The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-09-06
THIS PRESENT EVIL AGE
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DIVISION I,


world.
l. The phrase, 'The end of the world, in
King James Version, should always be
The end of the Age, or Dispensation
2 There is a succession of Dispensations.
Since mans creation, there have been
five completed Dispensations
G) The DiSpensation of Innocency in !
Eden.
(2) The Dispensation of Conscience
from Eden to the flood
60 The Dispensation of Human Gov
eminent from the food to the call of
abraham.
(4) The Dispensation of Promise, or
the Abrahanic, from the call of Abraham
to the Exodus
60 The Dispensation of Law, or the
Mosaical from the Exodus and Mount
Sinai to Calvary.
3. We are now in this present Dispensatlon
of Grace (Ephesians 3 ~ sometimes called
the Gospel Dispensation, the Church Dis
pensation, the Christian Dispensation, the
Holy Spirit Dispensation. We will have
more to say on this Dspensation later.
f. There is to be the next DispenSatlon. 1t
is called by different names in the Bible,
and it is the Seventh Dsipensation.
CD "The Last Day
And this is the Fathers will Who hath
sent Me- that of all which He hath given Me,
| should lose nothing but should raise 1t up
again at (the beginning Of not during) the
last day - John 6:39.
This promise is repeated in Verses Forty,
Forty-four and Fifty-four.
(2) THE Regeneration
And Jesus said unto them, Verify I say
unto YOU that We who have followed Me, in
the regeneration, when the Son of Man shall
sit on the throne of His glory, we also shall
sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve
tribes of Israel. = Matthew 1898.
60 "The Times of Restoration"
Repent We therefore, and be converted, that
your sins may be blotted out when the times
of refreshing shall come from the presence
of the Lord.
And He shall send Jesus Christ Who be-
fore (His crucifxion) was preached unto you.
Whom the heaven must receive treta1n) I'M
til the Times of Restoration of all things,
which God hath spoken by the mouth OF all
His holy prophets since the world began =
Acts $3.50, 21.
(4) 1.-THE Building Again Of David's
Tabernacle" =
After this CATER the Church is all taken
out - Verse 14) l will return, and will build
again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen
down; and will build again the ruins there
of and / will set it up. = Acts 1916
For what purpose? Verse II answers
(5) The Thousand Years Revelation
2O:1-7).
5. Then there is The Perfect Age and what
Paul speaks of as "The Age of the Ages,
following the Millennium.
DIVISION II. Some characteristics pf
this Age.
| 1t is Satanic.
Satan is its god he owns it; controls it.
In it his great world system, educationally,
socially, financially, politically and reli-
eiousy fills the whole earth. He claims
the earth and all things therein for himself
Luke As, O..
But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them
that are lost; in whom THE GOD OF THIS
AGE hath blinded the minds of them who be-
lieve not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel
of Christ Who is the image of God, should
shine unto them. = II Corinthians 4:3, A.
Compare Ephesians % : Satans or
ganized world-system. The Christian in
it wrestes against =
For we WreStle not against HeSn anu DIoou,
but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this
world, against spiritual wickedness in high
places - Ephesians 6:12.
He is also its prince =
Now is the Judgment of this world; now
shall the prince of this world be cast out. -
John 1891.
His world system is thoroughly organized
in this Age.
And we know that we are of God, and the
whole world lieth in the arms of the wicked
one. II John 5:19.
2. Galatians a calls it This Present Evil
Age, - not that there is no good in it,
but its only tendency is evil, and that con-
tinually.
3. Ephesians 5:16 says, "The Days (of this
Age) are Evil" In it evil predonlinates and
triumphs Righteousness has an hard tight
to even exist.
4 Ephesians 6:12 shows what the true
Church of Christ is up against in this Age
AS we "wrestle' we must put on the whole
armor of Cod. Our enemies are "pr1n-
cipalities, powers, and world rulers of this
darkness in high places" = wicked spirits,
the demons, in the heavenlies = the first
Heaven.
). In Romans 1872 we are exhorted to be
mot conformed to this Age.
6. | Corinthians 4:3 calls it Mans Day.
DIVISION III. The evil of this Age is to
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