Bible key words and significance

Universal common communication prepares the way for the people to connect and opens a way to spread the good news. Circulating speeches and letters can be heard and read by many people.

Greece Language

After 400 years of silence, God's people continue to watch and look for Messiah. God's people hold fast to the prophecies of a coming Savior.

Israel Hopes

Common paths for travel open the way for people to connect and cary the good news. People from the known world have the opportunity to see and know people from different parts of the world and share God's love with them.

Rome Roads

At the fullness of time, Messiah arrives demonstrating God's faithfulness to fulfill his word.

Birth

The time had come to fulfill all righteousness. God's Son is affirmed and confirmed by the Father saying, "this is my beloved son with whom I am well pleased."

Baptized by John

Preparation for Jesus' ministry as he identifies with humanity spending 40 days in the wilderness.

Tempted by Satan

Jesus tells one of the most religious leaders that he fails to understand the kingdom. And that to enter the kingdom, he must be born of water and spirit.

2nd Birth

Jesus gives proof that his ministry is for any and all who believe, even for those who think they cannot overcome their past.

Woman at the Well

Isaiah 61 prophecy is fulfilled in the hearing of the people in the synagogue and the prophet is not welcome in his hometown. Messiah is forming a new nation by choosing twelve apostles for a special commission

Rejection/Selection

The primary way Jesus taught so those hearing may not hear and those seeing may not see. Signs performed indicated the arrival of the Kingdom

Parables/Miracles

The confession revealed both by flesh and blood, but by the Father in heaven that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

Testimony of Peter

The reminder of Jesus baptism and his identity as God's beloved Son, and the seal of approval, to Peter's confession of Jesus as the Christ, reveals a glimpse of Christ's glory.

Transfiguration

A call to "hate" brother, sister, father and mother and willingness to consider what it means to take up one's cross and follow Christ.

Counting the Cost

In great humility, a father hikes up his robes to run to meet his prodigal son and a woman searches relentlessly for a coin. Great rejoicing comes when one is found.

Seeking the Lost

The final sign and foreshadowing of Christ's death and impending resurrection. Christ says he is the resurrection and the life.

Lazarus Raised

In striking humility, a man hikes up his robe to climb a tree. Salvation comes to him and his household, and he promises to repay all that he has unlawfully stolen.

Zacchaeus Praised

The public announcement of Christ's claim to be Messiah, fulfilling Zechariah 9:9. And over the city Jesus weeps for the people.

Triumphal Entry

In righteous anger, Christ announces that his house shall not be a den of thieves but a house of prayer.

Temple Cleansing

During the Feast of Passover, Jesus redefines the Exodus with himself as the Passover lamb. There is a spiritual exodus coming where remembrance is the new practice.

Last Supper

A second season of prayer for Christ as a request for the cup to pass is followed by "thy will be done." And for thirty pieces of silver Christ is sold by a kiss on the cheek.

Prayed/Betrayed

To five different houses Jesus is led. He sees the council, the priests, the king and the governor of Judea. Not one can find fault, yet he is never freed. The disciples scatter and rooster crows three times.

Tried/Denied

For six long hours Messiah is plagued by suffocation, God-forsakenness and the entire weight of humanities sin. He who knew no sin became sin.

Crucified

And all the words of Christ came flooding back as women and apostles now know what the absence of the body in the tomb means, which gives rise to Christianity's claim to have the only living savior.

Resurrected

The full restoration of Christ's glory alongside the great commission and a command to wait for an empowerment of the Spirit.

Ascended

The coming of Christ's promised presence to live in his people that provides gifts and fruit and power to fulfill the great commission.

Spirit

The breaking of bread, sharing of possessions, teaching and praying and the sharing of all things in common to serve as a model of the church.

Community

The choosing of the seven for the care of widows and the distribution of goods. The word and picture of the churches' deacons is born here.

Servant Leaders

One of the seven deacons who was martyred by stoning and whose death caused a great paradox as people fled carrying the good news with them.

Stephen

Served to spread the gospel in a paradoxical way and the apostles rejoiced that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the name of Christ.

Persecution

A servant leader in the early church who preached to many in Samaria and explained the scriptures to and baptized the Ethiopian eunuch.

Philip's Preaching

Pharisee and persecutor of the church who encounters Christ on the road to Damascus and becomes an advocate for and a builder of the early church.

Paul's Conversion

A sheet coming down from heaven with all manner of animals on it approved for consumption which signals the welcome of gentiles like Cornelius and his family into the kingdom.

Peter's Vision

Barnabas, Paul and Mark were commissioned by the church in Antioch to go and take the good news of the Kingdom to the known world. Paul is stoned and encourages the early church that through many trails we enter the kingdom of God.

1st Journey - Law

A decision made that forbids Gentiles coming into the church form worshipping pagan god's and emphasizes that the new Christians are not required to be circumcised, abstain from unclean foods or follow Torah.

Council - Grace

Paul and Silas and Barnabas and Mark each take the gospel to the world. The Holy Spirit calls, inviting Paul to Macedonia where Lydia is converted and baptized, she and her family and Bereans diligently study Scripture.

2nd Journey - Call

Paul strengthens the believers and builds up church leaders, staying in Ephesus for three years where the leaders there receive the Holy Spirit and weep at Paul's departure. Paul is committed at all costs to return to Jerusalem.

3rd Journey - Build

Paul arrested in the temple in Jerusalem, comes before governors and king in Caesarea, telling his story and each finds no real fault with which to sentence him to death, so he appeals to Caesar.

Trials

Enduring tempestuous winds that cause shipwreck, Paul journeys to Caesar where he lives under house arrest, teaching, mentoring, and preaching to the Gentiles and Jews alike while writing letters to the churches he has planted.

4th Journey - Rome

Letters from Peter, Paul, James, Apostle John, Jude to the churches and Christians throughout the empire are written and sent around to answer questions, teach, encourage and build up the body of Christ.

Apostles Speak

With the arrival and help of the Spirit the Church is enabled to wait well for the second coming of Christ where every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. And all will plainly see the salvation of the Lord.

Wait - Christ