Dispensationalism II - Lesson 5
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- THE DISPENSATION OF HUMAN GOVERNMENT (Genesis 8:15-22) (Continued)
- Covenant (Genesis 9:8-17)
- The participants (verses 8-10)
- Noah and his sons
- Their seed after them
- Every living creature
- The promise (verse 11) – Never will God again destroy all flesh with a flood
- The token of the covenant (verses 12-17) – the rainbow
- Crisis (Genesis 11:1-6)
- One people (verse 6; Acts 17:24-28)
- One language (verses 1, 6)
- One-world government (verses 2-4a; see Daniel 2:40-43; Daniel 7:23-25); “let us build us a city”
- One-world religion (verse 4b; see Revelation 17:3-18); “a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven”
- One-world goal (verse 4); “let us make us a name” – The only name that should be exalted is the name of God (Psalm 8:1; Psalm 102:15; Psalm 103:1)
- Unlimited imagination (verse 6; see Genesis 6:5; Genesis 8:21)
- They were restrained by God (verses 7-9)
- Condemnation (Genesis 11:7-9)
- Confusion of languages (verse 7)
- Scattering of peoples (verse 8; Deuteronomy 32:8)
- No more one-world (verses 8-9; Psalm 2:1-3)
- Compassion
- God did not destroy them
- God called a man out of which He would establish a chosen people and a special nation (Genesis 12:1-3)
- Change – the transitional man, Abraham
- Born a Gentile (Genesis 11:27-28)
- Called before he was justified (Genesis 12:1)
- Justified by faith (Genesis 15:6; Romans 4:1-3); while he was still a Gentile (Romans 4:9-11)
- Circumcised as a Jew (Genesis 17:4-11)
- Justified by works (James 2:21-22; Genesis 22:1-2, 12)
Reagan, David