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CREATION ADAM & EVE

GOD CREATES HUMANITY ‘IN
GOD SPEAKS THE UNIVERSE
HIS IMAGE’ TO CARE FOR HIS
INTO EXISTENCE
CREATION

FALL NOAH / FLOOD

HUMANITY REJECTS GOD GOD FLOODS THE EARTH, YET
& IS EXPELLED FROM THE SAVES & MAKES A COVENANT
GARDEN OF EDEN WITH NOAH & HIS FAMILY

BABEL ABRAHAM (ISAAC & JACOB)

GOD CONFUSES THE GOD PROMISES TO BLESS
LANGUAGE OF THE WORLD & ABRAHAM & ALL PEOPLE
SCATTERS HUMANITY THROUGH HIM

JOSEPH / EGYPT MOSES / EXODUS

THROUGH MOSES, GOD
JOSEPH & HIS BROTHERS
SAVES ISRAEL FROM
MOVE ISRAEL TO EGYPT
SLAVERY IN EGYPT

LAW TABERNACLE
GOD MAKES A COVENANT GOD DWELLS WITH ISRAEL IN
WITH ISRAEL TO BE THEIR GOD THE TENT OF MEETING

WANDERING PROMISED LAND

JOSHUA LEADS ISRAEL INTO
ISRAEL WANDERS IN THE
THE PROMISED LAND OF
DESERT FOR 40 YEARS
CANAAN

JUDGES SAUL
GOD RAISES UP JUDGES SAUL BECOMES ISRAEL’S FIRST
TO SAVE ISRAEL FROM ITS KING, BUT DISOBEYS GOD &
ENEMIES LOSES HIS KINGSHIP

DAVID
GOD MAKES A COVENANT
SOLOMON / TEMPLE
SOLOMON BUILDS A TEMPLE
WITH DAVID TO ESTABLISH HIS
FOR GOD IN JERUSALEM
THRONE FOREVER
DIVIDED KINGDOM FALL OF SAMARIA
THE KINGDOM IS DIVIDED
ASSYRIA DEFEATS ISRAEL
BETWEEN THE NORTHERN &
(THE NORTHERN KINGDOM)
SOUTHERN TRIBES

ASSYRIAN EXILE FALL OF JERUSALEM

ASSYRIA TAKES ISRAEL BABYLON DEFEATS JUDAH
(NORTH) INTO CAPTIVITY (THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM)

BABYLONIAN EXILE RETURN FROM EXILE

BABYLON TAKES JUDAH PERSIA DEFEATS BABYLON &
(SOUTH) INTO CAPTIVITY THE EXILES ARE RETURNED

REBUILDING BIRTH & LIFE OF JESUS

THE TEMPLE & THE WALLS OF JESUS ENTERS THE WORLD AS
JERUSALEM ARE REBUILT A HUMAN TO SAVE HUMANITY

DEATH OF JESUS RESURRECTION OF

JESUS IS CRUCIFIED TO PAY JESUS
FOR HUMANITY’S REJECTION JESUS CONQUERS DEATH TO
OF GOD BRING LIFE TO HUMANITY

ASCENSION OF JESUS PENTECOST

THE HOLY SPIRIT EMPOWERS
JESUS RETURNS TO HEAVEN
THE APOSTLES TO BE JESUS’
TO RULE OVER CREATION
WITNESSES

GOSPEL MISSION APOSTLE PAUL

THE GOSPEL BEGINS TO PAUL IS COMMISSIONED TO
SPREAD FROM JERUSALEM TO TAKE THE GOSPEL TO THE
‘THE ENDS OF THE EARTH’ GENTILES

PRESENT DAY RETURN OF JESUS

JESUS RETURNS TO BRING AN
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END TO EVIL

FINAL JUDGEMENT NEW CREATION

ALL HUMANITY IS JUDGED GOD CREATES A NEW HEAVEN
BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD & A NEW EARTH

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