God's Plan of the Ages: A Comprehensive View of God's Great Plan from Eternity to Eternity, 3rd ed.

by Louis Talbot

Publisher:

Eerdmans

, 1946

Overview

God’s Plan of the Ages is a classic statement of the dispensational understanding of God’s design for human history. Louis T. Talbot clearly and reliably outlines a comprehensive view of the plan of God from the beginning of Genesis to the close of Revelation.

The definite purpose of God for each age is made apparent through a detailed study of Scripture as the plan is unfolded: the creation of humankind and the age of innocence, the fall and the age of conscience, the age of human government, the age of law, the church age, the return of Christ and his thousand-year reign, and the new heavens and new earth.

Talbot also answers many troublesome questions concerning the end-times prophecies of Daniel and of Revelation. He makes clear, for example, the difference between the “judgment seat of Christ” and “the great white throne.” He also demonstrates why the premillenial concept is the correct one, and shows from Scripture that the church will be translated at the beginning of “the great tribulation” in order to spare it from the purifying judgments to follow.

God’s Plan of the Ages is a Christian classic that has value not only to students of prophecy but to all Christians who desire a comprehensive view of God’s grand design for eternity.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Why did God permit the temptation? We need to bear in mind the fact that when God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, He placed them in a state of perfect innocence. There is a difference between innocence and righteousness. The latter is what God wants, as the Bible clearly shows; and innocence could not become righteousness until it had been tested and man had been given the opportunity of exercising his will God-ward. This is what God sought in the Garden of Eden.” (Pages 23–24)

“God is glorified through the obedience of a creature who is capable of disobedience, whose obedience is not mechanical, but rather is of the heart and of the will.” (Page 24)

“The word ‘dispensation’ is a Biblical term. (See Eph. 3:2; 1:10; cf. 1 Cor. 9:17; Col. 1:25.) It simply means a period of time during which God deals with man according to a certain plan.” (Pages 31–32)

“The tree of the knowledge of good and evil was ever a reminder of the fundamental truth that the Lord God of heaven and earth was his Governor, his Lord, and that His will was supreme.” (Page 23)

“In other words, God foresaw what sin would do; and He had a plan that would elevate lost, but redeemed, sinners into union with His Son.” (Page 11)

Product Details

• Title: God's Plan for the Ages: A Comprehensive View of God's Great Plan from Eternity to Eternity
• Author: Louis T. Talbot
• Edition: 3rd
• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Publication Date: 1936, 1998
• Pages: 199

About Louis Talbot

Louis Thomson Talbot (1889–1976) was chancellor of Biola College and Talbot Theological Seminary, which was named in his honor. He is the author of Bible Questions Explained, God’s Plan of the Ages: A Comprehensive View of God’s Great Plan from Eternity to Eternity, 3rd ed., and An Exposition of the Book of Revelation.