St. Paul Lutheran Church, Matteson, Illinois & Pastor Troester

God gives Abraham the sign of circumcision to remind them of His Promises to send a Savior.

Despite the impatience of Sarai & Abram, God continues to bless them and assure them of His Promise.

A battle with Lot and Sodom and Gomorrah, and Lot is taken captive, until Abram comes and conquers the enemy and sets Lot free.

Abram and his nephew, Lot, part ways so that each of their flocks could be fed and tension between the two and their herdsman might be aleviated. Abram let's Lot choose and God continues to bless Abram.

God's promise to Abram that through his family God would send a Savior for all people.

When mankind wanted to make a name for themselves and refused to fill the earth, they started to build a tower, but God intervened and spread them out and so fullfilled His promise to give them hope.

A genealogy in the time of Noah, which shows us the hope that God gives through the human family which is finaled realized in the birth of God's only Son, Jesus, into the human family to give us hope.

God establishes His Covenant with Noah and all creation, and uses the rainbow to remind Him and us.

God remembes Noah and his family, and God remembers us, as Noah remained faithful to God and did what God said to do, so that now the Promise of a Savior continues for them and for us.

God floods the entire world and all living things are drowned, except Noah, his family and all the animals that God brought on the ark with him.

In the time of Noah, God was sorry about creating the world, yet gave us hope by bringing Noah through the flood.

The generations of mankind, and proclamation of God persevering, despite our rebellion and bringing us a Savior, Jesus Christ, through this line.

The depravity of mankind and the faithfulness of God.

When the devil tempts Adam and Eve, they rebel against God and disobey Him, but God gives us hope in a Savior.

God establishes the Sabbath Day, and explains the creation of mankind and marriage.

Revelation closes with Hope and a warning.

God's wrath against His enemies and the enemies of the believers who have faith in Him.

Now we see how diabolic satan is, trying to get the world to worship him rather than the true God.

The battle between God and Satan, won by Jesus Christ when He died on the cross, rose from the dead and ascended to heaven.

There will be war against the church/the Bride of Christ, but we are to continue to be witnesses of the resurrection of Christ and of ourselves.

God commissions John to write the message down so that all can read it.

In the second scene showing us what to expect in the time between Jesus' Ascension and His second coming, we are reminded of Satan, a fallen angel, who is behind the evil that is in our world, along with the promise that God still is over him for our sake.

Jesus opens the seal on the seventh scroll as more of the sad history of the effect of sin on the whole world is revealed.

A description of heaven and where we end up after death, with new life and being in God's presence forever.

Through the image of the four horseman, God shows us the evil that is to come, and His protection of His Church.