OVERVIEW OF GOD'S PLAN & PURPOSE FOR THE AGES
By Dennis Schmidt 2/2011
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God's Dispensational plan is the key ages or periods of time in His creation & His relationship to various people during those periods.
DISPENSATIONAL PLAN: ALPHA OR BEGINNING
1) ETERNITY AGE: God alone always exists (eternal).
GOD: God is complete as One Triunity (Father, Son & Holy Spirit) sufficient within Himself.
ANGELS & SATAN: Satan, the highest angel & a third of the angels revolts against God. Satan and his demons fell from heaven.
2) CREATIVE AGE: God created the angels & man to show His glory & love. God created all things and preserves them. (B.C.4004)
CREATION: Everything was created for Jesus to rule as king over it.
3) CONSCIENCE AGE: KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD & EVIL Adam & Eve sin.
FLOOD: Due to man's sin, God kills all things by water. (B.C.2348)
AGE OF FAITH: Abraham believed God -> father of faith. (B.C.1921)
ISRAEL AGE: God choose Abraham & his off-spring as God's people.
4) LAW AND PROPHETS AGE:10 Commandments/moral/ceremonial (B.C.1491)
LAW AGE: Moses' five Bible books contained the law Israel lived by.
DAVID: Israel glory in her land with righteous king. (B.C.1055-15)
TEMPLE: Solomon built the first temple of five (B.C.1004)
TIMES OF THE GENTILES: Israel in captivity temple ruined (B.C.587)
DANIEL'S 70 WEEKS: Prophecy of Jesus death 490 years before.
5) THE CROSS: JESUS DEATH & RESURRECTION -> HISTORY CENTER (A.D.30)
6) CHURCH AGE: Church means assembly of Gentiles & Jews = in Christ
GRACE AGE: God puts laws into heart. Faith in Jesus fulfill laws.
CHURCH AGE: Gentiles enter kingdom until end of times of gentiles.
HOLY SPIRIT BREATHED ON DISCIPLES: Start of the Church.
PENTECOST: Church given H.S. Baptism power to heal, witness & gifts
1918 YEARS INTERLUDE: Daniel's 70 weeks showed 1 week intermission.
7) ISRAEL AGE: Blindness removed from Israel. Kingdom re-stored.
ISRAEL RE-ESTABLISHED: Jews return to land (A.D.1948)
END TIMES OF THE GENTILES:Jerusalem under Jewish control (A.D.1967)
8) DAY OF THE LORD/TRIBULATION: Two periods of 3 & 1/2 years each. God's wrath against the world's sins and a time of Jacob's trouble.
RAPTURE: One of several. Overcomers -> marriage feast. (A.D.2000?)
JUDGMENT: Overcomer Christians are judged for works & words in air.
ANTI-CHRIST POWER RISE: Anti-christ 666 appears as world's savior.
TWO WITNESSES & 144K JEWS: 2 Witnesses & 144,000 Jews preach Jesus
is the Messiah & are raptures during 2nd 3 & 1/2 period. During the two 3 & 1/2 periods part of the church rapture. Manchild raptured.
ISRAEL BUILDS TEMPLE: Israel re-institutes the sacrifice.
ARMAGEDDON: Anti-Christ & nations fight Israel (A.D.2007?)
ANTI-CHRIST GOES TO WAR WITH ISRAEL: Anti-Christ goes into Holy of Holies. Jesus comes with His saints to fight Anti-christ & nations.
9) JESUS KINGDOM ON EARTH AGE: JESUS SECOND COMING AS LORD & KING.
THIS IS THE RETURN OF JESUS IN GLORY & POWER AS RULER. (A.D.2007?)
JUDGMENT: All un-believers are judged into abode of dead.
ANTI-CHRIST & FALSE PROPHET: They are cast into lake of fire.
SATAN: He is bounded a 1000 years in bottomless pit.
MILLENNIUM 1000 YEARS: Jesus is king over earth. Overcomer saints rule the cities with Christ. All people who believe stay on earth.
ISRAEL RE-STORED: God saved every Jew that was left. Israel rests in her land with Jesus as her king.
SATAN RELEASED AT END OF MILLENNIUM: Satan is loosed & he deceives
the nations and Russia to fight against Jesus & Israel.
JUDGMENT: FINAL JUDGMENT OF WICKED - GREAT WHITE THRONE 2nd death
LAKE OF FIRE: Death, Hell, Satan, demons (fallen angels) & all people not written in book of life are cast into lake of fire.
10) PERFECTION AGE: OMEGA OR ENDING End of God dispensational plan
OLD HEAVENS & OLD EARTH DESTROYED BY FIRE/NEW HEAVENS & NEW EARTH:
God cleans heavens & earth and bring down a new Jerusalem for all believers to live on the new earth with Jesus as their king.
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