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[1] {Now the Lord}
The Fourth Dispensation: Promise. For Abraham, and his descendants
it is evident that the Abrahamic Covenant
» See Note "Ge 15:18"
made a great change. They became distinctively the heirs of promise.
That covenant is wholly gracious and unconditional. The descendants of
Abraham had but to abide in their own land to inherit every blessing.
In Egypt they lost their blessings, but not their covenant. The
Dispensation of Promise ended when Israel rashly accepted the law
# Ex 19:8
Grace had prepared a deliverer (Moses), provided a sacrifice
for the guilty, and by divine power brought them out of bondage
# Ex 19:4
but at Sinai they exchanged grace for law. The Dispensation
of Promise extends from Gen 12.1 to Ex 19.8, and was exclusively
Israelitish. The dispensation must be distinguished from the
covenant. The former is a mode of testing; the latter is everlasting
because unconditional. The law did not abrogate the Abrahamic
Covenant
# Ga 3:15-18
but was an intermediate disciplinary dealing "till the Seed should
come to whom the promise was made"
# Ga 3:19-29 4:1-7
Only the dispensation, as a testing of Israel, ended at the
giving of the law. See, for the other six dispensations:
» See Note "Ge 8:21"
INNOCENCE
(Ge 1.28); CONSCIENCE (Ge 3.23); HUMAN GOVERNMENT (Ge 8.20); LAW (Ex
19.8); GRACE (Jno 1.17); KINGDOM (Eph 1.10)
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[2] {And}
For analysis and summary of the Abrahamic Covenant, see Ge 15.18.
» See Note "Ge 15:18"
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[1] {Beth-el}
One of the sacred places of Canaan, meaning, \\house of God\\
# Ge 28:1-22
» See Note "GE 35.7
It is characteristic of all apostasy that Jeroboam chose this sacred
place in which to erect an idol
# 1Ki 12:28,32
(Cf)
1Ki 13.1-5
and of divine judgment upon apostasy that God should decree the
destruction of Bethel, despite its sacred memories
# 1Ki 13:1-5 2Ki 23:15-17 Am 3:14,15
God never hesitates to cast aside that which no longer serves His
purpose
# Re 2:5 3:16
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[2] {famine}
A famine was often a disciplinary testing of God's people in the land.
(Cf)
# Ge 26:1 42:5 Ru 1:1 2Sa 24:13 Ps 105:16
The resort to Egypt (the world) is typical of the tendency to
substitute for lost spiritual power the fleshly resources of the
world, instead of seeking, through confession and amendment, the
restoration of God's presence and favour.