The Periods in Chronicles of the Kingdom

In my last post I mentioned that Chronicles of the Kingdom is divided into 7 Periods. These Periods represent the key phases of the Biblical narrative:

1 - The Beginning Period runs from God's plan to create his family, through creation all the way to Joseph in Egypt. (This Period was called The Patriarchs in the prototype, but it starts earlier than them so it got a name change!)

2 - The Exodus Period begins with the Israelites in Egypt and lasts up until Joshua leads the Israelites through the Jordan River

3 - The Judges lasts from the beginning of the conquest of the promised land all the way up to Samuel as the last judge of Israel

4 - The Kings starts with the anointing of Saul as the first king of Israel and lasts until the southern kingdom of Judah loses its sovereignty (last card of the period in the base set is Israel exiled by Assyria)

5 - The Exile begins when Nebuchadnezzar conquers Judah and Babylon takes the Jews into exile, and never really finishes... (that's a great point for a group discussion if ever I saw one!). Ok, well in this base game (did someone say expansions...?) the last Event card in this period is Nehemiah rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem

6 - The Messiah Period kicks off with Jesus being Born in Bethlehem and ends with his ascension into heaven

7 - The Church begins when the Holy Spirit is poured out on to God's people and ends with the reunion of heaven and earth in the form of the New Jerusalem! 

The Bible is so full of interesting and interlinked events, but they couldn't all be included in the initial set. However if people find the game useful and it takes off, then there are many events and themes to be explored in future expansions!

If you want to explore these with me in the future, please help spread the word and make this a real success by sharing the Kickstarter and the Facebook page with anyone you think might be interested : )

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Thank you for your support, together we can get the world excited about God's epic story of redemption!

Grace and Peace,

Luke