INDUCTIVE BIBLE TOPIC STUDY
GOD'S PLAN AND PURPOSE FOR THE AGES
By Dennis Schmidt 12/2012
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This paper discusses God's plan and
purpose for all the key ages (dispensational plan). This is an
overview of the Bible's teaching on God's creation, His relationship
to various people & the earth over time. All scriptures are from
the King James' version Bible.
INDUCTIVE COMMENTS:
THEME:
PURPOSE:
KEY VERSE:
WHO: God mainly by Bible authors Isaiah, Daniel, Matthew, Luke, John, and Paul
TO WHOM: Elected Christians
WHAT:
WHY:
WAY:
WHEREAS:
WHERE:
WHEN:
WHILE:
WANT:
WAIT:
PAPER OUTLINE:
1) ETERNITY AGE:
A) GOD:
B) DISPENSATIONAL PLAN: ALPHA OR BEGINNING
C) ANGELS & SATAN:
2) CREATIVE AGE:
A) CREATION:
3) CONSCIENCE AGE: KNOWLEDGE GOOD & EVIL
A) FLOOD:
B) AGE OF FAITH:
C) ISRAEL AGE:
4) LAW AND PROPHETS AGE:
A) LAW AGE:
B) TIMES OF THE GENTILES:
C) DANIEL'S 70 WEEKS:
5) THE CROSS:
A) JESUS DEATH:
B) JESUS RESURRECTION:THE CENTER OF HISTORY.
6) CHURCH AGE:
A) GRACE AGE:
B) SALVATION BY JESUS RIGHTEOUSNESS:
a) HOLY SPIRIT BREATHED ON DISCIPLES:
b) PENTECOST:
7) END TIMES:
A) RAPTURE:
B) TRIBULATION:
C) ARMAGEDDON:
D) DAY OF THE LORD:
8) JESUS SECOND COMING AS LORD & KING:
A) ALL ISRAEL SAVED:
B) THIS IS THE RETURN OF JESUS IN GLORY & POWER AS EARTH'S RULER:
C) MILLENNIUM: JESUS IN GLORY & POWER AS EARTH'S RULER.
9) JUDGEMENT:
A) BELIEVER'S WORDS/WORKS:
a) JUDGE YOURSELF/GOD'S CHASTEN'S:
b) AT DEATH:
B) FINAL JUDGMENT OF WICKED - GREAT WHITE THRONE:
C) HELL:
a) ABODE OF THE DEAD:
b) FOR ANGELS:
c) LAKE OF FIRE:
D) HEAVEN:.
a) ABRAHAM'S BOSOM:
b) PARADISE:
c) THIRD HEAVEN:
10) PERFECTION AGE: OMEGA OR ENDING OR LAST
A) OLD HEAVENS & OLD EARTH DESTROYED BY FIRE:
B) NEW HEAVENS & NEW EARTH:
1) ETERNITY AGE:
Acts 15:18 "Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world."
A) GOD:
See my paper: "Just who is God" for more information on this subject.
See my paper: "Jesus in the Old Testament" for more information on this subject.
The scriptures start with the assumed existence of God. God alone is eternal (1 Timothy 1:17) and is complete within Himself. He self-satisfies all His needs as for example: self-conscious (I AM), self-life (Jeremiah 10:10), self-determining (Ephesians 1:9-11).
Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." He created for His glory. He is complete within Himself.
Isaiah 48:16 "Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there <am> I: and now the Lord GOD, and his Spirit, hath sent me."
Jeremiah 10:10 "But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation."
John 1:1-3 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. {2} The same was in the beginning with God. {3} All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. The Word = Jesus (Eternal God)
John 4:24 "God <is> a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship <him> in spirit and in truth."
1 Timothy 1:17 "Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen."
B) DISPENSATIONAL PLAN: ALPHA OR BEGINNING
See my paper: "Perserved and Presever" for more information on this subject. Change html name
Colossians 1:26 "<Even> the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:"
Revelation 21:6 "And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely."
C) ANGELS & SATAN:
See my paper: "Born with Sin/Father is Devil (Prior to Rebirst)" for more information on this subject.
See my paper: "Angels and Spirits Jewish" for more information on this subject. Change html name
Isaiah 14:12-15 "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! <how> art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! {13} For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: {14} I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. {15} Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit."
Luke 10:18 "And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven."
2) CREATIVE AGE:
A) CREATION: The Tri-unity God (Father, Jesus, & Holy Spirit) created all things and preserves them. He made the creation for His own glory & purpose.
See my paper: "Triunity - Father, Son, & Holy Spirit" for more information on this subject.
Genesis 1:2 "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness <was> upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."
Job 33:4 "The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life."
Colossians 1:16 "For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether <they be> thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:"
3) CONSCIENCE AGE: KNOWLEDGE GOOD & EVIL
See my paper: "Original Sin & Its Results" for more information on this subject.
Genesis 2:1-2 "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. {2} And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made."
A) FLOOD: Due to man's sin, God destroyed the earth by water.
2 Peter 3:5-6 "For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: {6} Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:"
B) AGE OF FAITH: Abraham (The father of faith). Abraham believe God and it was counted to him for righteousness (Genesis 15:6). God chose a person to be His people. People of faith and one God.
See my paper: "Justification of faith - Old Testament doctrine" for more information on this subject.
See my paper: "Faith" for more information on this subject.
Genesis 12:1-3 "Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee: {2} And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: {3} And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed."
Genesis 15:5-6 "And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. {6} And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness."
C) ISRAEL AGE:
See my paper: "Israel & Jewish People in God's Plan" for more information on this subject.
Deuteronomy 7:7 "The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye <were> the fewest of all people:"
Exodus 19:5-6 "Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth <is> mine: {6} And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These <are> the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel."
4) LAW AND PROPHETS AGE:
A) LAW AGE: God gave His purpose laws.
See my paper: "What does God really want?" for more information on this subject.
See my paper: "Questions & Answers on Law, Faith, & Liberty" for more information on this subject.
Deuteronomy 4:13-14 "And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, <even> ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. {14} And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it."
Deuteronomy 11:8-9 "Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it; {9} And that ye may prolong <your> days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey."
B) TIMES OF THE GENTILES: Completed 1976 when Israel won Jerusalem. Period of time in which the gentiles controlled Jerusalem & Israel.
Luke 21:24 "And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled."
Romans 11:25-27 "For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. {26} And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: {27} For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins." See below under Jesus Kingdom-Israel..
C) DANIEL'S 70 WEEKS: This Old Testament scripture prophesied Christ's death 490 years before Jesus came. It also predicts the future coming of the antichrist and a seven years tribulation period.
See my paper: "Daniel's prophecy of the 70 weeks" for more information on this subject.
Daniel 9:24-27 "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. {25} Know therefore and understand, <that> from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince <shall be> seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times. {26} And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof <shall be> with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined. {27} And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and for the overspreading of abominations he shall make <it> desolate, even until the consummation, and that determined shall be poured upon the desolate."
5) THE CROSS: & RESURRECTION IS THE CENTER OF HISTORY.See my paper: "J" for more information on this subject. Change html name
See my paper: "Jesus Life, & Events" for more information on this subject. Change html name
A) JESUS DEATH:
See my paper: "Between Jesus Death & Resurrection What did He Accomplish?" for more information on this subject.
Galatians 1:4 "Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:" Jesus first coming for God's judgment of sin.
B) JESUS RESURRECTION: THE CENTER OF HISTORY.
See my paper: "Resurrection" for more information on this subject. Change html name
6) CHURCH AGE:
A) GRACE AGE:
See my paper: "Grace" for more information on this subject.
Ephesians 2:8 "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: <it is> the gift of God:"
Galatians 3:23-25 "But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. {24} Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster <to bring us> unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. {25} But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster."
B) SALVATION BY JESUS RIGHTEOUSNESS: Jews & Gentiles as one co-heirs in church of Jesus Christ
See my paper: "What is a Born Again & How to Become One" for more information on this subject. Change html name
See my paper: "Hsalvation By the Righteousness of Jesus" for more information on this subject. Change html name
a) HOLY SPIRIT BREATHED ON DISCIPLES: This was the 1st experience of Holy Spirit given in large measure (salvation in church age).
John 20:21-23 "Then said Jesus to them again, Peace <be> unto you: as <my> Father hath sent me, even so send I you. {22} And when he had said this, he breathed on <them>, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost: {23} Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; <and> whose soever <sins> ye retain, they are retained."
See my paper: "Holy Spirit Notes" for more information on this subject. Change html name
b) PENTECOST:
See my paper: "Feast" for more information on this subject.
See my paper: "Holy Spirit Baptism" for more information on this subject. Change html name
Acts 2:2-4 "And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. {3} And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. {4} And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance."
Hebrews 6:5 "And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,"
7) END TIMES:
See my paper: "End Times Events - Day of the Lord" for more information on this subject.
A) RAPTURE: The rapture is Jesus (groom) coming for His bride (church) for marriage. The word rapture is not found in scriptures.
See my paper: "Multiple Raptures" for more information on this subject.
1 Corinthians 15:51-52 "Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, {52} In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed."
RAPTURE NAMES: Below are other scripture words that could refer to the rapture.
CAUGHT/WENT UP: 1 Thessalonians 4:17, 2 Corinthians 12:4, Revelation 12:5/2 Kings 2:11
TAKEN/TOOK AWAY/UP/OUT: 2 Thessalonians 2:7/Isaiah 57:1/Genesis 5:24
CHANGED..RAISED: 1 Corinthians 15:51-52
DELIVERED: Daniel 12:1
ENTER..CHAMBER: Isaiah 57:1
TRANSLATED: Hebrews 11:5
ASCENDED UP: Revelation 11:2
REDEEMED: Revelation 14:13
See my paper: "Overcomer" for more information on this subject. Change html name
1 Thessalonians 4:14-17 "For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. {15} For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive <and> remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. {16} For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: {17} Then we which are alive <and> remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord."
Revelation 19:7-9 "Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready. {8} And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints. {9} And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed <are> they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God."
B) TRIBULATION:
Joel 1:15 "Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD <is> at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come."
2 Peter 3:10 "But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up."
C) ARMAGEDDON:
See my paper: "Antichrist" for more information on this subject. Change html name
D) DAY OF THE LORD:
8) JESUS SECOND COMING AS LORD & KING:
A) ALL ISRAEL SAVED:
See my paper: "Restoration of the kingdom of God to Israel" for more information on this subject.
Romans 11:25-27 "For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. {26} And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: {27} For this <is> my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins"
Luke 21:24 "And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled."
B) THIS IS THE RETURN OF JESUS IN GLORY & POWER AS EARTH'S RULER.
See my paper: "Jesus Two Comings as King" for more information on this subject.
C) MILLENNIUM: One thousand years.
Zechariah 14:16 "And it shall come to pass, <that> every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles."
Revelation 2:26-27 "And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: {27} And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as I received of my Father."
Revelation 20:6 "Blessed and holy <is> he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years."
9) JUDGEMENT:
A) BELIEVER'S WORDS/WORKS:
Matthew 12:36 "But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment."
2 Corinthians 5:10 "For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things <done> in <his> body, according to that he hath done, whether <it be> good or bad."
a) AT DEATH:
Hebrews 9:27 "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:"
b) JUDGE YOURSELF/GOD'S CHASTEN'S:
1 Corinthians 11:31-32 "For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. {32} But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world."
B) FINAL JUDGMENT OF WICKED - GREAT WHITE THRONE:
See my paper: "Judgments of believer & Unbeliever" for more information on this subject.
Revelation 3:19 "As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent."
FINAL JUDGMENT OF WICKED - GREAT WHITE THRONE:
Revelation 20:11-15 "And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. {12} And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is <the book> of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. {13} And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. {14} And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. {15} And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire."
C) HELL:
a) ABODE OF THE DEAD:
Luke 16:23 "And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom."
Acts 2:27 "Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption."
b) FOR ANGELS:
2 Peter 2:4 "For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast <them> down to hell, and delivered <them> into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;"
c) LAKE OF FIRE:
Matthew 25:41 "Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:"
Revelation 20:10 "And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet <are>, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever."
D) HEAVEN:.
a) ABRAHAM'S BOSOM:
Luke 16:22 "And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;" Jesus brought people to Paradise after the cross.
b) PARADISE:
Luke 23:43 "And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise." Abraham's Bosom first.
2 Corinthians 12:4 "How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter"
c) THIRD HEAVEN:
2 Corinthians 12:2 "I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven."
10) PERFECTION AGE: OMEGA OR ENDING OR LAST
See my paper: "End Times Events - Day of the Lord" for more information on this subject.
Ephesians 2:7 "That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in <his> kindness toward us through Christ Jesus."
1 Corinthians 15:24-28 "Then <cometh> the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. {25} For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. {26} The last enemy <that> shall be destroyed <is> death. {27} For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under <him>, <it is> manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. {28} And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all."
Revelation 22:12-13 "And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. {13} I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last."
A) OLD HEAVENS & OLD EARTH DESTROYED BY FIRE:
2 Peter 3:7 "But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men."
B) NEW HEAVENS & NEW EARTH:
2 Peter 3:13 "Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness."
Revelation 21:1-4 "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. {2} And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. {3} And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God <is> with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, <and be> their God. {4} And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away."
Revelation 22:5 "And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever."
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