The Dispensation of Promise consists of the
promises made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Almost the entire human race
turns away from God to idolatry.
Men began to worship the sun, the moon, the stars, and everything else they could think of except the one true God. Man had become just as bad as the people that were destroyed by the flood but God has promised not to ever destroy everyone in a flood again.
The dispersion of the world's population is the last time God deals with the entire human race as a whole.
With the call of Abram, God's attention
is focused upon a chosen people.
God now selects a man out of which to make a special and holy nation. This nation was to preserve God's truth and be a channel through which the whole world would ultimately be blessed.
God's chosen people were to be the channel
through which Messiah was to come.
- Genesis 3:15 The seed of the woman (the human race).
- Genesis 22:18 The seed of Abraham (the nation of Israel).
- Genesis 49:10 The seed of Judah (the tribe of Judah).
- II Samuel 7:12 The seed of David (the family of David).
- Isaiah 7:14 Prophesied that He should come through a virgin.
- Luke 1:26-33 The name of the virgin was Mary.
Abram's call
- Abram was a man that still loved and worshipped the one true God. So God told
Abram to get away from the idolatros people around him.
- Genesis 12:1 God told him to get out of his country, get away from his family and
his father's house and go to a land that God would show him.
- Genesis 12:2 God said He would make Abram a great nation, bless him, and make
his name great.
- Genesis 12:3 God said,"I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee:
and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Abram and Lot separate
- Genesis 13:5-7 Strife developed between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle. The problem was that both Abram and Lot were very rich, with flocks herds, and tents, and the land was just not able to bear them.
- Genesis 13:8-9 Abram did not want strife between Lot and himself so he suggested a separation of ways. Abram gave Lot a choice saying,"If thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right hand; and if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
- Genesis 13:10-13 Lot chose all the plain of Jordan and journeyed east. Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
Ishmael
- Gen 16:1-15 The birth of Ishmael.
Sarai Abram's wife was barren and could not give Abram a son.
She gave Abram her handmaid named Hagar so that he could have a son.
The name of this son was Ishmael.
The Covenant
- Genesis 17:1-14 Abram's call included a covenant and a promise. God and Abram each pledged to do certain things for the other.
God's promise and covenant to Abram.
- God changed Abram's name to Abraham
- God said he would multiply Abraham exceedingly.
- God said Abraham would be a father of many nations.
- God said kings shall come out of Abraham.
- God said that He would give Abraham all the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession.
Abraham's promise and covenant to God.
- God said to Abraham,"Walk before me and be thou perfect
- God said to Abraham,"Thou shalt keep my covenant therefore, thou, and thy seed after thee in thier generations.
- As a token of this covenant, every male child in Abraham's family and descendants were to be circumcised.
Sodom and Gomorrah
- Genesis 18:16-21 God tells Abraham that he is about to judge Sodom and Gomorah.
- Genesis 18:22-33 Abraham talked with God and God agreed that if there were 10 righteous people in Sodom and Gomorah that He would spare the city.
- Genesis 19:1-22 Since there were not even ten righteous in Sodom and Gomorah, God sent angels of mercy to warn Lot and get him and his family out of Sodom and Gomorah before destroying these two cities.
- Genesis 19:23-25 The Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.
- II Peter 2:6 The destruction of Sodom and Gomorah is an example to anyone after that who would live an ungodly life.
- Genesis 19:26 Lot's wife disobeyed God and looked back and became a pillar of salt.
Isaac
- Genesis 21:1-8 The birth of Isaac.
- Genesis 21:9-14 Ishmael the bastard son and Hagar his mother are
cast out of Abraham's house.
- Genesis 21:15-21 Ishmael becomes the father of the Arabs.
God tests Abraham's faith
- Genesis 22:1-2 God tells Abraham to offer his only son Isaac as a burnt offering.
- Genesis 22:3-10 Abraham trusted God and obeyed him in everything and was not
willing to withhold even his only son from God.
- Genesis 22:11-18 Abraham passed this test of faith and God provides a ram to be
used in place of Isaac as the burnt offering. God was pleased with Abraham's faith in Him and promised to
bless him and his seed after him.
Esau and Jacob
- Genesis 25:21-26 Birth of Esau and Jacob.
- Genesis 25:27-34 Esau sells his birthright to Jacob.
- Genesis chapter 27 is the story of how Jacob received the blessing of the covenant
from his father that should have been given to his brother Esau.
- Genesis 28:10-22 Jacob's dream.
- Genesis 32:24-32 Jacob encounters an angel of God, he is blessed and his name is
changed to Israel. The Israelites are descendants of Jacob who was called Israel.
- Genesis 33:1-10 Jacob is reunited with his brother Esau.
Joseph sold by brothers
- Genesis 37:3-4 Jacob had twelve sons but he loved Joseph the most. Joseph's
brothers hated him so much they could not talk peaceably to him.
- Genesis 37:5-11 Joseph had dreams that his brethren would serve him and they
hated him all the more because of it.
- Genesis 37:12-24 Joseph is sent to check on his brothers and they conspire to
slay him.
- Genesis 37:25-27 Judah convinces his brothers not to kill Joseph.
- Genesis 37:28 Joseph is sold into slavery for twenty pieces of silver.
- Genesis 37:31-35 Joseph's brothers convince Jacob that Joseph has been killed
by a wild beast.
- Genesis 37:36 Joseph is sold to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of
the guard.
Joseph is cast into prison
- Genesis 39:7-20 Potiphar's wife sets Joseph up, tells a lie, and gets him thrown into prison.
- Genesis 40:1-23 Joseph interprets dreams of Pharaoh's chief butler and chief baker.
Joseph in Pharaoh's Court
- Genesis 41:1-13 When Pharaoh cannot find the interpretation for his dreams the chief
butler tells him of Joseph.
- Genesis 41:14 Pharaoh calls for Joseph and he is cleaned up and brought to Pharaoh.
- Genesis 41:15-37 Joseph interprets Pharaoh's dreams.
- Genesis 41:38-44 Joseph is made ruler over all the land of Egypt second only to Pharaoh.
- Genesis 45:1-28 Joseph reveals himself to his brothers, forgives them, and sends them
to bring his people to Egypt where he can care for them because there was a famine in the land.
- Genesis 50:24-26 Joseph died in Egypt and was put in a coffin.
Dispensation of Promise ends in Egypt Bondage.
- Exodus 1:8 Egypt gets a new king that does not know anything about Joseph.
- Exodus 1:9-10 This new king is afraid that the children of Israel will turn against him
and Egypt.
- Exodus 1:11-14 The children of Israel had their lives made bitter with hard bondage.
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