“Which in other ages was not made known unto the sons of men, as it is now revealed unto his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit” When we read the Old Testament how do we come to a full understanding of how and why God worked? Why He did what He did? God told Israel to destroy utterly and completely the people of the nations around them. Men, women, children, and everything they had. Was that genocide? God destroyed all but 8 of the earth’s inhabitants with a global flood. Was that genocide? Unless we understand history through the lens of the dispensations Paul spoke of in his epistle to the Ephesians we will never be able to reconcile the loving God we know with the events He promulgated in the Old Testament. Why did He instruct Israel to […]