Old Testament Survey:
Genesis-Esther
GOD’S KINGDOM PROGRAM
DATE
BC
ca.2100-1850 BC
ca.1446-1406 BC
ca.1406-600BC
ca.600-400BC
ca.4BC-AD
ca.AD-Eternity
THEME
EVENT
REFERENCE
Kickoff &
Rebellion
Instrument of
Blessing
Nation Redeemed
& Commissioned
Government in
the Promised
Land
Creation, Fall,
Flood
Patriarchs
Gen 2:4-11:9
Exodus, Sinai,
Wilderness
Conquest &
Kingdom
(United/Divided
Monarch)
Exile & Initial
Restoration
Christ’s Work and
the Church Age
Christ’s Return &
Consummation
ExodusDeuteronomy
Joshua-Kings
Dispersion &
Return
Overlap of the
Ages
Mission
Accomplished
Gen 11:10-50:26
Daniel-Chronicles
Matthew-Acts
Revelation
Merneptah Stele
Merneptah Stele
The princes are prostrate, saying, "Peace!"
Not one is raising his head among the Nine Bows.
Now that Tehenu (Libya) has come to ruin,
Hatti is pacified;
The Canaan has been plundered into every sort of
woe:
Ashkelon has been overcome;
Gezer has been captured;
Yano'am is made non-existent.
Israel is laid waste and his seed is not;
Hurru is become a widow because of Egypt.
Canaanite Genocide
“Joshua is a story of the Kingdom of God breaking
into the world of nations at a time when national and
political entities were viewed as the creation of the
gods and living proofs of their power. Thus, the Lord’s
triumph over the Canaanites testified to the world
that the God of Israel is the one true and living God,
whose claim on the world is absolute.” (Wood, A
Survey of Israel’s History)
Canaanite Genocide
“The battles for Canaan were therefore the Lord’s
Holy war, undertaken at a particular time in the
program of redemption. God gave his people
under Joshua no commission or license to
conquer the world with the sword but a particular,
limited mission. The conquered land itself would
not become Israel’s national possession by right of
conquest, but it belonged to the Lord. So the land
had to be cleansed of all remnants of paganism.”
(Lewis)