World History According to the Bible (short version)
Clint Bishard, Clint@JesusCreated.org
Jesus accepted the literal history of Genesis. This is clear from His quote of both Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 in the same verse, and referring to this time as “at the beginning” Matthew 19:4-5 “4And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ 5and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?” Given Jesus was there at the beginning (John 1), may we all accept His testimony as true.
God created the universe and everything in it, including Adam and Eve in six literal days and then rested from His work of creation for another day (Genesis 1:1-31). The fact that these were truly literal 24 hour days is clearly shown in the giving of the Ten Commandments - Exodus 20:11. God declares “For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.” Again in Exodus 31:16-17, God told Israel “Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant. It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’” Therefore, let us fully accept the historical account God gives us for the creation of the universe found in Genesis, chapter 1:
v 3208 (time from creation to the start of the Temple)
v + 966 (time from the Temple to the end of 1 BC)
v + 2004 (years from the beginning of 1 AD to the present (2005)) Note: there is no 0 AD
v = 6178 (4174 BC) – approximate age of the universe
· The beginning of the flood – around 2518 BC
· Abraham is born – around 2165 BC
· Israel enters Egypt – around 1875 BC
· The Exodus from Egypt – around 1445 BC
The following chart illustrates the lineage from Adam to Jacob/Israel based on the Hebrew Masoretic Text. The split occurs at the time of the flood so as to be able to clearly show the lineage before and after the flood. Note that AC refers to the number of years After the Creation week.
<0 AC Before time, there was God ‘In the beginning God’ (Gen. 1:1)
0 AC, day 6 Adam (around 4174 BC)
created
130 AC Seth
born
235 AC Enosh ‘Then men began to call on the name of the LORD’
born
325 AC Cainan
born
395 AC Mahalalel
born
460 AC Jared
born
622 AC Enoch
born
687 AC Methuselah
born
874 AC Lamech
born
930 AC Adam
dies
987 AC God takes
Enoch
1042 AC Seth
dies Noah
1056 AC born
1140 AC Enosh
dies
1235 AC Cainan
dies
1290 AC Mahalalel
dies
1422 AC Jared
dies
1536 AC God gives man
120 more years (Gen. 6:3)
>1556 AC Noah’s 3 sons born
1559 AC Shem
born
15?? AC God tells Noah
about the flood
dies
1656 AC Methuselah
dies
1656 AC Flood Begins (around 2518 BC)
1657 AC Flood Ends
1659 AC Arphaxad
born
1694 AC Salah
born
1724 AC Eber -Eber lived during the division of the earth (Appears to have
Born happened during the time of Peleg
1758 AC Peleg - Peleg means divided)
Born
1788 AC Reu
born
1820 AC Serug
born
1850 AC Nahor
born
1879 AC Terah
born
1997 AC Peleg
dies
1998 AC Nahor
dies
2006 AC Noah dies
(950 years old)
2009 AC Abram
born
2027 AC Reu
dies
2050 AC Serug
dies
2084 AC Terah
dies
2097 AC Arphaxed
dies
2109 AC Isaac
Born
2127 AC Salah
dies
2159 AC Shem
Dies
2169 AC Jacob
born
2184 AC Abraham
dies
2188 AC Eber
dies
2289 AC Isaac
dies
2299 AC Israel & family go to live in Egypt
2316 AC Israel
430 Year Sojourn in Egypt (Ex. 12:40-41) dies
2729 AC The Exodus of Israel from Egypt
3208 AC Solomon begins to build the Temple (1 Kings 6:1; 966 BC - The MacArthur Study Bible)