timeline of world history when jesus was on earth
Using God’s Word as authoritative, we know the pyramids of Egypt couldn’t have been built prior to creation. Also, they would not have been built prior to the Flood as they would have been destroyed. So they would have had to come afterwards. The Bible also reveals that after the Flood man came together and didn’t spread around the globe ( Genesis 11:1-4 ). They settled at a place called “Shinar” and built a tower to keep themselves from being scattered.
In fact, the pyramids resemble many other ancient ziggurats styles. Ziggurats and variants of them have been found in many parts of the world-from the Mesopotamian area to the Mayans and Aztec regions in South America!
How can we reconcile the secular history of the world with what the Bible clearly teaches? Using God’s Word as authoritative, we know the pyramids of Egypt couldn’t have been built prior to creation. Also, they would not have been built prior to the Flood as they would have been destroyed.
When exactly was the Flood? There are two possible ways of calculating the date. The first is from creation, and the other is from the present.
Given these assumptions he argues that the calculated date of Wednesday 1 April AD 33 for the Last Supper allows all four gospel accounts to be astronomically correct, with Jesus celebrating Passover two days before his death according to the original Mosaic calendar, and the Jewish authorities celebrating Passover just after the crucifixion, using the modified Babylonian calendar. In contrast, the Christian church tradition of celebrating the Last Supper on Maundy Thursday would be an anachronism. [151] [152] The calculated chronology incidentally supports John’s and Paul’s narratives that Jesus died at the same hour (Friday 3pm) on 3 April AD 33 that the Passover lambs were slaughtered. [153]
Both the gospels and first-century historian Flavius Josephus, in his work Antiquities of the Jews, [83] refer to Herod Antipas killing John the Baptist, and to the marriage of Herod and Herodias, establishing two key connections between Josephus and the biblical episodes. [9] Josephus refers to the imprisonment and execution of John the Baptist by Herod Antipas and that Herodias left her husband to marry Herod Antipas, in defiance of Jewish law. [9] [10] [11] [84]
His prophetic preaching (the coming of God’s kingly rule) and his wisdom teaching (the command of love) are never explicitly linked to one another. This gap has been subject to endless discussions and interpretations in many traditions. A possible interpretation is that only the coming of God’s kingdom makes it possible for people to love God in complete obedience and to love their neighbours, including enemies. This is, however, a matter of speculation.
The earliest of the four canonical gospels is believed to be Mark, written probably around 65-70 CE. Its content is not arranged chronologically, but according to subjects such as miracle stories, parables, pronouncement stories, etc. The only segment arranged chronologically is the Passion narrative (14.1-16.8). The two later synoptic gospels are Matthew, written around 85-90 CE, and Luke, about 90-100 CE. It is widely believed that the authors of these two gospels used Mark as their main source. In addition to Mark, there is a hypothetical source of the teaching of Jesus used by the authors of Matthew and Luke which is known as the Q source (from the German word Quelle, “source”).
A beautiful early example of visualizing the flow of history, Sebastian C. Adams’ Synchronological Chart of Universal History outlines the evolution of mankind from Adam and Eve to 1871, the year of its first edition.
The Synchronological Chart is a great work of outsider thinking and a template for autodidact study; it attempts to rise above the station of a mere historical summary and to draw a picture of history rich enough to serve as a textbook in itself.
References:
http://answersingenesis.org/bible-timeline/
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Jesus
http://www.ancient.eu/Jesus_Christ/
http://www.openculture.com/2015/05/6000-years-of-history-visualized-in-a-23-foot-long-timeline-of-world-history-chart.html
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams_Synchronological_Chart_or_Map_of_History