We make plans…

What’s missing from these plans?

The Bible Harmony Throughout! Written over 1500 years… Written by over 40 authors from all walks of life… Written on 3 different continents… In 3 different languages… In different locations… In different moods… Harmony Throughout!

From the Beginning… God Had a Plan

Did the Dreams God Gave Joseph Fail? Sold as a Slave To Midianite Traders Did the Dreams God Gave Joseph Fail?

It Appears as though God is NOT working in Joseph’s life.

Joseph was wrongfully accused.

How could God possibly be working in his life?

God Had a Plan!

… God sent me before you to preserve life… Genesis 45:5–8 … God sent me before you to preserve life… God sent me before you to preserve a posterity for you in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance. 8 So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house

Adam & Eve 1 Timothy 2:14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.

Adam & Eve Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.”

Adam & Eve Genesis 22:18 In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”

Adam & Eve Galatians 3:8–9 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.” 9 So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.

Christ Matthew 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

Christ Matthew 4:23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom…

Christ John 6:66–68 From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more. 67 Then Jesus said to the twelve, “Do you also want to go away?” 68 But Simon Peter answered Him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.

God Had A Plan! Prophecies Concerning the Messiah Seed of a Woman (Gen. 3:15; cf. Gal. 4:4) Seed of Abraham (Gen. 18:18; cf. Ac. 3:25) Seed of Jacob (Num. 24:17; cf. Mat. 1:2) From Tribe of Judah (Gen. 49:10; Lk. 3:33) Heir to David’s Throne (Isa. 9:7; cf. Mat. 1:1) Born in Bethlehem (Mic. 5:2; cf. Mat. 2:1) Approx. Time of Birth Predicted (Dan. 9:25; cf. Lk. 2:1-2 ) Born of a Virgin (Isa. 7:14; cf. Mat. 1:18) Babies Massacred at His Birth (Jer. 31:15; cf. Mat. 2:16) Comes From Egypt (Hos. 11:1; cf. Mat. 2:14) Would Have a Galilean Ministry (Isa. 9:1-2; cf. Mat. 4:12-16) Would Be a Prophet (Dt. 18:15; cf. Jn. 6:14) Priest Like Melchizedek (Psa. 110:4; cf. Heb. 6:20) Rejected (Psa. 2:2; cf. Jn. 1:11) Triumphal Entry (Zech. 9:9; cf. Jn. 12:13-14) Betrayed By a Friend (Psa. 41:9; cf. Mk. 4:10) Betrayed For 30 Pieces of Silver (Zech. 11:12; Mat. 26:15) Betrayal Money Used To Purchase a Potter’s Field (Zech. 11:13; Mat. 27:6-7) Betrayers Office taken by another (Psa. 109:7-8; Ac. 1:18-20) False Witnesses Accuse Him (Psa. 27:12; Mat. 26:60-61) Silent When Accused (Isa. 53:7; Mat. 26:62-63) Beaten and Spat Upon (Isa. 50:6; Mk. 16:65) Many others… God Had A Plan!

Galatians 3:16 Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made Galatians 3:16 Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ.

Ephesians 1:4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,

Ephesians 3:10–11 to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places, 11 according to the eternal purpose which He accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord,

Matthew 25:34 Then the King will say to those on His right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

Ephesians 1:10 that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him.

From the beginning God had Philippians 2:5–8 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross. From the beginning God had a plan…for YOU!

From the beginning God had Romans 5:8 “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (i.e. You) From the beginning God had a plan…for YOU!