From creation to Revelation.

The creation of the heavens and the earth in six days, climaxing in humanity made in God's image.

Date follows the traditional Masoretic young-earth chronology (Ussher-adjacent: ~4004 BC).

Adam and Eve's disobedience in Eden and exile from the garden; entry of sin and death into the world.

The first murder: Cain kills his brother Abel out of jealousy over their offerings; Cain is exiled and marked.

Enoch walked with God for 365 years and was no more, for God took him — taken to heaven without dying.

Yahweh judges the antediluvian world by a year-long flood; Noah and his family preserved in the ark on Ararat. Methuselah dies the year of the flood.

Confusion of languages and scattering of post-flood humanity at Shinar; the origin of the nations.

Yahweh calls Abram out of Ur of the Chaldees and Haran with the threefold promise of land, descendants, and blessing to all nations.

Yahweh formally cuts covenant with Abram (Genesis 15) and ratifies it with the sign of circumcision (Genesis 17).

Cities of the plain destroyed by fire from heaven; Lot and his daughters delivered.

Abraham's testing on Mount Moriah; the ram caught in the thicket as substitutionary sacrifice — a foreshadowing of the cross.

Sarah dies at 127. Abraham buys the Cave of Machpelah from Ephron the Hittite — the first piece of the Promised Land owned by the family.

Twin sons born to Isaac and Rebekah after twenty years of barrenness; the older shall serve the younger.

Fleeing Esau, Jacob dreams of a ladder reaching heaven with angels ascending and descending; the LORD reaffirms the Abrahamic covenant.

On the eve of meeting Esau, Jacob wrestles a divine man until daybreak; renamed Israel — 'one who struggles with God.'

Joseph sold by his brothers; Yahweh providentially raises him to be vizier of Egypt; Jacob's family relocates to Goshen.

At Horeb, Yahweh appears to Moses in a bush that burns without being consumed and reveals the divine name 'I AM.'

While Moses is on the mountain, Aaron forms a calf of gold for the people to worship; Moses shatters the first tablets, and 3,000 die.

Yahweh gives the Decalogue and the law at Mount Sinai; the tabernacle is built and consecrated.

Yahweh delivers Israel from Egyptian bondage through the ten plagues, Passover, and the splitting of the Red Sea — the founding redemption of the Old Testament.

Early date (~1446 BC) follows 1 Kings 6:1 + 480 years before Solomon's temple. Late date (~1260 BC) is held by many archaeologists; we use the early date.

Forty years in the wilderness following the spy report; the unbelieving generation dies before entry into the land.

Joshua leads Israel across the Jordan; Jericho, Ai, the southern campaign, and the northern campaign; tribal allotments distributed.

Moses ascends Nebo, sees the Promised Land, and dies at 120; the LORD himself buries him in an unknown grave.

Israel marches around Jericho seven days; on the seventh, the priests blow trumpets and the walls collapse — the first city of the conquest.

Cycles of apostasy, oppression, and deliverance through Othniel, Ehud, Deborah, Gideon, Jephthah, Samson, and others.

Samuel anoints Saul as Israel's first king at the people's demand.

The young shepherd David fells the Philistine champion Goliath of Gath with a sling and stone in the Valley of Elah.

Samuel anoints David in Bethlehem; David later reigns over Judah at Hebron, then over all Israel at Jerusalem.

Yahweh promises David an everlasting house, throne, and kingdom through his offspring.

Solomon adjudicates between two mothers claiming the same child by ordering it cut in half — exposing the true mother. All Israel feared the king when they heard the verdict.

Solomon builds and dedicates the first temple in Jerusalem.

The Queen of Sheba travels from southern Arabia to test Solomon with hard questions; her breath is taken away by his wisdom and the splendor of his court.

After Solomon's death, ten northern tribes secede under Jeroboam I, leaving Rehoboam with Judah and Benjamin.

Elijah confronts the prophets of Baal in front of all Israel; fire falls and consumes the sacrifice. The LORD, he is God.

Elijah is taken up to heaven in a chariot of fire across the Jordan; Elisha receives a double portion of his spirit.

After fleeing to Tarshish and being swallowed by a great fish, Jonah preaches to Nineveh; the entire city repents from king to cattle.

Sargon II of Assyria destroys Samaria and deports the northern kingdom; Israel ceases as a political entity.

Sennacherib of Assyria invades Judah, takes 46 fortified cities, but his siege of Jerusalem under Hezekiah is broken by the angel of Yahweh.

Seventy-year exile of Judah in Babylon; setting of Daniel and Ezekiel.

Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon destroys Jerusalem and the first temple; Judah deported. Two earlier deportations occurred in 605 (Daniel) and 597 (Jehoiachin, Ezekiel).

Under Darius the Mede, Daniel is thrown to the lions for praying to Yahweh; God shuts the lions' mouths and Daniel emerges unharmed.

Cyrus the Great permits the Jews to return and rebuild the temple; Zerubbabel and Joshua lead the first return.

The temple is rebuilt under Zerubbabel and Joshua, encouraged by Haggai and Zechariah, in the sixth year of Darius I.

In Susa under Xerxes I, Esther exposes Haman's genocidal plot; the Jews are delivered and the feast of Purim is instituted.

Ezra leads a second return to Jerusalem to teach the law and reform the community.

Nehemiah, cupbearer to Artaxerxes I, leads the rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls in 52 days.

The roughly 400 'silent years' between Malachi and John the Baptist; Persian, Hellenistic, Maccabean, and Roman dominations.

The incarnation: Jesus is born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the Great. The traditional 1 BC dating is 4-5 years late; Herod died in 4 BC, placing the nativity ~6-4 BC.

Gabriel appears to Mary in Nazareth and announces that she will conceive by the Holy Spirit and bear the Son of the Most High.

Wise men from the east follow a star to the child Jesus and present gold, frankincense, and myrrh; Joseph then flees with the family to Egypt.

John the Baptist baptizes Jesus in the Jordan; the Spirit descends and the Father speaks.

The roughly three-and-a-half-year public ministry from Jesus' baptism to his crucifixion: Galilean ministry, journeys through Samaria and Perea, and Judean confrontations.

Jesus delivers the Beatitudes and the manifesto of the kingdom on a mountainside in Galilee — the most extensive sermon of his recorded teaching.

Jesus multiplies five loaves and two fish to feed five thousand men besides women and children — recorded in all four gospels.

On a high mountain, Jesus is transfigured before Peter, James, and John; Moses and Elijah appear; the Father's voice declares 'This is my Son.'

Forty days after the resurrection, Jesus ascends from the Mount of Olives.

Jesus is crucified outside Jerusalem at Golgotha at Passover; buried in a new tomb. Most likely date: 14 Nisan, AD 30 or AD 33.

Ten days after the ascension, the Holy Spirit is poured out on the 120 in Jerusalem; Peter preaches and 3,000 are baptized.

On the third day, Jesus rises bodily from the dead; appears to Mary Magdalene, the women, the eleven, and 500 brethren over 40 days before ascending.

On the night he was betrayed, Jesus eats Passover with the Twelve, washes their feet, institutes the Eucharist, and delivers the Upper Room discourse.

Five days before Passover, Jesus enters Jerusalem on a donkey to crowds shouting 'Hosanna' — fulfilling Zechariah 9:9.

On the road to Damascus, the risen Christ confronts Saul; he is blinded, baptized by Ananias, and called to be apostle to the Gentiles.

Stephen, the first of the seven deacons, is stoned outside Jerusalem; persecution scatters the church and Saul of Tarsus consents.

Peter is sent in a vision to the Roman centurion Cornelius in Caesarea; the Holy Spirit falls on Gentiles for the first time, and the door of faith is opened to the nations.

At Antioch in Syria — where Greeks first turned to the Lord in numbers — the disciples were first called Christians. Antioch becomes the launching base for the Gentile mission.

Three missionary journeys (~AD 47-57) plus the Roman voyage (~AD 60-62), planting churches throughout Asia Minor, Macedonia, Achaia, and ultimately reaching Rome.

The apostles and elders rule that Gentile believers are not bound by the law of Moses for circumcision; the gospel is freed for the nations.

After the Great Fire of Rome (AD 64), Nero blames the Christians and launches the first imperial persecution. Peter and Paul traditionally martyred under Nero.

Titus, son of Vespasian, destroys Jerusalem and the second temple, ending the temple sacrificial system. Fulfillment of Jesus' Olivet Discourse prediction.

The apostle John, exiled to Patmos under Domitian, receives the Apocalypse — the closing book of the canon.