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A VisuAlsurVey

of The BiBle

David L. Dawson

Youth Edition

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A VISUAL SURVEY OF THE BIBLE - YOUTH EDITION, Copyright © 2000 by EPH 4:12, Inc. All Rights Reserved, including translation and art. No part of this coloring book may be reproduced in any form except by written permission of the publishers.

ETS Ministries is an organization devoted to assisting churches, schools, home-schoolers, and mission agencies to train disciples to do the work of ministry as commanded by the Lord Jesus Christ.

All Scripture quotations are from The Holy Bible, The New King James Version, Copyright © 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984, Thomas Nelson Inc., Publishers. Used by Permission.

New International Version, Copyright © 1973, International Bible Society Used by permission.

Artwork, Justin B. Long, Dr. Lau Waun Kei; Editing, Matthew Pattillo; Book Layout, Sheri Seawright

Preface

W e have created this survey in an attempt to help disciples understand God’s revelation of Himself in the Bible and His plan of salvation. It is a visual presentation of the most amazing story the world has ever

known - the historical account of how God created man, how man rebelled against God, and how God, in His love, made a way for man to be restored to fellowship with Him through His Son, Jesus Christ. This is the youth edition of A Visual Survey of the Bible, which has been used effectively around the world and is available in many languages from the publisher or from the Bible League. A children’s coloring book edition of the survey is also available.

Each page of commentary corresponds to a panel, identified as 1-L and 1-R (followed by panels 2-10), meaning the picture on the left half of the panel {L} or the right half {R}. The panels can be removed from the book and connected together to make a 15-foot chart that can be mounted on a wall for the student to see the entire story of the Bible.

At the bottom of each page of commentary are instructions for coloring the path that runs through the panels. The path is yellow from Adam and Eve until the Fall to represent God’s favor, black between The Fall and The Promise to represent disfavor, red from The Promise until the crucifixion to represent the saving blood of Jesus, and yellow again after the resurrection to represent new life and the restoration of our relationship with God. Major favorable events are represented with the color yellow coming out of the clouds. When man is in disfavor with God, the disfavor is represented by dark colors coming out of the storm clouds. A sample coloring guide is provided in the back of the book to help you color the chart.

Included on each page is a verse or passage to be committed to memory. Memorization of these key passages will be of great help to the student in keeping the story of the Bible in focus.

This book has been designed both for individual study and for use in small groups or classrooms. For use in Christian education, we recommend that the instructor obtain the original A Visual Survey of the Bible, which provides a more detailed commentary and a colored chart to use as a guide. If the adult version is not available at your bookstore, it can be ordered from the publisher by calling toll- free (888) 577-7739. The survey can also be used evangelistically, to provide a person with the basics of God’s plan of salvation so that he or she can make a decision for Christ. In fact, it is our intention that this survey would enable each student to teach others the central message of the Bible. It is our prayer that this simple tool will prove to be a great blessing to you and will help you to understand God’s revelation of Himself to you.

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The Bible At A Glance

“The New is in the Old concealed…”

Old Testament(39 Books)

“…The Old is in the New revealed.”

New Testament(27 Books)

History

Law

History and Government

Poetry

Prophecy

Major Prophets

Minor Prophets

History

Gospels

Teaching

Paul’s Letters

General Letters

Prophecy

(66 Books)

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Contents

Introduction and Overview

Panel 1-L - The Creation 1

Panel 1-R - The Seven Days of Creation 2

Panel 2-L - The Commandment, The Temptation, The Fall 3

Panel 2-R - The Curse and The Promise 4

Panel 3-L - Sin and The Flood 5

Panel 3-R - Men Multiply and The Tower of Babel 6

Panel 4-L - The Promise to Abraham 7

Panel 4-R - The Exodus, The Law, The Promised Land 8

Panel 5-L - The Judges and The Unified Kingdom 9

Panel 5-R - The Divided Kingdom 10

Panel 6-L - The Captivities and The Return 11

Panel 6-R - The Post-Exilic Period and 400 Years of Silence 12

Panel 7-L - John the Baptist and The Birth of the Messiah 13

Panel 7-R - Jesus’ Public Ministry 14

Panel 8-L - Jesus’ Final Week 15

Panel 8-R - Jesus’ Trial, Death, and Resurrection 16

Panel 9-L - The Great Commission, Ascension, and Pentecost 17

Panel 9-R - The Promise Expanded to All Nations 18

Panel 10-L - Church History 19

Panel 10-R - Christ’s Return and Your Life 20

Scripture Memory 22

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Panel 1-L

The Creation

The Bible declares:

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. Then God said, ‘Let there be light’: and there was light. Genesis 1:1-3

The Bible records that God created everything that exists in our universe by the word of His mouth. God spoke and it came into being. Many people try to explain the existence of the earth and all of its life forms by an evolutionary theory. The theory is that matter somehow came into existence out of nothing through a natural process. The first cell came into being and then, over a period of time, more complex life forms evolved into the world we know today. The problem with this theory is that the Bible clearly tells us that God created it all. In Genesis chapters 1 and 2, we have an orderly account in which God has revealed what took place when He created the universe.

The Spirit of God Who dwells in each believer confirms this message to our hearts. We believe the Genesis account because of our faith in God and in His Word. The writer to the Hebrews in the New Testament reminds us “by faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible” (Hebrews 11:3).

The Apostle John clearly had the Genesis creation story in mind when he wrote his gospel. He refers to Jesus Christ as ‘the Word,’ and writes, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made” (John 1:1-3). John understood that God the Father, the Son, and the Spirit (the Trinity) were present together at the creation.

Coloring: Be creative!Memory Verse: Genesis 1:1-2

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The Seven Days of Creation

It is interesting to note the orderly fashion in which God created the world. In obedience to His command, the world came into existence, perfectly conformed to the purposes of God’s heart and mind:

DAY GOD CREATED REFERENCE

Man and woman are the pinnacle of God’s creation. God created Adam and Eve in His own likeness and gave them the responsibility to rule over and to take care of His creation:

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” Genesis 1:27-28

As God looked upon His creation, He “saw that it was good.” After He created man and woman on the sixth day, He “saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good” (Genesis 1:31). God placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, giving Adam careful instruction about the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, of which he was not to eat. God finished His work of creation in six days, and set apart the seventh day as a day of rest, worship, and blessing.

Coloring: Be Creative!Memory Verse: Genesis 1:27-28

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The CommandmentThe Temptation

The Fall

In the more detailed account of the creation of Adam and Eve in Genesis 2, God causes Adam to fall into a deep sleep, and as the man sleeps God takes a portion from his side and fashions the woman. Adam and Eve are joined together as “one flesh” (Genesis 2:24). God commands the man: “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die” (Genesis 2:16-17).

In chapter three, Satan appears in the form of a snake. He confronts Eve, in the absence of Adam, near the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, from which Adam has been commanded not to eat. Adam must have warned Eve concerning the tree, because she is clear in her answers to Satan’s questions and temptations:

Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden?’” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’” Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. Genesis 3:1-6

Eve disobeys God, takes of the tree to eat, and gives also to Adam. At the moment they eat Adam and Eve die spiritually. Sin enters the world, and sinful creatures fall from grace, no longer able to have fellowship with a holy God.

Coloring: Path is colored yellow until the Fall.Memory Verse: Genesis 2:16-17

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The Curse and

The Promise

Because of Adam and Eve’s sin, God pronounces a curse on Satan: “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel” (Genesis 3:15). Indirectly through this curse, God gives a great promise to Adam and to all of humanity. Genesis 3:15 tells us that one day, from the woman whom Satan had deceived, God would bring forth a seed - Jesus Christ. This seed would be Satan’s enemy and would crush or bruise his head. In the process, Satan would bruise Christ’s heel. This seed – Jesus – would make a way for man to be restored to fellowship with God. If there were no promise, the Bible would have ended with Genesis 3. The rest of the Bible is the historical account of how God fulfills His promise to Adam and Eve (referred to as The Promise in this survey). In His mercy, God condemns the man and woman to death and removes them from the garden so that they can not eat from the Tree of Life. If fallen man were to eat from this tree, he would have lived forever without hope of the redemption that God sets into motion with The Promise. Before sending them away, God replaces Adam and Eve’s aprons of leaves with the skins of an animal as a covering for them. This act of kindness is a foreshadowing of the sacrificial system that God would later institute and fulfill in Jesus Christ. The writers of Hebrews and Leviticus remind us that without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin (Leviticus 17:11, Hebrews 9:22). This principle of a substitute sacrifice for forgiveness of sin is known theologically as “substitutionary atonement.” We see this principle at work in the story of Cain and Abel, the sons of Adam and Eve. Abel offers a blood sacrifice to God, while Cain offers fruit from the ground. God accepts Abel’s sacrifice but rejects Cain’s, and in anger and jealousy Cain kills Abel. By his act of murder, Cain forfeits his right as firstborn to have The Promise carried forward through his seed. God replaces Abel with another son, Seth, through whom The Promise is carried forward.

Coloring: Path is black between the Fall and the Promise, then red.Memory Verse: Genesis 3:15

Panel 3-L

Sinand

The Flood

In Genesis 4 and 5, men begin to multiply on the earth. Though men look to God for the seed who would restore them to fellowship with their Creator, they also follow after their sinful ways. With the one restriction God gave to Adam and Eve concerning the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, He causes the faculties of the mind, will, and emotions to become operative. God’s commandment results in free will, and in this period we see people exercising their wills against God. People like Enoch, who “walked with God” (Genesis 5:24) were but few, and God decides to destroy all of humankind through a great flood:

Then the Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping things and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” Genesis 6:5-7

Because of The Promise to Adam and Eve, God preserves man’s seed through Noah and his family. Noah was “a just man, perfect in his generations” (Genesis 6:9), and he obeys God’s command to build a giant ark in preparation for the flood. Noah and his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth work on this boat for 120 years, and finally load the ark with provisions, animals of every kind, and their families before the rains come. Rain falls on the earth for forty days, with water also coming up from under the ground. Only Noah and those with him in the ark remain alive. A little over a year after entering, Noah and his family come out of the ark. The ark is believed to have landed on Mount Ararat in the modern day country of Turkey. Noah offers a sacrifice of thanksgiving to God, and God promises never to destroy the earth by flood again, giving the rainbow as a sign of this promise.

Coloring: Path is red.Memory Verse: Genesis 6:5-7

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Men Multiplyand

The Tower of Babel

Once Noah is out of the ark, God gives him the same command He gave to Adam: “So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth’” (Genesis 9:1). Noah and his wife and his three sons with their wives begin to repopulate the earth. One of Ham’s sons, Cush, has a son named Nimrod who leads his people to the plains of Shinar. He rules over them and builds the cities mentioned in Genesis 10:11. The people, instead of scattering, begin building a tower to reach into the heavens. The construction of the tower is the first organized false religion. The rebellion is threefold: (1) disobedience by not scattering, (2) taking honor away from God by making a name for themselves, and, (3) building a tower “to the heavens,” which implies that they could get above any future flood of judgment God might send, coupled with unbelief in the rainbow promise (Genesis 11:4). God sends a judgment on the builders by confusing their language and scattering the people over the earth by language groups. Building on the tower ceases. The remaining inhabitants of the land, later to be called Babylon, never attempt to rebuild. The descendants of Ham become the African races and some of the Near Eastern peoples; the descendants of Shem settle in the Middle East; and the descendants of Japheth scatter to the rest of the earth, probably with some later mixtures of Hamites and Shemites. The Promise is carried forward through the sons of Shem. One of Shem’s descendants is Abram (later called Abraham), the father of God’s chosen people, the Hebrews, who are the people through whom the promised Messiah will come.

God is about to amplify The Promise that He had made to Adam and Eve. The seed of Genesis 3:15 is to come through Abraham’s descendants and will cause the entire world to be blessed. In the Old Testament, we see God primarily blessing the Hebrews, but in the New Testament, we will see the promise to Abraham fulfilled as the blessing is extended to include the Gentile (non-Jewish) peoples.

Coloring: Path is red.Memory Verse: Genesis 9:1

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The Promise to Abraham

Scholars estimate that about 2,000 years separate Adam and Abraham, and historical records show that Abraham lived around 2,000 BC. God appears to Abraham and commands him to leave his homeland, Ur of the Chaldees. God restates and amplifies The Promise to Adam, promising Abraham land, seed (descendants), and blessing to the entire world through his descendants:

Now the Lord had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, from your family and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” Genesis 12:1-3

When God promises him a son with Sarah, Abraham “believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness” (Genesis 15.6). Amazingly, a sinful man becomes righteous in God’s eyes through faith. This is the blessing referred to in Genesis 12:3 that is extended to all people through Jesus Christ – that a person can be made righteous through faith (“justification by faith”). Abraham looks ahead in faith to the fulfillment of God’s promise; today, we are made righteous as we look back in faith to Christ’s death and resurrection that undoes the work of Satan in the Garden and restores the believer to fellowship with God.

God promises Abraham offspring as numerous as the stars in the sky, and gives the land of Israel as an eternal inheritance to Abraham’s descendants. Unable to have children, Abraham and Sarah devise a plan for Abraham to father a son with Sarah’s mistress. Hagar gives birth to Ishmael, but God intends to give Abraham a son with Sarah. In fulfillment of God’s promise, Sarah gives birth in her old age to Isaac, the son of The Promise. God’s plan of redemption is carried forward through Isaac, and then through Isaac’s younger son Jacob.

Coloring: Path is red.Memory Verse: Genesis 12:1-3

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The ExodusThe Law

The Promised Land

Isaac’s son Jacob, later called Israel, has twelve sons who became the fathers of the twelve tribes of Israel. The Promise is carried forward through the tribe of Judah. Joseph, Jacob’s favorite son, was sold into slavery by his brothers, setting the stage for the 400 years of bondage foretold by God (Genesis 15.13). Joseph rises to prominence in Egypt and saves his family during a severe famine by resettling them in Egypt. After Joseph’s death, the Egyptians enslaved the Hebrews, but after 400 years of captivity, the family of seventy had grown to over 2 million. In faithfulness to His Promise, God raises up a leader, Moses, from among the Hebrews. God tells Moses, “I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and I will give it to you as a heritage: I am the Lord” (Exodus 6:8). Moses led the Hebrews out of Egypt on the Passover, when God destroys the firstborn in all of the houses of Egypt, but passes over every house marked with the blood of a lamb.

After the Exodus, God leads the people to Mount Sinai, where He gives them the Law that is to govern their relationships to God and to their neighbors. He also gives instructions for a tabernacle that He will inhabit, to dwell among His people. Before taking them into the land, God draws the people into a covenant known as the Mosaic Covenant. While this covenant does not change or nullify God’s earlier promises, under this agreement God promises to bless Israel in the land if they obey His commands, and to curse them if they disobey. The blessings and curses are outlined for us in Deuteronomy chapters 28 and 29. The ultimate cursing would be removal from the land. Much of the remainder of the Old Testament is the historical account of God’s dealings with His people on the basis of this covenant.

Because of their disobedience, the Hebrews wander in the desert for 40 years. Even Moses is not allowed to enter into the Promised Land because of his disobedience. After Moses’ death, his assistant, Joshua, leads the people into the land through the dramatic victory at Jericho.

Coloring: Path is red.Memory Verse: Deuteronomy 6:4-5 (the Shema)

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The Judgesand

The United Kingdom

Under Joshua God expands Israel in the land based on the Mosaic Covenant. Joshua dies, however, leaving Israel without a leader. The Bible says, “In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes” (Judges 21:25). The book of Judges records a 340-year cycle of rebellion, retribution, repentance, and restoration, during which God raises up a series of twelve military reformers, or Judges, who lead the people to repentance and help to take or retake the land. The people, though, become frustrated and feel the source of their problems is that they do not have a king like the neighboring peoples. The prophet Samuel anoints Saul as king, and from about 1050 BC to 930 BC, Israel is unified under Kings Saul, David, and Solomon. Saul’s reign starts well, but ends badly due to his pride and impatience. Because of his disobedience, God replaces him with David, “the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will” (Acts 13:22). God restates and amplifies to David The Promise he made to Adam and Abraham:

When your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. I will be his Father, and he shall be My son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men. But My mercy shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from before you. And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever. II Samuel 7:12-16

This promise is partially fulfilled in Solomon, who succeeds David as king and builds the Temple David longed to build. In ultimate fulfillment of this promise, Jesus Christ will return one day to rule from David’s throne.

Coloring: Path is red.Memory Verse: II Samuel 7:12-13

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The Divided Kingdom

Under David and Solomon, Israel enjoys its “golden age” of peace and prosperity. At Solomon’s death, however, the nation is bankrupt morally, spiritually, and financially. Many of his subjects are ready to revolt. Rehoboam, Solomon’s son, succeeds his father as king of Israel, but he refuses to deal with certain political rivalries that have existed in Israel since the exodus from Egypt. These factions have created divisions among the tribes on several occasions. Jeroboam, a spokesman for the ten northern tribes, becomes their king. Only the southern tribes of Judah and Benjamin remain loyal to Rehoboam (God determines to carry forward His promise through the tribe of Judah). During this period, the two kingdoms are in conflict with each other and with the surrounding nations. The Bible records, “So Israel has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day” (I Kings 12:19).

The southern kingdom maintains its capital in Jerusalem, and its center of worship is the Temple built by Solomon. In direct violation of God’s commandments, Jeroboam sets up two altars in the north so that his people will not travel to Jerusalem to worship. The northern kingdom, known as Israel, lasts for 209 years and has 19 kings who were all evil. The southern kingdom, known as Judah, lasts for 344 years and had 19 kings and 1 queen, 8 of whom are good and the rest evil. During these years, God raises up prophets to warn the people of their impending doom. Some prophets God sends to Israel, some to Judah, and some to both kingdoms. The prophets are also known by whether they are active before, during, or after the exiles. The greatest of these prophets is Elijah (see I & II Kings). Elijah (like Enoch) does not die but is taken up to heaven by God. The essence of the prophets’ message is, Return to God or what was prophesied in the Mosaic Covenant will come upon you. You will be cursed, defeated by your enemies, removed from your land, and scattered over the earth. For the most part the prophets’ message falls on deaf ears.

Coloring: Path is red.Memory Verse: II Samuel 7:14-16

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The Captivitiesand

The Return

Under the Mosaic Covenant, God promises the Hebrews that disobedience will result in their removal from the land. Despite the prophets’ warnings, both the northern and southern kingdoms persist in sin. In 721 BC, Assyria conquered Israel and captures its people. In 586 BC, Babylon conquers Judah and the Judahites are also removed from their land.

The prophet Jeremiah is active in Judah before and during its captivity. At this dark hour of Israel’s history, God delivers through Jeremiah a great prophecy of a new covenant that He will make with the nation:

Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah – not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. Jeremiah 31:31-33

The promise of a new covenant will be fulfilled in Jesus Christ almost six hundred years later. Under the Old Covenant, God dwells among His people first in the tabernacle and then in the Temple. Under the New Covenant, God will take up residence in our hearts, helping us in our walk with Him.

The prophet Daniel also lives during the Babylonian exile, and prophesies about the coming Messiah. King Cyrus of Persia ends the exile after conquering Babylon, issuing a decree allowing the Jews (a new name of the returnees, taken from “Judah-ites”) to return to Jerusalem. Zerubbabel, a descendant of David, leads 50,000 Jews back to Jerusalem in 536 BC. Ezra, a godly priest and scribe, leads a smaller remnant of about 6,000 people back in 457 BC and restores the religious life of Jerusalem.

Coloring: Path is red.Memory Verse: Jeremiah 31:33

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The Post-Exilic Periodand

400 Years of Silence

Throughout the captivities and the exile, God is faithful to preserve His chosen people. The Jews retain their national and religious identity while in Babylon, and in 444 BC, Nehemiah, who was a cupbearer to the Persian king, leads a third remnant back to Jerusalem to rebuild the city walls, a task that they miraculously complete in only 52 days. The walls and gates that were destroyed 142 years before are now operational and once again defend Jerusalem. Malachi, the last of the post-exilic prophets, tells of a forerunner, an Elijah, who will prepare the people for the coming of their long-awaited Messiah:

“Behold, I send My messenger, and he will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple, even the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight. Behold, He is coming,” says the Lord of hosts. Malachi 3:1

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. Malachi 4:5

After this prophecy, 400 years pass during which God gives no direct revelation. God is silent, but He is faithful to preserve a remnant of Israel who persevere in obedience. The Jews are in the land God gave to them as an eternal inheritance, but are under foreign domination.

The Persians who conquered Babylon are in turn conquered by Alexander the Great and the Greeks in the 4th century BC. In 167 BC, Judas Maccabeus and his brothers lead a series of revolts by the Jews to retake the Promised Land, but they are only partially successful. In the first century BC, the Romans conquer the Greeks, and it is into a Roman-dominated world that the Messiah, God’s Son, is born. Two other religious leaders also come into the world during this period - Gautama Buddha, who lives from 560-480 BC, and Confucius, who lives from 551-479 BC.

Coloring: Path is red.Memory Verse: Malachi 3:1

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John the Baptistand

The Birth of the Messiah

The 400 years of silence end when the angel Gabriel appears to Zachariah in the Temple and tells him that he will father a son, John the Baptist, who will be the Elijah of Malachi’s prophecy. Six months later, Gabriel comes to Mary to inform her that she will give birth to the Messiah. The Bible records, “But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law” (Galatians 4:4).

Jesus comes as the perfect fulfillment of God’s promise to Adam. He is the seed of the woman who bruises Satan’s head. He comes also as the perfect fulfillment of God’s promise to Abraham that “in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed” (Genesis 12:3). He comes as the perfect fulfillment of God’s promise to David that He will one day rule from David’s throne. Jesus said, “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill” (Matthew 5:17). While Mary is pregnant, she and Joseph travel to Joseph’s hometown of Bethlehem to be counted in a census. In Bethlehem, “the city of David,” the Messiah is born into the world, fulfilling the Old Testament prophecy of Micah, “But you Bethlehem Ephrathah, though you are little among the thousands of Judah, yet out of you shall come forth to me the One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings are from of old, from everlasting” (Micah 5:2). The Gospels say little about Jesus’ life between his early childhood and His public ministry. Luke records that as He grows, Jesus “increased in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man” (Luke 2:52).

John the Baptist comes as a forerunner to prepare Israel for Jesus’ ministry. He identifies himself with Isaiah’s prophecy, “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God’” (Isaiah 40:3). Jesus, however, identifies him as the Elijah of Malachi’s prophecy (Matthew 11:14). Both prophecies are fulfilled in John. When John baptized Jesus, a voice came from heaven saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased” (Matthew 3:17).

Coloring: Path is red.Memory Verse: Matthew 1:1

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Jesus’ Public Ministry

Immediately after His baptism, Jesus is led by the Spirit into the wilderness, where He fasts for 40 days and is tempted by Satan. Jesus defeats Satan by using God’s Word, setting an example for us in our own struggles with temptation and sin. He then begins His public ministry, the heartbeat which is the Shema (Deuteronomy 6:4-6) and the Golden Rule:

Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment. And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” (Mark 12:29-31)

Jesus attracts large crowds with His authoritative teaching and the miracles that He performs. Many of the religious leaders of Israel come to oppose Jesus because He exposes their hypocrisy and sinfulness. Although some of the religious leaders, like Nicodemus, come to believe, they do so in secret for fear of being excluded by the other leaders. Eventually, the leaders are also able to turn the masses against Jesus. Jesus does not come only to teach and to perform miracles. He has two main objectives that He pursues and completes during His ministry on Earth. He comes first of all to give His life as a sacrifice for sin. Just as the blood of the sacrificed lamb spares the Israelites in Egypt at the Passover, so the blood of Jesus, the Lamb of God, spares us from the penalty of death for our sins. Secondly, Jesus comes to establish God’s Kingdom and to rule in the world He has created. Although the first year of His ministry is given to teaching and healing the masses, He calls twelve men out of the multitudes to be His disciples, and gives the remainder of His ministry to training these twelve men. These men will become the keys to the discipling of the nations and the building up of the Church, the body of Christ.

Coloring: Path is red.Memory Verse: Mark 12:29-31

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Jesus’ Final Week

When Jesus concludes the training of the twelve and God is ready to enact His plan for our redemption, Jesus returns to Jerusalem for His final week of ministry. On Sunday, the first day of the week, Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey (see Matthew 21:5, Zechariah 9:9). Multitudes of people escort him, recognizing Jesus as the Messiah with shouts of “Hosanna,” which means, “Deliver us!” On Monday, Jesus carries out the second cleansing of the Temple. He spends Tuesday in the Temple, teaching His disciples and answering the challenges of His enemies. Wednesday is a day of silence and preparation for Jesus. On this day, Judas Iscariot goes to Jerusalem to finalize the details of his betrayal of Jesus. Judas receives thirty pieces of silver for his work. On Thursday, Jesus sends Peter and John into the city to prepare for the Passover meal, which is the last meal Jesus spends with His disciples. Before the meal, Jesus washes His disciples’ feet, setting an example of service for them, and during the meal Jesus announces the New Covenant that He has come to establish through His death (see Jeremiah 31:33):

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.” Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.” Matthew 26:26-28.

Judas leaves during the meal to do his work of betrayal. After the meal, Jesus and the eleven move to the Garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus prays His “High Priestly Prayer” recorded for us in John 17. He agonizes over His impending death on the cross for men’s sins, but subjects His own will to His Father’s, saying, “Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done” (Luke 22:42).

Coloring: Path is red.Memory Verse: Matthew 26:26-28

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Jesus’ Trial,

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On Friday morning at about 1:00 am, Judas comes with some Temple soldiers, religious leaders, and a crowd to arrest Jesus. Betrayed with a kiss and abandoned by His remaining disciples, Jesus is taken to trial before Annas, Caiaphus, Pontius Pilate, and King Herod Antipas. Later that morning, He is taken back to Pilate, condemned and beaten, taken to Calvary and there crucified by the Romans. Jesus is executed in a manner reserved for common criminals. Through His atoning death for our sins (substitutionary atonement), Satan’s head is crushed, but the Messiah’s heel is bruised. God has provided a way of salvation for humanity, and a way to be restored to a relationship with Him (see I Peter 3:18). Isaiah tells us:

But He was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned, every one, to his own way; and the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. Isaiah 53:5-6

Jesus is taken off the cross and buried in a borrowed tomb sealed and guarded by soldiers. Saturday is a day of rest, the Jewish Sabbath. Early on Sunday morning, Jesus Christ rises from the grave, triumphant over death, sin, and hell. Angels in the empty tomb declare the glorious news: “He is not here: for He is risen” (Matthew 28:6).

The Bible records many post-resurrection appearances of Jesus over the next forty days. Jesus comes to His followers, who are badly shaken and disillusioned by His death, and helps them to see that all the things that have happened to Him were necessary to fulfill the Law and the Prophets. Once the disciples clearly understand what has happened, and why it had to happen in this way, they become fearless witnesses to Christ and are able to explain the events to the believers of the early church.

Coloring: After the resurrection the path should be yellow or green.Memory Verse: Luke 24:25-27

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The Great Commission,

Ascension,

and Pentecost

On several occasions before His return to heaven, Jesus charges His disciples with the responsibility to disciple all the nations of the world. He commands them to teach their disciples to obey all that He has commanded them. This plan ensures that succeeding generations of people will be won and trained until He returns to rule from David’s throne. We know this today as Christ’s Great Commission:

And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen Matthew 28:18-20

Jesus’ disciples are with Him on the Mount of Olives when He ascends until the clouds receive Him out of their sight. Two angels appear and assure the disciples that Jesus will come again in the same way as He has been taken. In the meantime, Jesus has instructed them, “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth” (Acts 1:8). The book of Acts records this progression, as Jesus’ followers begin making disciples in Jerusalem and then begin to spread out into Judea and Samaria, and to the rest of the world. Acts 2 records the coming of the Holy Spirit. Jews from every nation are gathered in Jerusalem for Shavuot, the Jewish “Feast of Weeks.” When the Holy Spirit fills the disciples, they begin to speak in strange tongues, attracting a large crowd of people. Peter then rises and preaches the Good News about Jesus to the people, pointing out that they are witnessing the fulfillment of the prophesied outpouring of God’s Spirit upon men (Joel 2:28-32). On that day, about 3,000 people believe and are baptized.

Coloring: Path is yellow or green.Memory Verse: Matthew 28:18-20

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The Promise Expanded to

All Nations

In the early chapters of Acts, the new church expands as the Holy Spirit comes to live in the believers, empowering them to walk in obedience to God’s commands. Jesus has commanded His followers to make disciples, and in Acts 2 we find the apostles fulfilling this responsibility by ensuring that the new believers “continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers” (Acts 2:42). These new disciples, who have come from many different nations, will have a significant impact on their families and friends when they return home.

In Acts 8, the believers are scattered from Jerusalem into Judea and Samaria because of persecution. Here we meet a man named Saul, who is one of those leading the persecutions against the new believers, later known as “Christians” (Acts 11:26). In Acts 9, Saul, also known as Paul, is on his way to Damascus to arrest believers when Jesus appears to him, temporarily blinds him, and confronts him about his opposition. Paul becomes a follower of Christ, and is sent by God to bring the Good News about Christ to the Gentiles. In the missionary journeys of Paul recorded in Acts, we see how God begins to bring the Gospel “to the end of the earth.” We see in Acts the impact that one man, Paul, has for the cause of Christ. In his life and his letters, Paul demonstrated this commitment to Christ: “For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” (Philippians 1:20-21). Tradition tells us that eleven of Jesus’ Twelve Disciples (Judas Iscariot had been replaced by Matthias - Acts 1:16-26) die martyrs’ deaths while spreading the Gospel. Only John escapes this fate, but he is exiled to the island of Patmos.

If we consider all of the other followers who go out in obedience to Christ’s Great Commission, it is not hard to understand how the disciples move from adding disciples in Acts 2, to multiplying disciples in Acts 6. By Acts 9, they are multiplying churches, and in Acts 17 are accused of having turned the entire world upside down.

Coloring: Path is yellow or green.Memory Verse: Acts 2:41-42

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Church History

In AD 70, the Roman general Titus captures Jerusalem and razes the Jewish Temple. This event partially fulfills Jesus’ prophecy on the Mount of Olives (Matthew 24). The early church suffers persecution under the Roman government until AD 313, when the Emperor Constantine is converted to Christianity and declares Christianity to be the official religion of the Roman Empire (later known as the Holy Roman Empire). During these first four centuries after Christ, the Biblical canon is fixed and much of our church doctrine (e.g. Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed) develops.

The unified church gives way in AD 1054 to a schism that divides the church along east-west lines. In the sixteenth century, the western or Catholic Church fragments again during the Protestant Reformation. The resulting Protestant Church consists today of the denominational and independent Christian churches.

One of the major tenets of the Reformation is the right and responsibility of every believer to do the work of ministry, the “priesthood of every believer.” According to the New Testament, every believer is a priest, charged with the responsibility to be a fisher of men and a maker of disciples. The New Testament teaches that the offices of apostle, prophet, evangelist, and pastor-teacher are given to the Church to equip the saints or believers to do the work of ministry (Ephesians 4:11-12). God has ordained the ordinary believer, or priest, to be the major participant in the Great Commission, not a spectator. Although this doctrine is often discussed, many believers are unaware of their priestly responsibilities, and the priesthood of every believer remains largely unrealized in most churches.

We encourage you to investigate the history not only of your own church or denomination, but also all of Church history. We owe a debt of gratitude to the many great men and women who have gone before us and given their lives for the cause of Christ. As Jesus said, “others have labored, and you have entered into their labors” (John 4:38).

Coloring: Path is yellow or green.Memory Verse: Ephesians 4:11-12

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Christ’s Return and

Your Life

The great hope of believers everywhere is that Christ is alive and is coming again (see Matthew 24, I Thessalonians 4, Revelation). The Bible teaches us that our lives and actions should be governed by our expectation of His imminent return. Because scholars disagree as to the order and exact nature of the events surrounding Christ’s return, you should consult your pastor or leaders for the views of your church.

We have made an honest attempt in this survey to trace the basic message of the Bible and to demonstrate how the 66 books of the Bible fit together as one. However, a person can understand the message of the Bible from Genesis to Revelation and still be lost, separated from God by sin. God did not give us the Bible to make us smarter, but to change our lives by leading us to salvation and new life in Jesus Christ.

Almost 4,000 years ago God declared Abraham righteous through faith. Today we, too, can become righteous in God’s eyes by placing our trust in Jesus Christ. Jesus died on the cross as a substitute for us, to pay the penalty for our sins, and provided a way for us to be restored to fellowship and communion with God. When we receive Christ into our lives through faith, we become born again into the family of God, and His Spirit comes to dwell within us to assist us in our walk with God. The Bible says, “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new” (II Corinthians 5:17). If you have never entered into a relationship with God through faith, you can do so today. You can turn to God right now and pray:

Dear God,

I confess that I have sinned against you. Please forgive me for my sins. Come into my heart, Jesus, and into my life, and make me the person you want me to be. Please give me the gift of eternal life so that I can be with You forever. Amen.

If you need help in developing your relationship with God, we have materials that can help, so please call us toll-free at: (888) 577-7739.

After we went to press with this Children’s Edition of the Visual Survey, we began work on the Youth Edition Visual Survey. In the process, we realized that we needed to encourage each student to memorize the essential verses that bring the different parts of the Bible together. These verses are the keys that unlock the story of the Bible. It has been our experience that if the student will commit these verses to memory, he or she will gain a firm and unshakable grasp on the basic message of the Bible. We have included one verse or passage for the student to memorize with each panel of the survey. The verses are perforated so that the student can detach and carry them for review at home or at school.

As we raised our four children, my wife and I desired to make scripture memory a part of our children’s lives. We realized that our kids valued many different things, so we built scripture memory into their lives by rewarding them for their work with some of the things they wanted. Because of this positive reinforcement, scripture memory became an exciting experience for them and they were able at a very young age to memorize hundreds of verses. If it is important enough to him or her, any student can memorize scripture. It is our conviction that the time and effort required to do the work of memorization will be one of the wisest investments the student will ever make.

Dave Dawson Equipping the Saints, Inc.

Memorizing Scripture

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Genesis 1:1-2In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

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Genesis 1:27-28So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

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Genesis 2:16-17And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

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Genesis 3:15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.”

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Genesis 9:1So God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.”

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Genesis 12:1-3 NKJNow the LORD had said to Abram: “Get out of your country, from your family, and from your father’s house, to a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation; I will bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you; and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”

Genesis 6:5-7Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the LORD said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” NKJ

Deuteronomy 6:4-5 (The Shema)“Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one! You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.”

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2 Samuel 7:12-13When your days are fulfilled and you rest with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who will come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

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2 Samuel 7:14-16I will be his Father, and he shall be My son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the blows of the sons of men. But My mercy shall not depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I removed from before you. And your house and your kingdom shall be established forever before you. Your throne shall be established forever. NKJ

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Jeremiah 31:33“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says the LORD: ”I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”

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Malachi 3:1“Behold, I send My messenger, And he will prepare the way before Me. And the Lord, whom you seek, Will suddenly come to His temple, Even the Messenger of the covenant, In whom you delight. Behold, He is coming,” Says the LORD of hosts. NKJ

Matthew 1:1The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham...

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Matthew 22:37-40Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.” NKJ

Matthew 26:26-28And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to the disciples and said, “Take, eat; this is My body.” Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you. For this is My blood of the new covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.” NKJ

Luke 24:25-27 Then He said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?” And beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.

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Matthew 28:18-20And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” NKJ

Acts 2:41-42Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them. And they contin-ued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.

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Ephesians 4:11-12

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And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.

Ephesians 2:8-9For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.

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≈Go! This man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before the Gentiles and their kings and before the people of Israel.∆ Acts 9:15

The Missionary Journeys of Paul to Asia Minor and Europe

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The Great Commission≈Therefore go and make disciples of all nations.∆ Matthew 28:19-20

≈Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.∆ Mark 16:15

≈You are witnesses of these things.∆ Luke 24:48

≈As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.∆ John 20:21

Philipto Samaria

≈But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.∆ Acts 1:8

Tongues of FireMount

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≈Men of Galilee,∆ they said, ≈Why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way, you have seen him go into heaven.∆ Acts 1:11

John Wycliffe translated the Bible into the

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MartinLuther theReformer

William Carey the Father of ModernMission

WilliamTyndalepublishedthe firstEnglishBible

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≈Go! This man is my chosen instrument to carry my name before the Gentiles and their kings and before the people of Israel.∆ Acts 9:15

The Missionary Journeys of Paul to Asia Minor and Europe

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The Great Commission≈Therefore go and make disciples of all nations.∆ Matthew 28:19-20

≈Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.∆ Mark 16:15

≈You are witnesses of these things.∆ Luke 24:48

≈As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.∆ John 20:21

Philipto Samaria

≈But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.∆ Acts 1:8

Tongues of FireMount

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≈Men of Galilee,∆ they said, ≈Why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way, you have seen him go into heaven.∆ Acts 1:11

John Wycliffe translated the Bible into the

English Language

MartinLuther theReformer

William Carey the Father of ModernMission

WilliamTyndalepublishedthe firstEnglishBible

Advances intransportation,medicine, and

communicationshelp to spread

the gospel.

Millennium

Revelation 21-22

RAPTURE

1380 A.D.1517 A.D.

1525 A.D.1825 A.D.

New Heaven

New Earth

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≈Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.∆

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≈Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not

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Fourth DaySun and Moon Created to Light the Day and Night Genesis 1:14-15

Fifth DayCreation of Fish and Birds Genesis 1:20-23

Sixth DayCreation of Land Animals and Creation of Man in God»s Image Genesis 1:24-30

Seventh DayThus the Heavens and the Earth were finished, in all their vast array. GOD RESTS Genesis 2:1-3

First DayCreation of Light Genesis 1:3-5

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coming judgment.

DeadSea

Beer-Sheba

UnderJoshua

Ashdod

Ashkelon

Jebus(Jerusalem)

Jericho Gilgal

JordanRiver

Ai

LakeGalilee

Dan

1400 B.C.

MediterraneanSea


and his descendants


Egypt

400 years later

ReubenSimeon

LeviJudah


BenjaminDan

NaphtaliGad

Asher

Urof the

Chaldees

2000 B.C.



Genesis 15:13

Assyria

AsiaMinor

Europe


Genesis 17:20

AfricaRephidim

Egypt

Red Sea

MosesKadesh-Barnea

Gulf ofAqaba

GulfSuez

MarahElim

TheLAW given

Genesis 12-50(Job?)

Goshen

DifferentScale Maps

A b r a h a m

I s s a c

Jacobor

Israel

Esau

Edomites

70 went into Egypt

AfricaArabia


Semitic

Japhetic

Hamitic


(Deuteronomy)Exodus

(Leviticus)

In the BeginningGod

created


Genesis 1:1








Genesis 1-2


Treeof

Knowledge

Garden of Eden

The Temptation

S I N

THE F A L L


ThePromise

Genesis 3:15



Treeof

Life




The Creation of Man

Genesis 3 Genesis 4

AdamandEve


Cain

Abel

Seth

≈And I will establish the throneof his Kingdom forever.∆

I Samuel 7:12-16

Under Solomon, Israelreached the peak of its

power, but immediately afterSolomon»s death, the decline was

rapid and tragic.

The Northern Kingdomof Israel (Samaria)

was ruled by 19 kings who were

all evil.

Ten Tribes:ReubenSimeonGad

IssacharZebulunEphraim

ManassehDan

AsherNaphtali

Elijah and Elisha(as ≈speaking∆

prophets)

Israel in the Lord

The Southern Kingdomof Judah (Jerusalem) was ruled by 19 kings and 1 queen. 8 kings were good and the rest were evil.

Prophets in Israel: Hosea, Amos, Jonah

Prophets in Judah: Joel, Obadiah

KingSolomon40 years

A unitedkingdom

under Saul

KingDavid

40 yearsKingSaul

40 years

930 B.C.

Jerusalem

SamariaNorthern

Southern

R e h o b o a m

J e r o b o a m

KingdomDivided

≈To obeyis better than

sacrifice.∆I Samuel 15:22

TheJudges

Military leaderswho helped toregain the land

≈In those days Israel had noking: everyone did as he saw fit.∆

Judges 21:25

1390 B.C 1050 B.C. 1010 B.C. 970 B.C.

721 B.C.

Assyrian CaptivityBecause of its disobedience, Israel was taken into captivity by King Sargon II of Assyria.of Assyria.

TheExilic

Prophets

KingCyrus»Decree

BabylonianCaptivityProphets in Judah:

Isaiah, Micah, Nahum,Zephaniah, Jeremiah,

Habakkuk

Prophets in Babylon:Ezekiel, Daniel

Judah was taken into captivity by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon because ofcontinued disobedience.

Prophets to Returning Remnant:Haggai, Zechariah

≈So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of Elul, in fifty-two days.∆

Nehemiah 6:15Zerubbabel536 B.C.

The Post-Exilic Period

RemnantPreserved

The Seventy WeeksDaniel 9:24

Ezra458 B.C.

Jerusalem

586 B.C. 444 B.C.

Nehemiah

400 years of silence

≈This is my Son, whom I love;with him I am well pleased.∆

Matthew 3:17

In those days John the Baptist cameºThis is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah. Matthew 3:1-3

Birth of Christ≈Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord.∆ Luke 2:11

Baptismof

Christ

Johnthe

Baptist

Temptationsof

Christ Public Ministryof Christ

Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted. Hebrews 2:18

ºHe taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law. Mark 1:22

Trainingof the Twelve

He appointed twelveƒdesignating themapostlesƒthat they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach. Mark 3:14

≈See, I will send my my messenger, who will prepare the way before me.∆

"See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the LORD comes.∆

Malachi 3:1; 4:5

MalachiThe last of the Old Testament prophets.

I Kings 12 - II Kings 16JudgesRuth 1 Samuel

1 ChroniclesII SamuelPsalms

11 ChroniclesI Kings 1-11

Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon

Two tribes: Judah and Benjamin

II Kings 17-25 (Lamentations)

Ezra(Esther) Nehemiah Matthew 1-2

Luke 1-2

Matthew 5-20Mark 1-10

Luke 5-18 John 1-11

Silencefrom

Malachi to the New Testament


Luke 19-21 John 12

Matthew 26 Mark 14

Luke 22 John 13-17

Matthew 26 Mark 14

Luke 22 John 18

Matthew 26-27 Mark 14-15

Luke 22-23 John 18-19

Matthew 28 Mark 16 Luke 24 John 20-21

Bethlehem

≈Take and eat: this is my body.∆≈This is my book of the covenant.∆

Matthew 26:26, 28 ≈Yet, not as I wil, but as you will.∆Matthew 26:39

≈For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit.∆ 1 Peter 3:18

Garden ofGethsemane

Golgotha

The Empty

Tomb

≈It is finished.∆ ≈He is not here; he has risen.∆ Matthew 28:6

Trial of Jesus≈Are you the king of the Jews?∆

asked Pilate.≈Yes, it is as you say,∆ Jesus replied.

Mark 15:2

TheLast Supper

TriumphalEntry

He said to them, ≈How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spo-ken! Did not the Christ have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?∆ And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself. Luke 24:25-27

≈See, your king comes to you, gentle and riding on a donkey.∆

Matthew 21:5

Matthew 3-4Mark 1

Luke 3-4


I Samuel 7:12-16



rapid and tragic.



all evil.



ManassehDan

AsherNaphtali


prophets)

Israel in the Lord




KingSolomon40 years

A unitedkingdom

under Saul

KingDavid

40 yearsKingSaul

40 years

930 B.C.

Jerusalem

SamariaNorthern

Southern

R e h o b o a m

J e r o b o a m

KingdomDivided



TheJudges



Judges 21:25

1390 B.C 1050 B.C. 1010 B.C. 970 B.C.

721 B.C.


TheExilic

Prophets

KingCyrus»Decree



Habakkuk







RemnantPreserved


Ezra458 B.C.

Jerusalem

586 B.C. 444 B.C.

Nehemiah



Matthew 3:17



Baptismof

Christ

Johnthe

Baptist

Temptationsof








Malachi 3:1; 4:5









Luke 1-2


Luke 5-18 John 1-11

Silencefrom



Luke 19-21 John 12

Matthew 26 Mark 14

Luke 22 John 13-17

Matthew 26 Mark 14

Luke 22 John 18


Luke 22-23 John 18-19


Bethlehem




Garden ofGethsemane

Golgotha

The Empty

Tomb




Mark 15:2

TheLast Supper

TriumphalEntry



Matthew 21:5

Matthew 3-4Mark 1

Luke 3-4


I Samuel 7:12-16



rapid and tragic.



all evil.



ManassehDan

AsherNaphtali


prophets)

Israel in the Lord




KingSolomon40 years

A unitedkingdom

under Saul

KingDavid

40 yearsKingSaul

40 years

930 B.C.

Jerusalem

SamariaNorthern

Southern

R e h o b o a m

J e r o b o a m

KingdomDivided



TheJudges



Judges 21:25

1390 B.C 1050 B.C. 1010 B.C. 970 B.C.

721 B.C.


TheExilic

Prophets

KingCyrus»Decree



Habakkuk







RemnantPreserved


Ezra458 B.C.

Jerusalem

586 B.C. 444 B.C.

Nehemiah



Matthew 3:17



Baptismof

Christ

Johnthe

Baptist

Temptationsof








Malachi 3:1; 4:5









Luke 1-2


Luke 5-18 John 1-11

Silencefrom



Luke 19-21 John 12

Matthew 26 Mark 14

Luke 22 John 13-17

Matthew 26 Mark 14

Luke 22 John 18


Luke 22-23 John 18-19


Bethlehem




Garden ofGethsemane

Golgotha

The Empty

Tomb




Mark 15:2

TheLast Supper

TriumphalEntry



Matthew 21:5

Matthew 3-4Mark 1

Luke 3-4


I Samuel 7:12-16



rapid and tragic.



all evil.



ManassehDan

AsherNaphtali


prophets)

Israel in the Lord




KingSolomon40 years

A unitedkingdom

under Saul

KingDavid

40 yearsKingSaul

40 years

930 B.C.

Jerusalem

SamariaNorthern

Southern

R e h o b o a m

J e r o b o a m

KingdomDivided



TheJudges



Judges 21:25

1390 B.C 1050 B.C. 1010 B.C. 970 B.C.

721 B.C.


TheExilic

Prophets

KingCyrus»Decree



Habakkuk







RemnantPreserved


Ezra458 B.C.

Jerusalem

586 B.C. 444 B.C.

Nehemiah



Matthew 3:17



Baptismof

Christ

Johnthe

Baptist

Temptationsof








Malachi 3:1; 4:5









Luke 1-2


Luke 5-18 John 1-11

Silencefrom



Luke 19-21 John 12

Matthew 26 Mark 14

Luke 22 John 13-17

Matthew 26 Mark 14

Luke 22 John 18


Luke 22-23 John 18-19


Bethlehem




Garden ofGethsemane

Golgotha

The Empty

Tomb




Mark 15:2

TheLast Supper

TriumphalEntry



Matthew 21:5

Matthew 3-4Mark 1

Luke 3-4



Genesis 6:5



The Flood

Ham






Genesis 9:1








and scattering.


Japheth

Babel

Shem


coming judgment.

DeadSea

Beer-Sheba

UnderJoshua

Ashdod

Ashkelon

Jebus(Jerusalem)

Jericho Gilgal

JordanRiver

Ai

LakeGalilee

Dan

1400 B.C.

MediterraneanSea


and his descendants


Egypt

400 years later

ReubenSimeon

LeviJudah


BenjaminDan

NaphtaliGad

Asher

Urof the

Chaldees

2000 B.C.



Genesis 15:13

Assyria

AsiaMinor

Europe


Genesis 17:20

AfricaRephidim

Egypt

Red Sea

MosesKadesh-Barnea

Gulf ofAqaba

GulfSuez

MarahElim

TheLAW given

Genesis 12-50(Job?)

Goshen

DifferentScale Maps

A b r a h a m

I s s a c

Jacobor

Israel

Esau

Edomites

70 went into Egypt

AfricaArabia


Semitic

Japhetic

Hamitic


(Deuteronomy)Exodus

(Leviticus)

In the BeginningGod

created


Genesis 1:1








Genesis 1-2


Treeof

Knowledge

Garden of Eden

The Temptation

S I N

THE F A L L


ThePromise

Genesis 3:15



Treeof

Life




The Creation of Man

Genesis 3 Genesis 4

AdamandEve


Cain

Abel

Seth

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