Week 2 of the Bible Fast Forward (resource created by Stand to Reason). This week covers the Fall of man, the Call of Abraham and the Birth of Isaac.

1. THE BIBLE FAST FORWARD
Putting the Pieces of the Bible Together
Week 2

2. WE ARE GOING TO
BUILD A FRAMEWORK
OF THE BIBLE
TOGETHER

3. WHAT DO YOU CALL IDEAS
THAT CONNECT TOGETHER
TO FORM A COHESIVE
WHOLE?
WORLDVIEW

4. SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY
The main topics of the Bible when it comes
to God’s salvation project
The nature of God
The nature of Man
The person of Christ
The work of the Cross
The final
Resurrection

5. BIBLICAL THEOLOGY
The unfolding plan of God through the
biblical record.
Examining how the central topics of the
Bible (revealed by systematic theology)
play out in human history. The unfolding
story of redemption.
The events and promises and covenants
of the Old Testament come to fulfillment
in the person of Jesus Christ.

6. OUR PURPOSE
To give a practical, historical overview of the Old
Testament emphasizing the unfolding plan of salvation
as God reveals it through His covenants with the nation
of Israel, and the fulfillment of those covenants in the
person of Jesus of Nazareth.

7. 12 MAJOR EVENTS
1. The Call of Abraham
2. The Birth of Isaac
3. Joseph in Egypt
4. The Exodus
5. Moses Gets the Law
6. Joshua Conquers
the land
7. The three kings of the United
Kingdom (Saul, David & Solomon)
8. The Kingdom Splits: Israel & Judah
9. The Assyrian Dispersion
(of Israel)
11. The Return to the Land
12. The Coming of Messiah
10. The Babylonian Captivity
(of Judah)

8. THE MAIN THEME
of the Bible is:
RULERSHIP

9. From beginning to end,
the Bible is all about the
RULERSHIP
of God.

10. GOD’S STEWARD
over the Earth
Man is

11. THE PROBLEM
Man wants to live outside of God’s
rulership and authority.
Man has rejected God’s rulership over
his life, and in doing so brings upon
ourselves a problem that only God can
solve.

12. SETTING THE SCENE
Understanding Sin the Fall of Man

16. GENESIS
1:31
Then God saw everything that He had made,
and indeed it was very good. So the evening
and the morning were the sixth day.

17. THE TEMPTATION
What was the heart of the temptation in the
Garden of Eden?
The temptation in the garden was not
pleasure, it was about rebellion and
autonomy from the rulership of God.

18. THE TWISTING
Satan twists God’s words and motives to get
Adam and Eve to distrust God’s character.
Then the serpent said to the woman, “You
will not surely die. For God knows that in
the day you eat of it your eyes will be
opened, and you will be like God, knowing
good and evil.” - Gen 3:4-5

20. THE LEGACY OF SIN
The fruit of rebellion and autonomy

21. WHAT RESULTED
FROM OUR
DISOBEDIENCE?

22. 1. GOD’S WRATH
We have angered God and become
His enemies
We all once conducted ourselves in the lusts
of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh
and of the mind, and were by nature
children of wrath, just as the others.
EPHESIANS
2:3

23. 2. WE OWE GOD
We have transgressed His holy law
and are in His debt
For whoever shall keep the whole
law, and yet stumble in one point,
he is guilty of all.
JAMES
2:10

24. 3. BONDAGE TO SATAN
We walk in the ways of a world that
is opposed to God
But even if our gospel is veiled, it is
veiled to those who are perishing,
whose minds the god of this age has
blinded, who do not believe 2 CORINTHIANS
4:3-4

25. 4. SPIRITUAL DEATH
We are unplugged from the
life of God.
“...for in the day you eat of it
you shall surely die.”
GENESIS
2:17

26. MAN’S PLIGHT
1. Our relationship with God has been severed.
2. Our relationships with each other have been warped.
3. Our relationship with creation has been
compromised.
4. Our individual souls have been corrupted.

27. FACT:
with every new generation
AFTER EDEN,
MAN GETS WORSE

28. “Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was
great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts
of his heart was only evil continually.”
GENESIS
6:5

29. BABEL
“The symbol of man’s
God-defying disobedience
and pride.”
- Unger’s Bible Dictionary
GENESIS
11:1-9

30. MAN’S PLIGHT WORSENS
1. God thwarts their plans and scatters men abroad.
2. God confuses their words (and creates languages).
3. Limited spread of truth and no holiness.
4. There was no sign of salvation from anywhere.

32. GOD’S RESCUE OPERATION
How God invades history for our sake

33. GOD DEVELOPS A
3-PHASE
RESCUE PLAN
For rescuing mankind

34. GOD’S 3-PHASE PLAN
For rescuing mankind
1. God sets apart one man.
2. God promises to make a nation
from that man.
3. God commissions that man, and nation to
be a blessing to the world.

35. THE CALL
of Abraham

36. THE
ABRAHAMIC
COVENANT

37. THE CALL OF ABRAHAM
and The Abrahamic Covenant
Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go forth
from your country, and from your
relatives, and from your father’s house,
to the land which I will show you…
GENESIS
12:1-3

38. THE CALL OF ABRAHAM
and The Abrahamic Covenant
And I will make you a great nation, and I
will bless you and make your name
great, and so you shall be a blessing.
And I will bless those who bless you, and
the one who curses you I will curse. And
in you all the families of the earth will
be blessed.”
GENESIS
12:1-3

39. SALVATION
HISTORY
passage in the Bible regarding
MOST IMPORTANT
This is the
GENESIS
12:1-3

40. THIS
COVENANT
is based on
Everything God does
to rescue man
GENESIS
12:1-3

41. THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT
Genesis 12:1-3
Abram’s Part God’s Part
Now the Lord said to Abram,
“Go forth from your country,
and from your relatives, and
from your father’s house, to
the land which I will
show you…
And I will make you a great
nation, and I will bless you
and make your name great,
and so you shall be a
blessing…

42. THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT
Genesis 12:1-3
Abram’s Part God’s Part
…and I will bless those who
bless you, and the one who
curses you I will curse. And in
you all the families of the
earth will be blessed.”

43. GOD’S 3-PHASE PLAN
For rescuing mankind
1. God sets apart one man.
2. God promises to make a nation
from that man.
3. God commissions that man, and nation to
be a blessing to the world.

44. THE ABRAHAMIC COVENANT
Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go forth from your country, and from
your relatives, and from your father’s house, to the land which I will
show you.
And I will make you a great nation, and I will bless you and make
your name great, and so you shall be a blessing.
And I will bless those who bless you, and the one who curses you I
will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.”
GENESIS 12:1-3

45. GOD’S PROMISES
For Abraham’s Obedience
“I will make you a great nation”.
“I will bless you and make your
name great”
“I will bless those who bless you
and curse those who curse you.”
1. People
2. Land
3. Government
4. Prosperity
5. Protection

46. “And I will make you a great
nation, and I will bless you and
make your name great, and so
you shall be a blessing.”
Hebrew =
“weheyeh beraka”
“And be thou a blessing”
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in
the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching
them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am
with you always, even to the end of the age.”
- Matt 28:29-30

47. ONE
LITTLE
PROBLEM

48. GENESIS
15:2-3
O Lord God, what will you give me, since I am
childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of
Damascus?....Since you have given no offspring
to me, one born in my house is my heir.

49. THE BIRTH
of Isaac

50. THE BIRTH OF ISAAC
God’s Promises Begin to Come True

51. GENESIS
15:8
“To your descendants I have given this land,
from the river of Egypt as far as the great
river, the river Euphrates.
PROMISE 1: LAND

52. GENESIS
17:9
“But God said,’No, but Sarah your wife will bear you
a son, and you shall call his name Isaac, and I will
establish My covenant with him for an everlasting
covenant for his descendants after him.’ “
PROMISE 2: PEOPLE

53. THEN, THERE’S
THAT OTHER
LITTLE PROBLEM

54. GENESIS
16:15
“So Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram named
his son, whom Hagar bore, Ishmael. Abram was
eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael
to Abram.”

55. GENESIS
21:12
But God said to Abraham, ”Do not be distressed
because of the lad and your maid. Whatever
Sarah tells you, listen to her, for through Isaac
your descendants shall be named.”

56. WHY ISAAC ONLY
and not the line of Ishmael?
1. Isaac’s birth was a supernatural sign from God.
2. God’s choice was based on election
instead of tradition.
3. Protection from syncretism (mixing with
other religions and their foreign gods).

57. Abraham
3 GENERATIONS IN…
and God’s people are already in serious trouble.
Isaac (and Ishmael)

58. GENESIS
35:1-3
So Jacob said to his household and to all who were
with him, “Put away the foreign gods which are
among you, and purify yourselves and change your
garments, and let us arise and go up to Bethel, and
I will make an altar there to God, who answered me
in the day of my distress and has been with me
wherever I have gone.”
Jacob

59. GENESIS
35:4
So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which
they had and the rings which were in their ears,
and Jacob hid them under the oak which was
near Shechem.
Jacob
God’s people end up in…

61. THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD
in captivity of His people to Egypt
1. It showed God’s discipline for their syncretism.
2. It showed God’s grace in protecting them from
inter-marriage and influence of the Canaanite culture.
3. In showed God’s wisdom in using their
captivity and persecution as a means of
preserving their identity and lineage.

62. 4. It set the stage for God’s deliverance of his
people the hand of Pharaoh and Egypt.
5. It prepared they way for God’s salvation
through his chosen deliverer Joseph in a
miraculous and glorious way.

63. QUICK REVIEW:
What We Have Covered So Far

64. THE PROBLEM
1. Mankind is lost and cut off from God
2. Mankind has rejected God’s rulership
and seeks to live apart from God.
3. God seeks to restore man to His
original design and restore relationship.

65. GOD’S 3-PHASE PLAN
For rescuing mankind
1. God sets apart one man, Abraham.
2. God promises to make a nation through
Abraham, despite him having no heir.
3. God commissions that man, and nation to
be a blessing to the world.

66. NEXT WEEK:
Joseph, the Exodus, Moses
and Joshua

67. SEE YOU THEN!