Charting The Bible Chronologically

1 Charting the Bible 18/17/16 4:28 PMCopyrighted material Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the New American Standard Bible , 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. ( )Verses marked nkjv are taken from the New King James Version . Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights marked kjv are taken from the King James Version of the by Dugan Design Group, Bloomington, MN The illustrations in the charts on pages 16-17, 95, and 140 were originally created by Norma Lane, Legacyroad Solutions, Colorado Springs, Colorado, for use in the Harvest House book Charting the End THE Bible Chronologically Copyright 2016 by Ed Hindson and Thomas Ice Published by Harvest House Publishers Eugene, Oregon 97402 978-0-7369-6437-1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Hindson, Edward E., author. Title: Charting the Bible Chronologically / Ed Hindson and Thomas Ice.

2 Description: Eugene, Oregon : Harvest House Publishers, 2016. Identifiers: LCCN 2016010553 (print) | LCCN 2016030785 (ebook) | ISBN 9780736964371 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780736964388 () Subjects: LCSH: Bible History of Biblical events. Classification: LCC .H56 2016 (print) | LCC (ebook) | DDC dc23 LC record available at rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, digital, photocopy, recording, or any other except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the in China16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 / CM-CD / 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Charting the Bible 28/17/16 4:28 PMCopyrighted material ..ToDr. John C. WhitCombDefender of the FaithBiblical scholar, chronologist, theologian, and apologistwhose books and charts have blessed, informed, and challenged us bothfor a lifetime of the Bible 38/16/16 3:33 PMCopyrighted material AcknowledgmentsWe want to express our gratitude to Harvest House Publishers for their great support of this project to Bob Hawkins Jr.

3 For accepting our idea for this project, and especially to Steve Miller, who is the best editor one could hope for. We are grateful to Dr. Floyd Nolen Jones and his tremendous work on Bible chronology in his book The Chronology of the Old Testament. We are also grateful for Dr. John Whitcomb s Old Testament Chronology chart series we found helpful. We are most grateful to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, for His great gift of salvation and revealing the Father s plan for history in His inerrant Word, the Bible . To God be the glory! Charting the Bible 48/16/16 3:33 PMCopyrighted material CONTENTSI ntroduction: The Importance of Biblical Chronology .. 71. Why a Chart Book on Bible Chronology? .. 92. How We Got Our 143. Creation 214. Timeline of Elect and Fallen Angels .. 235. The Divine 266. Pre-Flood 307. The Covenants .. 338. Chronology of the Flood .. 389. The Dispensations .. 4110. Post-Flood Genealogy.

4 4511. Exponential Decay Curve .. 4712. Ten Descendants in One Generation .. 4913. From the Flood to the Call of 5114. The 5315. From Bondage to the 5616. The Five Cycles of Covenantal 5917. The Nation of Israel .. 6218. The Feasts of Israel in Bible Prophecy .. 6619. Israel s Prophetic Outline in Deuteronomy 6920. Conquest and Chaos .. 7221. The United 7622. The Wisdom Books .. 7823. Old Testament 8024. The Kings of Israel and 8325. The Babylonian 9026. Daniel s Prophetic 9327. The 70 Weeks of Daniel .. 9628. The Intertestamental Period .. 10029. The Life of Christ .. 10530. Timeline of Matthew 24 25 .. 10831. Chronology of the New Testament 11132. New Testament 11433. Book of Revelation Timeline .. 11734. Future 12035. The Tribulation Timeline .. 12436. The Sequence of Second-Coming Events .. 12737. The 12938. God s Judgments in History and 13339. The Resurrections in History and Prophecy.

5 13740. What Is Your Choice?.. 139 Notes .. 141 Charting the Bible 58/16/16 3:33 PMCopyrighted material Charting the Bible 68/16/16 3:33 PMCopyrighted material The Importance of Biblical Chronology 7 IntroductionTHE IMPORTANCE OF BIBLICAL CHRONOLOGYTHE Bible IS UNIQUE when compared with all other holy books of the world s religions. One reason the Bible is different is the fact it is the only religious work rooted in past history that also predicts future history. All other religions of the world, unless they rely on the Bible at some point, do not rise or fall on whether they are historically true. These other religions are based upon a philosophy or an ethical way of life and do not stand or col-lapse on whether they are historically accurate. While the Bible cer-tainly contains theology and ethics, still, it stands on whether what it says actually happened in history or will occur in the future. Because the Bible is God s revelation of Himself and it presents His outline and interpretation of history, it follows that biblical chronology is included in God s Word and is an extremely important element in His revela-tion to religions and worldviews believe history is an endless cycle of events continually repeating themselves, and thus they conclude that life is meaningless because, from their perspective, it is going nowhere.

6 By contrast, the biblical view of history is linear and not circular. That is, history has a beginning and an ending. It is going somewhere and has purpose and meaning. It began in a garden and is moving toward a city, with a cross in writer of Hebrews said, By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of god , so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible (Hebrews 11:3). In this context, the Greek word translated worlds (ai nas) means ages (aeons) or periods. Also, the word prepared is better understood as created. Thus, God is the creator or author of the ages or epochs of history. This could only be if He were the planner and implementer of history. God planned all the events in history and revealed their meaning, purpose, and significance through His Word. This is why studying the chrono-logical data presented in the Bible is so important! As we look carefully at biblical chronology, we gain a proper understanding of the flow of events and their relationship to one another in God s Bible tells us who we are as human beings, our purpose for being here on planet Earth, how long we have been here, what we are called to do, and where we are headed in the future.

7 In the Charting the Bible 78/16/16 3:33 PMCopyrighted material 8 Charting the Bible Chronologicallychronological revelation within the Bible , we see that God created the heavens and the earth in 6 days a little over 6000 years ago. This indi-cates that the earth is young in relation to other viewpoints concerning the matter of origins. This is true regardless of all of the false specula-tions to the contrary by fallen mankind. God has communicated this information to us through His written revelation known as the master foldout chart at the beginning of this book attempts to depict the chronological relationships and progression of impor-tant people, places, events, and developments throughout history. We see the life spans of pre-Flood men averaging 930 years, but no one makes it to 1000 years. We see the call of Abraham, the slavery of the Hebrews in Egypt, and the exodus led by Moses. We see the Jewish people s entrance into the land of Israel, Israel s kings, the temples, and the dispersions into the Gentile nations.

8 Christ is born, ministers, dies for the sins of the world, is resurrected, and ascends to heaven. The church is born on Pentecost and the church age is now approaching 2000 years of gospel preaching throughout the world. The unique-ness of the Bible appears again as the book of Revelation discloses the future: The rapture of the church, the 7-year tribulation, Christ s second coming, then Christ s millennial kingdom, followed by the transition into the eternal state after the Great White Throne Judg-ment. The final pages of the biblical revelation take us to the new heav-ens, the new earth, and the new Jerusalem the glorious holy city of god . The authors of this book take God s Word seriously, believing that it contains accurate history and a clear revelation of the future. In this book we offer an attempt to chart out those aspects of Scripture that provide us a summary of times and events in God s plan for mankind. Wherever we have a difference of opinion on some minor details, we have deferred to Dr.

9 Ice s chronology on the charts. Our desire is to aid believers in their attempt to grasp the reality of god s Word so that it will help them to trust Him more in the course of living out their daily Bible clearly reveals that history is not just a cyclical series of meaningless events. Rather, it teaches us that history is progress-ing in a linear manner through God-ordained happenings that are moving this world toward the goal of the glorification of god for all eternity. The apostle Paul tells us, For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen (Roman 11:36). Charting the Bible 88/16/16 3:33 PMCopyrighted material Why a Chart Book on Bible Chronology? 91 WHY A CHART BOOK ON Bible CHRONOLOGY?THERE S A POPULAR PROVERB that suggests a picture is worth a thousand words. If that is true, good charts are worth a thousand words when it comes to illustrating chron-ological relationships as revealed in the Bible .

10 The value of chronol-ogy charts is that they enable us to pinpoint the timing of the events described in Scripture and show their relationship to each other. With a chart, we can summarize a subject or theme that, in written form, might take pages to explain. In this book, you will find virtually all the key chronological information from the Bible and how it relates to the passage of key distinctive of biblical Christianity is that God knows and reveals the past, the present, and the future (Isaiah 46:8-11). Only God can do that. Thus, the past and future are settled, and are not open to change. This means we can look at the charts in this book with an assurance that the biblical teachings they portray have taken place or will take place precisely as the Bible says. Because God conceived His plan for history before creation, we can have confidence that events from the past and future have and will take place exactly as He has decreed. Such a realization enables us to fully participate in God s ongoing plan for history with great prayer is that Charting the Bible Chronologically will enable you to gain a better grasp of what Scripture reveals about what has happened, what is happening, and what will happen in the Timeline of History According to the BibleIt is often said that the big questions in life are these: Who are you?