The word is in the Bible. In reference to the grace of God. The idea that the Grace of God is administered for a period of time is secondary but it is still a part of the meaning of the word itself. The age of grace or the church age is not eternal. This age will not go on and last forever. Time itself is not eternal. It will not last forever. Time was give to us for a reason. "Then God said, “Let lights appear in the sky to separate the day from the night. Let them be signs to mark the seasons, days, and years." (Genesis 1:14) An age has to do with a cycle of time. This circle of life is a theme in disney movies.
Perhaps you need to read the whole passage and look at this in context: "in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus." (Ephesians 2:7) So we need to look at the meaning of the word "age" in this passage that has to do with the dispensation of he Grace of God.
That is what I said. The church age is 2,000 years then we enter into the Kingdom age which is 1,000 years. Actually numbers are very much a part of the hebrew language. Each Hebrew letter has a numeric value. I think that it is interesting that the very first passover took place 3333 years ago. Moses was born in: 1393 BC, Land of Goshen Died: 1273 BC, Mount Nebo, Jordan. He as 40 years old when he left Egypt to marry a midianite women. Even though he left a ethiopian wife behind in Egypt. He was 80 years old when the Hebrew Children left Egypt.
The point is that numbers are very important in the Bible. They very much have meaning. The word seasons is complicated and we have all of the observations on the Hebrew calendar. Passover this year is very real and have a lot of meaning. More then it has ever sense the first passover 3333 years ago.
All of that has good historical value .But we do not look at the things seen the temporal and say that's the vision .No faith needed for that.
Yes dispensation of one work of grace. Not time periods of grace, ways of grace, or strengths of grace. Grace does not mean people suddenly disappear .
He had grace on Abel the first apostle prophet and martyr recorded .Same grace he had on his Son, Jesus .
Out of all the people in the world he chose his Son to be used as a living parable as a gift of grace to us .Revealing the work of the two , working as one God.
The idea of Hebrew letter having a numeric value is not a prescription for rightly dividing His hidden unseen truths. He has assigned parables to perform that work of teaching us
how to walk by faith (the unseen eternal)
The shadow of the Passover became sight at the one time demonstration of the first born (our bloody husband signified by circumcision .
The veil is rent .Rendering the Jews who believe (no faith) not as antichrists. The reformation has come. We are in the last days signified as a thousand years.
We are under the previous government (Judges) of God. Before there were kings standing in the holy invisible place (faith) of desolation . Dissolving the presence of God not seen, giving it over to the temporal seen as if we did walk by sight.
God simply used that time period as Kings in Israel as a parable using the signified understanding. he turned over the faithless jew to do that which they should not of .demand a pagan representative like the surrounding pagan nations. it is that which many are supporting today .
Give us a King like all the other pagan religions of the world is the cry to the wailing wall .
The one time demonstration is over. No new King is sitting in the historical place used as a parable .
Matthew 13:34 All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:
Mark 4:11 And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:
The abomination of desolation. The veil is rent. God is revealed as he always is "not a man as us".
