Full Circle - a journey into the unfolding Bible story: Recent Episodes
Fiona Julian
Full Circle takes you through the Bible's unfolding and ongoing story from creation to eternity in 112 bite-sized episodes. Written and produced by artist Fiona Julian, these podcasts bring together years of learning and a love for the Bible story, its context, composition and creativity.
Fiona has a Master's Degree in writing for the media, focusing on the art of the drama series. She currently produces and hosts weekly radio shows and says: "While at university, my class mates chatted about the Bible story and I soon realised that the context and interconnectivity of the overall story was not well known. The production of Full Circle is my response. I've played out the stories chronologically, to the best of my understanding, and divided them into 12 seasons. I hope you will delve in and that the story will start to come alive for you too."
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Now is the time for the fulfilment of Jesus' prayer 'on earth as it is in heaven'. And the Bible story comes full circle with a new beginning as the story steps into God's unfolding plan for eternity with a heavenly city, at its centre the tree of life, with leaves for the healing of the nations.
John is overwhelmed by the heavenly courts. He does his best to describe what he sees. He sees the completion of God's promises to Abraham as 24 elders surround God's throne, those from Israel's 12 tribes and Jesus' 12 disciples.
Through out the Bible the picture of marriage and fidelity has been used. Jesus described himself as the bridegroom and at his last meal with this friends, before his death, he became metaphorically engaged to those who would choose to follow him, his people, his church, his bride. Now John sees the fulfilment of Jesus' promise is to be fulfilled. The invitations have been sent over the centuries, who will have accepted?
Now John sees that the earthly superpowers, which have established themselves in place of God, begin to fall.
This last Bible book is a book of prophecy, which can only be truly understood and revealed by God's spirit and at the time he chooses. But John sees war in both spiritual and natural realms as seven plagues are released on the world.
Now the opposer, the enemy of God and man, sets two beasts on the world stage. The battle for an eternal inheritance rages naturally and spiritually and the whole earth is affected.
As John watches the end of times play out, God appoints two witnesses, prophets to go to Jerusalem. In Hebrew law, the teaching of Moses, two witnesses are always needed to agree and affirm action.
In heaven John sees the beginning of the end of time. He is overwhelmed as the power and authority of God in heaven starts to bring God's judgement on earth.
In John's vivid vision he is given details of 7 groups of believers, collectively called churches, in the region of modern day Turkey. Each church is faced with issues that hinder their full worship and obedience of God.
Jesus' disciples continue to teach his message of salvation and God's plan for the world and more and more their message is met by persecution and sometimes death. Now an aged John is imprisoned, yet has a series of visions, which he is able to write down.
Welcome to the ongoing story of the Bible. If you've never had chance to read the Bible then this series of Podcasts takes you through the Bible library of 66 books, threading its ongoing story of the world together chronologically. The first Bible story sets up all that is to come. If you miss the set-ups, then you'll miss the pay-offs. Once you start to spot motives and character types, then you can look for pay-offs made through-out the Bible books. You can start to see how the entire story fits together, telling the the world's history over a 7000 year time frame. And you can begin to see where you and I are in the story today as world history steps into the Bible's final prophectic unfolding chapters.
In Full Circle, the ongoing Bible story is delivered in short episodes under 12 season titles, which group sections of the Bible story by time and theme.
The series is written and produced by Fiona Julian, who has an MA in writing for the media, with a focus on the craft of drama series storytelling, hence the drama series format of Full Circle. Conversations with Fiona's university classmates led to the creation of these Podcasts, to show how the Bible fits together as a whole. The Bible story unfolds over time with the ultimate sequel yet to come, eternity. The Bible's question to the reader is one of freedom of choice. The freedom to choose how they will spend eternity.
Paul arrives in Rome and is kept under house arrest. During this time he corresponds by letter with many of the people he has during his freedom as a believer in Jesus. He also receives visits from others and even gets to meet the local Hebrew community in Rome to explain how Jesus' life, death and resurrection, fulfils the teaching of Moses.
Paul has demanded a trial under the Romans, so now he is transported to Italy. The journey is dramatic and Paul's advice to his captors saves their lives.
The corrupt religious authorities want to kill Paul, but because he has a dual citizenship, he applies his status as a Roman to get Roman military protection. Now, for his safety, he is kept under arrest in a Roman prison in Israel.
With the message of Jesus' ministry and teachings and his resurrection from death spreading around the Mediterranean, now Paul decides to return to Jerusalem for a religious festival. He has had a prophecy warning that he will be walking in to trouble, but he is set on going.
Paul starts to travel widely around the Mediterranean visiting Jewish synagogues and teaching the fulfilment of Moses teachings as well as teaching with intellectuals and everyday folk.
As new believers follow Jesus and accept his Holy Spirit the teaching of Moses and its application is explained and lived out by an unlikely follower. Saul, a learned Jewish scholar, has a miraculous revelation of Jesus and now starts to teach people. This man is a linguist and communicates God's truths from the fulfilment of the law, the teachings of Moses, with new believers in person and by letter.
More people from different cultures start to hear God's good news story and believe. The story, the message and the Holy Spirit is spreading.
The disciples teaching of good news is not good news to the corrupt religious authorities. And some of Jesus' disciples have to learn that the message is for all people. That God is fulfilling his promise to bless all people through the blood line of Abraham. Through Jesus, who is 100% man - a descendant of Abraham - 100% God - conceived by a virgin through the Holy Spirit - and 100% perfect, has always existed, but chose to live and die as a man to identify completely with his creation by identifying with humanities' sin and thus pay its price, death.
Now with the reassurance and guidance of the Holy Spirit, Jesus' disciples start to teach and perform miracles in his name. Gradually the message, the good news, that Jesus was God's promise through Abraham and the fulfilment of all the teaching of Moses is now being heard.
Now Jesus' disciples had a power beyond their own strength with which to live. The Holy Spirit leads and guides them. Though they are often afraid and are wanted by corrupt religious authorities, they seek the Holy Spirit's help to keep teaching all that Jesus had said.
Jesus spends several weeks with his disciples after his resurrection. But now again his friends are alone. Jesus has been taken into heaven miraculously and they have been told that he will return in the same way. But, meantime it is the anniversary of God giving teaching to Moses in the desert and people are in Jerusalem to celebrate. But Jesus has told his friends to wait there, because he is going to send his Holy Spirit.
Jesus disciples are in shock. In less than 24 hours their world has been turned upside down. Jesus is death and their hopes and dreams with him. But, as his friends go to his tomb, three days after his burial, they are met by an amazing sight.
Welcome to the ongoing story of the Bible. If you've never had chance to read the Bible then this series of Podcasts takes you through the Bible library of 66 books, threading its ongoing story of the world together chronologically. The first Bible story sets up all that is to come. If you miss the set-ups, then you'll miss the pay-offs. Once you start to spot motives and character types, then you can look for pay-offs made through-out the Bible books. You can start to see how the entire story fits together, telling the the world's history over a 7000 year time frame. And you can begin to see where you and I are in the story today as world history steps into the Bible's final prophectic unfolding chapters.
In Full Circle, the ongoing Bible story is delivered in short episodes under 12 season titles, which group sections of the Bible story by time and theme.
The series is written and produced by Fiona Julian, who has an MA in writing for the media, with a focus on the craft of drama series storytelling, hence the drama series format of Full Circle. Conversations with Fiona's university classmates led to the creation of these Podcasts, to show how the Bible fits together as a whole. The Bible story unfolds over time with the ultimate sequel yet to come, eternity. The Bible's question to the reader is one of freedom of choice. The freedom to choose how they will spend eternity.
In a nightmare string of events, Jesus is convicted by corrupt religious authorities, who having no power to administer the death penalty, take Jesus to the ruling Roman authorities and now accuse him of treason. A crime, under Roman law, punishable by death.
In a few short hours, a celebration supper leads to an horrific chain of events. Under cover of darkness, an act illegal by the teaching of Moses, Jesus is arrested and beaten by corrupt religious leaders. In fear many of his friends desert him. How could this be happening to the man who is meant to lead the people as a king?
It's now the time in the Hebrew calendar when the people celebrate their great escape from Egyptian slavery. Jesus and his friends are in Jerusalem to celebrate the feast. But at dinner with his friends, Jesus starts to bring the traditional dinner alive as he breaks bread and wine, he identifies his own body and blood with these elements.
Jesus' life has not looked anything like most people had expected. His followers are expecting him to lead a rebellion to overturn authorities and take rule in Jerusalem. But Jesus destiny lies in the fulfilment of Moses teachings. And this fulfilment is not in the way anyone has expected.
With Jesus' cousin John executed by King Herod, tensions continue to mount in the region. Religious authorities start to plot against Jesus in an attempt to protect their own interests.
As tension mounts in the region, Jesus' cousin John, the child miraculously conceived in his mother's old age, who goes ahead of Jesus, teaching and preparing the hearts of the people, is now arrested because his words of truth offend the ruling puppet king.
Again and again, Jesus is fulfilling ancient Hebrew prophecy in unexpected way. Even his followers don't understand fully who he is.
Though Jesus doesn't seek political or military power, his influence is causing much controversy with the Hebrew people's religious elite, who have now become politicised. They recognise the truth he is teaching and feel threatened by it, so Jesus is safer in the regions outside of Jerusalem, where his teaching is spreading.
Jesus is in the royal blood line of King David, both by his mother Mary and his adopted father Joseph. But he is not the political and military ruler that people have imagined, yet he is astonishing people with his wisdom and his supernatural power to heal and deliver people.
When Jesus steps into the Bible story, although he is fulfilling God's promises, he is not at all what people had expected.
For hundreds of years, though exile and occupation, the Hebrew people have been holding on to promises made by God to their ancestors, that through them all people's on earth would be blessed. Now the people's perception of what God's promised rescuer king will look like and how he will fulfil that promise are at odds with the way God's plan is unfolding.
Welcome to the ongoing story of the Bible. If you've never had chance to read the Bible then this series of Podcasts takes you through the Bible library of 66 books, threading its ongoing story of the world together chronologically. The first Bible story sets up all that is to come. If you miss the set-ups, then you'll miss the pay-offs. Once you start to spot motives and character types, then you can look for pay-offs made through-out the Bible books. You can start to see how the entire story fits together, telling the the world's history over a 7000 year time frame. And you can begin to see where you and I are in the story today as world history steps into the Bible's final prophectic unfolding chapters.
In Full Circle, the ongoing Bible story is delivered in short episodes under 12 season titles, which group sections of the Bible story by time and theme.
The series is written and produced by Fiona Julian, who has an MA in writing for the media, with a focus on the craft of drama series storytelling, hence the drama series format of Full Circle. Conversations with Fiona's university classmates led to the creation of these Podcasts, to show how the Bible fits together as a whole. The Bible story unfolds over time with the ultimate sequel yet to come, eternity. The Bible's question to the reader is one of freedom of choice. The freedom to choose how they will spend eternity.
The world superpower is now Rome. The Hebrew people live under occupation, but believe in an ancient prophecy that a king will come to rescue them. Someone from the royal bloodline of King David and an ancestor of Abraham, who God had made an unbreakable promise to over 2000 years before.
Israel is the centre of the region, a cross roads of trade routes and the pathway of warring armies. Now a new world power rises and once again the land is occupied by new forces.
With the Greek culture permeating all society in the region, even the Hebrew priesthood starts to merge its traditions for political and social gain. The Greek authorities now outlaw Hebrew religious practices under threat of death. But there are those who join together to keep their faith and customs alive.
The culture of Greece is soon prevalent in the region, yet its rulers fail to unite and subdivide as foretold in both Nebuchadnezzar's and Daniel's dreams. Now more of the dreams unfold as a new world power mounts.
With a plan for world power the nation of Greece starts to invade and seize power. The goal is to Helenize the world, to unify its culture and suppress its peoples, but will one ruler be able to do all this?
As foretold in dreams to the ancient Babylonian ruler Nebuchadnezzar and the court official and Hebrew exile Daniel, the ruling power in the region shifts from one empire to another.
As the rebuild of Jerusalem and its temple are underway friction develops between some of the people who have been living in the land, while the Hebrews were in exile. These people had been placed their by the invading rulers and their beliefs are at odds with the returning Hebrews. In order to thwart matters they make accusations about the Hebrews to the Persian authorities.
With the support of Persia more Hebrew exiles are returning to the land of Israel. Now in the groups Persian authorities have sent Hebrew priests who can teach the people about the teaching of Moses and God's ways.
The nation of Israel is united under King Solomon, but trouble is brewing. We now travel through around 200 years of history as the 12 tribes divide into two kingdoms, north and south.
With a royal decree given to kill all the Hebrew people, the plot to destroy a blood line and halt God's promise to Abraham centuries earlier, looks as though it will succeed. But one woman's valour will surprise everyone.
Some of the Hebrew exiles have returned to the land that God has promised their ancestors, while others remain in Persia where they have made their home. But now an old enemy rises, a hatred of the Hebrew family and one man sees his chance to gain power and remove the remnant of exiles permanently. But God's solution will arrive though love.
Welcome to the ongoing story of the Bible. If you've never had chance to read the Bible then this series of Podcasts takes you through the Bible library of 66 books, threading its ongoing story of the world together chronologically. The first Bible story sets up all that is to come. If you miss the set-ups, then you'll miss the pay-offs. Once you start to spot motives and character types, then you can look for pay-offs made through-out the Bible books. You can start to see how the entire story fits together, telling the the world's history over a 7000 year time frame. And you can begin to see where you and I are in the story today as world history steps into the Bible's final prophectic unfolding chapters.
In Full Circle, the ongoing Bible story is delivered in short episodes under 12 season titles, which group sections of the Bible story by time and theme.
The series is written and produced by Fiona Julian, who has an MA in writing for the media, with a focus on the craft of drama series storytelling, hence the drama series format of Full Circle. Conversations with Fiona's university classmates led to the creation of these Podcasts, to show how the Bible fits together as a whole. The Bible story unfolds over time with the ultimate sequel yet to come, eternity. The Bible's question to the reader is one of freedom of choice. The freedom to choose how they will spend eternity.
The Hebrew people have been living in exile under the Babylonian super power and now the new ruling empire Medo-Persia. But the new ruler has honoured and ancient prophecy and granted the return home to Jerusalem of some of the captives and funds to rebuild the city's temple.
With a new superpower ruling in the region and the Hebrew people living in exile, a new leader is going to fulfil words written by a Hebrew prophet many years earlier.
God has warned that empires will rise and fall. Now, as prophesied, Babylon's great rule is coming to a dramatic end.
In exile some of the Hebrew people have risen to significant roles in the Babylonian court. They have been renamed and retrained, yet they adhere to their God. Now Daniel has a dream of the future.
Welcome to the ongoing story of the Bible. If you've never had chance to read the Bible then this series of Podcasts takes you through the Bible library of 66 books, threading its ongoing story of the world together chronologically. The first Bible story sets up all that is to come. If you miss the set-ups, then you'll miss the pay-offs. Once you start to spot motives and character types, then you can look for pay-offs made through-out the Bible books. You can start to see how the entire story fits together, telling the the world's history over a 7000 year time frame. And you can begin to see where you and I are in the story today as world history steps into the Bible's final prophectic unfolding chapters.
In Full Circle, the ongoing Bible story is delivered in short episodes under 12 season titles, which group sections of the Bible story by time and theme.
The series is written and produced by Fiona Julian, who has an MA in writing for the media, with a focus on the craft of drama series storytelling, hence the drama series format of Full Circle. Conversations with Fiona's university classmates led to the creation of these Podcasts, to show how the Bible fits together as a whole. The Bible story unfolds over time with the ultimate sequel yet to come, eternity. The Bible's question to the reader is one of freedom of choice. The freedom to choose how they will spend eternity.
As foretold the superpower of Babylon now holds power in the region. And, as is the custom, the reigning power makes slaves of the nobles and skilled people that is has conquered. But now the most powerful man in the world has a worrying dream and his court magicians are unable to help him.
Now, as forewarned by God's prophets, the capital city of Jerusalem falls and many of its inhabitants are taken away as captives.
The Bible story is full of political tensions and nations ally together for financial and military gain. Only two tribes of Israel, Judah and Benjamin, remain in the land, and their king has made a treaty with Egypt, but secretly has other plans.
The land of Israel sits centre stage of the Bible story and through prophets, God communicates to people within and without the land. God sends prophets to neighbouring nations with words of warning. In the Bible story from Moses onwards, most prophets would rather not have the role, yet they are chosen by God and remain faithful to Him, despite the political and social pressures of the day.
Through out the story God communicates with people either directly, in dreams, through words and pictures. Prophets are those who communicate God's message to people of his behalf and lend their names to several Bible books. But very often the prophets and the words they bring are not welcome and not heeded.
As prophesied by God's prophets the empire of Babylon rises in the region and now it holds the small enclave of Judah in its grips.
Once again God speaks to the people through a prophet. Now the warning is that a new super power is gaining strength.
Now Judah's king thinks that he has the power to stand against the superpower of Egypt. Will his tactics prove successful?
The nation has been warned through prophets that God will use other nations to bring restoration. Now an invasion unites the hearts of the people in the land.
Now a new king takes the throne and once again seeks God's way of living for the nation. Will he be able to restore what has been lost?
After years of warning that the people will loose the land that God has promised them, finally, as foretold, an invading arming takes the people of the North captive.
Surrounded by powerful nations, God communicates via prophets both within Israel and Judah and without. Now God asks a prophet to speak on His behalf to the people of Assyria, but the prophet goes on the run.
With Judah in the South and Israel in the North dynasties rise and fall. The house of Judah follows one blood line, while in the North dynasties fall though treason and murder.
With all the odds stacked against Israel, now an unexpected military force comes to the rescue.
Once again God appoints a king in private, now a hidden king remains in waiting for God's appointed time.
While the nation of Israel stands at the cross roads of trade and travel other nations seek to take control. In the North Syria is a powerful force and God sends his prophets to speak with its leaders. Now one of Syria's officials needs a miracle and he seeks God's prophet for help.
Throughout these years God speaks to the people through prophets. Some are ignored, some are persecuted and other revered. While false prophets declare things that the people want to hear, but does not align God' will.
Both kingdoms have their share of good and bad leadership. Those kings that decide to seek God's advice see times of peace, while those kings who begin to promote pagan practices see the erosion of stability in the courts and compromise spirals ever downwards.
Now the two kingdoms ally with neighbouring powers to secure military support, but alliances are fail and enemies arise from within and without.
The land that God had promised the people is now divided, with two kingdoms one calling itself Israel and comprising 10 tribes and the other, Judah which also includes the tribe of Benjamin. The first king of the North, King Solomon's old court official who allied with Egypt, has even established rival temples so that the Northern tribes no longer need to travel to Jerusalem.
For 120 years Israel has been governed by kings. The family line of Judah is the royal family line, but disputes are arising under the people. Now King Solomon's son makes unwise decisions and the nation is torn in two.
Solomon is renowned for his wisdom, but frictions mount in the kingdom and one of his officials flees to Egypt to ally with Pharaoh. Though the 12 tribes are united during Solomon's reign trouble is brewing at home and abroad.
God has warned Israel that maintaining a monarchy will be costly to the people. Now Solomon reigns in splendour, but the people pay in taxes and labour. Solomon's extravagances included many wives, though the Song of Solomon records his heart toward a special love.
David honours God and wants to build Him a temple, a permanent home to replace the tabernacle dwelling. But God says that David has blood on his hands and that instead his son may do this. So David passes the baton to his youngest son Solomon.
King David's enemies are now in his own family. With treason afoot David flees Jerusalem.
We've now travelled though around 1700 years since the beginning of the story. In season 2 we follow Noah's family forward as people begin to populate the earth.
Life as a king takes its toll and David has many wives and many children. He doesn't address family problems and a very dark season develops in his life and the life of the country.
Israel's second king is an unlikely character, he doesn't have the physical stature of Saul, yet he has moral courage. When Saul finds out that God has appointed David to succeed him, Saul tries to kill him. But David will not harm Saul and lives as an outlaw until Saul's death.
Imagine a story spanning time and space, the natural and the supernatural. Will the search for an eternal destiny just result in death. Impossibilities and cliffhangers, welcome to the ongoing story of the Bible.
Israel's first King Saul has all the physical attributes the people admire he is good looking and in the prime of life. But, he is flawed and fears man above his respect and reverence for God. In fear Saul makes a sacrifice that only God's priest should make and so his days as king are numbered and Samuel is tasked with finding the next king.
God warns the people that a kingdom will cost them in many ways, but they are adamant that they want to be ruled like other nations. Now Samuel seeks the man that God has chosen to appoint as Israel's first king.
The High Priest Eli has been living with compromise and a prophecy has warned that his family will not continue God's priesthood. Now invaders steal God's ark of the covenant from the tabernacle. Eli dies, as do his two sons all on the same day. God had told Moses that the people would ask for a King to govern them, like other nations and now God speaks to the prophet Samuel about the people's wishes.
We join the story as the people have asked for a monarchy like other nations. We travel through around 120 years of history as Israel's first king is appointed.
While the 12 tribes of Israel try to secure the land from enemy warlords, they start to fight among themselves. Some compromise God's law further and further until they act no differently than the idol worshipping tribes who had been living in the land.
Israel's High Priest is a man called Eli, but there are problems in his family. He prophesies the birth of a child to a childless woman. Meanwhile an angel appears to another childless woman and tells her that she will have a son.
As the people neglect God, so Canaan reflects this and there is famine. Now a family leaves the land and steps back across the Jordan River to find food. But life spirals further into despair. But when hope looks lost, God's law comes to the rescue in unexpected ways.
Now the people have seasons of war and seasons of peace. While Joshua was alive he sorted disputes among the people. Before he dies he gathers the people to remind them of God's laws, he warns that the people will turn to other gods and loose their inheritance. But, like previous generations, the people promise not to serve other Gods. 5 warlords remain in the land along with their altars and places of worship to idols.
God's tabernacle, His special tent of dwelling is with the people in Canaan at Shiloh. They consult God on His plans and also choose military leaders to help them. But they soon compromise God's plans and leave idol worship active and let local people pay them tribute money to continue their life styles in defiance of God's teachings. As the people reject God's ways they have problems and are invaded by warlords.
After crossing over the River Jordan into the land that God has promied the people renew their promises to God in word and deed. Now under the leadership of Moses' protege Joshua, who had scouted the land 40 years earlier, they celebrate Passover, remembering their miraculous escape from slavery.
After 40 years living in tents in the desert, the Hebrew people are almost ready to take the land that God has promised. With final preparations in place the people are reminded of God's promises to them and their's to Him, of all that has happened so far and the standards that God expects, yet are warned that they will reject God.
With God's foundations for people in place are the people ready to enter the land of Canaan? A land where people worship war and fertility God's. On seeing the land some don't believe that the people are strong enough to conquer it and spread fearful rumours among the wandering Hebrew people. Now the people will need to learn to rely on God as He postpones their entry into Canaan by 40 years.
We've now travelled around 3000 years from creation. In season 4 we move into the story's military years and travel through around 300 years of history.
The first sacrifice in the Bible story was made in Eden, when God killed an animal to make clothing to cover the people for their dignity and protection. Though out the story people have sacrificed to thank God. Now in God's teaching sacrifices are established for people's wrong doing too, so that wrongs can be covered through the death of an innocent life, a perfect animal is substituted for the wrong doer. Will keeping God's laws, his teaching be enough to bring ongoing peace and redemption?
The annual calendar is now reset and God says that the first day of the year will be the day the anniversary of the people's escape from slavery. Will all these structures and systems be enough to convince the people that God is good and that His plans and promises will come to pass?
With laws covering every aspect of life from religious practice to relationships, health to hygiene, the people have the structures in place to establish God's model society and move into the land that he has promised. But will old ways come back to haunt them and will the life of other cultures look more appealing?
With their new found freedom the people soon begin to panic and look for familiar structures. God wants them all to know him as priests, but the people are scarred and want a religious leader to approach God on their behalf. Will a system of law stabilise and unite the group of people?
After God's dual with Pharaoh and the Egyptian courts, the Hebrew people escape under cover of darkness with God leading them in a pillar of flame. With freedom in sight, will the people thank and trust God for their future or look back to the stability of the life they knew as slaves?
After murdering an Egyptian slave driver, Moses, a Hebrew who has been raised by Pharaoh's daughter in the royal courts escapes to the desert. 40 year's pass and the now shepherd Moses, has a strange meeting with God who commissions him to rescue his people from Egyptian slavery. Moses doesn't want the job. But, God has a plan and promise to keep.
As foretold in a dream hundreds of years before, Abraham's descendants are now slaves in Egypt and cry out to God for help. God's rescue plan unfolds and starts with the rescue of his chosen leader from being murdered as a baby.
We've now travelled around 2500 years since creation. We'll pick up is season 3 with Abraham's descendants living as slaves in Egypt and travel with them for around 120 years as they make their great escape.
The Bible story focuses on one family line, though God is present in the lives of others, like Job. In this episode we see how God works in the life of this man and his family. It's a story of highs and desperate lows, but ends with an inheritance passed to three daughters.
Throughout the story God has been active while people sleep, creating Eve while Adam slept and speaking to people like Abraham, a pharaoh, a tribal leader, Jacob, Laban, and others through dreams. Now a series of dreams are about to unfold.
Jacob's life is thwarted by deception. Now the people most precious to him are gone and his own sons collectively deceive him. Could God's promise still be active?
After living in exile for over 20 years Jacob returns to Canaan, the land God has promised to his grandfather Abraham. But will this fresh start with his family and wealth bring peace and stability?
Issac and Rebekah conceive, but the pregnancy is troubled. The twin brothers are rivals from conception and Jacob, the younger, steals his brother's birthright. With his older brother Esau wanting to kill him, Jacob flees his home. Now the tables are turned as Jacob is deceived and cheated.
Like his parents before him, Isaac and his wife Rebekah have problems conceiving. God's promise seems blocked. And now animosity grows with their neighbours who block up their wells.
The family dynasty continues and Abraham wants his son to marry and entrusts his most valued servant to find Isaac a bride.
After trying to take things into their own hands, the elderly couple have a child by surrogacy, but God says that his promise of a child will come through Sarah, who is now past child bearing. A promise that seems laughable. Will it be fulfilled?
Abram and his wife Sarai are old an childless. They have left their homeland for the promise of a land of their own and that through there descendants all people on earth will be blessed. But there is one glaring problem, they are childless.
The story picks up 20 generations from Adam, with a man called Abram. Does this 75 year old childless man, hold the hope for the future?
We join Noah and his family as they start to cultivate and populate the earth after the flood. Will a new beginning see an end to rivalry and evil?
God's warning goes unheeded and now the chance for a fresh start lies in a boat full of animals curated by 8 people floating alone above the surface of the earth.
10 generations from Adam and Eve we meet Noah. His grandfather Enoch has been warning people that God is going to send punishment on the earth. The clock is ticking as Enoch has prophesied that when his son dies, God's plan will take place.
Only a few generations from Adam and Eve and people are showing their defiance of God. Now some ally with supernatural beings to create a super hybrid race who are even more wicked.
God has said that to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil would bring death. Now to prevent living beings eating from the the tree of life, He has to separate them from His presence and exile them from the paradise garden. What will people do now?
How could things have gone wrong so quickly? Words of deception and the quest for knowledge apart from God destroys the perfect connections God had made. Will there be a solution?
God has created the universe to exist in harmony with Him and all living things, what could possibly go wrong?
Season 1 takes you through around 1700 years of history from the creation of God's majestic universe to the global flood 10 generations from Adam.
The first Bible story sets up all that is to come. If you miss the set-ups, then you'll miss the pay-offs. Once you start to spot motives and character types, then you can look for pay-offs made through-out the Bible books. You can start to see how the entire story fits together, telling the the world's history over a 7000 year time frame. And you can begin to see where you and I are in the story today, as world history steps into the Bible's final prophetic unfolding chapters.