Re: Alternative understanding-This is a new age,.....a new dispensation----THE JESUS DISPENSATION.
Eph 1:10
as a plan for the fulness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
When Jesus came to earth, He ended the age of time and began the age of eternity (with the eternal covenant, eternal God and the eternal spirit).
Eph 1:21
far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come;
Abraham was given the covenant of CIRCUMCISION, not the ETERNAL covenant (Acts 7:8).
Eph 1:21
far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come;
Jer 31:31
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Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
Jer 31:32
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
Jer 31:31
¶
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
Jer 31:32
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD:
Rev 14:1
And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written in their foreheads.
The book of Revelation was simply about
………………………………A NEW BEGINNING (the lion of Judah becomes our LAMB OF GOD).
Rev 17:14
they will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those with him are called and chosen and faithful."
......a passing shadow....1 Chronicles 29:15.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_time_periods