An Epic Drama in Three Acts…So Far

God’s relationship with humankind that God created can perhaps be usefully segmented into three spans of time marked by sudden sea changes in God’s behavior toward God’s human creation. We can think of these time spans as Acts in an epic drama, or perhaps Books in the saga of the human family, or in the digital terminology of the current age, God 1.0, God 2.0 and God 3.0. I find the segmentation useful in that it augments my understanding of God and my role as one of God’s children at this point in the saga.

The three Acts are delineated as follows: Act One: Adam to Noah, which I dub The Early Years of Chaos; Act Two: Abram to Jesus, which I call God’s Attempt to Create God’s People; and Act Three: Jesus to date, which I call God’s Attempt at Reconciliation. Now, the last two Acts are replete with much action and story because they are more recent and much was written, recorded and determined to be sufficiently inspired to be included in the Hebrew and Christian Bible. However, much occurred of significance in Act One which covers a similar period of about 2,000 years and merits a mere six chapters of the Bible we Christians read. Yet Act One is of enormous significance to God’s experience with humans and God’s realization of what God had wrought.

I will begin with Act One in my next blog. Suffice to say here that indeed there was much written about one principal character who lived during Act One. We will consider that person of history and lore in our next blog post. His visions shed light on God’s enormous dilemma, and his prophecies mirror those of Daniel and John. I find all this rather interesting. Hope you will enjoy thinking on it as well.