God's Big Picture: Tracing the Story-Line of the Bible

Vaughan Roberts has done a great service to the Body of Christ by providing a simplification of Graeme Goldsworthy's approach to biblical theology. This would be a great read for those who are reading through the Bible in 90 Days or even in a year. Unfortunately the best dispensational books are presently being written by Reformed Amillennialists! By that I mean this great fly-over of the whole Bible suffers from "replacement theology" that equates the Church with Israel and sees no future for national Israel in God's Big Picture. Thus, the books suffers from not accurately dealing with Revelation 20 and the literal, complete fulfillment of the covenant promises to Isreal as a nation. That being said the book is still a great overview of God's Big Picture! I just wish current "progressive dispensationalists" would write a simlar book. Vaughan Roberts has done us a great service. Read it, but balance its amillienial, replacement theology with a future for Israel and you will have HD clarity of God's Big Picture!

This book provided a wonderful overview of the entire bible in one book. Not an indepth study, but it was fun to read about the bible, all 66 books in one volume. It also helped in understanding how they all fit together and that the central theme is God's redemptive plan for mankind.

Roberts is clear and concise. He works off of Goldsworthy's Gospel and Kingdom, but seeks to make it more accessible. He traces the storyline of the bible with the pattern of the kingdom, the perished k, the promised k, the partial k, the prophesied k, the present k, the proclaimed k, and the perfected k.

Having read 5 various books on this subject of the Kingdom of God, Mr. Roberts book was the most organized, structured, illustrated and understandable. It became the foundation for my own series on the Kingdom. A great first book since it lays the foundation necessary for understanding the more in depth books such as: Announcing the Kingdom and According to Plan.

For anyone interested to know how the 66 books of the Bible fit together to point towards salvation in Christ, this is a great tool to use.