The Only Correct Understanding of the Bible: 12 Stages Of The Biblical Story

EP 30 | The Only Correct Understanding of the Bible: 12 Stages Of The Biblical Story

 

People often claim that they have their own interpretation of the Bible. But when you read the Bible, you will see one story unfold as these 12 stages have outlined. There is only one story and one interpretation.

 

1. The Creation Stage (Gen 1-11)

2. The Patriarchal Stage (Gen 12-50; Job)

3. The Exodus Stage (Exodus - Deuteronomy)

4. The Conquest Stage (Joshua)

5. The Judges Stage (Judges - 1 Samuel 1-7)

6. The United Kingdom Stage (1 Samuel 8 - 1 Kings 11)

7. The Chaotic Kingdom Stage (1 Kings 12 - 2 Kings 25)

8. The Babylonian Captivity Stage (Daniel, Ezekiel)

9. The Return Stage (Ezra - Esther)

10. The Gospel Stage (Matthew - John)

11. The Early Church Stage (Acts)

12. The Epistles Stage (Romans - Revelation)

 

Anyone who doesn’t walk away with this understanding of the story is proof texting random stories from it and appropriating it to a context contrary to the Bible, making it say something it does not say.

 

The story of the Bible is about a perfect, holy, and unique God who moves toward sinful people in love as they reject and rebel against him. This understanding gives us a view of the world that explains why there is pain and suffering, where we came from, and where we are going.

 

The central message of the Bible is the gospel - the good news that God sent Jesus to be sacrificed for our offenses against God so that we might be saved from God, for God, to God.