The dispensational scheme.
He lists seven periods of time:
This is Scofield teaching, not the Bible's.
He lists seven periods of time:
- Innocence – creation to the Fall, Ge 2:16-17
- Conscience – from the Fall to the Flood.
- Human government – from the Flood to Abram
- Promise – Abram to the giving of the Law on Sinai.
- Law – Sinai to the Cross of Christ
- Grace – from the death of Christ to the judgments in Revelation
- Kingdom – the last of the ordered ages – the time Christ will restore the Davidic
This is Scofield teaching, not the Bible's.
INSTEAD, God dealt with his people by Seven Covenants (Always “Grace”):
- Edenic – a charge and a test, Ge 1:26-31.
- Adamic – the entry of sin required a hope and a discipline, Genesis.
- Noahic – a new start and promise of the SEED of a woman, Ge 6:3, 9:1-17.
- Abrahamic – a series of revelations to Abraham make up the Covenant, Ge 12:1-3; 13:14-17; 15:1-21; 17:1-27; 18:1-53; 21:1-13; 22:1-18.
- Mosaic – this Covenant was written and dedicated with blood, Ex 19:1-9; 20:1-22; 24:1-18; Dt 5:2-5.
- Davidic – 2Sa 7:10-17; ICh 17:9-15; major portions are found in Psalms 16; 22; 89:3-4; 34; 37; 110:1-4.
- The New Covenant in our Lord, Mt 26:26-28; Lk 22:20; Jn 12:47-50; 14:6; Heb 1:1-3; 2:1-4; 4:16; 5:9-10; 12:22-28; Ro 14:9; 10:9; Ac 2:33; Eph 4:8; ITi 2:5.