In the last post we began to looking at some of the myths about the Law and the 5th Dispensation. We saw that the rules of the Law were not meant to repress the Israelites, but were intended to show them the optimal way to live and prosper and to make them good ambassadors to…
In the 5th Dispensation, God gave His nation, Israel a volume of commands and instructions collectively called the Law. The particulars of the Law are very detailed and specific, and Israel’s compliance with them was non-negotiable (they were commands after all). The Israelites were promised great blessings and prosperity if they obeyed the Law, and…
The dispensations are God’s contrastive way of proving that His plan for man is right, by allowing mankind the opportunity to choose to be Godly on their own. So far we’ve examined four dispensations. In the first, man was in a state of complete innocence. In the second men were allowed to acquire vast knowledge. …
This will be the last post in the current series examining the character and career of the primary antagonist of our existential narrative, and our adversary in spiritual warfare – the being called “Satan”. In the last two posts, we looked at Satan’s partners in crime, the many fallen angels who rebelled with him against…
Unlike God, Satan is not transcendent. He can’t be everywhere at once to rule his kingdom, but he has help. When he initiated spiritual warfare and fell from Heaven, a great number of angels fell with him. The Bible doesn’t give us a great deal of information about angels, and since human curiosity abhors a…