Bible Chronology

 

  1. Era of Adam

    approximately 2291 years

    The First Adam received life, the Last Adam is a life-giving Spirit. Physical life comes first, then spiritual.

    📖 1 Corinthians 15:45-46

    “..son of Adam,  Son of God.”

    And Jesus being full of the Holy Spirit went to Jordan…”

    📖 Luke 3:38-4:1

  2. Era of the Flood

    Approximately 235 years

    “Before the great flood everyone was carrying on as usual, having a good time right up to the day Noah boarded the ark. They knew nothing—until the flood hit and swept everything away.”

    📖Matthew 24:38-39

  3. Era of Tower of Babel

    Approximately 973 years

    “And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.”

    📖Genesis 11:1
    ———

    “Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.”

    📖Genesis 11:9

  4. Call of Abraham

    Approximately 214 years

    God calls Abraham out of haran to be a mighty nation blessing the whole earth.

    📖Genesis 12:1-3

    Stephen mentions the call of Abraham

    📖Acts 7:2-4

  5. Joseph in Egypt

    Approximately 210 years

    God told Abraham that his people would be strangers and oppressed.
    📖 Genesis 15:13
    Stephen confirms this time period.
    📖 Acts 7:6

  6. Exodus from Egypt

    Approximately 435 years to king david

    40 years
    Israel wandered because of unbelief.
    📖 Numbers 14:34

  7. King David

    Approximately 414 years to Babylonian captivity

    40 years reign
    So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they anointed David king over Israel. David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years.

    📖 2 Samuel 5:3–4

  8. Babylonian Captivity

    Approximately 602 years to birth of christ

    70 years reign
    “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: And the government shall be upon his shoulder: And his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, Upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, To order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice From henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.” (Isaiah 9:6–7, KJV 1900)

    📖 Isaiah 9:6-7

  9. Birth of Christ

    33 years to death/burial/resurrection

    It was the third year of King Jehoiakim’s reign in Judah when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon declared war on Jerusalem and besieged the city. The Master handed King Jehoiakim of Judah over to him, along with some of the furnishings from the Temple of God. Nebuchadnezzar took king and furnishings to the country of Babylon, the ancient Shinar. He put the furnishings in the sacred treasury.

    📖 Daniel 1:1-2

  10. Death, Burial, and Resurrection of Christ

    490 year prophecy to 33 AD

    Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

    📖 Daniel 9:24