Course Description: How God's plan unfolds throughout human history: Past, Present and Future.

    Introduction
1. Eternity Past - Innocence
2. Conscience - Government
3. Promise
4. Law, Moses - Judges - Eng
5. Law, United Kingdom - Eng
6. Law, Divided Kingdom - Eng
7. Law, Exile-Christ - Eng
8. Grace, 1st-Reformation - Eng
9. Grace, 19th-20th
10. DOL, Eternity Future

Learning Objectives

Know how God's plan has played out through history and into eternity.
Understand how historical events impact future events.
Identify the three main events of the future.

Primary Resources

1. King James Bible
2. Interlinear Greek New Testament
3. Interlinear Hebrew Old Testament
4. Strong's Concordance

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Websites

These are websites that you may find useful in your study for this course.

Project Gutenberg: Free electronic books (ebooks) Full text.
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Bookcrossing.com
http://www.bookcrossing.com/

The Online Books Page
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

HighWire Press: Free online full-text articles
http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl

Baen Free Library: Baen Books make available a number of their publications in electronic format.
http://www.baen.com/library/

Free Books: Many books in the public domain may be freely accessed here.
http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm

Bartleby.com: Great Books Online
http://www.bartleby.com/

Mr.FreeFree: Free Libraries Online
http://www.mrfreefree.com/reference/free_libraries_online.html

BibleGateway.com
http://www.biblegateway.com/
Online Bible in over 50 versions

Strong's Concordance with Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
http://www.eliyah.com/lexicon.html

Crosswalk
http://bible.crosswalk.com/
Commentaries, concordances, dictionaries, encyclopedias, lexicons

Bible Atlas
http://www.painsley.org.uk/re/Atlas/

Biblical Maps
http://www.blueletterbible.org/images_maps.html

About.com: Ancientclassical History
http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/biblicalmaps/ig/Biblical-History-Maps/Historical-Maps-of-Israel.htm

Berean Bible Society: Cornelius R. Stam
http://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/history.html

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Reference List

1. Audio/video lectures by Dr. DeYoung and other historians and theologians - Posted on website
2. The Genesis Flood. Whitcomb and Morris
3. Two Bablyons. Alsop
4. Life in the times of Jesus. Ettershine
5. Rapture question. Ryrie

Grade: 100%

Weekly Paper - 7% each = 50%
Final Project = 25%
Final Examination = 25%

Deliverables

The Weekly Paper is due at the end of each week.
The Final Project is due at the beginning of the fifteenth week
The Final Examination will be due at the end of the fifteenth week.

INTRO: View the introductory slide.

STUDY NOTES: Get the notes.

WEEK ONE: Eternity Past - Innocence

Reading: Genesis 1 and 2

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Study Questions

1. Study questions in guide
What scriptural proofs are there for a 24 hour day of Creation?
Notice the chronology of Creation that is contradictory to man's thinking.
Explain the differences between chapter 1 and 2 in God's act of Creation.

Deliverable

2. Two page paper on: What Scripture supports the literal Creation as recorded in Genesis?

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WEEK TWO: Conscience - Government

Reading: Genesis 3, Ezekiel 28, Isaiah 14

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Study Questions

1. Explain the presence of Satan in the Garden of Eden.
2. Describe the method of Satan's deception of Adam and Eve.
3. What is Genesis 3:15 talking about? What does head/heel mean?

Deliverable

Two page paper on: Describe the conflict that begins in Genesis 3 between Satan and the promised Messiah.

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WEEK THREE: Promise

Reading: Genesis 6-11, Matthew 24:37-39

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Study Questions

1. If no man is perfect why did God refer to Noah as "perfect"? (Genesis 6)
2. What scriptural proof do we have that there was a worldwide Flood?
3. Detail the events just prior to and following the Flood.
4. Noah lived for 350 years after the Flood. What was God's directive to Noah following the destruction of mankind? How was this fulfilled? What was his relationship to his grandson Nimrod?
5. How does Noah's family relate to endtime prophecy?

Deliverable

Two page paper on: Compare the time of Noah and the reference in Matthew 24:37-39.

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WEEK FOUR: Law, Moses-Judges - Eng

Reading: Genesis 9-11, Revelation 17-18
Supplemental Reading: Isaiah 13-14, Jeremiah 50-51

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Study Questions

1. Who is Nimrod (lineage), his kingship and his disobedience to God?
2. Explain relationship between Genesis 11:4 and Revelation 17-18.
3. Describe the geographical location of Biblical Babylon.
4. Are there more than one Babylon in Scripture?

Deliverable

Two page paper on: What is the relationship between Nimrod's Babylon and the role of the Babylon in the End Times?

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WEEK FIVE: Law, United Kingdom - Eng

Reading: Genesis 12-15, 26, 35

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Study Questions

1. Explain the role of Gentiles in the establishment of the Jewish nation.
2. Discuss "sovereign selection" in the relationship with Abraham, Ishmael, and Isaac.
3. What are the components of the Abrahamic Covenant?
4. How is the Abrahamic Covenant confirmed to Isaac and Jacob?

Deliverable

Two page paper on: Trace the line of promise through Abraham's son Isaac.

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WEEK SIX: Law, Divided Kingdom - Eng

Reading: Genesis 46, Exodus 12; 2 Chronicles 36, Ezra 1, 2;
Deuteronomy 28, Ezekiel 34, 36, 37

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Study Questions

1. Describe the common elements of the three dispersions.
2. Describe the commonality of the three returns.
3. Define differences between first and second and the third dispersion.
4. Explain why the three departures and returns set the stage for the fulfillment of endtime Bible prophecy.

Deliverable

Two page paper on: Describe God's hand in the three Biblical departures and returns of the Jewish people to their land.

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WEEK SEVEN: Law, Exile - Christ - Eng

Reading: Isaiah 7:14, Matthew 1-2, Luke 1-2, Acts 1
Supplemental Reading: Isaiah 61:1-2a, Matthew 27 and 28, Luke 23 and 24, John 18 and 19, Matthew 16 and 17, John 14:1-6.

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Deliverable

Five page paper on: Describe the prophetic significance of the coming of Christ, His life, death, and resurrection and how this relates to the promise of His Second Coming.

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WEEK EIGHT: Grace, 1st-Reformation - Eng

Reading: Acts 2-5, 10-15, Ephesians 2, Revelation 2-3

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Study Questions

1. While the churches in Revelation 2 and 3 were active churches at the time, does Revelation also contain an applicable messages for the churches of today?
2. Describe the similarities in the letters to the 7 churches.
3. Explain why the age of the Church is between the resurrection of Christ and the Rapture of the Church.
4. Why is the Church made up of Gentiles and Jews?

Deliverable

Two page paper on: Discuss the exhortations of Christ to the body (the Church) which is now made up of Jews and Gentiles.

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WEEK NINE: Grace, 19th-20th

Reading: John 14, I Thessalonians 4:13-18, I Corinthians 15:51-58, Revelation 4:1-2:

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Study Questions

1. What future event in John 14 is Christ describing?
2. Define the chronology described in I Thessalonians 4:13-18.
3. The Rapture as referred to in I Corinthians 15 follows what doctrine of Scripture that guarantees the Rapture?
4. In the overall scenario of Revelation, how do we know Revelation 4:1-2 describes the Rapture?

Deliverable

Two page paper on: Discuss the Rapture from the perspective of the early church and the present day church.

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WEEK TEN: DOL, Eternity future

Reading: Revelation 4:2 - 19:10

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Study Questions

1. Who will be the principal characters of the Tribulation?
2. Who will be the two people groups?
3. Define the three major judgments in the Tribulation.

Deliverable

Two page paper on: Discuss the people, the events, and the judgments of the seven year Tribulation.

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FINAL PROJECT (25 percent)

Produce a graphic of God's timeline from creation to eternity future. Label and describe the key events and the supporting scriptural references. Due at the end of the fourteenth week.

FINAL EXAMINATION (25 percent) (Student may be exempt by maintaining an "A" average on deliverables and final project.)

The final examination will be open book and the questions used will be taken directly from the weekly Study Questions. Due at the end of the fifteenth week.

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