From the Companion Bible – Appendix 198
THE DISPENSATIONAL PLAN OF THE BIBLE
A – THE PRIMAL CREATION. HEAVENS AND EARTH. ” The world (Gr. kosmos) that then was,” Gen. 1: l, 2 2Pet.3: 6.
B- SATAN’S FIRST REBELLION. The earth became waste and a ruin (Heb. tohu va bohu).
Gen. 1: 2- God created it not a ruin (Isa. 45: 18, Heb. tohu) nor waste (” confusion “).
C – THE EARTH RESTORED AND BLESSED. ” The heavens and the earth which are now.” Gen. 1:2—2:3. 2 Pet. 3:7.
D – SATAN ENTERS AND THE CONSEQUENCE. Gen. 3.
E – MANKIND DEALT WITH AS A WHOLE. Gen. 4—11: 28.
F – THE CHOSEN NATION CALLED AND BLESSED. Gen. 11:27—Mal. 4:6 (Jehovah and His kingdom rejected. Israel scattered.)
G – THE FIRST ADVENT (Micah 5:2. Zech. 9:9). The Four Gospels (Rom. 15:8.) The King and the kingdom proclaimed and rejected, and the King crucified.
H – THE KINGDOM RE-PROCLAIMED Acts 3:19, 20, . The church of God called and
taken out. Acts 13 and on, and earlier Pauline Epistles. The kingdom
again rejected and Israel again scattered.
H – THE KINGDOM POSTPONED AND IN ABEYANCE. ” Not yet ” (Heb. 2: 8. The later,
or Prison Epistles (Pauline). The Mystery revealed and proclaimed.
Eph. 3: 2-11. Col. 1:25 , 2: 2-3. 1Tim. 3:16. The NEW HOPE.
Phil. 3:11,14; Titus 2:13,”The Church which is his body ” called and
taken up.
G – THE SECOND ADVENT. “The first resurrection.” The kingdom established. The King enthroned. “The day of the Lord.” Matt.24:2,31. Luke 19:11-27. Isa. 2:11-19. Joel 2; &c.
F – THE CHOSEN NATION RECALLED AND BLESSED. Rom. 11:11-36. Acts 15:16. Isa. 60, 61, 62 Jer. 30:31. Zech. 12:13,14; &c.
E – MANKIND DEALT WITH AS A WHOLE. Joel 3: 2. Matt. 25: 31-46. Acts 15: 17. Rom.15: 8-12. Rev. 4-19.
D – SATAN BOUND AND THE CONSEQUENCES. Rev. 20. 1-3.
C – THE EARTH RESTORED AND BLESSED. Rev, 20. 4-6. Isa. 35; &c. The Millennium.
B – SATAN’S FINAL REBELLION. Rev. 20:7-10. Followed by the second resurrection and the judgment of the “great white throne “. The destruction of all things that offend” Rev, 20:11-15.
A – THE NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH. The day of God. Rev. 21, 22. 2 Pet. 3:12,13. Isa. 65:17; 66:22.
“All things were created by Him ” Who is before all things and by Whom all things consist ” (lit. hang together, Col. 1: 17) ; Who is now ” upholding all things by the word of His power ” (Heb. 1. 3). The Structure shows in almost pictorial form the great lesson that God sets before us from Genesis to Revelation, viz. that no created being can stand (upright) apart from Christ the Creator. Hence the necessity for a “new heaven and a new earth “wherein abideth righteousness, inhabited by a “new creation” of beings who have by grace been made “partakers” of the
Divine Nature” (2Pet. 1:4).