The dispensations—which basically represent a stewardship; that’s what the word actually means—talk about the different ways in which God has managed the program of salvation through time. The dispensations come alongside the covenants, which dispensationalists also embrace, to explain the way the covenants interact with each other as we move through the plan of God, both within how it’s revealed in Scripture and then in its outworking through time. So, dispensationalism is a way of making sense