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 STUDY XII.

EXPLANATION OF CHART REPRESENTING THE PLAN OF THE AGES.

THE AGES. THE HARVESTS. PLANES OF ACTUAL AND RECKONED STANDING. THE COURSE OF OUR LORD JESUS. THB COURSE OF His FOLLOWERS THREE CLASSES IN THE NOMINAL CHURCH. SEPARATION IN THE HARVEST. THE ANOINTED CLASS GLORIFIED. THE GREAT TRIBULATION CLASS. THE TARES BURNED. THB WORLD BLESSED. THE OUTCOME GLORIOUS.

A S the frontispiece of this volume we give a chart repre- it we have sought to aid the mind, through the eve, in understanding something of the progressive character of God's plan, and the progressive steps which must be taken by all who ever attain the complete " change " from the human to the divine nature.
 * "*- senting the plan of God for the world's salvation. By

First, we have an outline of the three great dispensa- tions, A 9 B 9 C the first of these, A, lasting from man's crea- tion to the flood; the second, B, from the flood to the com- mencement of the Millennial reign of Christ, at his sec- ond advent ; and the third, or " Dispensation of the Ful- ness of Times/' C 9 lasting from the beginning of Christ's reign for "ages to come." (Eph. i : 10; 2:7.) These three great dispensations are frequently referred to in the Scriptures: A is called "the world that was;" B by our Lord Jesus is called "this world," by Paul "the present evil world," by Peter " the world that now is." Cis called "the world to come, wherein dwelleth righteousness," in contrast with the present evil world. Now evil rules and the righteous suffer, while in the world to come this order is to be reversed : righteousness will rule* and evil-doers will suffer, and finally all evil will be destroyed.

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