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Yuko Brash

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Genesis 1:1

[The] Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the water. Genesis 1:2

When he established the heavens, I was there; when he marked out the horizon over the face of the deep,

when he established the clouds above, when he secured the fountains of the deep,

when he gave the sea his decree that the waters should not pass over his command,

when he marked out the foundations of the earth, then I was beside him as a master craftsman,

and I was his delight day by day, rejoicing before him at all times,

rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth, and delighting in its people.

Proverbs 8:27-31

The heavens declare the glory of God; the sky displays his handiwork. Psalm 19:1

By the Lord’s decree the heavens were made; and by the breath of his mouth all the starry hosts.

Psalm 33:6

Genesis 1:1－2:3 Creation

Creation

In Ages Past 1

The LORD God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, every tree that was pleasing to look at and good for food. (Now the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil were in the middle of the orchard.) Genesis 2:9

Then the LORD God commanded the man, “You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die.” Genesis 2:16, 17

Genesis 2:4－2:25 The Garden of Eden

In Ages Past

Creation/ The Garden of Eden

2

That is why a man leaves his father and mother and unites with his wife, and they become a new family. The man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed. Genesis 2:24, 25

Genesis 3 The Fall

So that huge dragon – the ancient

serpent, the one called the devil and

Satan, who deceives the whole world –

was thrown down to the earth, and his

angels along with him. Revelation 12:9

When the woman saw that the tree produced fruit that was good for food, was attractive to the eye, and was desirable for making one wise, she took some of its fruit and ate it. She also gave some of it to her husband who was with her, and he ate it. Genesis 3:6

Promise

For the payoff of sin is death,

but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 6:23

In Ages Past

Creation/ The Fall

3

Now the serpent was more shrewd than any of the wild animals that the LORD God had made.

Genesis 3:1

“And I will put hostility

between you and the woman

and between your offspring and her

offspring;

her offspring will attack your head,

and you will attack her offspring’s

heel.” Genesis 3:15

When [God] drove the man

out, he placed on the eastern

side of the orchard in Eden

angelic sentries who used the

flame of a whirling sword to

guard the way to the tree of

life. Genesis 3:24

For I delight in faithfulness,

not simply in sacrifice;

I delight in acknowledging God,

not simply in whole burnt offerings.

At Adam they broke the covenant;

Oh how they were unfaithful to me!

Hosea 6:6, 7

Genesis 4－7 The Increase of Evil

But the LORD saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.

Genesis 6:5

Noah was a godly man; he was blameless among his contemporaries. He walked with God.

Genesis 6:9

Promise

In Ages Past

Cain

I am about to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy

from under the sky all the living creatures that have

the breath of life in them. Everything that is on the

earth will die, but I will confirm my covenant with you.

You will enter the ark—you, your sons, your wife, and

your sons’ wives with you.

Genesis 6:17, 18

Adam ＆

Eve

Abel Seth

Enosh, Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech Noah

“And I will put hostility between

you and the woman

and between your offspring and

her offspring;

her offspring will attack your head,

and you will attack her

offspring’s heel.” Genesis 3:15

So Cain went out from the

presence of the LORD and

lived in the land of Nod,

east of Eden. Genesis 4:16

By faith Noah, when he was warned

about things not yet seen, with

reverent regard constructed an ark

for the deliverance of his family.

Through faith he condemned the

world and became an heir of the

righteousness that comes by faith.

Hebrews 11:7

Noah’s Ark

4

And Adam had marital

relations with his wife again,

and she gave birth to a son.

She named him Seth, saying,

“God has given me another

child in place of Abel because

Cain killed him.” And a son

was also born to Seth, whom

he named Enosh. At that

time people began to worship

the LORD. Genesis 4:25, 26

Genesis 8－11 From the Flood to Babel

In Ages Past

Ham

Japheth

The Tower of Babel

The whole earth had a common language and a common vocabulary. When the people moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there. … Then they said, “Come, let’s build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth.” But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building. And the LORD said, “If as one people all sharing a common language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be beyond them. Come, let’s go down and confuse their language so they won’t be able to understand each other.” … That is why its name was called Babel—because there the LORD confused the language of the entire world, and from there the LORD scattered them across the face of the entire earth. Genesis 11:1-9

Shem Noah Arphaxad, Shelah, Eber, Peleg, Reu, Serug, Nahor, Terah, Abram

Then God blessed Noah and his sons and

said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply

and fill the earth. Every living creature of

the earth and every bird of the sky will be

terrified of you. Everything that creeps on

the ground and all the fish of the sea are

under your authority. … Look! I now

confirm my covenant with you and your

descendants after you and with every

living creature that is with you. … Never

again will all living things be wiped out by

the waters of a flood; never again will a

flood destroy the earth. … When the

rainbow is in the clouds, I will notice it

and remember the perpetual covenant

between God and all living creatures of all

kinds that are on the earth.”

Genesis 9:1-16

Noah’s Ark

5

Look how you have fallen from the sky, O shining one, son of the dawn! … You said to yourself, “I will climb up to the sky.

Above the stars of El I will set up my throne. … I will make myself like the Most High!”

But you were brought down to Sheol, to the remote slopes of the Pit.

Isaiah 14:12-15

Genesis 12-50 The Age of the Patriarchs

c. 2000 — 1500 BC

But as the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham, the people increased greatly in number in Egypt, until another king who did not know about Joseph ruled over Egypt.

Acts 7:17, 18

Ishmael

By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going. Hebrews 11:8

“Your father Abraham was overjoyed to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.” John 8:56

Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go out from your country, your relatives, and your father’s household to the land that I will show you. … and all the families of the earth will bless one another by your name.” Genesis 12:1-3

Jacob ↓

Israel

Esau

4.Judah

1．Reuben 2．Simeon 3．Levi 5．Dan 6．Naphtali 7．Gad 8．Asher 9．Issachar 10.Zebulun 11.Joseph 12.Benjamin

Isaac

The LORD took him outside and said, “Gaze into the sky and count the stars — … So will your descendants be.” Abram believed the LORD, and the LORD considered his response of faith as proof of genuine loyalty. The LORD said to him, “I am the LORD who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.” Genesis 15:5-7

Abram ↓

Abraham

Then God gave Abraham the covenant of circumcision, and so he became the father of Isaac and circumcised him when he was eight days old, and Isaac became the father of Jacob, and Jacob of the twelve patriarchs.

Acts 7:8

Now, do not be upset and do not be angry with yourselves because you sold me here, for God sent me ahead of you to preserve life! … So now, it is not you who sent me here, but God.

Genesis 45:5, 8 As for you, you meant to harm me, but God intended it for a good purpose, so he could preserve the lives of many people, as you can see this day.

Genesis 50:20

“Come closer to me, … I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.” Genesis 45:4

This means it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God; rather, the children of promise are counted as descendants. Romans 9:8 But you, brothers and sisters, are children of the promise like Isaac. Galatians 4:28

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.” Genesis 15:13

“No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him, “but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed.” Genesis 32:28

The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs; the nations will obey him. Genesis 49:10

The Story of Abraham

The Story of Jacob

The Story of Joseph

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Exodus - Joshua Redemption, Law, the Promised Land

c. 1500 – 1375 BC

Moses

Joshua

The LORD said to Moses …, “Tell the whole community of Israel … [to] take a lamb for themselves according to their families, … [and to] kill it around sundown. They will take some of the blood and put it on the two side posts and top of the doorframe of the houses where they will eat it. … You are to eat it in haste. It is the LORD’s Passover. I will pass through the land of Egypt in the same night, and I will attack all the firstborn in the land of Egypt…. I am the Lord. The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, so that when I see the blood I will pass over you, and this plague will not fall on you to destroy you when I attack the land of Egypt.” Exodus 12:1-13

[As] the time drew near for God to fulfill the promise he had declared to Abraham, … Moses was born. … [When] he was about forty years old, it entered his mind to visit his fellow countrymen the Israelites. … After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the desert of Mount Sinai, in the flame of a burning bush. … ‘I am the God of your forefathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. … I have certainly seen the suffering of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their groaning, and I have come down to rescue them. Now come, I will send you to Egypt.’ … This man [Moses] led them out, performing wonders and miraculous signs in the land of Egypt, at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years. This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, ‘God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your brothers.’ This is the man who was in the congregation in the wilderness … and he received living oracles to give to you. … Our ancestors had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as God who spoke to Moses ordered him to make it according to the design he had seen. Our ancestors received possession of it and brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before our ancestors, until the time of David. Acts 7:17-45

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Now the LORD was going before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them in the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel day or night. Exodus 13:21

[The] LORD said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant: … “Be strong and brave! Don’t be afraid.” Joshua 1:1-9

But the Israelites walked on dry ground in the middle of the sea, the water forming a wall for them on their right and on their left. So the LORD saved Israel on that day from the power of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore of the sea. Exodus 14:29, 30

The Story of Moses

The Wall of Jericho

7

Ruth King Solomon David and

Goliath

Judges to Kings The Rule of the Judges to a United Kingdom

c. 1375 – 930 BC

Samuel

Boaz Salmon Obed Jesse David Solomon

Saul

1

2 3

In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right. Judges 21:25 (c. 1375 – 1050 BC)

The 12 Judges 1. Othniel 2. Ehud 3. Shamgar 4. Deborah 5. Gideon 6. Tola 7. Jair 8. Jephthah 9. Ibzan 10. Elon 11. Abdon 12. Samson

Salmon the father of Boaz (by Rahab), Boaz the father of Obed (by Ruth), Obed the father of Jesse … Matthew 1:5

Then Samuel said to Saul, “You have made a foolish choice! You have not obeyed the commandment that the LORD your God gave you. Had you done that, the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel forever! But now your kingdom will not continue! The LORD has sought out for himself a man who is loyal to him and the LORD has appointed him to be leader over his people, for you have not obeyed what the LORD commanded you.” I Samuel 13:13, 14

When the time comes for you to die, I will raise up your descendant, one of your own sons, to succeed you, and I will establish his kingdom. He will build a house for my name, and I will make his dynasty permanent. I will become his father and he will become my son.

II Samuel 7:12-14

In the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites left Egypt, … [Solomon] began building the LORD’s temple. “As for this temple you are building, if you follow my rules, observe my regulations, and obey all my commandments, I will fulfill through you the promise I made to your father David. I will live among the Israelites and will not abandon my people Israel.” So Solomon finished building the temple.

I Kings 6:1, 12-14

c. 1050 BC

1010 BC David becomes king in Hebron

1000 BC Kingship firmly

established 970 BC

Gideon Samson

8

Samuel Your house and your kingdom will stand before me permanently; your dynasty will be permanent.

II Samuel 7:16

Kings, Chronicles, Prophets Divided Kingdom

930 – 586 BC

Rehoboam, Abijah, Asa, Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, Ahaziah, Athaliah, Jehoash, Amaziah, Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, Hezekiah, Manasseh, Amon, Josiah, Jehoahaz, Jehoiakim, Jehoiachin, Zedekiah

930 BC

Kingdom Divided 930 BC

722 BC 586 BC

N

S

The fall of Jerusalem

The fall of Samaria

The Assyrians take the people of Israel into captivity

The Exile

Northern Kingdom: Israel

Southern Kingdom: Judah

The story of Naaman, commander of

the army of the king of Aram

(II Kings Chapter 5)

Prophets: Elijah, Elisha, Jonah & Amos, Hosea, Micah & Isaiah, Joel, Nahum, Zephaniah & Habakkuk Jeremiah

Northern Kingdom Destroyed

Kingdom of Judah

destroyed 586 BC

Capital: Samaria Ten tribes Golden calves at Dan and Bethel

Capital: Jerusalem King David’s line continues. Two tribes only: Judah and Benjamin

Jeremiah Over and over again the LORD has sent his servants the prophets to you.

But you have not listened or paid attention. He said through them, ‘Each

of you must turn from your wicked ways and stop doing the evil things you

are doing. If you do, I will allow you to continue to live here in the land

that I gave to you and your ancestors as a lasting possession. Do not pay

allegiance to other gods and worship and serve them. Do not make me

angry by the things that you do. Then I will not cause you any harm.’

Jeremiah 25:4-6

The LORD says, “As surely as I am the living God, you, Jeconiah, king of Judah, son of Jehoiakim, will not be the earthly representative of

my authority. Indeed, I will take that right away from you. I will hand you over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon … .”

Jeremiah 22:24-26

“So I, the LORD, affirm that I will send for all the peoples of the north and my servant, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants and all the nations that surround it. I will utterly destroy this land, its inhabitants, and all the nations that surround it and make them everlasting ruins. I will make them objects of horror and hissing scorn. … This whole area … will be subject to the king of Babylon for seventy years. But when the seventy years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and his nation for their sins. I will make the land of Babylon an everlasting ruin. I, the LORD, affirm it!” Jeremiah 25:9-12

Zedekiah … [and all] the leaders of the priests and people became more unfaithful and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations. They defiled the LORD’s temple which he had consecrated in Jerusalem. The LORD … brought against them the king of the Babylonians, who … carried away to Babylon all the items in God’s temple, whether large or small, as well as what was in the treasuries of the LORD’s temple and in the treasuries of the king and his officials. They burned down the LORD’s temple and tore down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned all its fortified buildings and destroyed all its valuable items. He deported to Babylon all who escaped the sword. They served him and his sons until the Persian kingdom rose to power. This took place to fulfill the LORD’s message delivered through Jeremiah. The land experienced its sabbatical years; it remained desolate for seventy years, as prophesied. II Chronicles 36:11-21

1 Jeroboam 2 Nadab, 3 Baasha

4 Elah, 5 Zimri, 6 Omri

7 Ahab, 8 Ahaziah, 9 Jehoram 10 Jehu

11 Jehoahaz 12 Joash 13 Jeroboam II 14 Zachariah, 15 Shallum, 16 Menahem 17 Pekahiah, 18 Pekah, 19 Hosea

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

Elijah Jonah

9

Look, this young woman is about to conceive and will give birth to a son. You, young woman, will name him Immanuel. Isaiah 7:14

Manasseh … rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed; he set up altars for Baal and made an Asherah pole … [and] bowed down to all the stars in the sky and worshiped them. … In the two courtyards of the LORD’s temple he built altars for all the stars in the sky. He passed his son through the fire and practiced divination and omen reading. He set up a ritual pit to conjure up underworld spirits, and appointed magicians to supervise it. He did a great amount of evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking him to anger. … Furthermore Manasseh killed so many innocent people, he stained Jerusalem with their blood from end to end, in addition to encouraging Judah to sin by doing evil in the sight of the LORD. II Kings 21:1-16

During Jehoiakim’s reign, King

Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked. …

The LORD sent against him … raiding

bands; he sent them to destroy Judah, as

he had warned he would do through his

servants the prophets. Just as the LORD

had announced, he rejected Judah

because of all the sins which Manasseh

had committed. Because he killed

innocent people and stained Jerusalem

with their blood … II Kings 24:1-4

Ezra – Esther, Prophets The Exile and Return, Intertestamental Period

c. 580 – 4 BC

Prophets: Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Obadiah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi

c. 550 BC

c. 550 BC

Akim, Elihud, Eleazar, Matthan, Jacob, Joseph

Jeconiah→ Shealtiel, Zerubbabel, Abihud, Eliakim, Azor, Zadok,

538 BC 536 BC 530 – 522 BC 522 – 486 BC 520 BC 515 BC 486 – 465 BC 458 BC 445 BC c. 4 BC Persian King Cyrus issues edict of return from exile. (Ezra 1:1)

First group of Jews return to Jerusalem; Beginning of construction of second Temple. (Ezra 3:10）

Temple construction work halted. (Ezra chapter 4）

Prophets Haggai and Zechariah stir up the people. (Books of Haggai and Zechariah)

Temple construction restarts. (Ezra chapter 5, 6:1-13)

Second Temple completed (Ezra 6:14-22）

Under the reign of Xerxes, Esther becomes Queen,

and saves the Jews from genocide. (Between Ezra chapter 6 and 7)

Reign of Artaxerxes; Group of Jews led by

Ezra returns to Jerusalem. (Ezra chapters 7-10)

Rebuilding of the city walls (Nehemiah ch. 1-7)

During Exile

The Fall of Babylon 539 BC

The fall of the Persian Empire

330 BC

The rise and fall of the Grecian (Seleucid), Egyptian (Ptolemaic),

and other ancient empires c. 330 – 60 BC

The revolt of the Maccabees → Hasmonean Kingdom

164 – 63 BC

The Roman rule over Palestine

63 BC –

“On that day,’ says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, ‘I will take you, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, my servant,’ says the LORD, ‘and I will make you like a signet ring, for I have chosen you,’ says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.” Haggai 2:23

I am about to send my messenger, who will clear the way before me. Indeed, the Lord you are seeking will suddenly come to his temple, and the messenger of the covenant, whom you long for, is certainly coming,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. Malachi 3:1

“Indeed, a time is coming,” says the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah. It will not be like the old covenant that I made with their ancestors when I delivered them from Egypt. For they violated that covenant, even though I was like a faithful husband to them,” says the LORD. “But I will make a new covenant with the whole nation of Israel after I plant them back in the land,” says the LORD. “I will put my law within them and write it on their hearts and minds. I will be their God and they will be my people. People will no longer need to teach their neighbors and relatives to know me. For all of them, from the least important to the most important, will know me,” says the LORD. “For I will forgive their sin and will no longer call to mind the wrong they have done.” Jeremiah 31:31-34

“After all of this I will pour out my Spirit on all kinds of people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy. Your elderly will have prophetic dreams; your young men will see visions. Even on male and female servants I will pour out my Spirit in those days. … It will so happen that everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be delivered.”

Joel 2:28-32

“I will take you from the nations and gather you from all

the countries; then I will bring you to your land. I will

sprinkle you with pure water and you will be clean from all

your impurities. I will purify you from all your idols. I will

give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you.

I will remove the heart of stone from your body and give you

a heart of flesh. I will put my Spirit within you; I will take

the initiative and you will obey my statutes and carefully

observe my regulations. Then you will live in the land I gave

to your fathers; you will be my people, and I will be your

God.” Ezekiel 36:24-28

The Longed-for Messiah

At around 4 BC there was a man in Jerusalem

named Simeon who was righteous and devout,

looking for the restoration of Israel, and the Holy

Spirit was upon him. It had been revealed to him

by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he

had seen the Lord’s Christ.

Luke 2:25, 26

Like Simeon, and Anna (who is also mentioned in

Luke’s Gospel), there were many Jews who

eagerly waited for the promised Messiah to come,

under the oppression of successive foreign rulers.

c. 450 BC

In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, in fulfillment of the LORD’s message spoken through Jeremiah, the LORD motivated King Cyrus of Persia to issue a proclamation throughout his kingdom and also to put it in writing. It read: “This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: ‘The LORD God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth. He has appointed me to build a temple for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Anyone of his people among you may go up there and may the LORD his God be with him!’”

II Chronicles 36:22, 23

Intertestamental Period

10

The rise of the Persian Empire

The end of the Old Testament

Daniel Esther

The Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) The life, mission, teaching, death, and resurrection of Jesus

c. BC 4 – AD 30

Jesus of Nazareth BC 4

Today your Savior is born in the city of David. He is Christ the Lord.

Luke 2:11

Now Jesus … went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day …[and he] stood up to read, and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written, “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and the regaining of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” … “Today this scripture has been fulfilled even as you heard it being read.”

Luke 4:16-21

And a voice came from heaven: “You are my dear Son; in you I take great delight.” Mark 1:11

For even the Son of Man did not

come to be served but to serve,

and to give his life as a ransom

for many. Mark 10:45

“But this has happened so that the scriptures of the prophets would be fulfilled.” Matthew 26:56

“My God, my God, why have you

forsaken me?” Mark 15:34

Jesus said,

“It is completed!”

Then he bowed his

head and gave up

his spirit.

John 19:30

Then he took it down,

wrapped it in a linen

cloth, and placed it in

a tomb cut out of the

rock, where no one

had yet been buried.

Luke 23:53

But he said to them, “Do not be alarmed. You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has been raised! He is not here. Look, there is the place where they laid him. But go, tell his disciples, even Peter, that he is going ahead of you into Galilee. You will see him there, just as he told you.”

Mark 16:6, 7

c. AD 30

“This cup that is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood.”

Luke 22:20

He said, “The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the gospel!”

Mark 1:15

For every one of God’s promises are “Yes” in him [Jesus Christ].

II Corinthians 1:20a

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was fully God. Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory.

John 1:1, 14a

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Christmas Story 1

Young Jesus and John the Baptist A Wedding at Cana Feeding of the

5000 The Good Samaritan On the Way to

the Cross

Christmas Story 2

Satan Tempts Jesus in the Wilderness Get Up and Walk! Zacchaeus and the

Rich Young Ruler The Lost Sheep

Christmas Story 3

Follow Me! The Kingdom of God Martha and Mary Peter’s Promise

Acts, Epistles, Revelation The Church Age and the End Times

c. AD 30 – The End Times

c. AD 30 The Last Days

The End of this World

“Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Romans 10:13

To the same apostles also, after his suffering, he presented himself alive with many convincing proofs. He was seen by them over a forty-day period and spoke about matters concerning the kingdom of God. While he was with them, he declared, “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait there for what my Father promised, which you heard about from me. For John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now. … [You] will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the farthest parts of the earth.” After he had said this, while they were watching, he was lifted up and a cloud hid him from their sight. Acts 1:3-9 Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like a violent wind blowing came from heaven and filled the entire house where they were sitting. And tongues spreading out like a fire appeared to them and came to rest on each one of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in other languages as the Spirit enabled them.

Acts 2:1-4

“Repent, and each one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is for you and your children, and for all who are far away, as many as the Lord our God will call to himself. … Save yourselves from this perverse generation!”

Acts 2:38-40

(Look ! I am coming soon, … I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end!) Blessed are those who wash their robes [in the blood of the Lamb] so they can have access to the tree of life and can enter into the city by the gates. “I, Jesus, … am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star!” “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who wants it take the water of life free of charge. I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy contained in this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city that are described in this book.

Revelation 22:12-19

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had ceased to exist, and the sea existed no more. … “Look! The residence of God is among human beings. He will live among them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death will not exist any more – or mourning, or crying, or pain, for the former things have ceased to exist.” The [holy] city possesses the glory of God; its brilliance is like a precious jewel, like a stone of crystal-clear jasper. … Now I saw no temple in the city, because the Lord God – the All-Powerful – and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God lights it up, and its lamp is the Lamb. 24 The nations will walk by its light and the kings of the earth will bring their grandeur into it. 25 Its gates will never be closed during the day (and there will be no night there). … Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life – water as clear as crystal – pouring out from the throne of God and of the Lamb, flowing down the middle of the city’s main street. On each side of the river is the tree of life producing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month of the year. Its leaves are for the healing of the nations. And there will no longer be any curse, and the throne of God and the Lamb will be in the city. His servants will worship him, and they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads. … and they will reign forever and ever.

Revelation chapter 21 & chapter 22:1-5

“Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God, the All-Powerful, Who was and who is, and who is still to come!” “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, since you created all things, and because of your will they existed and were created!”

Revelation 4:8, 11

The Beginning of the Church Paul’s Conversion

The New Heavens and the New Earth

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Acknowledgements

I was inspired by The New “Panorama” Bible Study Course, Study Number 1 “The Plan of the Ages” by Alfred Thompson Eade (ISBN 0-8007-1578-0).

The theological stance of The New “Panorama” Bible Study Course is Dispensationalism, but the present presentation takes a covenantal approach.

Illustrations

Most illustrations are downloaded from:

http://www.illust-box.jp/

The Bible illustrations are downloaded from:

http://pub.distantshores.org/resources/illustrations/sweet-publishing

The map on sheet 7 was taken from:

http://freebibleimages.org/illustrations/maps-egypt/

The map on sheet 9 was taken from:

http://www.bible.ca/maps/

The picture-book covers at the bottom of each page are those that I own and use often in the Bible studies I lead. I have obtained permission from the copyright-

holder to use these pictures for this work.

All other illustrations are created by Yuko Brash.

Scripture quoted by permission. All scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the NET Bible® copyright ©1996-2017 by Biblical Studies

Press, L.L.C. All rights reserved.

The present work was prepared with quotations from the Japanese Bible for my own use in Bible studies, but I would be glad to have it used by others for the sake

of the Gospel. In particular, I should be glad if English-speaking Christians might find a use for this resource in bilingual form for evangelism among the Japanese.

Yuko Brash

Edinburgh, April 2018