If you were to find a given concept in Genesis and follow through until the new testament with a few details added along the way, you have an all-encompassing study as a result.
If you were to do the same with prophetic themes, would you need to redefine or differentiate between a prophecy and its thematic origin?
Do you have a conceptual mechanism that explains how the concept or event is developed?
Is there a way for you to tie together a scenario?
The basic concept of dispensationalism is that God has revealed in His word that He works with man in different ways at different periods of time. Each of these periods we call a dispensation.
Each of these periods was designed to test man in a different way. The tests, of course, were not to see what would happen, for he already knew that. They were to demonstrate what would happen.
Although we disagree about some of the details, dispensationalists break up these periods basically as follows:
The first of these tests was to make man innocent, unaware of right and wrong. He gave the man only one rule. The man broke that one rule and was expelled from paradise.
Then God left man up to his conscience. After a time every imagination of man's heart was only evil continually. So God sent the flood and wiped them out.
Then God established human government. But men used this only to solidify their rebellion against God, building a tower to reach heaven. So God confused their languages so they could not work together.
After this God chose a man and promised to bless his offspring. But his offspring forgot the promise and were reduced to slavery.
Then God brought His people out and gave them a perfect law. But they didn't keep that law, and finally crucified the only One who ever did. So He cast them out of their land.
Then God offered free grace to anyone who would repent. But mankind scorns his grace. God has prophetically revealed that the empty shell of the church will finally completely apostatize. He will cast it into the great tribulation.
Finally, God will rule over man in complete righteousness for a thousand years. That is, until there is no man living who has any memory of a time when things were not perfect. But mankind will again rebel against His authority and he will burn up the earth.
