God’s timeline
God’s timeline is a good tool to know more about everything that surrounds this world.
Eternity
According to the book of Genesis God was living in eternity, there is no information about human existence at this moment. In the first chapter of Genesis the Bible reveal to us how God started to create everything that we see today in this material world and universe. The age of the earth has been a topic of debate among Christians over the last two centuries. Many Christian ministries promote the idea that the world is less than 10,000 years old, which they say comes from the Bible. The Bible makes no claim as to the age of the earth, although it does establish a minimum age. We are able to determine human existence because of the genealogy described in the entire Bible. From the first man Adam to Jesus it took four thousand years, from Jesus to our days it took another two thousand years.
In the first chapter of Genesis, the Bible describes how God created light, firmament, dry land, water, grass, trees, stars, moon, sun, and all kinds of creatures, and finally, God created man as his own image.
4000 BC (Before Christ)
The first man was called Adam and God provided a wife from his ribs according to Genesis chapter 2 his appearance in history was in the year 4,000 BC. Adam lived 930 years and died in the year 3070 BC.
2944 BC
In the year 2944 BC Noah was born, he is responsible to save his family and animals over the earth. In Noah’s time, God was so upset with humans and their sin that He decided to destroy the entire world but asked Noah to build an Ark because He wanted to spare Noah and some animals, Noah was a man who pleased God. Noah lived for 950 years and died in the year 1994 BC.
2344 BC
In the year 2344 BC God brought justice to this world, the flood killed the entire living creature above the earth, and only Noah with his family and some animals were saved.
2052 BC
In the year 2052 BC Abraham was born, he was invited by God to leave his parents’ house because his family adores images and God hates idolatry. Abraham left the Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. God wanted to make a new nation from Abraham because he fears him and have faith in Him. Abraham lived 175 years and died in the year 1877 BC.
1977 BC
In the year 1977 BC Abraham arrived at Canaan.
1952 BC
In the year 1952 BC Isaac son of Abraham is born. He lived 180 years and died in the year 1772 BC. He had a son named Jacob.
1762 BC
In the year 1762 BC Jacob moved to Egypt because of the famine in the land of Canaan.
1412 BC
In the year 1412 BC in the land of Egypt Moses was born, he was designated by God to help Israel to become a free people. Moses lived 120 years and died in the year 1994 BC.
1332 BC
In the year 1322, the Almighty God used Moses to bring Israel out of Egypt. This is what we called Exodus.
1292 BC
In the year 1292 BC Joshua crossed the Jordon River.
1040 BC
In the year 1040, David was born. He was a man according to God’s heart. The Lord almighty used David in a tremendous way to help Israel win all the battles that they were facing in the land. David lived 70 years and died in the year 970 BC.
0 – Anno Domini
In the anno Domini, our Lord Jesus Christ was born. He is what the apostle John says ” In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The Word was with God in the beginning. Everything came into being through the Word, and without the Word, nothing came into being. What came into being through the Word was life, and life was the light for all people. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness doesn’t extinguish the light. Jesus lived 33 years and died in the year 33 of our era. He died for our sins and the Almighty God raised him from the grave this miracle was seen by more than 500 hundred people according to the apostle Paul who also saw the Lord (1 Cor 15:6). Before Jesus left for heaven He gave us the following instructions: “I’ve received all authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey everything that I’ve commanded you. Look, I myself will be with you every day until the end of this present age.” (Matthew 28:18-20).
70 AD
In the year 70 General Titus conquered the city of Jerusalem, which was occupied by its Jewish defenders in 66. This year the Second Temple of Solomon was destroyed. More than 1 million people were killed and the Jews lost their land and the land did not belong to the Jews for almost 2 thousand years. They were cast out from the land and stayed out of it until 1948. This curse did not come from God but from the Jewish people. Matthew 27:24-26 says “When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but rather that a riot was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this Man’s blood; see to that yourselves.” And all the people said, “His blood shall be on us and on our children!” Then he released Barabbas for them; but after having Jesus scourged, he handed Him over to be crucified. The curse started in the year 70AD.
570 AD
In the year 570 Mohammad the founder of Islam was born. He came preaching a different Gospel which the apostle Paul recommended us not to listen to. The apostle Paul was used by the Holy Spirit to advert us about the false Prophets that the world would have. We can see his alert in Galatians 1:8 “But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let them be under God’s curse!”.
610 AD
In the year 610, Islam was created. This religion came preaching about only one God and that Jesus is not the Son of God but a simple prophet. Everything that the Bible says about the Messiah and the sacrifice of Jesus for our sins that Islam preaches is not true. The followers of Islam do not believe that God is one in three-person – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, which consist of just one God. In Genesis 1:26 God says “Let us make humanity in our image to resemble us so that they may take charge of the fish of the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the earth, and all the crawling things on earth.” The Koran ( Qur’an) – the book of Islam – has so many similar verses that we conclude that it is a copy of the Bible with some modifications. If Islam does not believe in the Trinity how they can explain these verses in the Koran (Surah 49:13) that is so similar to Genesis 1:26, which says “O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each ….” No Muslim or Jews are capable to explain this passage with confidence, the plural “We” means the trinity. Christians on the other hand believe in the simple and powerful words of Jesus and we can explain that God is a title and the almighty God is the God of Abraham the only one and true God. Who is the God of Abraham? We simply say the Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit that consist of the title TRUE GOD. In the same way, we have the United States of America as a solely nation that consists of many people which is the same thing as God which consist of three-person. Christians are pro-Jews and love Israel. There is no Christian who wants to destroy Israel. All Christians believe in the old testament which together with the new testament we have the full Bible. Christians do not kill anyone because of their faith in other gods. Christians believe that they are already dead in their transgressions and sins. Christians believe that is necessary to preach the Gospel for the world to be saved. The Koran Sura 2:191 teaches all Muslims to kill those who resist their faith. We can find these instructions in many other verses. If other religions are wrong and they are already condemned by God why kill them? Questions like this one the majority of Muslims do not know how to answer with precision.
1948 AD
Return of Israel to the holy land after almost 2 thousand years under a curse. This year was fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah 60:8-9 – “Who are these that fly like a cloud, and like doves to their windows? For the coastlands shall hope for me, the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your children from afar, their silver and gold with them, for the name of the Lord your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has made you beautiful.” At this time the airplane was not invented yet and Isaiah already saw it in his vision he saw with precision the Jewish people returning to the holy land.
2016 AD to the future
The next big event or prophecy will be the rapture. Those who believe in Jesus and accepted him as a savior will disappear from this world in a blink of an eye. Christians will be with the Lord in heaven for 7 years celebrating the wedding of Jesus with his church. During this time the Anti-Christ will be reigning in this world the humanity will suffer a lot under the Anti-Christ government. Jews will recognize during this time that Jesus was their King and the true Messiah was killed by their parents, thousands of years ago.
After the 7 years
Jesus comes back to this world to reign over all nations and his church will be with him. He will put in prison, Satan, the Anti-Christ and the false prophet. Those who lived in this world during the 7 years of tribulations and accepted Jesus as a Savior will be saved and will continue living in this world. This time will start the millennium, there will be no pain or sorrow during this time because Jesus will take care of everything. The animals will have peace with man and there are no more criminals or terrorists walking in the street.
Ending the millennium
At this time Jesus releases Satan from prison and he comes back to this world to attempt those who still living as humans or in other words those who never died. In the millennium the world will be the same, with the newborn baby coming and people dying. According to Isaiah during the millennium if a man dies at the age of 100 someone will say that he died as a child (Isaiah 65:20). Satan will no longer affect those who already died and were resurrected but the man who did not experience the first death will be tempted. Jesus will be reigning from Jerusalem and those who believed in Satan will attack Israel and will try to destroy our Lord. According to the Bible, the Lord Jesus will destroy at that time all his enemies and cast them out forever to suffer in the lake of fire.
The end of this world
The end of this world will happen when all these prophecies are fulfilled. The church will live in someplace else that we do not know but what the Bible calls heaven.