accordingly been caused to look more carefully for the Remedy for sin which
God has provided.
That dispensation having come to an end in the destruction of that “world” (or
order of things), God carried over In the Ark Noah and his family, who had not
become corrupt as had the rest of the world; and w~th them Me began the Sec-
ond Dispensation, or “world that now is.” (Point.)
This second Dispensation is not under the control of angels; for it is written
that Satan is the “Prince of this world.” This Second Dispensation, or “World.”
has been left to man. God is not dealing directly with man, nor interfering
directly with his affairs. When we say that it has been left to man to govcrli himself, we should add that man, by reason of the fall having become very weak.
has become peculiarly susceptible to the influence and deceptions of Satan.
The Lord said that Satan was a liar from the beginning (John 8:44); and , being
the arch deceiver, he has deceived all men, who, believingthemselves free
have really been his slaves the only exceptions being those who have been
influenced by the Gospel and who have thus come to recognize Satan’s power,
and to put themselves into the hands of God. Yet even in this, our own favored
land, he is “going about as a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour”; and
in Asia and Africa and other uncivilized lands we see him ruling with a high
hand, the people being so blinded by superstition that fetish worship and sor-
cety and other devilments are openly practiced; to such an extent is this true,
that Satan is properly styled, as the Scriptures name him, “the god of this
world’-not the god of rhar “world” (point to the first “world”), nor of that
“world (point to the third world), but of THIS “world” (point to second
“world”).
This is what is meant by “rightly dividing the Word of Truth,” as advised by
St. Paul. It would not do to apply to “this world” (point to second “world”) the
Scriptures which belong to that “world” (point to first “world”), nor to that
“world (point to third “world”), Scriptures which belong to this “world”
(point to second “world”) or to the first “world” (point): for instance it would
not be proper to say that Satan is the god or prince of the third “world.”
(Point.) Christ will be “King over all the earth in THAT Day,” though He is