Appendix B2 : Plan of the Ages Chart

Adapted with slight modification from concordant.org

Plan of the Ages or Eons 

BEFORE THE AGES 

All out of God (“of Him, and through Him, and to Him are all things” Rom 11:36) One Lord Jesus Christ, through whom all is (1Cor 8:4-6) 

2Tim 1:9; Titus 1:2 – Before the Ages began (ESV), Before the Ages of time (Darby), Before the times of the ages (YLT), Before eonian times (CLNT), Before the commencement of the ages (WNT) , Before the ages/eons (LITV, ESV, YLT, Darby, CLNT) (1Cor 2:7) 

AGE 1 

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (Gen 1:1) Creation in 6 days (Gen 1:1-31) Man and Woman created on 6th day (Gen 1:26-27) “Everything made … very good” (Gen 1:31) God rested on 7th day (Gen 2:2-3) Short Period of Man in Paradise (Gen 1 & 2) “The Fall” (Gen 3:1-13) Serpent, Woman, Man were cursed (Gen 3:14-17) Curse of the Earth, Disruption of the world system (Gen 3:18-19). .................................................... End of Age 1 

AGE 2

Adamic generations until …the Great Flood of Noah (Gen 7), Adam to Noah, 1656 years The “old world” (2 Pet 2:5) The world that then was, deluged with water, perished.

(2 Pet 3:5-6). ............................ End of Age 2

AGE 3

“Present evil age/eon” (Gal 1:4 YLT, WEB, ESV, ISV, ALT, LITV, EMTV, GNB, CLNT) Present heavens and the earth (2 Pet 3:7) Noah to Abraham (430 years) Abraham to Christ’s 1st advent 

THE CROSS { The Present Secret Interval – Paul’s Epistles } The Rapture of present-day Saints (1Thes 4:13 - 5:11) The Great Tribulation -- Jacob’s Trouble (Jer 30:7) The Great Earthquake (Rev 16:17-21) Christ’s 2nd advent (Matt 24:29-30) Nations judged (Matt 25:31-46); Satan bound (Rev 20:1-2). ......... End of Age 3 

AGE 4 

The 1,000 Years or Millennium (Rev 20:1-10) “Age/eon to come” Luke 18:30 (GNB, ESV, EMTV, ALT, LITV, YLT, WNT, CLNT) Satan loosed a little season (Rev 20:3,7,8) Present earth and heaven fled away (Rev 20:11) The Great White Throne Judgment (Rev 20:11) ............................. End of Age 4 The Lake of Fire (Rev 20: 13-15) . 

............................................Ages 4+5 = “ages of the ages” (Rev 11:14-15) 

AGE 5 
New Heavens and New Earth (Rev 21:1-2) “Age of the Ages” Eph 3:21 (YLT, LITV, ALT, Darby, CLNT) 

CLOSE OF THE AGES

Heb 9:26 “completion/end/close of the ages” (ALT, LITV, YLT, WEB, ASV, WNT, CLNT) 

Consummation: 

God all in all (1Cor 15:22-28); all justified, reconciled, vivified, subjected.

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