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The Promise

God promised to redeem mankind from the curse through a descendant of the woman.

Creation Week

First Day: Light

Second Day: Firmament and Water

Third Day: Division of Earth and Sea,

Creation of Plant Life

Fourth Day: Sun and Moon

Fifth Day: Fish and Birds

Sixth Day: Land Animals and Man

Seventh Day: God Rested

Genesis 3 is the pivotal chapter of the entire Bible. Adam and Eve’s disobedience separated them from God and resulted in both a curse and a promise. The rest of the Bible traces the path through which God’s promise was fulfilled.

The Curse

God told Eve there would now be pain in childbirth and husbands would have authority over their wives. He told Adam that the ground would be cursed so that people would have to work for their food. From now on, people would die.

Genesis 3

Adam & Eve

The Fall

Genesis 1-2

Creation

Japheth

Noah’s Sons

If God had destroyed every human instead of rescuing Noah, His promise to Adam and Eve would have been broken!. He had promised that a deliverer would come through the seed of the woman.

The Tower of Babel

Through Noah’s sons, the earth was repopulated. Eventually the people became proud and forgot God. As a monument to their own greatness, they joined together to build a tower reaching to heaven in a blatant statement that they were as great as God. God intervened by confusing them with different languages and scattering them over the face of the earth.

God demanded an animal sacrifice for sin to make it clear that the punishment for sin is death. When a spotless lamb was killed to make atonement for sin, the life of the lamb was substituted for the life of the person . It illustrated that the person deserved to die for sinning against a holy God.

Sacrifice

The Flood

As the earth was populated, mankind’s wickedness became unbearable in God’s sight. Only one man was obedient to God. God instructed Noah to build an ark so he and his family would be saved from the coming flood. Two of each species of animal were rescued, as well, indicating God’s inclination to restore and regenerate, rather than annihilate.

Ham

Shem

Seth was Adam and Eve’s third son. He followed Abel’s example and obeyed God by offering an animal sacrifice. It was through his family line that the Messiah would come.

Adam and Eve’s second son, Abel, obeyed God and offered an animal sacrifice for his sins. God accepted it. Their first son, Cain, disobeyed by offering vegetables instead. God did not accept this (illustrating that He makes the rules and people must obey). Cain became jealous of God’s pleasure with Abel and committed the first murder by killing his own brother.

Genesis 10-11

Genesis 5-9

Genesis 4

Isaac was the son promised to Abraham and Sarah, and through whom God fulfilled His covenant. At one point in his youth, God commanded his father to sacrifice him on an altar to test his faith. Abraham was about to kill his son (in full faith that God would somehow keep His promise) when God stopped him and a ram was provided to take Isaac’s place. This was an important foreshadowing of Christ as our substitution.

Reuben

Simeon

Levi

Judah

Issachar Zebulun

Joseph Benjamin

Dan

Naphtali

Gad

Asher

2135 B.C.

Genesis 21-50

Genesis 12

Abram (Abraham)

God chose Abram and made an everlasting covenant with him. He changed his name to Abraham and promised that all the nations on earth would be blessed through him and that he would be the father of many nations. God led Abraham to the land of Canaan and promised him that his descendants would someday own that very land. Though childless until he was 100 years old, Abraham believed God and was commended for his faith. With Isaac’s birth, he became the father of the new Jewish nation.

Ishmael was the son born to Abraham when he lapsed in faith and decided to help God fulfill His promise by having a child with Sarah’s maid, Hagar. Ishmael became the father of the Arabs, and the strife between the Jews and Arabs continues to this day.

Isaac had twin sons to continue the promised line through which the Messiah would come and the nations of the earth would be blessed. Esau was the firstborn, but God’s promise was carried through the line of Jacob, who was later named “Israel.” Jacob had twelve sons. Jesus’ lineage is traced through the line of Judah.

Esau

Jacob (Israel)

Ishmael

Isaac

Conquest

1405-1398 B.C.

The Exodus

1445 B.C.

Hammurabi’s Code

1790 B.C.

Joseph

1975 B.C.

The Conquest of Canaan

The nation of Israel now consisted of Jacob, his children and their children. Joseph’s brothers sold him into slavery in Egypt when he was a young man, but God used this tragedy to preserve the vulnerable young nation. Joseph became a ruler in Egypt during a time of famine, then moved his whole family there to live where there was food. Their descendants were forced into slavery when they became too numerous and were perceived as a threat to Pharaoh.

Under Joshua’s leadership, the Israelites arrived in and conquered the land of Canaan. They did not drive the people out completely as God had commanded, resulting in generations of struggle with the influences of paganism.

The Law

During their wanderings, God gave Israel the Law, which would illustrate that people cannot attain holiness on their own. Since no one can keep the law, they can only reach God by means of His grace.

Moses

God chose Moses to lead the people out of Egypt to the Promised Land, which was back in Canaan where Abraham had lived. The Israelites ended up wandering in the wilderness for 40 years before they reached Canaan because of their disobedience and complaining.

Joshua

Deuteronomy

Exodus/Leviticus/Numbers

Egyptian Captivity

2 Samuel

I Chronicles (Psalms)

Judges

(Ruth)

II Chronicles

I Kings (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs)

Solomon was David’s son, and his rule was characterized by peace and prosperity and proved to be the high point in Israel’s national history. Following his father’s plans, he built a magnificent temple as a place for God to dwell with His people. God gave Solomon unparalleled wisdom as a ruler, although later in his life he seemed to abandon wisdom by marrying hundreds of wives (many of them pagan) and straying from God’s commands. Ecclesiastes is his fascinating treatise on the futility of everything except obeying God, based on his extensive experience.

David

1000 B.C.

Greek Dark Ages

1100 B.C.

Saul Anointed

1043 B.C.

Gideon Defeats Midian

1191 B.C.

The Judges

Eventually, the Israelites demanded a king so they could be like the other nations. God gave them their desire by establishing Saul on the throne, although He knew that most of the future kings would make life even harder for the people than it was before.

David followed Saul as monarch and was Israel’s strongest ruler, bringing the fragments of the kingdom together and successfully defending against numerous enemies. He was called “a man after God’s own heart, even though he sinned blatantly by committing adultery and murdering the woman’s husband to hide his sin. His repentance and contrite heart provide a beautiful example of attitudes that please God. As a musician, David composed most of the Psalms, which were songs expressing worship, repentance, and trust in God’s sovereignty.

The period of the judges followed, during which Israel repeatedly fell into disobedience by worshipping foreign gods. They would then become oppressed by surrounding nations, so God would raise up a judge (military leader) to deliver them. The people responded by obeying God for a while, but then slipped back into sin. The judges were not always godly people.

King David

King Saul

King Solomon

I Samuel

I Kings

II Kings

Birth of Buddha

563 B.C.

Judah Conquered

586 B.C.

Israel Conquered

721 B.C.

Rome Founded

753 B.C.

Homer

c. 800 B.C.

Elijah/Elisha

852 B.C.

Assyrian Captivity

Finally, God had enough. His means of judging the Northern kingdom was to allow King Sargon II of Assyria to conquer the land and take the Israelites away to Assyria in 721 B.C.

Israel Divided

931 B.C.

Prophets to Judah from 721 to 586 B.C.:

Isaiah

Micah

Nahum

Zephaniah

Jeremiah

Habakkuk

Prophets to Judah before Israel’s fall:

Joel

Obadiah

Prophets to Israel:

Elijah

Elisha

Hosea

Amos

Jonah

Babylonian Captivity

Judah lasted longer because of the influence of the 8 good kings, but finally in 586 B.C. it was also conquered. This time it was Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon who destroyed the land and carried its people away as captives.

God chose men throughout this time of the divided kingdom to warn the kings and people that God would judge them if they continued to worship other gods. The prophets’ writings are descriptive of God’s wrath and demand for justice, yet also contain numerous promises of future restoration. Repeatedly, God describes his chosen people as an unfaithful wife, whom He dearly loves and desires to redeem from her life of sin.

The southern kingdom consisted of two tribes (Judah and Benjamin) and took the name “Judah” to mean both. It was ruled by a succession of 19 kings and 1 queen. Only 8 of these were good; the rest were evil.

Israel

The Northern kingdom included ten of the twelve tribes. It retained the name “Israel” and was ruled by a succession of 19 kings—all of whom were evil and led the people to worship other gods.

After Solomon’s death, two of his sons vied for the throne. The kingdom split, with Jeroboam becoming king in the North and Rehoboam becoming king in the South.

Judah

Divided Kingdom

Ezra

(Esther)

Julius Caesar

46 B.C.

Alexander the Great

336 B.C.

Plato

428 B.C.

Ezra

450 B.C.

Esther Becomes Queen

458 B.C.

Birth of Christ

4 B.C.

Prophets to exiled Judah:

Ezekiel

Daniel

Matthew Luke

Jesus’ birth fulfilled a number of Old Testament prophecies as to the place and circumstances--a sequence of “coincidences” that would have been impossible by mere chance. Scripture says he was born of a virgin, with God as his father, and teaches that he was fully human and fully God. There is no detail given about his childhood, with the exception of one incident at the temple when he was 12 years old.

Malachi was the last of the Old Testament prophets. After his message to the remnant, chastising them for again returning to unfaithfulness and motivating them to have hope in God’s covenant, we hear nothing in Scripture about the historical events of the next 400 years. The New Testament opens with the coming of John the Baptist.

The Birth of Christ

400

Years

of

Silence

Jerusalem Restored

Under Nehemiah’s leadership, the walls of Jerusalem were rebuilt in 444 B.C. The work took just 52 days, in spite of opposition from trouble-makers in the region. The completion of the city walls was a major boost to the morale of the newly-returned remnant.

The Return

Seventy years after Judah’s capture, King Cyrus decreed that the exiles were allowed to return to the land to rebuild the temple. Under Ezra’s leadership, they began this task. The prophets Haggai and Zechariah encouraged them toward its completion and challenged the people to repent of their sinful ways. They had given up on other gods, but their hearts were still far from righteous.

Nehemiah

Prophets during rebuilding:

Haggai

Zechariah

Matthew Mark

Luke

John

Jesus was killed because his claims to be equal with God were viewed as blasphemy, yet Scripture makes it very clear that he gave up his life of his own free will and in accordance with the plan of God set from the beginning. (See Isaiah 53 for a remarkable foretelling of the details of the crucifixion, hundreds of years before it happened.) His death put an end to the need for substitutional atonement (where an animal was killed in the place of a person) and fulfilled God’s promise to Adam & Eve. As the only sinless human to have ever lived, he was the only one qualified to bear the punishment for sin. When an individual believes this and trusts him for forgiveness, the death-price that person owes is taken care of and Christ’s righteousness is imparted to that person. Scripture promises a place in heaven for those who trust in Jesus as their Savior from sin.

Forty days after his resurrection, Jesus returned bodily to heaven, promising that soon believers would have God living within them instead. He instructed his followers to tell people all over the world about the good news of salvation.

Since the promise of deliverance was fulfilled at the crucifixion, a new yellow line begins with the resurrection, representing a new promise that God would be present with His people.

Jesus’ resurrection on the third day after his death proved that he is more powerful than death and that he truly paid sin’s price. It assures us that we, too, will one day rise to be with him. If he had not risen, we could not be confident that God is more powerful than death and we would have no firm hope for the future.

Jesus began his public ministry at age 30. For the next 3 years, he traveled throughout Israel with his 12 chosen disciples and many other followers. He preached and taught a message that was radically different from what the Jewish leaders were teaching. He claimed that good works were worthless if a person’s heart was not pure, and that no person could achieve this purity unless it was a gift from God. He even boldly claimed to be God and proclaimed that eternal life could only come through him, leaving no room to view him as simply a good prophet. He proved that his message was true and that he was sent from God by performing countless miracles that were verified by many witnesses, including raising people from the dead.

Jesus’ Miracles and Ministry

Hebrews

James

1 & 2 Peter

1, 2 & 3 John

Jude

Colossians

1 & 2 Thessalonians 1 & 2 Timothy

Titus

Philemon

Romans

I & 2 Corinthians

Galatians

Ephesians

Philippians

Shortly after Jesus’ ascension, the Holy Spirit came to his followers on the Day of Pentecost as what appeared to be “tongues of fire.” As evidence that something special had happened, they were enabled to speak in foreign languages they had never learned, so that travelers to Jerusalem heard the message of Christ in their own language. Since Jesus would no longer be on earth physically, he sent his Spirit to indwell believers and empower them for his service.

John’s Death

A.D. 100

Destruction of Jerusalem

A.D. 70

Acts Ends

A.D. 58

Other church leaders wrote letters of instruction, as well. Later these, along with Paul’s letters, were compiled to form what are known as the “epistles.” These include the Book of Romans through the Book of Jude in the New Testament. The process of deciding what to include in the Holy Scriptures was very careful and detailed, with caution taken to include only those letters which could be traced back to their original source and supported by eyewitness testimony. The result is a collection of trustworthy explanations and further revelation about Jesus’ teachings and the way we should live as Christians.

Roman Persecution

1 to 313 A.D.

Completion of the Scriptures

Holy Spirit

The Message Spreads

Paul, a former Jewish leader named Saul who persecuted Christians, became a believer himself and took the gospel to many parts of Europe and shared it with those who were not Jews. He wrote many letters to churches in the towns where he had preached and to his partners in ministry, giving instruction and insight into Christ’s message.

Acts

Great White Throne Judgment

Rapture

Revelation

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Constantine

A.D. 313

Lake of Fire

New Heaven and

New Earth

Many godly teachers and Bible scholars have differing views on the End Times, since the Book of Revelation is so symbolic and difficult to interpret. The most common view holds that at an unspecified time (literally any moment), Jesus will return to take believers back to heaven with him. Seven years of Tribulation will follow, during which the Holy Spirit will no longer be on earth so evil and plagues will run rampant. God’s specific purpose for this time is to draw the nation of Israel back to Himself. When the seven years are over, Jesus will be physically present on earth for the second time and will reign for one thousand years while Satan is bound. At the end of this millennium will come The Great White Throne Judgment, at which time those who rejected Christ will be sentenced to eternity in hell. God will restore the Earth to its perfect state and join heaven to it, where believers will spend eternity with God and each other.

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Second Coming

Dark Ages

A.D. 476

Reformation

A.D. 1517

William Carey (Modern Missionary Movement)

A.D. 1825

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