difference between the Jews and Gentiles, as ‘children’ and ‘dogs’ in Mark 7:27, before the FALL, and the ‘no difference between Jews and Gentiles’ in Romans 10:12, after the FALL. There is just as great a difference between Matthew 6:15 “if ye forgive not, neither will your Father forgive” (Matthew 18:34 and 35), before the FALL, and Colossians 2:13 and Ephesians 4:32 after the FALL, having all your sins forgiven, for Christ’s sake; and therefore, forgive one another. Inasmuch as Christ told His apostles, “go not in the way of the Gentiles” (Matthew 10:5), we are sure that God was not visiting the Gentiles to take out from them a people for His Name (Acts 15:14) while Christ was Jesus of Nazareth in the midst of Israel. (Acts 2:22 . . . Romans 15:8 . . . Matthew 15:24). Therefore, before the FALL of Israel, Gentiles were not obtaining Divine mercy because of Israel’s unbelief, as they were after the FALL. (Romans 11:30).


In rightly dividing the Word of truth, the faithful ‘STEWARD’ of the MYSTERIES of God will study and interpret every doctrine and event in the Bible as to whether it is recorded before the FALL of Israel or after the FALL of Israel. Has the communism of Acts 2:44 and 45 and 4:34 and 35 been a part of God’s program since the FALL of Israel? Has God ever instructed any Christian to tarry for Holy Spirit baptism since the FALL of Israel? ‘PISTEUSANTES’ (believing) the gospel of salvation, the believer is sealed unto the day of redemption with the Holy Spirit. (Ephesians 1:13 and 14 and 4:30). But while Jesus of Nazareth was on earth under the law the Holy Spirit was not yet. (John 7:38 to 40 . . . John 16:7). (Acts 1:5). While Christ and His disciples were under the law, neither Christ nor any one of His disciples would have preached Colossians 2:16 or Romans 6:14: “let no man judge you in respect of a holyday or the sabbath”, “for ye are not under the law.”


The Lord was not making the JOINT‑BODY of Ephesians 2:15 before the FALL of Israel. Believing Jews and Gentiles were not being baptized by ONE SPIRIT in to ONE BODY while Christ was a Minister of the circumcision, confirming promises to Israel. (Romans 15:8). The ONE BODY of I Corinthians 12:13, Romans 12:4 and 5, Ephesians 4:4, was not promised to Israel by their prophets.
When we read in Acts 10:28 that it was unlawful for the apostles to go to the Gentiles, we know that at that time Peter was not preaching what Paul later on called ‘the mystery among Gentiles’. (Colos­sians 1:27). When God’s due time came for the Gen­tiles (I Timothy 2:4 to 6) Paul added, “whereunto I am ordained a preacher and an apostle and a teacher of the Gentiles.” (2:7). We have no record that Peter preached the message of II Timothy 1:9, concerning God’s eternal ‘grace’ purpose; for there Paul again said, “whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle and a teacher of the Gentiles”. (verse 11). Read also Acts 22:21 . . . Galatians 1:16 . . . Romans 11:13 . . . Romans 15:16 . . . II Timothy 4:17 and Titus 1:3. 

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