GENESIS - CHAPTER 8 - 8:21

GENESIS  CHAPTER  8

8:21 > The Third Dispensation: Human Government. Under Conscience, as in Innocency, man utterly failed, and the judgment of the flood marks the end of the second dispensation and the beginning of the third. The declaration of the Noahic Covenant subjects humanity to a new test. Its distinctive feature is the institution, for the first time, of human government__the government of man by man. The highest function of government is the judicial taking of life. All other governmental powers are implied in that. It followers that the third dispensation is distinctively that of human government. Manis responsible to govern the world for God. That responsibility rested upon the whole race, Jew and Gentile, until the failure of Israel under the Palestinian Covenant ( DEUTERONOMY  28__30:1__10 ) brought the judgment of the Captivities, when "the times of the Gentiles" ( See  LUKE  21:24;  REVELATION  16:14 ) began, and the government of the world passed exclusively into Gentile hands ( DANIEL  2:36__45;  LUKE  21:24;  ACTS  15:14__17 ).

8:21 > That both Israel and the Gentiles have governed for self, not God, is sadly apparent. The judgment of confusion of tongues ended the racial testing; that of the captivities the Jewish; while the Gentile testing will end in the smiting of the Image ( DANIEL  2 ) and judgment of the nations ( MATTHEW  25:31__46 ). See, for the other six dispensations: Innocence ( GENESIS  1:28 ); Conscience ( GENESIS  3:23 ). Promise  ( GENESIS  12:1 );  Law  ( EXODUS  19:8 );  Grace  ( JOHN  1:17;  Kingdom  EPHESIANS  1:10 ).

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