TSW ~ E.W. King: The First Dispensation

The Edenic Dispensation

(The First Dispensation)

By Eric William King

The studies on the First Dispensation go deep. We must stick with the original manuscripts and the record of the early church to properly understand the doctrines revealed in the first dispensation. I realize that much of this information may seem extremely strange to most American Christians who are not being taught these ancient doctrines. It is my hope that you will begin to look at facts and throw false human traditions away - simply accept the Truth….strange as though it might seem sometimes.

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A basic outline of the First Dispensation looks something like this;

Edenic Responsibility: Genesis 1:26-28

Edenic Failure: Genesis 3:1-6

Edenic Judgment: Genesis 3:7-19

The Edenic Dispensation starts with the coming together of our planet to sustain life. The representatives of human parents began here; they were birthed in the Edenic beauty. We call this the dispensation of innocence. All life was very conscious of Divine Intelligence and here Adam and Eve walked with God and talked with God.

T’was in this glorious window of geological time that great abundance occurred – new designs of plant and animal life appeared, all fully formed without evidence of any evolutionary advancement. No gradual development just the appearance of compound eyes, sophisticated biological machinery which seemingly appears out of nowhere.

No transitional forms of life needed, just Divine Fiat.

God reconstructed the earth in Seven Days. God renewed what had been destroyed by the Luciferian Rebellion on the first earth. On the fifth, sixth and eighth day of reconstruction the Hebrew word “bara” (“create” or “created”) is used in Scripture showing that on these days God created completely new species including humans.

All human races were created on the sixth day.

Literal days?

People ask; “Were these days mentioned in the creation story literal?” The Biblical answer is “not necessarily”. The Hebrew word used for “day” (yom) and the contextual way it is used doesn’t mean that the days have to be literal days. They can mean a “lengthy period” of time. The Bible says; “For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.” (Psalm 90:4; 2 Peter 3:8)

God gave literal day weeks for man to remember the gift of creation and the manna He fed them while in the wilderness (Exodus 16:23). The macro creation week is remembered in a micro week of literal days on the Jewish calendar. The literal Sabbath Day marked the week and ultimately pointed to Jesus Christ who becomes the “Life Giver” and “Spiritual Rest” of the true believer. (Hebrews 4:3; Matthew 11:28-30)

Eth Ha Adam

After the seventh day, it is recorded that “eth ha Adam” was created (Genesis 2:7). This is the “emphatic man”…the “special man”. The rest of the entire Bible will have to do with this man’s history and all his offspring. Through this “first Adam” would ultimately come the “second Adam”, from umbilical cord to umbilical cord ultimately producing Jesus Christ, which is to say “God with us.” (1 Corinthians 15:45)

Many scholars have debated over and noticed the fact that there are two creation stories of man given in the Bible. Are these the same account? Or are they different accounts…different creations? Contextually they are different accounts thus different creations.

Note: Marriage was instituted in honor of Adam and Eve and to show and demonstrate that we serve a God of relationship. God was beginning to reveal His plan to humanity. (Genesis 2:24)

On the Eighth Day

When we read Genesis chapter one all the way up to chapter two and verse six we notice an abrupt change, a jump into the creation account of Eth ha Adam and Eve. This is a different account than the first recorded creation account of “man” or “mankind” in chapter one verses twenty-six through thirty-one and it begins right after the seventh day. This is why we say that the creation of Adam and Eve actually occurred on the Eighth Day.

In Genesis chapter one the Hebrew word create (bara) is used to explain the creation of animals and mankind but in chapter two regarding the creation of Eth ha Adam the Hebrew word form (yasar) is used. The Creation Week is what we could call “fiat” (by Word) creation and Adam and Eve’s creation (on the eighth day) one of “action creation” – hands on forming like a potter.

Adam and Eve were created to produce the special blood-line (Family) that would ultimately produce the Messiah, Jesus the Christ. God promised that through Eve’s seed the redeemer would come and ultimately destroy Satan. God said that He would put hatred between her seed (offspring) and the Serpent’s (Satan’s) offspring (Genesis 3:14-15).

Earth Ages

This first dispensation starts out with Adam and Eve being created “perfect” and “eternal” so it starts before a human “Earth Age” – it starts before time. The first earth age started after Adam and Eve sinned – the beginning of time. Their sinning changed the entire creation and the entire surface of this planet - thus starting the beginning of the first earth age and ending the first dispensation. The first earth age went from the fall of Adam and Eve to the Flood which began the second earth age, the one we are in now. The third earth age will be the Millennial Kingdom which will start after the Great Tribulation.

Note: We make a distinguishing difference between “dispensations” and “ages” here. We say that an “age” stands for a period of time between two great physical changes on the earth’s surface while a “dispensation” stands for a covenantial probationary period between God and His people.

The Bible clearly outlines “Seven Major Dispensations” and “Three Earth Ages”. ~

“Trees” & “the Curve”

Before Adam and Eve sinned a portion of this planet was like a Paradise. Adam and Eve lived there (Genesis 2:15). This first dispensation is also called “the Dispensation of Innocence” because there was no sin yet. They were placed in a beautiful garden, the Garden of Eden.

God planted “every tree that was pleasant to the sight” in that garden (Genesis 2:9). We must understand that God uses trees to represent people sometimes throughout Scripture so some of these trees represent “beings” that were present with Adam and Eve in the garden (Ezekiel 31:2-9). There is an ancient understanding that is shrouded in mystery regarding the story of Adam and Eve.

We are now revealing Ancient Antiochene Christian understandings.

The Garden of Eden was absolutely beautiful. It was watered by beautiful rivers. A pure and clean garden, refreshing and fresh. North was true north; the Earth was surrounded and protected. God created Eth ha Adam and Adam had no companion for himself. God said “I will make a helpmeet for him” (Genesis 2:18). So God took a “rib” (Hebrew: “curve”) from Eth ha Adam’s side and with it He created Eve (Woman – Genesis 2:20-22).

Here we read about a mystery. God took a “curve” from Eth ha Adam and with it He created Eve. This curve is the Helix Curve. God literally took the feminine DNA of Eth ha Adam and created Eve (Woman) with it. It would be through this very special woman and her offspring that Jesus Christ (Yeshua Hamashiach) would come.

Wrong Relationship Creates Failure

The tree of the “Knowledge of Good & Evil” (Satan) and “The Tree of Life” (Christ) were in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve were told that they could “eat” (have relationship with) every tree in the garden except the tree of the “Knowledge of Good and Evil”. Through a snake Satan deceived Eve into having a relationship with him.

Apostle Paul warns the Corinthian Church not to let happen to it what happened to Eve. St Paul writes;

“I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him. But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived (Greek word: exapatau – “wholly seduced” or “to cheat”) by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.” (2^nd Corinthians 11:2-3)

So this terrible sin allowed Satan to have a literal “seed” that would be in opposition to the “good seed”. It would be through the “good seed” that the Messiah – Jesus Christ – would come and it will be through the Serpent’s seed that the “Son of Perdition” (the final Antichrist) shall be born. These two seeds, the good and bad, are depicted in Eve’s first sons, Cain and Abel which she gives birth to in the next or second dispensation.

Cain murdered his brother Abel. The literal offspring of Cain became known as the Kenites. They survived the Flood (which ended the first earth age) and during the time of Jesus Christ they persecuted Him. Jesus identifies the religious leaders as being of the offspring of Cain in John 8:44 and in Matthew 23:35-36.

True Christians identified “false Christians” as those who had “taken the Way of Cain” (Jude 11).

It is important to remember that Satan and his “seed” (the Kenites) cannot ever destroy God’s elect. God’s elect children are His and will remain so into eternity.

Note: Our Ancient Antiochene records show that the Roman Church early on tried to cover up and hide many important Biblical doctrines. One doctrine that was almost completely destroyed by the Papacy was the fact of the Serpent’s actual “seed” and the truth about the Kenites. It is important to understand the difference in ancient manuscripts when proceeding in the creation story.

Original Sin

Adam and Eve’s sin infected all of the “kosmos”. All the human races became infected with sin, the disease of spiritual death. It corrupted the Perfect Matrix and all particles became distorted. Trees, plants, animals and everything now went wrong. Things started to die, fighting, pride, hate, etc. and all sin began. Thus we now live in the Fallen Matrix.

Even the human will is completely corrupt. Only those called by the Word of God through the Holy Spirit will begin to understand and be saved.

Scripture tells us that “Eve is the mother of all living”. The “Living Bible” reads the verse this way: “The man named his wife Eve (meaning “The Life-Giving One”), for he said, “She shall become the mother of all mankind” (Genesis 3:20). This idiomatic statement simply means that it is through her Adamic stock that the “Life Giver”, Jesus the Christ, would be born and gifted to this planet and that all those who believe in Him shall not die but have everlasting LIFE. (John 3:16)

All humans are now allowed to be “spiritually adopted” and “Born Again” into the “blood line” of the Second Adam – Jesus the Christ. Thus all born again (confirmed) Christians are connected to and part of the New Creation (Ephesians 2:19-22; 2^nd Corinthians 5:17). When we partake of the Eucharist (Holy Communion) we connect with the physical blood of Jesus Christ (1^st Corinthians 10:16).

St. Ignatius of Antioch, wrote:

“Bread of God is what I desire; that is, the Flesh of Jesus Christ, who was of the seed of David; and for my drink I desire His Blood, that is; incorruptible love.”

This shows that we are to discern the regal blood-line of Christ, He now becomes our King (King of kings and Lord of lords) of the New Covenant. Also, we are told to discern Christ’s “incorruptible love”. We take Holy Communion in remembrance of the life that Jesus Christ led for us. Jesus commands us: “Do this in remembrance of me.” (Luke 22:19)

Sin Ended this First Dispensation

Adam and Eve’s sin developed what we call the “fallen conscience” of mankind. All humans are born with an innate concept of right and wrong. Man has been given the basic idea of “good” and “evil” because that was the choice of Adam and Eve (the human representatives). They chose a relationship for knowledge over a relationship with God.

Adam and Eve represent the parents of the human race. This first dispensation of “Innocence” ended with “conscience” – humans aware of sin and their condemnation. God in His mercy tells Eve that through her offspring a redeemer will come and restore Paradise and destroy sin. Jesus Christ came and destroyed sin at the cross.

So though this first dispensation started out perfect it ended in sin which changed everything. As Christian children of God we have been given all the needed facts about life; who we are, where we came from and where we are going. Jesus Christ has restored proper relationship with God for us again if we simply trust and believe in Him. You can live forever in Paradise with family, friends, and God.

May you always keep your eyes on Jesus Christ.

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By Eric William King (May 27^th 2020)