God's Timeline

God works out his plan in history:

God’s eternal plan (Eph. 1:4; 1 Pet. 1:20);

creation (Genesis 1–2);

the fall (Genesis 3);

the promise and anticipation of redemption (the Old Testament);

the accomplishment of redemption (the life, death, and resurrection of Christ, recorded in the Gospels; the ascension and reign of Christ in Acts; his work further explained in the Epistles);

the application of the redemption and the inclusion of the Gentiles (Acts);

the second coming, the close of this age (1 Corinthians 15; Revelation 19–22).

This is a unified and comprehensive plan: “There is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, which is the testimony given at the proper time” (1 Timothy 2:5–6).

Adapted from the ESV Gospel Transformation Study Bible