A Thematic Analysis Of God's Big Picture By Vaughan Roberts

God’s Big Picture, written by Vaughan Roberts, is a book about the layout, context, and understanding of the Bible. He goes into great detail in each of his chapters describing the events and explains some of God’s underlying purposes for each occurrence. Roberts begins the book by telling his readers in the preface that he wants to “help Christians to find their way around the Bible and to see how it all holds together and points us to Jesus.” In order to understand the pattern of the kingdom, one must start with the beginning. The author begins by explaining that there was no beginning of God. He, the three in one, has always existed. Even before time began, God was there. When God began his creation process, he called it good. Roberts

God’s grace has been offered since the beginning of time. Despite Adam and Eve deliberately disobeying God, He still loves them and shows them mercy. It is through God’s love that He will save man. In Genesis chapter 3, verse 15, God is pointing to time in the future when an heir of Adam will ultimately destroy the evil one. At the Tower of Babel, God judges the people’s sins and punishes them by separating them with language barriers. After these effects have taken place, God appears to Abraham in a vision. God promises to reverse the effect of His judgment and says He will bless Abraham’s people. Roberts points out that the covenant between God and Abraham reflect that of which was mentioned in the pattern of the kingdom with Adam and Eve. God’s people, Abraham’s descendants, in God’s place, the Promised Land, under God’s all-powerful

God proves His power by giving Sarah and Abraham a son, Isaac, and Abraham proves his faith by obeying God in action by sacrificing his only son. When God provided the lamb for Abraham to sacrifice instead of his son, this is foreshadowing into the future when Jesus sends His lamb, Jesus, to die on the cross where sin was ultimately defeated. Roberts mentions a principle mentioned throughout the entire Bible: God does not choose His people by merit. Abraham was not perfect, but he was loyal to his Lord, so He blessed Abraham. Roberts then jumps to Moses, whom God appeared to in a burning bush. God tells Moses to go to Pharaoh and tell him to release God’s people, the Israelites, who Pharaoh had enslaved. Moses obeyed, and the Lord was with him. God places ten plagues on Egypt to prove the Pharaoh that it was truly God who was demanding the release of His people. Only by God’s merciful act of salvation, the Israelites are set free and have been made God’s special people. The Israelites deserved to die because they were humans, sinful by nature; but God sent the ultimate sacrifice, which died on a