The Big Picture of Scripture

The Big Picture of Scripture

Act 1: God’s Plan for All People

Creation: The God of All of Life
Fall: Rejecting God’s Vision for Life
Flood: God Judges and Makes a Covenant to Preserve Life

Act 2: God’s Covenant People

The People: God Calls a Covenant People
Deliverance: God Rescues His People
Covenant and Law: God Embraces and Instructs His People
The Land: God’s Place for His People
Kings and Prophets I: God Shapes a Kingdom People
Kings and Prophets II: God Divides the Kingdom People
Kings and Prophets III: The Southern Kingdom as God’s People
Exile: God Disciplines His People
Return: God Delivers His People Again

Act 3: God’s New Covenant People

Christ’s Coming: God’s True King Arrives
Christ’s Ministry: God’s True King Manifests His Kingdom
Christ’s Deliverance of His People: God’s Work through the Death, Resurrection, and Enthronement of His King
Christ’s Church: God’s People Advance the Kingdom
Christ’s Second Coming and Reign: God’s Future for the Kingdom

Outline of the Bible suggested by George Guthrie’s
‘Read the Bible for Life Chronological Reading Plan’