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Eat,
French money
FRANCE
standard is the Franc.
Drink,
French rule of the
Sleep.
road is: "Keep to the
right".
It is most obvious that the similarities noted on the left-hand side cannot neutralise the most evident differences
that are recorded on the right-hand side. Let us set out the case for dispensational truth in exactly the same way,
using the two countries to represent two dispensations, and using the English Channel for the dispensational
boundary, noting on the left-hand some things that are similar in both dispensations, and on the right some things
that are different.
Things that are the
Things
same
that
differ
The Word of God.
The people of Israel a
present factor.
The
Redemption by the
Dispensation covered The presence of
blood of Christ.
by the ACTS
miraculous gifts.
God the Father.
The hope of Israel.
Acts 28
The
Dispensation
of the
The Word of God.
The people of Israel
Mystery EPHESIANS absent.
Redemption by the
blood of Christ.
The absence of
miraculous gifts.
God the Father.
The hope of glory.
The reader will not need a lengthy discussion to prove the truth set out on the left-hand side of the diagram. We
will therefore turn our attention to the opposite side. How far are these items substantiated by the Word of God?
The diagram assumes that at the end of the Acts there came a definite dispensational change, as definite as is the
change from a Monarchy to a Republic. The diagram suggests that the presence of Israel during the Acts and the
absence of Israel since the end of the Acts are most important features. Let us search and see:
Israel a factor until Acts 28
"I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (Matt. 15:24).
"Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision for the truth of God, to confirm the promises made unto the
fathers" (Rom. 15:8).
"If thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good
olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?"
(Rom. 11:24).