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The Second Dispensation.or " Present Evil World," which began with Noah and hisfamily after the drying up of the flood, and ends with;Christ's Second Advent, is allegorically sketched in,Genesis, chapter 13 to chapter. 14 verse 12;.I . , ' 4 ', h. s: 1-4 . A.Q AI>-. we11.t up out of ~ npt, be id hi; C*. a nall that he had, and Lot w~th I!rm,. r~ito the ~011th. 2 And Abram ru'Very rich ill cattle. in silver, and in gold. 3 And he went on his journeysfrom the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where I~ictent had beenat the beginr~il~g between Beth-el and Hai. Unto the place of the' altar, which he Lad made there at the fint :;od here 'Abmm olledonthe name of the LORD.'The return of brah him to Canaan picture tlie rsgener-:ation a&er the 400d. Abraham represents Gbd,,and Lot:represents restored mankind. Later on, as we shall see,.Lot represents ,that portion of the human race with whichGud had special dealings-namely, thenation of Israel.,. . Gea 13 $5-13. And Lnc,also, which went with Abram, had Bock, andherds, md tent.. - 6 And the land wu not able 'to bear them, that they:might dweU toqether. 7 And there war a strife botween the herdnien ofAbram'c cattle anrl the herdmen of Lot's cattle : and the Ca!larnrte andand the Perit~itedweled thtln in the land. 8 And Abram sald unto Lot.Let there ba no *wife, I pray thee, betrean me and thee, and between.my herdmen and thy herdmen for we bcbretllren. 9 11 not the wholeland kfoe thee? wprrnte thystif, I pry thee from ma : if I h will lakrthe I& hand,. than I rill go to the ri ht; oi if flu" d8pat-t to the righthand. then! will oto the left. 10 ~ n dlifted a up his errr and bebeidall tbe plmn of fordan, and it was well watered every rlrere, before theLORD ktroyed Sotlom and Gomorrah, rwn as the garden of the Ld~b,We the land of Egypt am thou co~nest unto Zoar. XI Then Lot cl~ocrshim aY the plain of jorkn ; and Lut jaurnsved east ; and thpy scpa~tcdthemaelves the one from the other. 12 Abram dwelt in the land ofClnartn, and Lot dwelt in the cRia of the plaln, and pitohqd his tenttoward Sodom: 13 But the men of Sodorri wrrr wicked and arnnerr bbfbrstho LORD ercedn~ly. . . ' . . . : I , . .a II!,*.'The. Apostle tells us 'that minkind,'-$hen they knewGod, nlorified Him not as God; neither were 'thankful.Therefore, as they did not like to retain God in theirknowledge, God' gave them over to a pind void of judg-, . , I. . ' 3 ' .. ' I ,I