The Dispensation
of Innocence starts with Adam living in the Garden of Eden. There was perfect harmony between God and
man, plus everything else which God created.
Since God is the author of love and peace, he wanted everything that he
designed and made to be perfect. In Genesis
1:31, “and God saw everything that he
made, and, behold it was very good.”
After
Adam and Eve lived in the garden awhile, Satan, whom God cast down to earth,
appears inside a serpent tempting Eve. They
were allowed to eat anything in the garden except the fruit from the tree in
the middle of the garden. That tree was
called the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (Genesis 2:15-17). It wasn’t long until Satan tempted Eve to
look at the fruit from that tree. Then he
tempted her to take and eat and she yielded to that. She gave to Adam and they did both eat. Then their eyes were opened and they saw that
they were naked so they tried to hide from God.
Their innocence ended abruptly with this sin of disobedience.
This
dispensation ends in the year 4,285 BC
