The Legal Dispensation
(The Fifth
Dispensation)
By Eric William King
A basic
outline of the Fifth Dispensation
looks something like this;
Legal Responsibility: Exodus
19:3-8
Legal Failure: 2 Kings 17:7-20; Matthew 27:1-25
Legal Judgment: Deuteronomy 28:63-66; Luke 21:20-24
*Using Biblical chronology this
dispensation lasted 1491 plus years.
The Legal Dispensation starts with God’s people leaving Egypt
[the Exodus] all the way
until the birth of the Messiah, Jesus Christ. The last verses of the book of Genesis end with
the Israelites enjoying their lives in Egypt. The book of Exodus starts out
after many years of Israel being in Egypt and by this time things had changed
for the worse.
*This dispensation involves the
longest “conditional covenant” for Israel.
The Patriarchal dispensation
(the 4th) ends with a bad king of Egypt who starts to deny the blessings
to the descendants of Joseph’s family (Israel). God will now introduce the Fifth Dispensation by calling Moses. Moses will become the key “messianic” figure of the Torah.
When Israel
first entered Egypt its “kings” were the friendly Hyksos
or “Shepherds Kings” who were
actually rulers from Semitic origin. By
the time we get to Moses the Egyptian Pharaoh wanted to stop the population of
the Israelite people from growing. He feared their moral and physical
strength. We read from Scripture;
“Then, eventually, a new king came to the throne of Egypt
who felt no obligation to the descendants of Joseph. He told his people, “The
Israelis are becoming dangerous to us because there are so many of them. Let’s
figure out a way to put an end to this. If we don’t, and war breaks out, they
will join our enemies and fight against us and escape out the country.” (Exodus
1:8-10)
Today we see
the pagan liberal leaders
making the same claim against true Christians. Under the coming Antichrist they will kill all who profess
Jesus Christ. The demonic spirits that posses the Christian Haters (mostly
the Kenites) are here and
spreading their hatred already.
God Protects Moses
To kill off
the Israelites the evil Pharaoh informed his soldiers to kill all male
Israelite children (Exodus 1:15-17). This is similar to Herod
killing all male babies to try and stop the birth of Jesus Christ (Matthew 2:16).
There are 27 strong parallels between the life of Moses and Jesus Christ. The
life of Jesus follows many of the same problems and issues as that of Moses’
life.
The writings
of Moses [the Torah] even predicted the coming of Jesus
Christ, speaking of one who would come like Moses, being a Great Prophet (Deuteronomy 18:15).
So while the
evil Pharaoh was killing the children Moses was placed in a basket and put into
the Nile River in the hopes that he would be found and taken care of (Exodus 2:2-4).
Moses was found - just an unknown baby in a basket floating down the Nile and
he was brought by women to the Pharaohs daughter and became her son (Exodus 2:10).
As Moses grew
he became highly educated in the Osirian
mysteries
of Egypt. He was also trained by the Keri Hebs
(Egyptian mystery priests – Acts 7:22). In other words he was highly educated in
ancient Egyptian Wisdom. Today some
of this ancient pagan Egyptian wisdom is still found being taught in the Rosicrucian Order, a modern Mystery School which
has connections to the ancient Osirian occult
wisdom.
As Moses grew
older he began to notice how the Egyptian rulers and Egyptian people hated his
people. Many modern occult followers and
mystery school students hate Christians today just the same. Eventually
Moses refused to be called “the son of Pharaoh”.
One day Moses struck and killed an Egyptian who was abusing a fellow Hebrew. He
thus fled to Median which is just east
of the Red Sea. Moses stayed
there 40 years until the Lord called him at age 80.
God Calls Moses
God appears
in Median and calls Moses into action. He promises Moses that He will be with
him (Exodus 3:10). Moses is called to be a deliverer
and a redeemer thus Moses becomes the
first strongest messianic figure of
the Old Testament. The life of
Moses is full of types and portraits of Jesus Christ. Moses goes
back to Egypt and through many conversations with the Pharaoh - and his
magicians - tries to convince Pharaoh to “let
God’s people go.”
Pharaohs
heart becomes hardened so God through Moses sends “ten plagues” upon the
Pharaoh and his people. These were terrible plagues. You can read about these
in Exodus
7:14 through ch.11. These plagues were literal just as the coming
judgments of the New Testament book of Revelation will be literal.
God protects
the Israelites from the last of these plagues which inaugurates the Feast of Passover (Read about this in Exodus chs11
through 14). Under the New Testament this feast ‘dissolves’ (is
completely fulfilled) into the practice of the “Lord’s
Supper” or the “Eucharist”.
Eventually
Pharaoh lets Moses and his people go so they leave. After leaving Pharaoh
changes his mind and takes hundreds of his troops to chase down Moses but God
swallows up Pharaoh and his Egyptian army in the Red
Sea (Read this whole event in Exodus chs.14&15)
The Giving of the Law
Through many
trials too long here to list Moses and the rest of God’s people arrive at Mt. Sinai (Exodus ch.19). God will now
give the Holy Ten Commandants to
Moses and it is this act of God giving the Law that officially starts the Fifth Dispensation, the Dispensation of Law. So the ancient people of Abraham now
get into a relationship with “law”
but still will not fully learn true relationship with God.
Three laws
will now govern the people of God. The “moral
law”, the “ceremonial law” and
finally the “civil law”. Israel was
not to be “saved” or “made perfect” by keeping these laws. It was
to show how they were to live. For
the first time specific laws were given to govern the conscience of God’s
people, before the law was given they had only their fallen instinct to guide
them.
Note: Abraham also obeyed
“laws”, “commandments” and “statutes” given personally to him, such as offering
his only son, but these instructions were not the Law of Moses which was given
way after Abraham (Genesis 26:5).
This “Mosaic
Law” given by God was a Conditional
Covenant, and not one of the four Eternal Covenants (aka Unconditional Covenants).
The earlier covenant given to Abraham
was given with no conditions and is the first of the four Eternal Covenants.
The law given to Moses does not change the Abrahamic covenant in any way. The
Law of Moses was given based on conditions. If the people disobeyed the Law
they were to go into captivity…which they
did.
Even though
the entire Law given to Moses was conditional a Second Eternal Covenant (a covenant without conditions) was
given to Moses during this Legal Dispensation and is called the Palestinian Covenant (which means that it too will come to
pass no matter what). The Palestinian
Covenant is found mentioned in Deuteronomy 30:1-10. This covenant is prophetic in that it explains what will
happen to Israel. It says that eventually they would be restored to their land
and provides an expansion of the original
land granted in the Abrahamic Covenant (Genesis 12:1-3).
A Third Eternal Covenant is given
under this fifth dispensation and is called the Davidic
Covenant. This covenant is the foundation on which the coming Millennial Kingdom is to be founded. It promises that King
David’s line will be protected, that a future King (Jesus Christ) will come,
and a Kingdom Rule on Earth.
The life of David is a whole other story. We could say that the Bible
goes from fragmented stories to recorded
history at this point in the Old Testament. All of these fabulous stories
occur under the Legal Dispensation. We have prophets,
priests and kings all appearing during this dispensation along with a “parenthetical-dispensation” of Judges right before God lets Israel have a king.
Finally under
the time of the post-exilic
prophets we have mention of the final and Fourth Eternal Covenant, the New Covenant.
This covenant is somewhat explained in Jeremiah 31:31-37 and portions of the promises
are mentioned throughout the whole of prophetic Scripture. The preceding
three eternal covenants fully “blossom”
under the complete fulfillment of this New Covenant. Jesus Christ instituted
the beginning of the New Covenant at His death on the cross and gave His blood
stating that this was the “blood of the New
Covenant” (Matthew 26:28).
This New
Covenant provides the forgiveness of sins so that a person can even enter into
the Kingdom of God. The Atonement is key in this covenant. Though the
Church is still in this “fallen world”
its members are “sealed”
under the New Covenant…and already considered “Kingdom
Members”. The Christian Church
is already in the New Covenant.
The fullness
of the New Covenant is yet to come when the true remnant of literal Israel
enters it by accepting the true Messiah at the end of the Great
Tribulation. These will comprise the “tribulation saints” (Zechariah 12:10).
The Legal Dispensation
Ends
The Law given to Moses was to be temporary until the
coming of Jesus Christ.
Israel’s failure to keep the Law, though numerous chances were given, is what
ultimately ended this dispensation. Ultimately the destruction of the Temple in
70 AD is what finished the Law of Moses. All of this proved that mankind can
never be saved by a “rule list”. Man
is sinful and is born into sin thus only God Himself can save us
and He did this through and in the person of Jesus Christ.
Apostle Paul
states that the Mosaic Law was our “school master” pointing us to Jesus Christ
(Galatians
3:24).
God proved
through this 5th dispensation the realization of the seriousness of
sin. Today all the so called “self-help”
groups still comprise rule lists that
they think will remove all the sin from their lives…they continue to fail. Only
the person of Jesus Christ can truly save.
The 5th
dispensation is full of wonderful stories of God’s miraculous intervention and
supernatural direct acts. Even when
the “promised seed” (Jesus Christ)
came to end this dispensation and usher in the New Covenant mankind rejected
Him showing just how spiritually blind
and ungrateful fallen humanity is. Even today the majority just don’t get it.
So we will
next look at our current Dispensation of Time…the one you and I are actually
living in which is the 6th, the Church Dispensation - also called “The Ecclesiastical
Dispensation”. You are finally beginning to understand just where YOU stand today in regards to God’s prophetic time.
Stay with us
as we next meet our Savior….Jesus the Christ!
Hoping you
find the rest I’ve found in the person of Jesus Christ,
Eric William
King (June 20th 2020)
Watch Talk about the Covenants
Eric states that the Mosaic or 5th dispensation is the longest dispensation in the
sense that the modern Jews believe that they are still under this covenant.
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