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Chapter 5  Guiding Key or Rule 2 - there are new changes found in a new dispensation.

All 7 Keys or guiding principles are common to all dispensations. We see all 7 keys occurring along the life of a dispensation before the next dispensation is in full operation or ending. The beginning which leads to a change is a time where man fails, becoming and causing a great corruption of the dispensation. The specific failure and the events or event which caused the dispensation to come to an end will be addressed under the chapter on man's failures.

A dispensation is not controlled by time but the events within the dispensation that fulfills the 7 keys governing the administration in conjunction with God's longsuffering. A note: The eternal dispensation, the Dispensation of the Fullness of Times will never end because the structure within the dispensation will not fail, Ephesians 1:10, Revelation 22:1-7,14, Revelation 21, Romans 14:17.

In rule 2 which is one of the keys or guiding principles of a dispensation we see the event or events which changed. These changes may effect the living environment, the dietary rule, the governing rules, or the leadership, (stewardship) of the dispensation. Once the changes are revealed and implemented in/or for the new dispensation you do not see them change until the next dispensation. The changes can be progressive in revelation and implementation for a dispensation and sometimes they can be modified in some way in the next dispensation. These change are always given by God and because of the obvious of the revelation that key or guiding principle is seen, when coupled with the other 6 keys or principle of a dispensational change, we discover that a dispensation did or will changed.

When the change relate to an absolute truth or absolute moral truth then they do not change, (Example: Murder has always been an absolute truth and wrong but the full application of judgment or the way it was handled or applied we see progression - first a mark from God put on an individual, Genesis 4:15-16 - then a life for a life or capital punishment, Genesis 9:5-6  - then more detail in government written in the Mosaic law, Exodus 20:13 combined with the just judgment of a court of law in carrying out the judgment and the punishment by the government, Romans 13:4; however, murder has always been an absolute violation of the moral laws of God and His righteousness and holiness.). With some of these changes or the handling of the administration, the rules for implementation of the absolute will change without violating the absolute truth.

Also remember a dispensation is not a covenant but covenants are within dispensations. Covenants may find their fulfillment in a dispensation or may continue through other dispensations to fulfillment. A dispensational change does not nullify a covenant or inverses the covenant, neither does a fulfilled covenant nullify or reverses a dispensation either. A dispensation will end and another will start when all 7 keys accrue. All 7 keys or rules are required in bringing about the complete change from one dispensation to another but not a covenant, it is fulfilled by the promise being fulfilled.

Covenants have promises and a fulfillment attached to them. Covenants are given to an individual or a certain group of people where dispensations do not have promises. Dispensations have the information of operation or the governing rules with the responsibilities and obedience for mankind to follow. These are the rule for the new dispensation in which God has established for the economy (dispensation). Dispensations are applicable to the whole world and requires mankind to follow the administrational rules (dispensational rules) for them. The whole world is effected by a dispensation and each person or people group are responsible to find/seek their responsibility within the dispensation, (Just because God has revealed a certain stewardship of leadership for the dispensation as His primary leaders in the dispensation, it does not exclude others from being accountable but all mankind has the responsibility in the dispensation to seek God according to rules set forth in the economy. All mankind has some avenue to take which God had revealed in His word that will lead mankind to reconciliation with Him if they follow the Word God has given for knowing Him.). A dispensation would never end if mankind would not fail in the dispensation and since they do/did fail the redemptive work of God goes on until His longsuffering ends.

Dispensations come to an end primarily when believers fail to carry out their responsibility in making a difference in their world they live; becoming evil themselves and disobedient in their rebellion along with mankind, the steward becomes permeated with evil, injustices and unrighteousness along with the God rejecters. This failure is the major catalyst setting the stage for the change in a dispensation and a new dispensation to begin, (See chapters on the failure and on God's punitive judgments).

The flesh, the world, and Satan deceives the lost man with blindness, 2 Corinthians 4:3-5, Romans 8:4-8, 2 Peter 1:4, 1 John 2:17 and he convinces the saved to procrastinate and compromise a holy lifestyle forsaking their leadership responsibility, Ephesians 6:12, 1 Timothy 4:1-2, James 4:17. The failures are energized by Satan's leadership of deception over the leadership of God's holy eternal principles and God's rules that have been set since eternity past. A dispensation ends when God's longsuffering come to an end. God does not delight in his punitive-condemnation judgment but judges because it is just, right, and best for mankind for He has given each person who is condemned an opportunity to accept Him or reject Him, Acts 17:24-28, 2 Peter 3:9, Romans 2:4-6, John 3:16-21, 2 Peter 3:9.

Some of the changes found in the Dispensation of Innocence:
Because this is the first dispensation and everything came into existence as we know life, many of the following will carry forward to all dispensation. Many of the following are universal principle as well as new to a dispensation. Also, some will be laws that will be modified as they are carried out in future dispensations. (Example the earth was created good but with sin it became corrupted and it decays. Fellowship will change as to the way God would have fellowship with mankind but the universal truth that God wants us to have fellowship with Him will still remain.)

Some of the changes found in the Dispensation of Conscience are:

Some of the changes found in the Dispensation of Human Government are:

Some of the changes found in the Dispensation of Promise are:

Some of the changes found in the Dispensation of Grace are:

Some of the changes found in the Dispensation of Kingdom the 1000 year reign of Christ (Millennium):

Changes found in the Dispensation of the Fullness of Times - the Eternal Kingdom are:

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