Course · Tony T. Yarber
Survey of the Bible
One Story. One Redeemer.
CREATION → FALL → PROMISE → COVENANT → KINGDOM → EXILE → CHRIST → CHURCH → NEW CREATION
30 lessons + capstone. Sign in to save your progress.
The Bible is not merely a collection of disconnected stories, doctrines, and moral lessons. Across its many books, genres, covenants, and historical moments, Scripture tells one unfolding story of God creating, judging, promising, redeeming, dwelling with, and restoring His people. That story reaches its decisive center in Jesus Christ and moves toward the renewal of all things.
Module 1
Seeing the Bible as One Story
The Bible is a library of many books, yet those books participate in one coherent redemptive story. The first task of biblical survey is learning to see the whole before getting lost in the parts.
Module 2
Creation, Fall, and the First Promise
Genesis 1–3 establishes the world of the Bible: God creates, humanity bears His image, sin corrupts the good creation, death and exile enter the story, and God announces that evil will not have the final word.
Module 3
Abraham, Covenant, and the Birth of a People
God responds to a scattered and rebellious humanity by calling Abraham, making covenant promises, and forming a family through whom blessing will reach the nations.
Module 4
Exodus, Law, and the Presence of God
God redeems Israel from slavery, forms them as His covenant people, gives His law, and chooses to dwell among them through tabernacle, priesthood, and sacrifice.
Module 5
Land, Kings, and Kingdom
Israel enters the land, repeatedly fails under the judges, and eventually receives a monarchy. The Davidic covenant then creates enduring expectation for a righteous King.
Module 6
Division, Prophets, and Exile
The kingdom fractures, kings repeatedly fail, prophets call the people back to covenant faithfulness, and exile becomes both judgment and the setting for deeper promises of restoration.
Module 7
Return, Waiting, and Messianic Hope
The exiles return and rebuild, yet the full prophetic promises remain unresolved. The Old Testament story closes in a posture of waiting for the King, the Spirit, the covenant renewal, and the greater presence of God.
Module 8
Jesus: The Story Finds Its Center
In Jesus, the kingdom arrives, the cross fulfills Passover and covenant sacrifice, and the resurrection launches new creation. The story does not merely continue; it reaches its decisive center.
Module 9
Spirit, Church, and Mission
The risen Christ pours out the Spirit, forms a new covenant people, and sends the church from Jerusalem to the nations as a witness between resurrection and return.
Module 10
New Creation: The End Is Better Than the Beginning
The biblical story ends not with escape from creation but with the return of the King, final judgment, bodily resurrection, the defeat of death, and God dwelling with humanity in renewed creation.
Final step · Capstone
Trace the Story
The course is complete once all lessons are finished and the capstone is submitted. You can begin drafting at any time.