Week 6 - The Bible Fast Forward

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

12 MAJOR EVENTS
of the Old Testament

THE THREE
KINGS
of the United Kingdom: 
Saul, David & Solomon

THE
KINGDOM
SPLITS
Israel and Judah

THE
ASSYRIAN
DISPERSION
of Israel

THE
BABYLONIAN
CAPTIVITY
of Judah

3 SIGNIFICANT COVENANTS
between God and His people

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

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

THE MOSAIC COVENANT
1. Moral Conduct
2. Ceremonial Religious Activity
3. Civil Order and Government
The contract between God  
and nation of Israel during the theocracy,  
that outlined 3 important things:

THE MOSAIC COVENANT
Is the outworking of the Abrahamic Covenant
Abrahamic Covenant The Mosaic Covenant
A man
A nation
A blessing to the world
Moral Conduct
Ceremonial Religious
Activities
Civil order and Government

THE BLESSINGS
of the two different covenants
Abrahamic Covenant The Mosaic Covenant
Unconditional (binding on
God alone)
Based on Grace
Conferred on individuals,
Israel and also for other
nations, dependent on faith
Conditional (binding on
Israel alone)
Based on Works
Meant the nation of Israel as
a whole, dependent on
obedience

THE DAVIDIC COVENANT
“a kingdom that will have no end”
And your house and your kingdom shall
be established forever before you. Your
throne shall be established forever.”
2 SAMUEL
7:16

SIGNIFICANT THEMES
we have discussed together

JOSEPH, GOD’S WILLand the Sovereignty of God
God’s Moral Will God’s Sovereign Will
What God would
prefer
(this can be thwarted) (no way, buster)
What God will
accomplish

SUPERNATURAL
PROTECTION
The Exodus is God’s
faithfulness to His
covenant by way of

3 WAYS TO KNOW
Whether a Law was Local or is Universal?
Are we still obligated to keep it under the New Covenant?
Does it seem transcendent or just cultural?
How is this law treated in the Old Testament?

NUMBERS: 40 YEARS
of wandering as judgment for their rebellion
NUMBERS
Numbers records the census (“numbers”) and tribes
of Israel immediately after departing Mt Sinai.
It also describes their wanderings in
the wilderness for 40 years before
they were allowed to enter the
promised land of Caanan.

DEUTERONOMY
“The second giving of the Law”
It includes the final words of Moses and the
giving of the law again, to a new generation.
DEUTERONOMY
It was given in preparation for them to enter the land
God had promised them and marks a significant shift in
leadership from Moses to Joshua

ISRAEL’S CYCLE
in the book of Judges
1) Sin — Israel falls into idol worship and forgets the Lord
JUDGES
3:7-9
2) Subjugation — God allows an oppresor to come
against Israel.
3) Prayer — God’s people cry out to Him for help.
4) Deliverance — God’s raises up a judge to
rescue them.
5) Rest — A period of quiet before sin returns.

AND THUS BEGINS
and the period of the Judges,
THEOCRACY
Thus ends the
the reign of Kings.

THE AGE OF KINGS
The Rise and Fall of Israel’s Kingdom

SAUL, DAVID & SOLOMON
The 3 Kings of the United Kingdom
Saul is Israel’s first king. He is a tall, good-looking
leader, but is half-hearted towards God.
David became king after defeating Goliath.
He messed up big and repented big.
Solomon was the first ancestor king, who built
the temple and loved many foreign women.

God judges Solomon (as promised) and within one
generation, the kingdom is torn from Solomon’s line.
This marks another significant shift in the
history of Israel and God’s people. The
nation is no longer united.
KING 3: SOLOMON
A man after women and construction

DAVID &
SOLOMON
DIVIDED
KINGDOM

During this time 19 evil kings
reigned in Israel. All of them
were wicked.
1 KINGS
13
THE NORTHERN
Kingdom of Israel
922-721 B.C.
Then the Assyrians scatter the
people over the eastern
Mediterranean region with no
homeland to call their own.

1 KINGS
16-22
20 kings reign in Judah over a
period of 350 years.  
 
150 years longer than Israel.
922-587 B.C.
THE SOUTHERN
Kingdom of Judah

1 KINGS
16-22
Some of the kings of Judah are
righteous, but most are not.
922-587 B.C.
Godliness was measured by how
they treated the “high places”
where idolatry was being
practiced.
THE SOUTHERN
Kingdom of Judah

1 KINGS
8, 25-27
922-587 B.C.
THE SOUTHERN
Kingdom of Judah
The Babylonians, led by king
Nebuchadnezzar himself, lay  
siege to Jerusalem and  
eventually overthrow it.

THE THREE WAVES
of the deportation of the people of Judah
King Jehoichin is deposed, the
temple is plundered.
10,000 leading citizens are
taken along with the prophet
Ezekiel and Daniel (and his
friends).
WAVE #1:597BC
WAVE #2:587BC
WAVE #3:582BC

THE GLORY
is extinguished
Israel is dispersed, Judah is captive, the temple is
in ruins, Jerusalem is destroyed and pillaged.
Judah will not return from
Babylon for 70 years.

THE GLORY
is extinguished
Both the Assyrian dispersion and the
Babylonian captivity are vivid statements
of Israel’s unwillingness to live under
God’s rulership.
Yet, in the midst of darkness, God is
preparing to shine a great light…

FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT
God Raises up His Prophets

GOD IS MOVING
In darkness of Exile
and captivity,
amongst His people.

THE PROPHETS
He is preparing to
speak through
to reach His people.

THE PROPHETS
God’s Covenant Enforcers
During this time of darkness and exile, God reminds
His people of His faithfulness to His covenants.
The prophets are God’s primary
mouthpiece of communication
They mostly remind the people of
promises God has already revealed.

JUDGES
Saul, Samuel, Ruth, Jonathan
The people reject God and want a
king. The end of the theocracy.
Samson, Gideon, and other Judges

UNITED KINGDOM
Saul, David, Solomon are kings
over Israel
Monarchy begins
There is both prosperity, but
also idolatry and punishment

ISRAEL
19 Evil Kings reigned in Israel
during the divided Kingdom
Who did God raise up during
the midst of this evil time?

THE PROPHETS
Elijah
Elisha
Amos
Hosea

JUDAH
150 Years longer
than Israel
Who did God
raise up during
the midst of this
evil time?
Some good kings,
but most were evil

JUDAH
Joel, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Isaiah, Nahum, Zephaniah,
Jeremiah, Habakkuk, Ezekiel are all prophets to Judah.

Babylonian
Captivity
Assyrian
Dispersion

ASSYRIAN 
DISPERSION
No prophets
No prophecies
No land
No T-Bird

BABYLONIAN
CAPTIVITY
There were 3 waves of
deportation to Babylon
The Jews were in
Babylon for 70 years
Significant prophecies

PERSIAN
EMPIRE
Preparations begin to return to
the land and rebuild the temple
Prophets continue and
complete the Old Testament
prophecies

PERSIAN
EMPIRE
Then there is 400 years of
silence until the final prophet
comes on the scene to complete
all Old Testament prophecy.  
He is: John the Baptist

SIGNIFICANT PROPHETS
during the time of exile and captivity

JEREMIAH
The Weeping Prophet
Commissioned during the reign
of Josiah (Judah’s the last 40
years untile the exile)
JEREMIAH 2
His prophecies were almost
universally rejected, and almost
nobody listened or repented.

JEREMIAH
The Weeping Prophet
Jeremiah prophesied that Judah
would go into exile for 70 years.
JEREMIAH
25:11
Prophesied a “righteous branch”
of David (Jer 23:5-6) would
reign as king.

JEREMIAH
The Weeping Prophet
Receives a prophesy from God
about the “New Covenant”,
which is about reconciliation and
forgiveness.
JEREMIAH
31

THE NEW COVENANT
God and Sinners Reconciled
“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will
make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the
house of Judah, not like the covenant which I made with
their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring
them out of the land of Egypt …
JEREMIAH
31:31-37

THE NEW COVENANT
My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to
them,” declares the Lord. “But this is the covenant which I will
make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the
Lord. “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will
write it. And I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
JEREMIAH
31:31-37

THE NEW COVENANT
They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each
man his brother, saying, „Know the Lord,‟ for they will all
know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,”
declares the Lord, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their
sin I will remember no more.”
JEREMIAH
31:31-37

JEREMIAH
The Weeping Prophet
It is a future covenant with both
Israel and Judah (impling a
united kingdom)
JEREMIAH
31
It is an eternal covenant with
Israel based on the heart and
personal knowledge of God.

EZEKIEL
The Prophet
Contemporary of Jeremiah.
Predicted judgment, the
destruction of Jerusalem, as well
as the restoration and
consolation of Israel.
EZEKIEL
36:24-29, 33

EZEKIEL
The Prophet
Elaborates on the New Covenant
prophesy citing specifically:
1. The return to the land,  
2. forgiveness from God,  
3. A new heart and spirit and that
4. God’s own spirit would be in
them.
EZEKIEL
?

DANIEL
God is in Control of History
Daniel was deported during the
first wave, along with his friends.
DANIEL
6
Daniel was unabashedly
committed to God and showed it
publicly.

DANIEL
Daniel was gifted with ability to
interpret dreams.
Daniel’s interpretation of dreams
exalted him to prominence in the
kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar.
DANIEL
6

DANIEL
God gave Daniel specific (and
utterly astounding) prophecies.
Daniel receives a prophecy that
pinpoints the exact day Jesus
arrived in Jerusalem (ch 9).
DANIEL
6

NEW COVENANT
Summary
A physical restoration and reunification with the land.
It is the fulfillment of the Abrahamic Covenant where
they would be a “blessing to the whole world”.
A spiritual restoration based of God’s goodness

THE RETURN TO THE LAND
found in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah
The first wave (the Book of Ezra) is
where 50,000 Jews return to the land.
EZRA
1-3
They begin rebuilding the temple with
a mixture of joy and sorrow.
The temple is completed in 515 BC,  
70 years after the deportation.

THE RETURN TO THE LAND
found in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah
The second wave is in 458 B.C. where
Ezra returns with 1500 people. EZRA
7
Ezra and his group serve in the temple
and institute badly needed social reform
Nehemiah, the kings cupbearer returns in
444 B.C. to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.
NEHEMIAH
6

NEMEHIAH
and the interplay of covenants
Abrahamic Covenant
“You made their sons numerous as the stars of
heaven and You brought them into the land which
You had told their fathers to enter and possess.”
NEHEMIAH
9:23

NEMEHIAH
Mosaic Covenant
“But they became disobedient and rebelled against You
and cast Your law behind their backs and killed Your
prophets who had admonished them so that they might
return to You, and they committed great blasphemies.
NEHEMIAH
9:26

NEMEHIAH
Mosaic Covenant
Therefore, You delivered them into the hand of their
oppressors who oppressed them...
NEHEMIAH
9:27a

NEMEHIAH
Abrahamic Covenant
...but when they cried to You in the time of their distress,
You heard from heaven, and according to Your great
compassion You gave them deliverers who delivered
them from the hand of their oppressors [the judges].”
NEHEMIAH
9:27b

FINAL WORDS
of the Old Testament
Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before
the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord. He will
restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the
hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come
and smite the land with a curse.
MALACHI
4:5-6

A VOICE
crying in the wilderness, saying,
“Repent,  
for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
MATTHEW
3:2

Saul, David, Solomon are kings
over Israel
(The Dead Sea Scrolls wait
patiently to be discovered)
400 YEARS OF SILENCE

THE ROMAN
EMPIRE
The Jews have been
back in their own
land for centuries.
However, now they
are under Roman
rule.

THE BIRTH OF
JESUS CHRIST
Jesus was born early
during the Roman
empire and 6 months
after his cousin, John
the Baptist.

THE EXPECTATIONS
of the Jewish people about the Messiah
It was promised to Israel, so it had very
nationalistic expectations
MATTHEW
1-3
There was no place or understanding
of incorporating the Gentiles.
The Jews were under heavy Roman
oppression and yearned for a deliverer.

PROFILE OF THE MESSIAH
from the Old Testament
He would be a man GENESIS 3:15
He would be a descendent of Abraham GENESIS 12:3
He would be a from the tribe of Judah GENESIS 49:10
He would be a descendent of David 2 SAMUEL 7:12

PROFILE OF THE MESSIAH
from the Old Testament
He would be born in Bethlehem MICAH 5:2
He would arrive 483 years after the
rebuilding of Jerusalem DANIEL 9:25
He could not be an ordinary man  
(“Son of Man”) DANIEL 7:13

JESUS CHRIST
the Messiah and Savior of the World

JESUS OF NAZARETH
Is he the Messiah?
Jesus was a man, born of woman,  
but not born like other men.
GALATIANS4:4
He was both a descendent of Abraham
and David, and was born in Bethlehem MATTHEW 1:1-16

JESUS OF NAZARETH
Is he the Messiah?
However, Jesus was brutally executed,
He was never crowned king of Israel.
JOHN 19:17-18
Jesus was rejected by his own people,
even though He suffered for them. JOHN 1:11

JESUS CHRIST
and the fulfillment of the covenants
Jesus was the fulfillment of the Abrahamic
covenant because it was his life that was truly
the greatest blessing to the whole world, and
he was a descendent of Abraham.

JESUS CHRIST
Jesus was the fulfillment of the Mosaic
covenant because He lived a life of perfect
obedience before God, and offered up His
own life as a sacrifice for the benefit of others.

JESUS CHRIST
Jesus was the fulfillment of the Davidic
covenant because He was a descendent of
King David and ushered in “the kingdom of
God” (a restored kingdom between God and
man) which will never end.

JESUS CHRIST
Jesus was the fulfillment of the New covenant
because He provided complete forgiveness of
sin, gave us the gift of the Holy Spirit, gave us
a new heart towards God and promised to
come again to restore the Kingdom to Israel.

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

JESUS HAS
Satisfied the wrath of God against us
by receiving our punishment
“And when you were dead in your
transgressions and the uncircumcision of your
flesh, He made you alive together with Him,
having forgiven us all our transgressions.”
COLOSSIANS
2:13

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

JESUS HAS PAID
our debt before a holy God so that
now we are sinless before Him.
“Christ redeemed us from the curse
of the Law, having become a curse for
us—for it is written, ‘Cursed is
everyone who hangs on a tree’ “. GALATIANS
3:13

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

JESUS HAS
broken the chains of sin in our lives
and made us free to live for God
“If the Son sets you free, you are
free indeed” JOHN
8:36

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

JESUS HAS
reconnected us to our original
purpose of knowing God
“...even when we were dead in our
transgressions, made us alive together
with Christ (by grace you have been
saved”
EPHESIANS
2:5

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.

BECAUSE OF JESUS
1. Our relationship with God has been restored.
2. Our relationships with each other have been
redefined.
3. Our relationship with creation has been repaired.
4. Our individual souls have been redeemed.

OUR ETERNAL INHERITANCE
thanks to what Jesus Christ has done
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who according to His great mercy has caused us to be
born again to a living hope through the resurrection of
Jesus Christ from the dead
1 PETER
1:3-5

OUR ETERNAL INHERITANCE
thanks to what Jesus Christ has done
to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and
undefiled and will not fade away, reserved in heaven for
you, who are protected by the power of God through
faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
1 PETER
1:3-5

LET US CONTINUE
TO KEEP JESUS
CHRIST

JUST AS HE IS THE
CENTER OF ALL
REALITY

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