Selected Notes/Illustrations
Adam to the flood you have 1,656 years; 1,656 years the flood comes. Genesis 11:10 gives you the chronology from the flood to Abraham.
It starts out with the children of Noah, Shem.
Genesis 11, Verse 10 goes right on down to Abraham, that's 225 years. Six days, 1,656 years and 225 years. So something under 2,000 years, and you're at Abraham. Starting Genesis 12 with Abraham and go through the Old Testament historical books: Exodus, Numbers, Joshua, Judges, 1st and 2nd Samuel, 1st and 2nd Kings, 1st and 2nd Chronicles. Just proceed through those books and you have the chronology from Abraham to the Babylonian captivity.
From Abraham to the Babylonian captivity. That would be 430 years.....in Egypt, 40 years.....in the wilderness, seven years .....conquering Canaan, 350 years......of the judges, 110 years........ of the united kingdom under Saul, David and Solomon, 350 years....... under the divided kingdom on Judah and Israel, 70 years - 350 years and then you have the Babylonian captivity - 70 years,........ and then you have the return and the rebuilding, 140 years.
So from Abraham to the return and rebuilding of Jerusalem and the rebuilding of the nation Israel you have about 1,500 or so years if you add all that up. Following the rebuilding and the restoration you're at the end now of the Old Testament. You've got 400 years of silence. So you have about 2,000 years that we started out from - the Creation to Abraham is about 2,000 years. From Abraham to the New Testament is about 2,000 years, and from the beginning of the New Testament to now is about 2,000 years.
Genesis 1:1-5 NKJV
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.
3 Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.
Romans 3:23 NKJV
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 6:23 NKJV
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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