The skeleton of the Bible story

  • Genesis 1:1-2:25 Creation: God prepares to work out His eternal purpose
  • Genesis 3:1-Revelation 20:15 Man’s Sin and God’s Response: God demonstrates His worthiness to be worshiped through His gracious response to man’s sin
  • Genesis 3:1-11:32 A preview of what is to come
  • Genesis 12:1-50:26 God begins His kingdom work through Abraham’s family
  • Exodus 1:1-Deuteronomy 34:12 God prepares workers for carrying out His redemptive plan through the nation Israel
  • Joshua 1:1-Ruth 4:22 The workers move on site and prepare for the work ahead
  • 1 Samuel 1:22-2 Chronicles 36:23 The workers fail to fulfill God’s mission
  • Ezra 1:1-Esther 10:3 A reconstruction of the nation is attempted but fails
  • Job 1:1-Song of Solomon 8:14 Through Israel’s poetry we get a look inside the minds of godly men during this time
  • Isaiah 1:1-Malachi 4:6 In the prophetic books we get a look into God’s mind during this time
  • Matthew 1:1 John 21:25 The seed promised by God in Genesis 3:15 arrives in the fulness of time
  • Acts 1:1-28:31 The Holy Spirit descends upon Jesus’ disciples and through them begins the work He left them to do
  • Romans 1:1-Jude 1:25 The Holy Spirit, through holy men of God, provides instruction to the church of Jesus Christ for the completion of the work
  • Revelation 1:1-20:15 Jesus reveals through the apostle John things pertaining to the conclusion of God’s work in human history
  • Revelation 21:1-22:21 The Eternal State: The eternal state of things as God has had in mind from the beginning is revealed in its reality

Last edited 05/14/2019