Understanding The Bible |
BY THE AUTHOR
Dr. Clarence E. Mason, Jr.
Philadelphia College of Bible
1970
Edited by Dr. Clarence E. Mason, Jr.
However, if one is thinking of the ages and dispensations from the perspective
of God's total dealings with the world, during which time there is the expanding
revelation of God, the Church Age is not properly conceived of as parenthetic
in that context. The Church Age is a foreknown part of the plan of God which,
like the other ages. represents an advance in spiritual light (dispensation).
The fact that God pleased to reserve announcement of the age until Israel's
rejection of Messiah does not in any way affect the fact that the Church
Age takes its place with the other ages in the methodical and prepurposed
expansion of Divine truth and fulfillment of the Divine purpose, as illustrated
on page 15. This line of thinking would go far to explode the charge of
.opponents that, in asserting Christ's rejection by Israel led to the "postponement"
of the kingdom He offered to them, we dispensationalists ignore the redemptive
purpose of Christ's first advent and fail to see a unity in the plan of
God.
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