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Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture quotations are taken from the New American Standard Bible , 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org) Verses marked nkjv are taken from the New King James Version . Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.Verses marked kjv are taken from the King James Version of the Bible.Cover by Dugan Design Group, Bloomington, MNThe 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 Times.CHARTING THE BIBLE CHRONOLOGICALLYCopyright 2016 by Ed Hindson and Thomas IcePublished by Harvest House PublishersEugene, Oregon 97402www.harvesthousepublishers.comISBN 978-0-7369-6437-1Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataNames: Hindson, Edward E., author.Title: Charting the Bible chronologically / Ed Hindson and Thomas Ice.Description: Eugene, Oregon : Harvest House Publishers, 2016.Identifiers: LCCN 2016010553 (print) LCCN 2016030785 (ebook) ISBN9780736964371 (hardcover) ISBN 9780736964388 ()Subjects: LCSH: Bible—History of Biblical events.Classification: LCC BS635.3 .H56 2016 (print) LCC BS635.3 (ebook) DDC220.95002/02—dc23LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016010553All 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 publisher.Printed in China16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 / CM-CD / 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1Copyrighted materialCharting the Bible Chronologically.indd 28/17/16 4:28 PM
�� .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 � .Copyrighted materialCharting the Bible Chronologically.indd 38/16/16 3:33 PM
AcknowledgmentsWe want to express our gratitude to Harvest House Publishers for their great support of thisproject—to Bob Hawkins Jr. for accepting our idea for this project, and especially to SteveMiller, who is the best editor one could hope for.We are grateful to Dr. Floyd Nolen Jones and his tremendous work on Bible chronology inhis book The Chronology of the Old Testament. We are also grateful for Dr. John Whitcomb’sOld Testament Chronology chart series we found helpful.We are most grateful to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, for His great gift of salvation andrevealing the Father’s plan for history in His inerrant Word, the Bible. To God be the glory!Copyrighted materialCharting the Bible Chronologically.indd 48/16/16 3:33 PM
CONTENTS21. The United Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76Introduction:The Importance of Biblical Chronology . . . . . . . . .71. Why a Chart Book on Bible Chronology? . . . . . . . .92. How We Got Our Bible . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143. Creation Week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214. Timeline of Elect and Fallen Angels . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235. The Divine Institutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266. Pre-Flood Genealogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307. The Covenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338. Chronology of the Flood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389. The Dispensations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4110. Post-Flood Genealogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4511. Exponential Decay Curve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4712. Ten Descendants in One Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . 4922. The Wisdom Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7823. Old Testament Prophets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8024. The Kings of Israel and Judah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8325. The Babylonian Captivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9026. Daniel’s Prophetic Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 Church . . . . . . 11132. New Testament Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11433. Book of Revelation Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11713. From the Flood to the Call of Abraham . . . . . . . . . 5134. Future Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12014. The Patriarchs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5335. The Tribulation Timeline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12415. From Bondage to the Exodus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5636. The Sequence of Second-Coming Events . . . . . . . . . 12716. The Five Cycles of Covenantal Cursing . . . . . . . . . . 5937. The Millennium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12917. The Nation of Israel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6238. God’s Judgments in History and Prophecy . . . . . . . 13318. The Feasts of Israel in Bible Prophecy . . . . . . . . . . . . 6639. The Resurrections in History and Prophecy . . . . . . . 13719. Israel’s Prophetic Outline in Deuteronomy 4 . . . . . 6940. What Is Your Choice? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13920. Conquest and Chaos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141Copyrighted materialCharting the Bible Chronologically.indd 58/16/16 3:33 PM
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IntroductionTHE IMPORTANCE OF BIBLICALCHRONOLOGYTHE BIBLE IS UNIQUE when compared with all other circular. That is, history has a beginning and an ending. It is going“holy books” of the world’s religions. One reason the Bible somewhere and has purpose and meaning. It began in a garden and isis different is the fact it is the only religious work rooted in moving toward a city, with a cross in between.The writer of Hebrews said, “By faith we understand that thepast history that also predicts future history. All other religions of theworld, unless they rely on the Bible at some point, do not rise or fall worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was noton whether they are historically true. These other religions are based made out of things which are visible” (Hebrews 11:3). In this context,upon a philosophy or an ethical way of life and do not stand or col- the Greek word translated “worlds” (aiönas) means “ages” (aeons) orlapse on whether they are historically accurate. While the Bible cer- “periods.” Also, the word “prepared” is better understood as “created.”tainly contains theology and ethics, still, it stands on whether what it Thus, God is the creator or author of the ages or epochs of history. Thissays actually happened in history or will occur in the future. Because could only be if He were the planner and implementer of history. Godthe Bible is God’s revelation of Himself and it presents His outline and planned all the events in history and revealed their meaning, purpose,interpretation of history, it follows that biblical chronology is included and significance through His Word. This is why studying the chronoin God’s Word and is an extremely important element in His revela- logical data presented in the Bible is so important! As we look carefullyat biblical chronology, we gain a proper understanding of the flow oftion to mankind.Many religions and worldviews believe history is an endless cycle events and their relationship to one another in God’s plan.The Bible tells us who we are as human beings, our purposeof events continually repeating themselves, and thus they concludethat life is meaningless because, from their perspective, it is going for being here on planet Earth, how long we have been here, whatnowhere. By contrast, the biblical view of history is linear and not we are called to do, and where we are headed in the future. In theThe Importance of Biblical Chronology7Copyrighted materialCharting the Bible Chronologically.indd 78/16/16 3:33 PM
chronological revelation within the Bible, we see that God created the transition into the eternal state after the Great White Throne Judgheavens and the earth in 6 days a little over 6000 years ago. This indi- ment. The final pages of the biblical revelation take us to the new heavcates that the earth is young in relation to other viewpoints concerning ens, the new earth, and the new Jerusalem—the glorious holy city ofthe matter of origins. This is true regardless of all of the false specula- God.tions to the contrary by fallen mankind. God has communicated thisThe authors of this book take God’s Word seriously, believing thatinformation to us through His written revelation known as the Bible. it contains accurate history and a clear revelation of the future. In thisThe master foldout chart at the beginning of this book attempts book we offer an attempt to chart out those aspects of Scripture thatto depict the chronological relationships and progression of impor- provide us a summary of times and events in God’s plan for mankind.tant people, places, events, and developments throughout history. We Wherever we have a difference of opinion on some minor details, wesee the life spans of pre-Flood men averaging 930 years, but no one have deferred to Dr. Ice’s chronology on the charts. Our desire is tomakes it to 1000 years. We see the call of Abraham, the slavery of the aid believers in their attempt to grasp the reality of God’s Word so thatHebrews in Egypt, and the exodus led by Moses. We see the Jewish it will help them to trust Him more in the course of living out theirpeople’s entrance into the land of Israel, Israel’s kings, the temples, and daily lives.the dispersions into the Gentile nations. Christ is born, ministers, diesThe Bible clearly reveals that history is not just a cyclical seriesfor the sins of the world, is resurrected, and ascends to heaven. The of meaningless events. Rather, it teaches us that history is progresschurch is born on Pentecost and the church age is now approaching ing—in a linear manner—through God-ordained happenings that2000 years of gospel preaching throughout the world. The unique- are moving this world toward the goal of the glorification of God forness of the Bible appears again as the book of Revelation discloses all eternity. The apostle Paul tells us, “For from Him and throughthe future: The rapture of the church, the 7-year tribulation, Christ’s Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen”second coming, then Christ’s millennial kingdom, followed by the (Roman 11:36).8 Charting the Bible ChronologicallyCopyrighted materialCharting the Bible Chronologically.indd 88/16/16 3:33 PM
1WHY A CHART BOOK ONBIBLE CHRONOLOGY?THERE’S A POPULAR PROVERB that suggests “a pictureis worth a thousand words.” If that is true, good charts areworth a thousand words when it comes to illustrating chronological relationships as revealed in the Bible. The value of chronology charts is that they enable us to pinpoint the timing of the eventsdescribed in Scripture and show their relationship to each other. Witha chart, we can summarize a subject or theme that, in written form,might take pages to explain. In this book, you will find virtually allthe key chronological information from the Bible and how it relatesto the passage of time.One key distinctive of biblical Christianity is that God knows andreveals the past, the present, and the future (Isaiah 46:8-11). Only Godcan do that. Thus, the past and future are settled, and are not opento change. This means we can look at the charts in this book with anassurance that the biblical teachings they portray have taken place orwill take place precisely as the Bible says. Because God conceived Hisplan for history before creation, we can have confidence that eventsfrom the past and future have and will take place exactly as He hasdecreed. Such a realization enables us to fully participate in God’songoing plan for history with great confidence.Our prayer is that Charting the Bible Chronologically will enableyou to gain a better grasp of what Scripture reveals about what hashappened, what is happening, and what will happen in the future.A Timeline of HistoryAccording to the BibleIt is often said that the big questions in life are these: Who are you?Where did you come from? And, Where are you going? The Bible hasthe answers to all three questions. The Lord says,Remember this, and be assured; recall it to mind, youtransgressors. Remember the former things long past, forI am God, and there is no other; I am God, and thereis no one like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things which have not beendone, saying, “My purpose will be established, and I willWhy a Chart Book on Bible Chronology? 9Copyrighted materialCharting the Bible Chronologically.indd 98/16/16 3:33 PM
accomplish all My good pleasure”; calling a bird of preyfrom the east, the man of My purpose from a far country. Truly I have spoken; truly I will bring it to pass. I haveplanned it, surely I will do it (Isaiah 46:8-11).water and by water, through which the world at that timewas destroyed, being flooded with water. But by His wordthe present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire,kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodlymen (2 Pete
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 time. One key distinctive of .
