humankind fails to live in obedience to the divine test, consequently bringing that period under God’s judgment and thus creating the need for a new dispensation. Read this way, the Bible can be divided into the following eight dispensations (though the number of names vary in this school of thought): innocence, conscience, civil government, promise, Mosaic law, church and age of grace, tribulation, millennium.34 The hallmark of dispensationalism has been its commitment to a literal interpretation