Biblical Timeline
The Bible is a big, big book that can be intimidating and confusing to remember the order events. We thought that giving you a very basic timeline in our worship services and here online might help you to have some "hooks" to hang different Biblical events on. This timeline includes dates which have been estimated and rounded off for the sake of remembering the time frames. While we can say for certain some dates, most of these dates are estimated. This list contains the same elements we are representing across the stage as we show timelines there.
Biblical Timelines for The Big Picture Series
Biblical Timeline… Key dates & order of events
BC (Before Christ), AD (from the Latin term anno domini “in the year of the Lord”
Note – some of these dates have been rounded off slightly or are not able to be specifically known – this timeline serves as a memory device, not a declaration of absolute truth.
Old Testament
- 4000 BC God creates Adam & Eve
- 2100 BC Abraham
- 1440 BC Moses
- 1400 BC Joshua & the conquest of the Promised Land
- 1000 BC David becomes King
- 722 BC Israel falls to Assyria
- 586 BC Judah falls to Babylon, the Temple is destroyed
- 516 BC Temple rebuilt in Jerusalem
- 400 BC Old Testament is completed
New Testament
- (4BC) 0 Jesus is born
- AD 30 Jesus is crucified and rises from the dead
- AD 30 Pentecost and the birth of the Church
- AD 70 Romans destroy the temple
- AD 95 New Testament is completed
Detailed Bible Timeline of Biblical History