North East Region Summer Workshop 2014 - Lecture 9 (parallels in history)

The Parallels of

History

When will Christ

return?

Can we know the time?

• We can learn from the Pattern of Restoration:-

• Need a Foundation to receive the Messiah – Foundation of faith

• Central person

• Time period: 40, 21, 70

– Foundation of Substance • Cain and Abel

• Leader and followers

• External and internal

• Religion and science/technology

• Hellenism and Hebraism

• Pattern of restoration

=

Accomplishment of Restoration

5 % Human Responsibility

+

95 % God’s Responsibility

Our Portion of Responsibility

Fulfilment

God’s Plan Realised

Restoration Completed

Our Portion of Responsibility

Failure

God’s Plan Not

Realised

Restoration Prolonged

Central Person

Fulfils Responsibility

God’s will accomplished

Fails Responsibility

• New central person

• Similar situation

• New time

Pattern of Restoration

1600 400 120 40 21 40

Adam

Abraham

Noah Jacob

Jacob to Haran

Jacob Returns

Jacob to Egypt

Isaac

400

Slavery in Egypt

Jewish History

• Abraham’s failure in the offering

• Jacob’s 12 sons and 70 kinsmen in Egypt

• Maintained their identity

• Pyramid building

• Moses - Pharaoh humbled

• Exodus

• Mount Sinai - Covenant and Torah

• Entered Promised Land

Gen. 15:13

400

Slavery in Egypt

Judges

Jewish History

• Judges

– Prophet, priest, king

– 12 tribes

• Struggles with Philistines

• “Went after other gods”

• Lack of unity between

tribes

120

Slavery in Egypt

Judges

United Israelite Monarchy

Jewish History

• Samuel anointed Saul – Lack of unity

• Samuel anointed David – Bathsheba & Uriah affair

– Too much bloodshed

• Solomon built Temple – Married foreign women

– Went after other gods

1040 - 922 BC

Saul, David & Solomon, 3 x 40

400

Slavery in Egypt

Judges


Divided Kingdoms

Jewish History

• Cain: Israel - Jeroboam – 19 kings in 260 years

– Prophets

– No repentance

– 721 BC Assyrians

• Abel: Judah - Rehaboam – 20 kings in 394 years

– Prophets

– Corruption

– 597 BC Babylonians

• Collapse of autocratic society

922 - 597 BC

Kingdom divided into

Israel (North) and Judah (South)

210

Slavery in Egypt

Judges


Divided Kingdoms

Exile and Return

Jewish History

• Babylonian Exile

– 10,000 Jews

– 597 - 527 BC

– Purification

• Return to Jerusalem

– Edict Cyrus 538 BC

– Rebuilding Temple

– Ezra the Scribe 458 BC

– Nehemiah 445 BC

Captivity 70 years: 597- 527 BC

Return 140 years: 527- 400 BC

4-6 BC – Birth of Christ

400

Slavery in Egypt

Judges


Divided Kingdoms

Exile and Return

Prep. for the Messiah

Jewish History

• Malachi

• Other religious leaders

– Buddha (565 - 485 BC)

– Confucius (552 - 479 BC)

– Socrates (470 - 389 BC)

• Empire of Alexander the

Great (356 - 323 BC)

– Spread Hellenism

• Synthesis Hebraism and

Hellenism

• Roman Empire

– Roads, Buildings

– Pax Romana

Slavery in Egypt

Judges

Israelite Monarchy

Divided Kingdoms

Exile and Return

Prep. for the Messiah 400

210

400

120

400

400

Jewish History

Jesus

Slavery in Egypt

Judges

Israelite Monarchy

Divided Kingdoms

Exile and Return

Prep. for the Messiah 400

210

400

120

400

400

Jewish History

Jesus Killed

400 400

Slavery in Egypt

Jewish History Christian History

Suffering under Rome

• Abraham’s failure in offering

• Jacob’s 12 sons and 70 kinsmen in Egypt

• Maintained identity

• Pyramid building

• Moses - Pharaoh humbled

• Mount Sinai - Covenant and Torah

• Entered Promised Land

• Jesus killed

• Jesus’ 12 apostles and 70

disciples in Roman Empire

• Persecution

• Established identity

• Constantine converted

• Church councils, Canon

• 392 Christianity becomes

official religion

Genesis 15:13 6 BC – 392 AD

400 400

Judges Church Patriarchs


• Judges


– 12 tribes

• Struggles with Philistines

• “Went after other gods”

• Lack of unity between

tribes

• Patriarchs


– 5 Patriarchates

• Invasion of barbarians

• Influenced by paganism

• Doctrinal controversies

• Rise of Islam

392 – 800 CE

120


120

Christian Empire


• Samuel anointed Saul

• Lack of unity

• Samuel anointed David

• Bathsheba & Uriah affair

• Solomon - Temple

• Married foreign women

• Went after other gods

• Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne - 800

• Donation of Constantine

• Struggle between Church and State

• Constant civil wars

1040 – 922 BCE 800 – 919 CE

400

Divided Kingdoms

400

Divided Empire


• Kingdom divided into Judah and Israel

• Rehaboam and Jeroboam

• Cain: Israel

– 19 kings in 260 years

– Prophets, no repentance

– 721 BC Assyrians

• Abel: Judah

– 20 kings in 394 years

– Prophets, corruption

– 597 BC Babylonians

• Collapse of autocratic society

• Empire divided East and West Franks - Germany and France

• Henry I ‘The Fowler’ crowned King of the Germans 919

• Church divided East and West 1054

• Vatican corruption

• Internal reformation: saints, monastics and scholars

• External chastisement: Crusades 1096-1248

• Decline of autocratic feudalism

922 – 597 BCE 919 - 1309 CE

210

Exile and Return

210

Papal Captivity & Return


• Babylonian Exile

– 10,000 Jews

– 597 - 527 BC

– Purification

• Return to Jerusalem

– Edict Cyrus 538 BC

– Rebuilding Temple

– Ezra the Scribe 458 BC

– Nehemiah 445 BC

• Papal captivity – Avignon in France

– 1309 -1377

• Return to Rome – Papal Schism

– 1378 -1417

– Council of Constance 1414

• Reform movements – Wycliffe and Lollards

– Jan Huss

70 years: 597- 527 BC

140 years: 527- 400 BC

70 years: 1309 -1377

140 years: 1378 -1517

400


400

Prep. for Second Advent


• Malachi

• Other religious leaders

– Socrates (470-389 BC)

– Buddha (565-485 BC)

– Confucius (552-479 BC)

• Roman Empire

• Synthesis Hebraism and

Hellenism

• Renaissance

• Reformation

• Enlightenment

• Great Awakening

• Missionaries

• British Empire

• Democracy & free market

• Science & technology

400 BC – Birth of Christ 1517 (Martin Luther)

to 1917 (400 years)

Slavery in Egypt

Judges

Israelite Monarchy

Divided Kingdoms

Exile and Return


Suffering under Rome

Church Patriarchs

Christian Empire

Divided Empire

Papal Captivity & Return

Prep. for 2nd Advent

Malachi Luther 1517


400

210

400

120

400

400

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North East Region Summer Workshop 2014 - Lecture 9 (parallels in history)