This chart I just drew up is pretty self-explanatory. I don’t think it is a very complete view of salvation as a whole nor is it a very proportionate chart of history but it gives me a sort of better understanding of a few aspects of the Bible as a whole.
1) Spiral of history – The British preacher Pawson once quoted someone, “History repeats itself . It has too – no one listens.” We all know Judges is an awful cycle, but reading the Old Testament and New, I see that the History of our world is also a spiral downwards.
2) The view of Salvation under this light brings out two points
a. Galatians 4: 1 Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all, 2 but is under guardians and stewards until the time appointed by the father. 3Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world. 4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born[a] of a woman, born under the law, 5 to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!” 7 Therefore you are no longer a slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of[b] God through Christ.
b. Israel and the Church Romans 9-11
Do tell me what you think about this chart – do you agree or disagree, can you point out anything that I can learn and add to it??
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