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Darby dispensational theology Continue The religious interpretive system and metanarrative for the Bible the Church Age redirects here. For the album Mr. Del see Church Age (album). For other purposes, see Dispensation (disambigation). 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He considers the biblical history divided by God into dispensation, certain periods or ages to which God has singled out distinctive administrative principles. According to dispensationalism, each age of God's plan is thus governed in a certain way, and humanity is responsible as steward during this time. The prepositions of dispensationists begin with the inductive reasoning that biblical history has a particular intermittentness in the way God responds to humanity in unfolding them, sometimes assumed, free will. The dispensational approach contrasts with the traditional system of covenant theology used in the biblical interpretation. The theology of the Progressive Revelation Main article: Progressive Revelation (Christianity) Progressive Revelation is a doctrine in Christianity that every subsequent book of the Bible provides further revelation of God and His program. For example, the theologian Charles Hodge wrote, The progressive nature of divine revelation is recognized in relation to all the great doctrines of the Bible... What is not clear at first is gradually unfolding in the later parts of the sacred volume until the truth is revealed in its fullness. Then the writings of the New Testament contain additional information about God and His program, in addition to the writings of the Old Testament. There is a disagreement between covenant theology and dispensationalism about the meaning of revelation. The theology of the Covenant sees the New Testament as the key to the interpretation of the Old Testament. Thus, concepts such as biblical covenants and promises to Israel are believed to be interpreted by the New Testament as Dispensational, however, believes that the Old Testament and the New Testament are interpreted through a literal grammatical-historical interpretation. As a result, they reject the idea that the meaning of the Old Testament was hidden and that the New Testament could change the direct meaning of the Old Testament. Their view of the progressive revelation is that the New Testament contains new information that can be based on the Old Testament but cannot change its meaning. The distinction between Israel and the church dispensationalists proclaims a certain distinction between Israel and the Christian Church. For dispensationalists, Israel is an ethnic nation made up of Jews (Israelis), dating from Abraham to the present day. The Church, on the other hand, consists of all the people saved in this present dispensation, i.e. from the birth of the Church in acts to the time of ascension. According to progressive dispensationalism, unlike the old forms, the distinction between Israel and the Church is not mutually exclusive, as there is a recognized overlap between them. The overlap consists of Jewish Christians such as St. Peter and Paul the Apostle, who were ethnically Jewish and also believed in Jesus. Classical dispensationalists call the current Church a brace or temporary interlude in the course of Israel's predicted history. The progressive dispensational approach softens the distinction between the Church and Israel by seeing some of the Old Testament promises extended by the New Testament to include the Church. However, progressives never see this expansion as a substitute for the promise of their original audience, Israel. Dispensationalists believe that Israel as a nation will accept Jesus as its messiah by the end of the Great Tribulation, just before the Second Coming. The beginning of the church classical dispensation began with John Nelson Darby. Darby was replaced by theologian K.I. Scofield, Bible teacher Harry A. Ironside, Lewis Sperry Chafer, William R. Newell, and Miles Stanford, all of whom defined Pentecost (Acts 2) with the beginning of the Church as opposed to Israel; this can be called The Position of Act 2. Other Acts 2 of Pauline dispensationalists include R.B. Shiflet, Roy A. Hubner, and Carol Berube. In contrast, the Dispensationalists of the Movement of Grace believe that the church began later in the Acts and emphasize the beginning of the church with the ministry of Paul. The proponents of this middle of acts position define the beginning of the church, which takes place between the salvation of Saul in Acts 9 and the commissioning of Paul in Acts 13. The position of Acts 28 suggests that the church began in The Acts of Chapter 28, where the Apostle Paul quotes Isaiah 6:9-10 regarding the blindness of Israel, declaring that the salvation of God to the world of pagans (Acts 28:28). Premium dispensational dispensationists are the pre-linists who affirm the future, the literal 1,000-year reign of Jesus Christ, Revelation 20:6, a necessary citation that merges with the eternal state in new heaven and new earth (Revelation 21). They argue that the millennial kingdom will be theocratic in nature, not mostly soterological, as George Eldon Ladd and others with neo-practical form of pre-linism believe. (quote is necessary) The vast majority of dispensationists profess predispensive admiration, with small minorities professing either the middle of grief or post-tributive delight. Dispensation Number of dispensations vary typically from 3 to 8. The typical pattern of seven dispensation is this: Innocence - Adam is on probation before falling. Ends with expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Some refer to this period as the Adamic period or the dispensation of the Adamic Covenant or the Adamic Law. Conscience - from the fall to the Great Flood. Ends with a global deluge. Human Government - After the Great Flood, humanity is responsible for the death penalty. Ends with a variance in the Tower of Babel. Some use the term Noyid Law in connection with this period of dispensation. Promise - from Abraham to Moses. Ends with the refusal to enter Kanan and 40 years of disbelief in the desert. Some use the terms Abrahamic Law or The Abrahamic Covenant in connection with this period of dispensation. The law is from Moses to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Ends with the scattering of Israel in AD70. Some use the term Moiseyev Law in connection with this period of dispensation. Grace - From the cross to the delight of the church. The delight is followed by the wrath of God, which constitutes the Great Sorrow. Some use the term Age of Grace or Church Age for this dispensation. The Millennial Kingdom is a 1,000-year reign of Christ on earth, concentrated in Jerusalem, ending with God's trial of the ultimate rebellion. Below is a table comparing the various dispensation schemes: Dispensation Schemes Biblical Chapters Genesis 1-3 Genesis 3-8 Genesis 9-11 Genesis 12-Exodus 19 Exodus 20-Birth Church Age-Rapture Revelation 20:4-6 Revelation 20-22 7 or 8 Step Innocence or Eden Conscience or Antediluvian Civil Government Patriarchal or Promise Of Mosaic or Grace Law or Church Millennial Kingdom Eternal State or Final 4 Step Patriarchal Mosaic Church Gionic 3 Step (Minimalist) Law Grace Kingdom Calvinist Law Grace Kingdom History This article needs additional quotes to check. Please help improve this article by adding quotes to reliable sources. Non-sources of materials can be challenged and removed. Find sources: Dispensationalism - Newspaper News book scientist Jstor 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this message pattern) Timeline of the history of dispensationalism, showing the development of different streams of thought. The concept of organizing sections of biblical history dates back to Ireneev in the second century. (quote necessary) Other Christian writers have since offered their own arrangements of history, such as Augustine Hippo and Joachim Fiore (1135-1202). 116 Many Protestant and Calvinist writers have also developed theological schemes and sections of history, particularly after the Westminster Confession of the Faith noted various dispensations. Dispensationalism developed as a system of the teachings of John Nelson Darby, who, according to some, was the father of dispensalism (1800-1882), 5:10, 293, which greatly influenced the Plymouth Brothers of the 1830s in Ireland and England. The original concept came when Darby considered the effects of Isaiah 32 on Israel. He saw that prophecy required the future fulfillment and realization of the kingdom of Israel. The Church of the New Testament is regarded as a separate program not related to this kingdom. Thus there was a prophetic earthly program of the kingdom for Israel and a separate mysterious celestial program for the church. In order not to play two programs, the prophetic program had to be withheld so that the church could be put into existence. It is then necessary for the church to be elevated before the prophecy can resume its earthly program for Israel. In Darby's notion of dispensation, the Mosaic dispensation continues as divine control of the earth until Christ returns. The Church, as a heavenly appointed congregation, does not have its own permission according to Scofield.