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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