Understanding Dispensations and Ages

In this sobering and deeply scriptural message, we take a deep dive into the Word of God to examine what Scripture reveals about the present hour—particularly concerning the rise of false doctrines, distorted teachings, and spiritual deception. Throughout the Bible, God repeatedly warns His people that in the last days many voices would emerge, twisting truth, appealing to fleshly desires, and leading people away from sound doctrine.

This sermon carefully studies key biblical passages and themes that expose how false teachings operate and why discernment is critical for the Church in this generation. As culture shifts and compromise increases, believers must be firmly rooted in the truth of God’s Word and sensitive to the leading of the Holy Spirit.

This message is a call back to biblical integrity, spiritual vigilance, and unwavering devotion to the truth of God’s Word. In a time of growing confusion, the people of God must become deeply rooted, rightly discerning, and unshakably anchored in Christ.

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SPEAKER_02 0:05

Hello, and welcome to Living Truth, the teaching ministry of Joseph Castillo. We encourage you to listen to today's message over and over again so that the word of God will be in your spirit. Be a blessing. Share it with your friends. And we pray that you'll be transformed by the renewing of your mind. We also invite you to visit us online at www.animfaking.com.

SPEAKER_00 0:58

Amen. Matter of fact, Na had a wonderful testimony about what God's been doing since she started tithing. And uh, would you share that testimony with everybody here, Na? I thought it was so encouraging about the about how you started tithing and what God started doing.

unknown 1:18

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:22

So uh so this is one of the testimonies I have. I uh uh so I start tie tithing like 10% of what I make every month, and I I just trust the Lord and I just follow what he said. He said 10% of what we what we uh basically uh what we get and uh give him the first fruit, right? So I wasn't even thinking like I'm gonna get anything in return. I just do what what God says. And then I realized like once I start tithing and things just happen, like doors just open for me. Like I will have like I will have like people looking for renovation from me, people will give me like jobs like I I can do for them and I can like make a profit uh out of nowhere. They just like they just came to me, right? I wasn't even looking for. So I just shared this with uh with the pastor uh last time. I said, you know, it just it works. Like once you give the first fruit, right? God said, like, give the fresh fruit, divine year, and once you start like tithing, give 10% what you're making every month, and and dedicate that 10% to him, and he will give you, he will multiply you. So it really worked. So it just doors just automatically open for me. So I wasn't even looking for it. So and I just continue to trust the Lord, it's gonna, he's gonna multiply more and continue providing for me more.

SPEAKER_00 2:52

So yeah, yeah, I was so encouraged by her testimony. She's like, Pastor, it works, it really works. And and the beautiful thing that is that I'd never really taught on it here, never preached on it, never even spoke with anybody about it. But it's interesting that when you get closer to God, God begins to teach you himself, and he begins to speak to you himself, and so that's beautiful, and you're seeing God's uh power in your life. So that's just wonderful. Thank you for sharing that testimony, amen. Amen. Let's share a holy communion and then we'll get into today's message. Or we could we could we could move communion towards the end of service too. We we could do communion at towards the end of service. We close a communion, amen. Amen, amen. Let's bow our heads and pray as we prepare to hear God's word today. Heavenly Father, we come to you this beautiful Sunday morning, and we ask you to anoint me and these lips of clay to speak forth your word with excellency, with accuracy, and with boldness. Think through my mind, speak through my lips as an oracle of God, give us here the ears to hear, the eyes to see, and the hearts to understand. We bind every interceptor of light and distraction to the going forth of revelation knowledge in Christ Jesus, and we thank you, Father, that we are full of the advanced information and revelation of God in our inner man. It's made known to us plainly and clearly that which was wrought in Christ when you raised him from the dead, that his power towards us word who believes. And we thank you, Father God, for today's message that you speak to us all individually as an oracle in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Amen. I want to submit to you something today, and we're gonna probably look at Romans 3.23. I'll just read that for you real quick. You don't have to look at it. But Romans 3 23 says, for and all of you who took foundation classes should know this one. It says, For all have fallen short, all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. So let's say that together. See, all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Amen. For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Amen. That's one of our foundation class verses. Hallelujah. I want to submit to you that God is not reactive, that he didn't panic in the garden when Eve took the fruit and then Adam did it too. He he wasn't panicking, he didn't improvise at the cross. Now that's more of something that I would do, you know. Okay, well, what are we gonna do? Well, let's let's just, you know, like we were in Laos and I stepped into the bathtub and it cracked. It was a brand new five-star hotel, but it was all Chinese made, the hotel, you know. So it was a brand new five-star Chinese hotel, and I stepped into the bathtub and it was a cheap plastic, the bathtub, and they didn't they didn't have anything underneath the tub, it was just a space between that and the floor. So it wasn't supported by concrete. So I stepped in it and it cracked. Well, I just improvised and I grabbed the hotel toothpaste and I and I covered up the crack with the toothpaste so I wouldn't get a fee and get fined by the hotel, you know. So obviously, when the maid came in the next morning and she washed the tub, she the toothpaste washed away, you know. And I walked, I went to get the next day. I came into the hotel in the afternoon, and they're like, sir, do you know you broke the tub? And so I was like, Oh man, she caught it. You know, that was my improvisation, you know, improvisation. But thank God I said, You're cheap. I flipped it on them. I said, There's cheap bathtubs made in China, and they were like, you know what, you're right, sir. We did buy these from China, you're right, you know. So they didn't find me after all, but you know, amen. God's not reactive like that, he doesn't improvise, and the cross was not an impro improvisation, amen. He didn't look at the empty tomb when Christ rose and said, Well, that sure worked out beautifully, amen. Ephesians 1 4 says that he chose us before the foundation of the world. You who are saved and with the Lord is not an accident. You even being in this church is not an accident, amen. It says that before the foundation of the world, Christ was slayed. Revelation 13 8 says that the lamb was slain before the foundation of the world. So Ephesians says, You were chose before the foundation of the world, before he laid the foundation. I like to look at that scripture too, and Job. And then the lamb was slain before the foundation of the world. So before Genesis chapter 1 and verse 1, where we see the world being formed, there was already a blueprint. Amen. He had a plan. So I want to talk to you guys a little bit about what is a dispensation. And I know maybe two months ago I touched a little bit about dispensations and ages, and I talked briefly about the difference between a dispensation and an age. And the reason that kind of sparked this is a lot of the controversy going on in the world about the nation of Israel and about Zionism and about Christians' viewpoint on Israel and Zionism and even government leaders uh that have a so-called Christian view towards Zionism based upon their religion. And so, as a result, a lot of Catholics began to come on to uh media, television, and podcasts, and regular TV and news, and began to talk about where is this Zionism coming from in Congress and in Senate, and you know, Ted Cruz and so on here in Texas, and where is this Zionism coming from? And is it biblical? And is the the terminology used in the you know in the whole conflict in in Gaza and Iran is Israel's right to exist. That's what they keep saying, it's our right to exist. But when you begin to really look at that and pick it apart, it begins to see very clear that the term being used right to exist means more than just right to defend themselves, right? And so now we're seeing this being used, hey, our right to exist, so that we could do basically horrendous things and say, but we have the right to exist as a justification, right? So some of the Catholics have been kind of coming out criticizing uh BB's administration, the Likud Party, uh, the genocide in Gaza, and the pressure that Trump administration has been uh bulldozed into for the Iran conflict. And so the question is what does the Bible really say about Israel? And what does the Bible really teach on this term dispensationalism? So the Catholics have a little bit different view, and the Catholics say that God is done with Israel, and Israel has no biblical right to exist more than USA, more than Palestine, more than Ukraine, more than you know, uh every other nation you'd list. That we could argue to say every nation has a right to exist in the world, right? So this concept of Israel's special right to exist by God, it comes into question when you start to look at how people in government begin to look at things because you have to understand whether you're Christian or atheist, it doesn't matter. Because the price that you're paying in gasoline has to do with the Bible. Because the what Israel and Netanyahu and the Likhu party, what is happening in Gaza and in Iran, and what's happening there are based upon biblical scriptures and biblical prophecy that they read and believe. And so they're executing what they're executing is the greater Israeli plan. There's a name for what's it called? The greater uh the greater Israel plan, which is to capture the land, recapture the land that God promised Abraham. So in that, it's the taking of uh Lebanon, it's the taking of Syria, it's the taking of Iran. So they are, whether you you're an you could be a complete atheist, you could be a Buddhist and say, I don't believe the Bible at all, but you're paying gas prices based upon what political leaders believe the Bible told them they should do, right? So I wanted to really say, well, let's slow down and let's really look at what the Bible says. So now the Catholics say that God is totally done with Israel, and they say that Christians developed, the Protestants developed this dispensationalism. And this is not biblical, the Catholics say, and they say that God was through with Israel after they denied him, killed the Christ, crucified him, and after that, God was done with Israel, and the church has replaced Israel. That's what the Catholics teach. Okay. Now I began to go into scriptures about two months ago and begin to kind of really look at that in light of scripture and to show what the scripture really believes. And we'll talk, we'll go over that briefly today. Amen. But we find that dispensationalism, because this is now this is now the crux of the matter. Is God done with Israel or not? Is God himself behind in backing and then we have to all vote for and support the invasion of every country in the Middle East up until the land that God promised Abraham 3,000 years ago? So we you know this really does affect us in real life, right? So dispensationalism, the Catholics say, are a partisan idea, but it's really not a partisan idea. Dispensationalism is very, very clearly spoken about in the Bible. So this does not mean that everything that the Zionist right-wing Protestant church believes in regards to Israel is correct, because God does, He does have a plan for Israel, but we're going to show you where that plan fits in the dispensationalism, because dispensationalism or dispensations is something that God did create. It comes from the Greek word oikonomia, and this word oikonomia in the Greek means the household management arrangement. So, for example, in my uh oikonomia, the house is led by me for major decisions, and but the management of our house is little decisions my wife makes. What we're gonna eat, what kind of groceries we're gonna have, you know, uh who who how often we change the air filters, you know. So that's the way we manage our house. And then if me and Jade are gone, we're at work or whatever, and it's them two at the house, then Asher's managing the house. And he's telling Ethan, pick up your socks, put your bowl back in the sink, unload the dishwasher, right? So it's kind of an age-based in my house, amen. So that's that's how that's our oikonomia, how our dispensation, our government governing of our household operates in my house. So dispensation is not about salvation changing, but it's about how God governs each season. And there was a time that God governed the entire earth through his dealings with Israel, and we will look at that. So if we use the father and child illustration, a five-year-old and a 15-year-old have different rules, but the same father. Does that make sense? Matter of fact, even Asher and Ethan, 12, almost next week, he'll be 12, right? 15, they have different rules. There's sometimes I'll take Asher to see a movie and I'll make him stay home based upon his age and what I feel is appropriate for him to see. What he could handle, what could he what can affect him? Matter of fact, Ash has been able to play the bad guy in Batman and video games, but I've not allowed Ethan to play the bad guys on Batman. He's only allowed to play the good guys because I don't want him to have an emotional psychological connection with the bad guy and have the uh emotional attachment of doing evil, being the evil guy, right? I want him to grow up with a good sense of good until he's older. So I told him at 12, when you're at 12, you can be the joker. So he can't wait to play the joker at Batman. Amen. But same dad, just different rules based upon where they're at in their season of their life, right? So every dispensation has six parts. Do we have the do we have the six parts here on the slides? Every dispensation has six parts. There we go. Okay, we do have it. Number one, because I put my notes into chat and I say, make me a PowerPoint. So I don't know exactly what comes out. Amen. But here we go. Every dispensation has six parts. There's the steward, that's the one who's responsible. It has a revelation, what God has shown. Then it has a test. Will you walk in it? And then there's a failure, because people always fail. We talked about that last week. We always fail, we always mess up, we always sin, or you know, whatever. And then there's the judgment that comes for that failure. And then after that, there's the transition. God turns the next page. That's what a dispensation looks like, which is basically in a nutshell is Romans 3.23. For all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. That's a summary of every single dispensation. God has a way to do things, uh, he picks a steward, gives us a revelation. We try and walk in it, we fail, judgment comes, then the next chapter turns. So man keeps proving that he cannot save himself. And that's the whole point. That we, you know, we it's just crazy how so many can believe, well, I'm all right, I'm pretty good, I'm not that bad. And when you are really honest with yourself, and you're you're up at night alone thinking about all the things you've done wrong in your life, that's when you have that real moment, amen. Matter of fact, I just saw this week Tim Grover, he was Michael Jordan's coach. So he was speaking at this event I was at in Atlanta. He coached Michael Jordan, and then Michael Jordan gave him to Kobe Bryant. So he told Michael, how could I go the next level? He said, You need my coach. I'm gonna let my coach train you. So he trained Kobe and he also trained Dwayne Wade and some other celebrities. But this man, uh Tim Grover, Tim Grover is his name, he's a mental coach, mental toughness coach. And Tim Grover was saying, the reason why we always have to have on a podcast or a TV show or the radio or music, we always have to have something on, is because we're trying to drown out that voice inside. And so to silence that voice on the inside, which is that umpire that's accusing you, telling you should have done this, you shouldn't have done that, you should have that that voice of the conscience. To drown out that voice of the conscience, we are constantly bringing in content, consuming content, TV shows, podcasts, music. And he said we need to learn to sit alone and listen to that voice, that conscience, because God gave us that conscience, amen. So most people really think that the the Bible starts in Genesis, but it doesn't. John 1 1. Let's take a look at this. John 1 1. It says, In the beginning was the word. In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. This is eternal past before the earth began, before the world was formed, before the sun was formed, and the universe was formed. In the very beginning, there was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. Amen. Let's take a look at Job. This is the verse I wanted to show you earlier. Job 38. Job 38. And verse 7. If you have a Bible on your phone or app, you can take a look at it. Amen. God in perfect self-sufficiency in the beginning. In the beginning was the word. That's Jesus Christ. Amen. Father, Son, and Spirit in communion, perfect self-sufficiency. And this is what it says in Job 38. And I want you to note the language here, verse 7. He says, Well, matter of fact, you could you could go to verse 4, or verse verse 4 says this. We'll start at 4. He tells Job, God speaks to Job and says, Where was thou when I left? Laid the foundation of the earth. So before Genesis 1:1, he tells him, Where were you? Declare if you have understanding. Who laid the measures thereof? If you know, who has stretched the line upon the globe? Where upon are the foundations fastened? Or who laid the cornerstone thereof? This is Genesis 1:1. Where were you when this was happening? He says, When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy. This is the same sons of God you see in Genesis 6 that says the sons of God took daughters of humans and bred with them and had children who were the giants, the Nephilim. In Greek philosophy and in Assyrian philosophy, you hear about the giants and these god men, Zeus, and these world-renowned Godmen that lived on the earth in the earliest times from all cultures and religions that document these deities, these godmen. He said, Where were you when the sons of God, those are the same sons of God when they were bred between hybriding humans and women? I mean, women, humans and the sons of God. These are angelic beings, heavenly beings. So we see here, where were you when I laid the foundation and the morning stars sang together, and the sons of God shouted for joy. So we see that the heavenly host were here before Genesis 1.1. They were there saying, you know, write on, Jesus, you know, write on, Father. Wow, that's beautiful. That's a beautiful tree you just made, like watching an artist paint. You know, the angels were there cheering on, watching the creation of God. They were there in the beginning. So the so Genesis 1.1 is is really not the beginning. That's just the beginning of the earth being formed. But way before that, God was an eternal time. And the angels and the host and the sons of God were here. In Genesis 1.1, the earth was not formless and it was not void, but it was perfect. Take a look at that. And if you can't find Genesis in your Bible, you really need to meet Jesus Christ and be saved. Because that's the first book. Genesis 1:1 says, In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the angels rejoiced and they cheered and they praised God and they morning star saying together, the earth was not formless, and it was not void, it was perfect. God placed a guardian over the earth, and we see this in Ezekiel 28 14. Now my book talks about this in more detail, but I think we're out of books. I told them to look for books. I think we're out of books here, but we do have them in my house. Let's take a look in Ezekiel 28, 14. Ezekiel 28, 14. We see God speaking about the archangel Lucifer. And he says that thou art an anointed cherub that covereth, and I have set thee so. So God sent Lucifer over Genesis 1:1, Earth, the perfect, beautiful earth, where the morning stars sang together, where the angels shouted for joy, and he gave stewardship. Remember what I said a dispensation is? A dispensation has a steward, right? So he gave stewardship to Lucifer over the earth at this time. He was the anointed cherub who covered the earth in the holy mountain of God. Amen. Some uh religious text called him Hailel, which is known to us as Lucifer. So Lucifer's rulership and his fall were a picture of a dispensation. He was given rule, he was given direction, he was given order, and he fell and he messed it up. And then there was the judgment of God. So we see this repeating through every dispensation. Lucifer was the most beautiful angel and all of heaven. He was the most gifted creature that God had ever made. The Bible gives us great detail about his the way he looked and his talents and his gift. That's why my pastor used to always tell, my spiritual grandfather used to always tell my spiritual father, always marry somebody that has something wrong with them. Don't marry somebody that's too beautiful, too handsome, you know, because when they look that good, it's like the crazy hot matrix. I don't know if you guys ever seen the crazy hot matrix. There's a guy on YouTube, I don't know who he is, but he has this like matrix. And the matrix basically says, all right, you got okay, beautiful, hot, right? And then you got like normal, cool, and then a little bit wild and crazy. And he said, You notice the high, the the the hotter they get, the crazier they become. Amen. He calls it the crazy hot matrix. So he said, you want to kind of marry right in the middle where they're not too good looking, but you could, they're okay enough, but they're they're cool, you can get along with them. Now he said, if you're cool and you're hot, you're a trans. But, anyways, amen. He was so beautiful and so gifted and so perfect, he was lifted up with pride. Could you imagine how many beautiful people are so broken and can't keep a marriage and have such a hard time having a healthy relationship because they're they're complimented and complimented and complimented and treated a certain way their entire life, and it begins to create problems. And this was Lucifer, he was so beautiful and so gifted, amen. And he was the most gifted creature that God had ever made and most beautiful. The Bible says, all these jewels were in him from the day that he was created, amen. So then we find the five most dangerous words in the angelic vocabulary, and this same wording was passed down to the great leader of modern-day Satanism and occultism, Alistair Crowley. And is it the do what thou wilt, I will. That is the satanic creed. The gospel creed is not my will, but yours be done. Your will be done. Amen. That should be the the heartbeat of every Christian's life, is not my will, but your be done. That's that's what I pray for the church. Where are we meaning? Where are we gonna go? I have some ideas, I have some thoughts, but it's always in the day. But God, what your will is, what you want it to be, amen. But Lucifer's was I will, I will, I will, and I will. We see that in Isaiah chapter 14, verse 13 through 14. Do we have that on the screen? No, no, okay, you don't have to just just stay on that slide. There's fine. Let's take a look in your Bibles at Isaiah 14, verses 13 through 14. Amen. Isaiah 13, 14. 13. Well, let's start at verse 12 so you guys have context. Isaiah 14, 12. When you're there, say amen. It says, How art thou fallen? So we're still on Lucifer's rulership. Okay, and then from Lucifer's rulership, we move into the chaotic age. But here's where the chaos began. How art thou fallen from heaven? Oh Lucifer, son of the what? The morning. Remember Ezekiel? He God told Job, Where were you when I laid the foundation when the who sang together? When the sons of the morning sang together. So we're seeing God call Lucifer one of those sons of the morning. Sons of the morning, I know it sounds poetic to you, but what that actually means is the the creatures, the creation of the earliest time in eternity past. The earliest beings to be in creation. That's what it means. The morning, the dawn of creation. Okay, so he says, Lucifer, one of the first original beings, son of the morning. How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations? For thy said in thine heart, now notice he says this which did weaken the nations. So, what nations were here during the time before Adam and Eve? The time before Genesis 1, 2. What nations were here on the earth? Well, we know there were all kinds of dinosaurs. We know there was some type of um there were besides dinosaurs, there were other creatures, and there were also these very barbaric human-type people that would just hit their wife over the head with a club and hit hit their girlfriend over the head with the club and drag her into his cave to be his wife, right? The cavemen at that time. So there were all these communities on earth and dinosaurs and all kinds of species before the Adam and Eve Homo sapien. And he says, Lucifer, how art thou falls to the ground, which did weaken those nations? Because he was the leader of those nations, the leader of this planet, he was the cherub who was covering the pre-adamic world. Amen. He says, For thou said in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven. Well, if Lucifer was an angel in heaven, why would he ascend into heaven? This locates his rulership. He said, I will ascend into heaven because his place of rulership was the earth realm. Does that make sense? I will ascend into heaven. Then he said, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. So he was not in the great outer space and beyond in the heavens, he was in this stratosphere. Amen. He said, I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north. This is a location in heaven. He said, I will sit above, say above the heights of the clouds. So his rulership was under the level of the clouds, meaning he ruled planet earth in the dispensation of Lucifer. Amen. And then he says, I will be like the most high. This is the plague that plagues mankind today. Men like Hitler and men in that fashion that say, I am God, and they want to be a God and be like God. Amen. That's what caused Adam and Eve to fall. He said, If you eat these fruits, you'll be like God. People wanting to be like God, so they can do what they want to do. I will. And this is the very root of the nature of Satan. Amen. We're a servant of God says, not my will. I'm here to serve you, God. What have you made me to do? What's my purpose in life? Amen. You know, a lot of people die successful and depressed. How could you be successful and depressed? May I submit to you it's possibly because you were successful doing something you were not called to do? Amen. When you do what you're called to do, there's happiness, there's joy, there's fulfillment because you fulfilled what you're supposed to do. Amen. You could be a successful at killing people, you could be successful at running a black market thing. You could be a successful drug lord. Doesn't mean it's God's will for you, and it doesn't mean you'll have peace. I remember we were evangelizing on the west side of Chicago in the ghetto, and we ran across this top leader gangster. He was a vice lord, I believe, in the west side of Chicago. And he had all this money and fancy cars, security guards all around him. And this sister on our team, she was preaching to him. He said, I don't need your God, I don't need religion. He said, I got everything I need. That car is mine, these guys are my security. I he said, I got everything I need. She said, But you don't have peace. And it struck him, and he began to water. His eyes began to water. He said, You know what? He said, That's my security guards. They have guns on them. Every night I sleep in a different hotel. I have to change my car every week to keep the feds off me. He said, You're right. I don't have peace. He was successful, but he was miserable. Amen. You have a lot of wealthy elites. They're demonized, discontent, they're agitated and aggregated. Amen. Because they have success, but they don't have peace. Amen. So peace comes from fulfilling your calling. Not I will, I will, I will. But what does God want me to do? Amen. So Lucifer, the most beautiful and the most gifted creature, rebelled against God and made these several declarations. So what happened? He was thrown down. Look at what happened in verse 4 after he did this rebellion. He says, I'll be like the most high God, but in God has the last laugh. He says this 15. Yet you shall be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit, and they that shall narrowly look upon thee shall consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble and that did shake kingdoms? God said, You'll be brought down to hell, and you'll be a the laughing stock. People will be will be bewildered. Is this the man that that did these great things? As he's like Saddam Hussein. Oh no, it was Gaddafi, the great leader that was found in a hole, and being sodomized with a bayonet, something like that. That's what that was will be Lucifer's end. It'll be like that, amen. Then when that judgment came, it was in Genesis 1, verse 2. It says in the heat Greek, in the Hebrew, Tahu Wabahu, which means desolate, ruined, and chaotic. That's what it says in verse 2. It says take a look at it in Genesis 1, 2. So you can see the English wording. Genesis 1, 2. I don't have it fully written on there, but it says here. Now the earth, after this, Lucifer's rulership became into this next age, the chaotic age. And it says the earth was without form and void. Is without form and void. Tahu wabahu, desolate, ruined, and chaotic. Now this word was is the key word in verse 2. If you look in your Bible, it says, and the earth was. This word in the Hebrew is heia, which means it became. Amen. It became formless. This judgment language, not creation language. Amen. This was judgment language. Jeremiah 423, Jeremiah the prophet said, I looked at the earth and it was without form and it was void and there was no light. Science calls this the ice age. You're a scientist, Ruthie. What would happen if the sun was completely blocked from its heat coming upon the planet? What would happen to this planet? And how hot would it be in Houston? It would be frozen tundra, the ice age. The ice age was formed, was commenced as the chaotic age of Lucifer's rebellion. And this is why they have found animals frozen in the ice that actually have uh fish in their mouth. They were frozen in an instant of judgment that came upon this planet. Amen. And Jeremiah said, I looked and I saw it was no light, it was without form, it was void. So we see in Genesis 3, 4, and 5, God beginning to restore us after this chaotic age. Next slide. So we begin to move into the next several ages. We have the Edenic age. This is the age of the human beings. Say age of the humans, the Edenic age, six days of restoration, the garden, man, woman, perfect communion, one command, one test. Man, just one thing man could not get right was just don't eat that fruit. But you know that's our nature because that's been passed down from Adam. If you take a child and you put a child in the room, they I've seen many scientific videos where they'll bring a bunch of children into a room and they'll have cameras and microphones in the room, and they'll put they'll put a chocolate bar in the room and they'll say, Don't touch this chocolate. If you don't touch this chocolate after this this time, you're gonna get as much chocolate as you want. But if you touch this chocolate, you won't get any more chocolate today. And so they leave the room. That the instructor, have you guys seen this? This is I've I've I've watched this live on a video. Maybe in one of my classes I saw this when I was studying. The instructor leaves the room, and the kids would all start walking around the chocolate, you know. They start peeking at the chocolate, you know, and it's the one thing that you're told not to do. That's what the human nature wants to do. Well, who passed that on to us? Adam and Eve passed that. There was only one command don't touch that fruit. And they probably walked around that tree every day. You know, what if I smell it? What if I could just smell, you know, what if I could just smell it? Yeah, people do that with fornication. Tell them, don't fornicate. I say, Well, what if we just pet? What if we just, you know, what if we just drive? What if we just you know, amen. And just want to walk around that one thing and just get as close to it as you can, hallelujah. Until you slip right in that river, hallelujah. Amen. So, one command. Amen. Then we move into the antediluvian age. That's from Adam to Noah. That was 1,656 years. This time was governed by conscience only. They had no scripture, they had no Bible, they had no verses. It was just governed by conscience only. And it says in Genesis that every thought that they had was evil continually. It's like the Sigmund Freud painting. You guys see the Sigmund Freud painting of the man with the brain, what he's thinking about all day long? This is, they discovered this in Genesis 6. There's nothing new under the sun. That the thought all day long was evil continuously. Then the Nephilim were born from the sons of God, these sons of creation, sons of heaven that came down and corrupted the bloodline. Jude says in chapter 1, there's only one chapter, but verse 6, he says, the angels who left their proper domain. So God sent the flood. This antideluvian flood. That was another dispensation. Then the Noak dispensation, this new arrangement. Human government was established. Capital punishment was established in Genesis 9.6. Accountability was built into civilization in Genesis chapter 9. The rainbow covenant was given in Genesis chapter 9, 13 that God would not flood the earth again. It was a fresh start on the earth, and they began to build the Tower of Babel. Same pride, but a different generation. We see in every one of these cycles there was a test, there was a stewardship, there was a test, and there was a failure, and there was a judgment, and then there was a reset. Amen. Same pride, different generation. The Bible says that they were building a tower so that they could reach to the heavens. And we were taught in Sunday school, at least I was, that they were building the Sears Tower. They are building the one plaza in New York, Manhattan. They're trying to build this tall building. That's not what it meant. Obviously, you cannot build any building that's gonna go, you know, once you get a certain amount of feet up, it's not gonna survive, right? They were trying, they were building a temple. What's a temple for? Temples for worship. They were building a temple where they could reach the nether world, they can reach unseen entities, demons, deities, demonic powers, which is the same thing that our great scientists are doing today. They're trying to reach other dimensions, aliens, interbreeding, cloning, the same thing our generation is doing that Noah's generation was doing. And what did Jesus say? He said, as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the end times. What was the thing that they were doing in Genesis 11 that they're doing now? They are doing the same type of genetic gene editing, demonic worship, children's sacrifice, getting in contact with entities from other dimensions. The globalists in the West are obsessed about this point. Our government leaders, our tech oligarchs, they're obsessed about this point. Matter of fact, the great uh CERN in Switzerland, during one of their ceremonies, they put up a huge statue of this demon god. In CERN, they're trying to they're trying to get they're trying to create through some type of technology, trying to open up a portal to another dimension, scientifically. And they bring this big demon god statue. You could look it up, you could just cook Google it. CERN ceremony, satanic ceremony. You can just look at all the pictures, and they all came out in robes at night with torches, and they reenacted a whole satanic ceremony. Why? It's Genesis 11. They're building technology to enter the heavens, to enter into another realm. For the last 15 years, our tech oligarchs and many government leaders have been taking ayahuasca, DMT, to get into alternative states of mental reality to communicate with entities. The same thing from Genesis chapter 11. Isn't that interesting? Amen. That's how we know it is the end time. After this noadic period began the dispensation of the patriarchal. That's Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, the patriarchs of the faith. Amen. God narrows his focus, and this is where we see Israel begin to come into shape here. He narrows the focus out of Babel, all the nations were scattered, and then he picks one, Abraham, and says, I'll make you a great nation, I'll bless you, and in you all families of the earth shall be blessed. This was a prophecy that Jesus Christ would come through his seed and die for the sins of the world. Amen. But the Jews who don't believe in Jesus, they take this as that the whole world has to feed from their hand, and that we are going to rule the world, and all of mankind will have to lap from our hand because all the world's going to be controlled through us. That's how they see this verse. We see this verse that knowing that Jesus Christ would come through his lineage and he would die and bring salvation. So we see it as a salvation. They see it as a political power promise. Does that make sense? That's why they kept telling Jesus, fight, come on, fight, pick up your swords, fight, overthrow Caesar, overthrow Rome. And he kept saying, No, that's not my that's not my intention. They're like, what do you mean? Well, how about this? When are you gonna restore the kingdom? When are you gonna overthrow the kingdom? When are you gonna overthrow Rome? They want him to overthrow Rome. Amen. Because they didn't understand Messiah was about salvation, not about government domination. They still want Israel to rule the world. But God was telling Abraham, I'm gonna save the world through your seed, which was Jesus Christ. Amen. Hallelujah. This was when God chose the Jews, the patriarchal dispensation. Then you move into the Mosaic dispensation. This is the longest dispensation where the law came. Sinai, the tabernacle, the kingdom of Israel, the exile, the silence, and then the incarnation. Galatians 4 4 says, When the fullness of time came, let's look at that verse. Galatians 4 4. Say dispensation. Everything is about God's clock. And it says right here in Genesis 4, Galatians 4 4, but when the fullness of time was come, God sent forth his son. If you begin to look at where the world was at the time that Jesus came, the roads that Rome had built and all the infrastructure that was on planet earth for the gospel to spread around the world, it was not ready until the generation that Christ was born. He was born in the fullness of time, at the perfect fulfillment of the mosaic dispensation. Amen. And when Christ began the church age, move to the next slide. The church age. With Christ's resurrection, began the age that we are living in now, the greatest age known to mankind. Hallelujah. Amen. On the day of Pentecost, everything changed. God poured out his spirit upon all flesh, not just certain priests and not just certain prophets, but every person who would believe on the Lord Jesus Christ would be filled with his spirit. They would become the temple of God themselves. Amen. They would become a priest to God, meaning that they represent the unsaved to God, and to the unsaved, the unregenerate, to the people who don't know Jesus, they would represent God to them. Amen. The veil would be torn, the split men from God's presence in the temple, and the burial be removed. And all men, just like God told Abraham, will were blessed through his seed. 3,000 souls were saved that morning. The dividing wall was destroyed between Jew and Gentile at that time. So the Catholics are partially right. At that time, Jews existing as a special state that God was going to back and protect, and they were his only people that was prior to this. But after this, the Bible says now there is no difference between Jew and Gentile. Between Jew and Greek, there's no difference. God blessing is to every single one equally. Amen. We are chosen. Hallelujah. Amen. I'm one of the chosen. You are one of the chosen. Amen. How do we know? Because he chose us before the foundation of the world. Amen. The gifts don't expire. This is where we differ from some of the people who teach on dispensationalism. A lot of people who teach on dispensationalism and explain this. Most of the Protestant church, they say that, well, when this happened, they say the gifts expired. There's no more speaking in tongues, there's no more prophecy. There's no more miracles of healing. There's no more uh, you know, uh of all of these miraculous gifts, that all those gifts they say died when the last apostle died. That's what this that's what classic dispensationalism taught. And this is what the Baptists have picked up and and really have have ran with. Amen. But say it clearly. The church age ends at the rapture. Amen? It doesn't, it gifts don't stop. They've never stopped. And any good Catholic and Orthodox believes in miracles. Every Catholic and Orthodox, they're always like, my picture of Mary's crying. You know, the the Catholics, the Catholics and the Orthodox, and the Assyrians and the Greeks, the Greek Orthodox and the Coptics and the Ethiopians, they all believe in miracles. They believe in prophets and prophecies and healings. It's just this segment of Protestants that embraced this a type of dispensationalism that said the gifts don't work anymore. Well, it's quite funny because I was in a Catholic church in Montreal, Quebec, built by Saint a man named Saint Joseph in the early 1900s. That it's on the top of Mount Royal in Montreal, and it's a beautiful, huge dome. And the dome is littered with wheelchairs and crutches and eyeglasses and casts and all kinds of medical equipment of people that came from around the world to be prayed for and healed by Saint Joseph of Saint Joseph Basilica in Montreal, Quebec. This Catholic priest brought in millions of dollars and built in a multi-million dollar, beautiful, one of the most beautiful churches I've ever seen in my life. And I've been to, you know, France and all these places. Amen. And then they took us to where he lived. He lived in a small wood shack on a on a bench, just like that. He slept on a wood bench, and he had nothing but a wood table and a candle, which he would stay up all night reading the scriptures with the candle. And that man produced the miracle power of God. The gifts did not cease. It's the Christians ceased to believe in them. Amen. Then we have the end time ages. That's what I've been preaching about the last several weeks is the end time ages. All of this I went over with you guys, and you could re go over it again on our YouTube channel. Amen. But we have the seven years of tribulation, which can begin at any time. We're just waiting for that seven-year peace treaty that maybe the Trump administration, maybe the next, will make between Israel and their neighbors. The Bible says very specifically, it will be between Israel and his neighbors. So let me just say this about Israel. Is God done with Israel at the church age? During the church age, which is the age we're in now, God dealing with Israel is on pause. It's not canceled, it's on pause. Because once the rapture begins, all of these things are going to begin to center around Israel again. And the final last world war will take place over Israel. And we see that even though the Bible prophesied this 4,000 years ago, the whole world is in chaos right now over that little country that is smaller, that has an economy smaller than some of the local states here in America, that has a land smaller than was it New Hampshire or something like that, or Maine? It's a land so small, smaller than some of our smallest states, and the whole world is at possible famine, starvation, global World War III over this little strip of land, just as God said. Some people don't believe in God, they don't believe in Jesus, they don't believe in all these things. How could you not? You have to put your head in a spiritual sand to not believe in God. Because this Bible prophesied statistically and accurately exactly what is happening. The global government, the technologies, the type of warfare that people's skin would be melt off, that there'll be weapons used that their skin would just melt off them in an instant, and they would be bones. That type of weaponry did not exist at that time. The Bible very specifically said these things would come. Amen. After they were not a nation for thousands of years, he said they would be brought back in the end, and they would come back from all around the world, the Bible says, on the wings of eagles. Why do they say wings of eagles? Because they never saw a plane at that time. They just saw these huge birds bringing Jews back to Israel from around the world. Prophecy specifically, and there's no religion that has that. I studied Islam and all these world religions. They don't have prophecies that we have, so specific. And like I showed you that three and a half, a couple weeks ago, how Daniel prophesied when Christ would be born, it was exactly to the year that he was born, from the time that they were carried away to Babylon and begin to rebuild the wall to the time that he came was exactly 69 weeks. Four was it 482 years, exactly. There's no religion in the world that has any type of prophecy like that. That is our proof that God is real, the Bible is real, what Jesus said is real. Amen. Because we are priests, we not only represent people to God, but we represent God to the people. Amen. And we have to be mindful of that. So sometimes when we want to cuss someone out, we say, No, I'm God's representative to them. Let me pray with them instead, you know. Let me let me share Christ with them. Let me invite them, smile, and invite them to church instead. Amen. Let's stand to our feet here. Amen. We'll get a little bit more into these end time events next week. But I wanted to get back and address the this dispensations and ages with you guys, amen. Walk you through it, amen. Father, we come to you now and thank you that we have been chosen to not only be in Christ, but to be born in this generation in this age. I pray that you would help us to taper off, silence some of the music and the TV and the podcast, and spend more time meditating in the quiet, in regards to our relationship with you, in regards to your will for our lives, so that we can make the right decisions and live life to the fullest, living your will, not our will, as our Lord, an example. The Lord Jesus Christ prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, knowing that it was his path to die on that cross, and chose that path rather than the kingdoms of the world, rather than all the fame and the glory that he was getting as a miracle worker and leader in Israel, and potential leadership in an uprising to overthrow Rome. All of that laid before him, the promise of Satan. He said, No, I'll take the cross, I'll take the hard path, I'll take the suffering, because there's purpose in the suffering that will bless all humanity, and in that same spirit we say, God, your will, not our will be done. As hard as that is, and we come to the table of the Lord, where he bled and he was broken voluntarily, so do we offer ourselves up to you voluntarily to live for you, as Christ, our great example, had.