From Adam to Jesus (Timeline) - Answers in Genesis

1 FROMADAMTOJESUSCREATIONTOCRUCIFIXIONThe genealogy of Jesus Christ is clearly set out in the Bible,which lists all his ancestors right back to Adam, the firstman. These are highlighted in the chart on the followingpanels, just beneath the black wavy line, which represents thestream of time. Above that line are shown the lives of the other descendantsof Adam and Eve, which feature all the well-known charactersfrom the Book of Genesis . This runs to the life of Moses and theExodus from Egypt that led to the entry of the Hebrews to thePromised Land. By this time mankind had increased to suchnumbers that they are impossible to fit on the chart, so from thispoint only the kings of the Jewish kingdoms are shown,including Jesus two illustrious ancestors, King David and dating system used in this book takes as its starting-pointthe traditional chronology of the Bible, believing that the Earthwas created some 6,000 years ago.

2 The chronology wascalculated by Archbishop James Ussher. Ussher was Bishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, atheologian of great repute, in the seventeenth century (hiscontemporary reputation being evidenced by the fact that he wasgive a state funeral on the orders of Oliver Cromwell). His famouswork, Annales veteris testamenti, a prima mundi originededucti(Annals of the Old Testament, deduced from the firstorigins of the world) was published in two volumes, in 1650 and1654, and presented a chronological interpretation of Biblicalevents that won general acceptance. The publisher Thomas Guy(1644 1724), founder of the famous Guy s Hospital in London,first began incorporating the Ussher chronology in his Bibles in1675, and in 1701 the Church of England also adopted Ussher sframework for the Authorized Version(King James).

3 Thus forcenturies the Ussher chronology has been the accepted,traditional timeline of the Bible, used in the famous Scofield Bibleof 1917 and featuring as recently as the 1970s in many GideonBibles. In the 1890s, Professor Edward Hull, Director of theGeological Survey of Ireland and Professor at the Royal Collegeof Science, Dublin, based his famous graphic Timechart Historyof the Worldupon Ussher s chronology. Ussher s method of calculating the date of Creation and of theother events narrated in the Bible was to begin with known datesin Greek and Roman history, then to work backwards addingtogether the ages of the patriarchs and kings, back to Adam andEve.

4 His conclusion, taking account of the seasonal equinoxes(bearing in mind the ripeness of the fruit in the Garden of Eden),was that the Earth was created on the night preceding October 23,4004BC. Others had attempted this calculation before datingback to the medieval English historian Bede, and including thefamous seventeenth century scientists Johannes Kepler (1571 1630) and Sir Isaac Newton (1643 1727) and all identified a datevery close to Ussher s. But Ussher s chronology was perceived tobe accurate and won general acceptance. It is a testimony to Ussher s dating that it has withstood sowell the claims of geological and other scientific discoveries inthe nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

5 Indeed, it is stillregarded as a valuable framework, even when considered inrelative rather than absolute ADAM TO JESUSFrom Adam to 1 11/21/16 10:31 AM Page AACA 0 An and T B T RUNNING HEADLINE 1 God created the Heaven and the Earth" - Gen. i. THERE - - BE LIGHT. And God created man in His own image .. male and female created He them. - Gen i. duration of the period from the Creation to the Flood is variously stated in the Hebrew, the Septuagint, and the Samaritan texts. The time given is shortest in the Samaritan, which makes it 1307 years.

6 The Hebrewenlarges this amount by nearly three centuries and a half, making the time 1656 years. The Septuagint further enlarges it by above six centuries more, estimating the whole period at 2262 years. There are no meansof deciding which of the three estimates is preferable; and it cannot be regarded as certain that the numbers set down by the original writer have been preserved intact in any of them. The Hebrews The Chronological System of ARCHBISHOP USSHER, followed here, and upon which a largemajority of our Histories are founded, enables us to obtain a correct outline of the sequence ofevents, and of the relation of one period to date of birth and the age of Cain (and his descendants) are first Martyr.

7 (date unknown.)ADAM(ANDEVE) 4004 , 2ndfrom AdamIRAD3rdThis mark (?) indicates that the date is unknown or no dates or years aregiven in the line of CAIN,the reader can extend thebirth and life to Grandson of AdamCAINAN 910yrsENOS 905 talked with SETH 800 years, and with ENOS 695 years, and with CAINAN 605 years, and with MAHALALEEL 535 years,SETH 912yrs."And begat sons and daughters." - Gen. V. embraces 2369 years - from the Creation to the death of Joseph, 1635 I - The Creation of the heaven and the earth, CHAP. II. - The Sabbath. The manner of Creation CHAP. III - Adam and Eve's deception, transgression, The curse of labour and pain pronounced, and CenturyPillarsDecadesADAM 130 Gen.

8 Represents the age of Adam when Seth was born, viz 130130 105 Chap 5. V. 90 Gen. only four women whose namesare preserved in the records of theworld before the Flood, are -EVE,ADAH and ZILLAH (Wives of Lamech)and NAAMAH (Daughter of Lamech).Moses assigns no date to this Creation. How long after this Beginning before the advent of Man is unknownprobably estimated the length of the period before the Flood at something between thirteen and twenty-three centuries. Babylonians estimated it at 4320 maintain that man must have existed upon the earth for 300 centuries at the least, and some extend the time to 1000 "First born.

9 " This "line" is all that is?known of Cain and his descendants. - See Gen IV. 16 to 129 , prohibited. (vs. 19, 20), Naming(v. 8), The Garden of Eden. (v. 17). The tree ofits completion, and the order of Nature instituted.(v. 21), Women Created. Marriage creatures. and expulsion from of is 105 when Enos is lines show the genealogy of the first day,God,having created the Heavenand the Earth, separatedthe light from the darknesson the first the second day,Hecreated the firmament, anddivided the waters whichwere under the firmamentfrom those which wereabove it. On the third day,Hedivided the land from theseas; He also commandedthe Earth to bring forthgrass, herbs, and trees.

10 On the fourth day,Hecreated the sun, the moon,and the stars. On the fifth day,Hecreated swimming andflying creatures. On the sixth day,Hecreated beasts, cattle, andcreeping things; created andformed man after His ownimage and likeness, andblessed all His the seventh day,Godrested from all His work,and sanctified that the sixth day, God created Man in His own likeness, ofthe dust of the ground, and breathed in his nostrils thebreath of life . To the first man, Adam, God brought thecattle, beasts of the field and birds of the air so that he couldname them. God gave him a companion, the first woman,Eve, fashioned from one of Adam s ribs, which God tookwhile Adam was asleep.