Time Chart

In today’s lesson I want to introduce you to a necessary study tool – The Time Chart.  It outlines what I have used over these many years to help people better understand God’s purpose for the ages.

First, open Lesson 13-Time Chart and print the page. Once that is done, look it over carefully. If you have a color printer, you will notice it is color coded in order to better see and understand the critical changes.  If you do not have a color printer I suggest you view it on screen and then highlight your printed page with the same colors you see on the screen, or copy it to disk and take it to Kinko’s. The colors represent:

Purple:                    God’s Throne

Dark Blue:                   Frozen water before God’s Throne

Orange:                   Satan

Light Blue:                   Prophecy and all things pertaining to the Jew and the coming King

Red:                   Mystery and all things pertaining to Gentiles and The Church the Body of Christ

Looking left to right, the first thing you will notice is a rectangular box with the heading – Eternity Past.  Underneath that heading are:

1.           God’s Throne

2.           Old Heaven

3.           Frozen Water

4.           GAP

5.           Firmament (Heaven)

6.           Old Earth

7.           Satan’s First Fall

Do not proceed until you have located all seven.

We will study all of these headings in detail.  You will not be able to comprehend the over-all purpose of God until you fully understand the beginning, and that is all right here in this segment called – Eternity past.

Now I want you to go to the far right side of the chart and locate another rectangular box with the heading – Eternity Future. Underneath that heading are:

1.           God’s Throne

2.           The Church the Body of Christ

3.           New Heaven

4.           Frozen Water

5.           Ages to Come

6.           Dispensation of the Fullness of Times

7.           New Jerusalem

8.           Mount Zion

9.           New Earth

10.      Great Gulf

11.      Lake of Fire

Do not move on until you have located all eleven items.

It is here that you will find all the promises of God fulfilled. Before you can comprehend fully all that is outlined here, you will need to understand all that transpired before it.

The content between Eternity Past and Eternity Future is divided into three sections, but only two topics: Prophecy & Mystery.  We studied those topics in Lessons 4-6. You might want to review those again.  In the first section of prophecy (It is before the large red area) you will find the following:

1.           First Coming of Christ the King (Shown at the top but the arrow points to the time of His birth, which is located in the four Gospels.)

2.           Time Past

3.           Predicting – King & Kingdom (This is found in the Old Testament.)

4.           Presenting – King & Kingdom (This is found in Matthew – John)

5.           A section in red quoting Ephesians 1: 4 (This is part of the Mystery that was kept secret throughout the Old Testament and Matthew – John)

6.           The word Prophecy and underneath that

              a.  Transitional _ The Book of Genesis

b.           Dispensation of the law –

       1.       The books of: Exodus – Malachi in the Old Testament

              2.       Matthew - John in the New Testament, and a portion of Acts

7.    In Matthew – John you will find:

              a.  The first coming of Christ

      b.     His death

      c.     His resurrection

8.    The second section titled Transitional (The Book of Acts)

Make sure you have identified each topic before moving on.

This section deals primarily with the Nation of Israel, the Law of Moses, the promise of a Messiah, the first coming of the Messiah, the training of the 12 apostles and the death burial and resurrection of Christ.

The next Section (in Red) begins with:

1.           But now

2.           Israel – Lo-Ami

3.           The Body of Christ

4.           Mystery

5.           Dispensation of Grace

6.           Age of Grace

This section is most important for people living today.  In the Books Romans through Philemon is the plan of God for salvation and life after death.  It is the most misunderstood section of the Bible, and yet it is the most important section in the Bible, for in these books the gospel of the grace of God is introduced. 

The second section of Prophecy:

1.           Restitution & Refreshing

2.           The Wrath to come

3.           Kingdom Established

4.           The word Prophecy, and underneath that:

a.           Transition – the Book of Hebrews

b.           Tribulation

c.            Millennial Reign (Tribulation and the 1000 year millennial reign are detailed in James – Revelation.

d.           Judgment

5.           Satan’s 2^nd fall

6.           Satan bound 1000 years in the Bottomless pit

7.           Satan’s 3^rd fall

Locate all the items listed.  People are so confused about this section, most fear reading about it.  They should not.  Some of you will be surprised to find to whom it is written.