What is a dispensation? Definitions vary slightly, but here are some helpful ones: OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY: Anglicized form of Latin dispensatio, to weigh out or dispense. 1) The action of dealing out or distributing; 2) the action of administering, ordering, or managing; the system by which things are administered; 3) the action of dispensing with […]
Dispensationalists vary on the specific number of dispensations. These differences are in part due to the overlap of some of them. For example, A. E. Booth links the first three as the Light of Creation, the Light of Conscience, and the Light of Promise. He then adds the Tribulation as the fifth dispensation (although it […]
To tell the story of David Baron (1855-1926) we should first take a journey to a farm in Russia owned by an orthodox Jew. The youngest of his seven children was one of those rare, unspoiled young men. The boy’s parents and companions thought that if anyone qualified for Abraham’s bosom, that boy would. He […]
The life of King Manasseh is recorded in the Scriptures in two places: 2 Kings 21 and a more complete account in 2 Chronicles 33. Of all the kings of Judah, there was perhaps none more evil than Manasseh. Tradition tells us that He was most likely the one who gave the gruesome order to […]
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God made man in His own image and likeness, with the capacity for fellowship with the Creator. Sin disrupted that fellowship, marring the image of God. The eternal purpose of God involves the full revelation of Himself in grace through the Seed of the woman who is also the Seed of Abraham, and the Seed […]
All true service for Christ must spring from love to Christ. Martha and others, had been sorely bereaved, when Lazarus died. But their grief had turned into joy on seeing him raised from the dead. Their gratefulness to Christ caused them to love Him, and their love made them prepare the feast at which Martha […]
Not many years ago thousands of boys and girls in Germany sang a song of pagan origin which expressed their deepest devotion. This led multitudes of them to sacrifice their lives with a zeal and fanaticism hardly paralleled in modern times. Yet the song I refer to had nothing in it that spoke either of […]
Only an optimist would have called it a town. It was just a settlement, a few houses in the Canadian prairie. One house, a little larger than the others, had a Canada Post sign, the villagers’ means of reaching the world. But it was obvious that the world reached them, too. Whatever the little gathering […]
Second Corinthians 8 and 9 contain a description of the gifts bestowed by believers for the help of their fellow saints. No less than seven terms are used, an indication of the value which God sets on the liberality of His saints. The real significance of each of these terms provides us with a wide […]