Bible Storyline Doc 1

INTRODUCTION: Why This Story Matters

Prologue 1 – Before the Beginning: The Triune God and Eternal Love

Prologue 2 – The War Before the Fall: Satan’s Pride and Heaven’s Betrayal

Prologue 3 – Jesus–The Preeminent One of Creation

CREATION

1 – Lingering in Eden: Seeing Creation as It Was Meant to Be

2 – From Nothing to Everything: God’s Masterpiece Begins

3 – The Non-Disposable Planet: Why Creation Matters to God

4 – The Crown of Creation: Man’s Unique Place in God’s World

5 – Crowned with Glory: The Image of God and Man’s Royal Identity

6 – The Kingdom Mandate: Man’s Mission in God’s World

7 – Created for Delight: Flourishing in Eden

8 – Male and Female: Partners for Glory

9 – Created for Relationship: Marriage, Family, and the Human Bond

10 – Guardrails for Life: The Moral Order Established at Creation

11 – Rhythm for Life: Work, Rest, and the Order of Time

FALL

12 – The Invasion of Evil: The Garden Confrontation

13 – The Choice: Will Man Trust God?

14 – Man Defies God: The First Sin

15 – The Fallen Kingdom: How Sin Fractured Man’s Rule and Empowered a Usurper

16 – The Fallout of Rebellion: How Sin Corrupted the World

17 – Image Shattered: The Cost of Self-Rule

18 – Exiled from Eden: The Lost Tree of Life

19 – The End of the Innocence: Shame, Fear, and the Ache of Loss

20 – Echoes of Eden: A Haunting Memory

MESSIANIC HOPE AND SEED

21 – The Long War: The Battle of Seeds

22 – The Serpent Will Be Crushed: Messianic Hope Begins

23 – The Portrait Sharpens: Tracing the Messianic Hope

24 – The Seedline Path: How God’s Promise Unfolds Through History

NOAHIC COVENANT AND NATIONS

25 – Waters of Judgment: The Global Flood and the War for Humanity

26 – The Noahic Covenant: A Foundation for God’s Kingdom Plans

27 – The Birth of the Nations: Babel, Rebellion, and Divine Scattering

28 – From Scattering to Glory: The Nations in God’s Plans

ABRAHAMIC COVENANT: LAND, DESCENDANTS, AND UNIVERSAL BLESSING

29 – The Abrahamic Covenant: God’s Promise to Bless the World

30 – The Promised Land: A Base for Global Blessing

31 – Promise Disrupted: The Land in Exile and Return

32 – The Seed of Promise: Abraham’s Descendants and God’s Global Plan

33 – Blessing Beyond Measure: The Reach of the Abrahamic Covenant

ISRAEL: IDENTITY AND MISSION

34 – What Is Israel?: Understanding the Nation’s Identity

35 – Israel: Chosen for a Purpose

36 – Chosen to Serve: Israel’s Global Calling

37 – Channels of Blessing: How Israel Serves the Nations

38 – Mirror of Mankind: Israel as Vanguard of the Nations

MOSAIC COVENANT: MISSION AND FAILURE

39 – Israel’s Exodus and the Path to the Mosaic Covenant

40 – A Covenant for a Holy Nation: Israel’s Way of Life Under the Law

41 – The Mosaic Covenant: Its Role in God’s Plans

42 – Revealer and Guardian: The Mosaic Covenant’s Deeper Purposes

43 – Not Kept: Israel’s Failure Under the Mosaic Covenant

44 – Hearts Made Alive: The Promise of the New Covenant

DAVIDIC COVENANT: HOPE AND KINGSHIP

45 – Abrahamic Roots of the Davidic Covenant

46 – The Davidic Covenant: An Enduring Royal Line

47 – Royal Law for the Nations

48 – Hope in Exile: The Davidic Covenant and Israel’s Future

NEW COVENANT: PROMISE AND PREVIEW

49 – New Hearts for a Broken People: The Promise of the New Covenant

50 – The New Covenant of Restoration: Israel, the Land, and the Nations

END OF THE OLD TESTAMENT ERA

51 – From Glory to Ruin: Israel’s Descent at the Close of the Old Testament

52 – Kingdom Hope Lives: The Prophets Predict a Glorious Future

53 – Daniel’s Seventy Weeks: The Prophetic Timeline That Frames the End Times

54 – Home but Not Whole: Second Temple Israel and the Prophetic Hope

FIRST COMING: REDEMPTION

55 – The King Arrives in Enemy Territory

56 – The Messiah’s Ministry Begins

57 – World on the Brink: Satan’s Temptation of Jesus

58 – What Is This “At Hand” Kingdom?

59 – The New Covenant Lawgiver: Jesus and the Sermon on the Mount

60 – Missing Her Time of Visitation: Israel Rejects Her King

61 – The Kingdom Delayed: From Near to Not Near

62 – Kingdom Meets Cross: The Transfiguration of Jesus

63 – Passion Week: Visitation, Rejection, and Delay

64 – The Passion of the Servant: From Upper Room to the Cross

65 – Jesus, the Cross, and the Restoration of All Things

66 – Raised in Power: The Resurrection and the New Creation

67 – At the Right Hand: Jesus’ Present Priestly Ministry

CHURCH: BIRTH, MISSION, AND FUTURE REWARD

68 – The Church Begins

69 – The Church Explained

70 – The Church’s Mission in the World

71 – The Church’s Relationship to Israel: Differences and Similarities

72 – The Church and the Abrahamic and Davidic Covenants

73 – The Church and the New Covenant: Blessings Now and Later

74 – The Church’s Relationship to the Kingdom in this Age

75 – Service Leads to Reigning: The Future Rewards of the Church

ISRAEL AND THE CHURCH IN THE PRESENT AGE

76 – Living in the Waiting: Between the Two Advents

77 – Jerusalem Falls: The Judgment of AD 70 and the Long Road of Dispersion

78 – Church Conditions in the Present Age

79 – Enemies Yet Beloved: Israel’s Dual Status

80 – From Tribulation to Glory: Israel’s Final Restoration

81 – Israel’s Fullness and the World’s Hope

THINGS TO COME / DAY OF THE LORD

82 – The Story’s Last Act: Introducing Things to Come

83 – The Coming Reckoning for Evil

84 – The Impending Day of the Lord

85 – Rescued from Wrath: The Rapture of the Church

86 – The Church after the Rapture

87 – The Lamb Seizes the Scroll: Declaring Earth’s Rightful King

88 – The Wrath of the Lamb: Day of the Lord Judgments Begin

89 – The Rise of the Antichrist: Satan’s Man Rules the World

90 – Seals, Trumpets, and Bowls of Wrath: The Judgments of the Lamb Escalate

91 – The Fall of the Antichrist

JESUS’ MILLENNIAL KINGDOM

92 – The King Returns in Glory: The Second Coming of Jesus

93 – Looking on the Pierced One: The Salvation of Israel

94 – From Return to Reign: Jesus Prepares His Kingdom

95 – From Groaning to Glory: The Renewal of Planet Earth

96 – The World Transformed: Life in Jesus’ Millennial Kingdom

97 – The Millennium Explored: Fulfillment and Transition

ETERNAL KINGDOM

98 – The Final Test: Satan’s Revolt and the Last Rebellion

99 – The Great White Throne: Justice Forever Settled

100 – The Dawn of Forever: The Eternal Kingdom of God

Epilogue: Your Place in the Story

INTRODUCTION: WHY THIS STORY MATTERS

The greatest story ever told isn’t found in a children’s book or a novel. It’s found in the Bible. The Bible explains the past, defines the present, and reveals the future. It is full of drama, beauty, and suspense. It has heroes and villains, betrayal and hope, miracles and mystery. The Story begins in a garden, moves through nations, centers on Jesus, extends through the church, and ends with God dwelling with His people on a restored earth.

There are several helpful ways to approach the Bible. You can read it cover to cover. You can study it verse by verse. You can follow the lives of its key persons like Adam, Abraham, Moses, David, Jesus, and Paul. You can trace the great events—creation, the fall, the flood, the exodus, the cross, the resurrection. All of these are valuable. But knowing the Bible’s facts is not the same as understanding its Story and grasping its key themes. It is possible to know its people, events, and places, yet miss how they fit together. Without seeing the Bible’s main themes and how they connect, the Story can feel like a disconnected list of names and events, like a jigsaw puzzle without the picture on the box.

That is why I wrote this book. Its 100 concise sessions are designed to strategically guide you through the Bible’s Story and the great theological themes that shape it. It is carefully designed so you can see the grand sweep of God’s purposes from creation to new creation. This work captures the main persons and events in Scripture. And it also explains the Bible’s most important themes, weaving them together into a unified whole:

Creation
Kingdom
Fall
Messianic Hope
Seed / Descendants
Covenants
Nations
Israel
Redemption / Jesus’ First Coming
Church
Things to Come / Jesus’ Second Coming

These are the God-given building blocks of the Story, the concepts the Bible itself emphasizes. Miss them, and the Bible will remain a set of disconnected episodes. Grasp them, and the narrative comes alive with clarity and depth. They are dynamic realities we must see in action together. These themes are always moving forward toward fulfillment, always unfolding within the Story.

In this book I use Story to refer to the Bible’s grand narrative from Genesis 1 through Revelation 22. I use Storyline to refer to the thread that holds that narrative together: the sequence of themes by which God’s plan advances through history. At times these terms overlap in meaning since both refer to the Bible’s overarching narrative. But in this work I’ll use Story for the whole drama of Scripture, and Storyline for the thread of themes that advance God’s purposes.

At the center of every theme, and the Story itself, is Jesus Christ, the focal point of all God’s purposes. Every theme is related to Him and comes together through Him. He is the One in whom every promise converges and through whom every divine purpose will be fulfilled. As Paul says in Ephesians 1:10, God’s plan for everything is “the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth.”

This project offers a full-scope, multi-dimensional view of the Bible. We don’t reduce the Bible’s Story to merely personal redemption or how individuals get saved. Individual salvation is important, but it is not the end of the Story but a means to a greater end. Instead, we trace how Scripture points forward to the Story’s fulfillment in the kingdom of God on earth. This will be a real reign of Jesus and His saints over the nations, on a renewed and tangible planet. The Bible presents this renewal as the outcome of the great cosmic war between God and the forces of evil—a conflict waged throughout history. God’s unshakable plan is to crush His enemies, defeat Satan, reverse the curse, and establish a righteous kingdom where every dimension of life is restored and flourishes under Christ’s victorious reign.

Also, unlike many studies that avoid the future or treat it as unimportant, this book follows the Story to its appointed climax. We don’t shrink back from what the Bible says about the Things to Come. We speak openly about the Rapture, the Day of the Lord, the return of Jesus to earth, His kingdom reign, the final judgments, the resurrection of the dead, and the restoration of all things. These are not side notes to the Story; they are the final chapters of the Bible’s own Story.

This book is for readers 15 and older who want to understand the Bible’s message with both depth and clarity. We do not shy away from deep biblical truths, yet we present them in a way that is understandable. At times, we will step into deeper waters, especially when it comes to topics like kingdom, messianic hope, and covenants. Yet even then our goal is clarity. We reject the idea that theology is reserved for scholars or locked away in dense volumes with endless footnotes.

Each of the 100 sessions and three prologue entries is concise, about two to five pages each. These sessions are built around a key theme or themes that anchor each session in the Bible’s Storyline. To help you grasp the heart of each study, every session ends with a Storyline Focus—a sentence that summarizes its main point and shows how it fits into the larger Story. Finally, each session includes two reflection questions, one doctrinal (knowing) and one practical (living), to help you process its truths and apply them to your life.

Sessions can be read at your own pace, used for personal study or devotion, discussed in small groups, or drawn upon for teaching. Arranged in historical and theological order, each one builds naturally on the last, creating a comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the full sweep of Scripture.

The style of this book is theological narrative. We follow the Bible’s Storyline by tracing its major theological themes. And our interpretive approach is the Literal-Grammatical-Historical method. In other words, we read the Bible in its context, according to its plain sense. We aim to uncover the meaning intended by the authors, paying close attention to words, grammar, and historical setting. We let the Bible itself define its promises, covenants, and purposes, and we trace how these unfold in real time and space.

When you finish this journey you will know the Story better. You will see how the Bible fits together, how its themes unfold, and how every part connects to the whole. You will grasp God’s plan in full color. As a result, you will recognize your place in the unfolding drama more clearly.

So I invite you—take up this journey. Step into the Story one session at a time. And watch how every theme draws you to Jesus, His victory over evil, His reign as King, and the glory of a restored creation.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION: WHY THIS STORY MATTERS

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