Timeline
This movement comes immediately after the Patriarchs.
What is the Exodus?
This man was promised land, descendants, and blessing to all nations.
Who is Abraham?
This event in the Creation movement broke God’s good world and set up humanity’s need for rescue.
What is the fall/sin of Adam and Eve?
The Spirit is poured out and the gospel spreads to all nations, fulfilling Abraham’s blessing.
What is the Church & Final Judgment?
This single book contains both the Creation movement and the Patriarchs movement.
What is Genesis?
This movement falls between the Kings and the Return.
What is the Exile?
This leader brought Israel out of slavery in Egypt and received the Law at Sinai.
Who is Moses?
The Patriarchs story ends with Abraham’s family living in this foreign country—setting up the next movement.
What is Egypt?
God establishes His covenant at Sinai, gives the Law, and builds the tabernacle so He can dwell among His people.
What is the Exodus?
This book tells the story of Israel’s conquest of the Promised Land.
What is Joshua?
This is the 4th movement in the biblical narrative, and it begins with crossing the Jordan River.
What is the Promised Land?
This king received God’s promise of an eternal throne.
Who is David?
The repeated cycle of sin, oppression, crying out, and deliverance during the Judges revealed Israel’s desperate need for this.
What is a faithful king?
Assyria conquers the northern kingdom, and Babylon destroys Jerusalem and the temple. Israel loses everything.
What is the Exile?
The story of this faithful Moabite woman takes place during the Judges period and connects to the lineage of David.
What is Ruth?
Put these in correct order: Judges, Exodus, Kings, Promised Land.
What is Exodus, Promised Land, Judges, Kings?
After Moses died, this man led Israel across the Jordan and into the Promised Land.
Who is Joshua?
After the Return from exile, these two things were still missing from the rebuilt temple and nation, making the restoration feel incomplete.
What are the glory cloud and a king on the throne?
A remnant comes home to rebuild, but there is no glory cloud, no king, and then God goes silent for 400 years.
What is the Return?
This prophet wrote during the Exile and received visions of dry bones coming to life and a future restored temple.
Who is Ezekiel?
These two movements both involve God’s people living under foreign empires—one at the beginning of the story and one near the end of the Old Testament.
What are the Exodus (Egypt) and the Exile (Babylon)?
Name two of the four leaders who helped rebuild Jerusalem and the temple after the Exile.
Who are Jeshua, Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah? (any two)
The refrain “Everyone did what was right in his own eyes” summarizes the core failure of this movement, and it appears in the final verse of the book.
What is Judges (Judges 21:25)?
He is the seed of Abraham, the son of David, and the suffering servant—every unresolved promise in Scripture finds its answer here.
What is the Gospel (Jesus)?
This is the last book of the Old Testament. After it, God goes silent for roughly 400 years until the Gospel movement begins.
What is Malachi?