Guide to the Chart's 14 points (above)

1   The first "generation" of the "heaven and earth" in the distant past. This is the original creation of all things and corresponds to Genesis 1:1. Neither the Bible nor Science pinpoints the exact time.

2-3-4    When Lucifer sinned, Death and corruption infected the physical realm and began to change it. Evidence of the existence of death in the ancient past explodes on the scene at the Cambrian period roughly 500 - 600 million years ago according to the accepted dating methods and the  Geologic Time Scale.

5    Towards the end days of the ancient world, the sun and the entire physical universe were going dark and cold. There were great geologic disturbances and floods which preceded the final catastrophic collapse of the structure of the universe, and life on the face of the earth is destroyed. The temperature of the Earth's surface plunges by the end of the great Ice Age.

6    The planet earth and the cosmos (the deep) are now cold, dark, and covered by great waters that are strewn across the cosmos. The source of the waters was dying stars. It is the time of Genesis 1:2.

7    God says "Let there be light," (Genesis 1:3) and begins to renew the face of the old Earth with new living creatures ("after their kinds"), renews the stars and the heavens, and places a division between the universe below and His throne in the highest heaven. He creates Man from the dust of the earth and gives him authority over all physical things. He tells him to "replenish" (compare Gen. 1:28 & Gen. 9:1) the earth, alluding to the notion that there was a previous race of beings on the face of the old, now-perished world. The Seven days are the seed of a prophetic structure for God's dealings with man in the newly-created world. When the serpent tempts Eve and Adam transgresses, Satan regains power and authority over the new physical cosmos. Death now enters the new world. The Lord slays a lamb at Genesis 3:21 (see also Rev. 13:8) and covers the man and his mate. This action begins the prophecy of the Savior to come to redeem all things.

8    Many centuries after man was created and fell, his race has multiplied and the Earth is filled with violence. Because the life span of man is very long from Adam to Noah, mankind and evil both multiply greatly. God sends a flood and destroys all flesh except Noah's family and the animals on the ark.

9    Following the flood, world weather patterns change, life spans decrease, and the post-flood world is a very different place. Noah is now also told (as Adam was) to "replenish" the earth. Noah's descendants and the animals are commanded to multiply and replenish the earth, replacing the occupants of the pre-flood world.

10   At the end of roughly six thousand years of human history, a time frequently referred to as the "latter days" in the books of the prophets, the Earth is overcrowded with Noah's descendants and the Earth is again filled with great violence. And God is warning people to repent and accept His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, as their savior before the present world begins to be destroyed.

11    A period of great future tribulation falls upon the peoples of the Earth as God judges the present evil world, sending forth plagues, war and wrath on unsaved mankind. The Lord turns back to Israel in His dealings. The Antichrist is revealed as Satan incarnate.

12    The Lord Jesus Christ returns to earth; regenerates the face of the earth and the heavens; raises the dead in Christ and Old Testament saints; begins to reign over the surviving remnant of mankind and His people (Israel) on David's throne at Jerusalem (see Matthew 19:28); and consigns Satan to the bottomless pit for 1,000 years.

Although Satan has been bound in the pit for this 1000 years, there is still Death present (see Isaiah 65:20) for humans (but not resurrected Saints) and punishment issued for disobedience. On the other hand, those humans who survive the tribulation to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, and those born during that time, will benefit from lengthened life spans as a result of the Lord's work of regeneration (see Isaiah 65:22).

13    Satan is loosed from the pit and seduces many people to rebel against the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ. The assault attempt is short lived. Those who follow him in the attack are incinerated on their feet. Satan is cast into the lake of fire. The final judgment begins and all the dead are judged. Those who stand in this judgment are those not in Christ from both sides of the cross and the 1,000 year Kingdom. Those whose names are not found in the Lamb's Book of Life are cast into the lake of fire along with Death and Hell. The universe and all the elements are consumed in a cosmic fire storm.

14    God creates a new heaven and earth. The "sea" of division (see Revelation 21:1) is now gone which once existed between God's throne and the universe below it. The people who were found worthy in the Lamb's book of life are carried through the fires to this new heaven and earth; given to eat of the Tree of Life to receive their immortality; and will then dwell with God the Father, the Lord Jesus Christ (His Son), and the Son's Bride (the saved Church, see Rev. 22:17), world without end through eternity.