Three Religious
Ages
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1st Row
• Patriarchal Age
• Name Patriarch means “father” – God dealt with the head of the family, the father
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• Mosaical Age
• Named for Moses, the law giver
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• Christian Age
• Named for Christ
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2nd Row
• Patriarchal Age
• Covered in Genesis 1:1 to Exodus 20
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• Mosaical Age
• Covered in Exodus 20 to Acts 2
• [Some say Exodus 20 to cross of Christ –Actually the first Gospel sermon to be preached in the name of the risen Christ was in Acts 2]
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• Christian Age
• Covered in Acts 2 through Revelation
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3rd Row
• Patriarchal Age
• Lasted about 2500 years
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• Mosaical Age
• Lasted about 1500 years
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• Christian Age
• Will last from Pentecost of Acts 2 until the return of Christ
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4th Row
• Patriarchal Age
• God spoke to the head of the family – the patriarchs
• Heb. 1:1
• Heb. 11:4
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• Mosaical Age
• God spoke through Moses and the prophets
• Heb. 1:1-2
• Jn. 1:17
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• Christian Age
• God has spoken through His Son
• Heb. 1:1-2
• Mt. 17:5
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5th Row
• Patriarchal Age
• Time of family religion
• Gen. 8:20
• Gen. 12:7
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• Mosaical Age
• Time of national religion – religion for the nation of Israel
• Deut. 5:3
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• Christian Age
• World-wide in scope –congregational religion (religion of the spiritual family of God)
• 2 Tim. 2:10
• Acts 2:47
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6th Row
• Patriarchal Age
• No written law during this age – God revealed His will to the heads of the families who taught their children
• Gen. 18:19
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• Mosaical Age
• Now a written law – Law of Moses
• (613 commandments)
• Jn. 1:17
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• Christian Age
• A change in the law, now the Law of Christ --- the gospel
• Heb. 9:15-17
• Rom. 8:2; 1:16-17
• Jn. 12:48
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7th Row
• Patriarchal Age
• Animal sacrifices were offered upon altars
• Gen. 31:54; Gen. 46:1
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• Mosaical Age
• Animal sacrifices
• Heb. 10:1-4
• Heb. 9:13-14, 22
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• Christian Age
• Christ’s blood offered for sins
• Mt. 26:28
• Acts 20:28
• Eph. 1:7
• Rev. 1:5
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8th Row
• Patriarchal Age
• Father was priest
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• Mosaical Age
• Priests came from the tribe of Levi
• Heb. 7:11
• Nu. 1:50-53
• Deut. 18:1
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• Christian Age
• All Christians are priests
• I Pet. 2:5, 9
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9th Row
• Patriarchal Age
• No set day of worship
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• Mosaical Age
• A set day of worship -
• Sabbath, the 7th day, Saturday
• Ex. 31:13
• Neh. 9:12-14
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• Christian Age
• New day of worship – The 1st day of the week, Sunday
• Acts 20:7
• 1 Cor. 16:1-2
• Rev. 1:10
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10th Row
• Patriarchal Age
• No set place of worship –anywhere they built altars they could worship God
• Gen. 8:20; 12:7
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• Mosaical Age
• A set place of worship – first in the tabernacle, than at Jerusalem when the temple was built
• Jn. 4:20-24
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• Christian Age
• We now worship in the church ---wherever assembled
• (the church is not the building – the church is the saved people-those called out of sin by the Gospel (2 Thess. 2:14)
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11th Row
• Patriarchal Age
• Became members by birth into family
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• Mosaical Age
• Became members by physical birth (some were proselyted into the Jewish religion)
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• Christian Age
• Become members by spiritual birth
• Jn. 3:1-5
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Questions on the 3 religious ages
• Lasted 1500 years
• Mosaical
• No set day of worship
• Patriarchal
• Time of family religion
• Patriarchal
• Became member by physical birth
• Patriarchal and Mosaical
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• God has spoken through His Son
• Christian
• Worship on Saturday
• Mosaical
• Father was priest
• Patriarchal
• All are priests
• Christian
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• A national religion
• Mosaical
• World-wide in scope
• Christian
• Enter by the new birth
• Christian
• No written law
• Patriarchal
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• Time of family religion
• Patriarchal
• Covered in Exodus 20 to Acts 2
• Mosaical
• What is the meaning of the word “Patriarch”?
• Father
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• Which age was a father-rule system of worship?
• Patriarchal
• Used the tabernacle as place of worship
• Mosaical
• Lasted some 1500 years
• Mosaical
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• Will last until the return of Christ
• Christian
• Covered in Genesis 1:1 to Exodus 20
• Patriarchal
• Christ blood offered for sins
• Christian
• Worship on the 1st day of the week
• Christian
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In which dispensation/age did
they live?
• Timothy
• Christian
• King Saul
• Mosaical
• Jeremiah the prophet
• Mosaical
• Noah
• Patriarchal
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• Sarah
• Patriarchal
• Goliath
• Mosaical
• Priscilla
• Christian
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• Samson
• Mosaical
• Christ
• Mosaical
• John Baptist
• Mosaical
• Adam and Eve
• Patriarchal
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• Jonah
• Mosaical
• Simon the Sorcerer
• Christian
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In what dispensation/age did it
happen?
• Tower of Babel
• Patriarchal
• Flood
• Patriarchal
• Stoning of Stephen
• Christian
• 10 Plagues
• Patriarchal
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• Death of Ananias and Sapphira
• Christian
• Birth of Jesus
• Mosaical
• Destruction of Jerusalem
• Christian
• Fall of Jericho
• Mosaical
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• Death of the first born
• Patriarchal
• First gospel sermon
• Christian
• Spread of the church
• Christian
• Death of Christ
• Mosaical
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• Paul’s journey to Rome
• Christian
• Thief of the cross promised paradise
• Mosaical
• Reign of David
• Mosaical
• Crossing the Red Sea
• Patriarchal
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