We need to understand the end of the Biblical story before we open our Bibles
to Genesis chapter one. In other words, we need to begin studying the Bible by
FIRST knowing the end of the story before even turning to the beginning!
Tool #3: Know the 7-Point Outline of the Story Through 12 Time Periods
Because there is a definite story that unfolds throughout all the historical
record of time in our Bibles, we need to understand that this story also has a
very distinguishable outline to it. There is a seven-point outline which serves
an incredible purpose for understanding the whole Bible. By knowing what
these seven points are and looking for these distinct points as you read, it will
be clear that God is the One advancing this story toward the very goal that He
described at the end of the story.
Each point of the outline begins and ends with distinguishable time periods,
which can be readily identified and named. As you search for and discover the
seven-point outline and twelve time periods, and as you observe how God
accomplishes everything that He said will happen, your confidence will increase
that He truly does exist. Your faith that He is all-knowing, all-wise, all-
powerful, and ever-present will grow, knowing there is no other possible
explanation for how all the events in this story could take place in the manner
that it does. It truly is His -story! Only if there was a God, and He was causing
or allowing all the outline points of this story to happen, could this story in the
Bible have ever taken place in real-time and in the actual locations that it did.
Once you know this outline, which consists of 7 points, and how this outline
unfolds through 12 separate and distinct time periods, it becomes clear that
the Holy Bible truly must be what it claims to be: the very Word of the One
True and Living God who resides in Heaven!
We are going to give you the 7 points of the outline of the Bible story, and we
are going to give you the 12 time periods through which the story unfolds. As
you read this story, and as you look for and see where each of these points and
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