Practical Bible Training School - Theologue Yearbook (Johnson City, NY)

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This Chart Is Used in the Doctrine, Biblical, and Systematic Theology Classes of P. B. T S INTERPRETATION OF THE CHART By REV. H. H. WAGNER, D.D. Rom. 1:20 tells us The invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead. Creation should teach us about God. Creation is beautiful in its variety of colors. God loves the beautiful, Isa. 33:17, Thine eyes shall see the King in His beauty. Cf. Psa. 50:1-2, Heb. 11:16, Rev. 21:1 to 22:S, Matt. 6:28-29, Mal. 3:16-17. In the study of the tabernacle God makes use of colors-blue, purple, scarlet, and white: and of metals,-gold, silver, and brass, Ex. 25:1-8. Gold, the First substance mentioned, is a metal of a yellow color comparable to sunlight. I john 125, God is light. Matt. 25:31, Christ tells us that He Shall come in His glory which in Matt. 24:27 is to be as the lightning. The glory of God is the power of life, John 11:39-44, Rom. 6:4. The beautiful yellow light of the glory of God as expressed in His life is seen in John 1:4-9. Silver stands for redemption, Ex. 30:11- 165 38:25, Mal. 3:3. Brass stands for judgment, Ex. 27:1-6: Deut. 28:23g Num. 21:8-9, cf. John 3:14- 15. The color of brass represents the law and judgment. Blue represents Deity, Num. 15:37-41. This is illustrated in Ex. 24:9-103 Ezek. 1:26, and helps us in understanding Num. 416, 7, 9, 11, etc. Purple represents royalty, Esther 8:15, and explains its use in mockery, in Mark 15:16-18, John 19:1-5. It interprets Num. 4:13. Scarlet represents The life of the flesh, Lev. 17:11. Our blood is scarlet and Christ's blood likewise was scarlet, Heb. 2:14. Scar- let is not God's color for sin. It is the Page Thirty-one

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.qnzaisnfing B I B L E This Shows the Historical and Progressive Work of Redemption clfiitozy of tfie Cygdlf THE REASON WHY THE P.B.T.S. BIBLE DOCTRINE CHART WAS MADE Every teacher and many students know that facts enter into the mind much more readily through the eye gate than through any of the other senses. Some Hfteen years back, when the author of the chart was trying to help his students to see that the history of Bible Doctrine was progressive in character, the same as the history of nations, he sought to illustrate this truth by diagrams. This chart is the develop- ment of those simple diagrams until it has been called by others, A Road Map Through the Bible. That is exactly what the author had in mind, viz., to make one understand that while God's plan for the salvation of mankind was all finished in detail Before the foundation of the world, Page Thirty yet it has been unfolded to mankind grad- ually, as the mind of a seeker for truth could understand it. God revealed facts to man as he was able to digest them. This P.B.T.S. Doctrine chart helps the student to place Scripture in its proper place in relation to the other Scriptures, and thus he may comprehend its message with far greater clearness. May God bless every student of His Word. Note: A larger reproduction of the Bible Doctrine Chart, together with the Interpretation and in- structions for coloring, is available at Echoes Pub- lishing Co., Bible School Park, N. Y. Write for information.

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color of the life in the fiesh and of the blood, and symbolizes the life of Christ laid down by Him, John 19:34, as atonement for mankind, Matt. 26:283 Col. 1:20. Isa. 1:18 pictures man's life in the flesh as crimson and as the very depths of sin, but also promises this crimson red or scarlet, through Christ, shall become white as snow. The three basic colors-blue, yellow, and red-teach us that God gives His life to the redeemed, through His Son's laying clown His blood upon the earth, I Pet. 3:18, I Pet. 1:18-21. Vegetation is green. The Scriptures rep- resent in many places man's life to be like the grass or vegetation, cf. Psa. 102:11g Psa. 103:15-16: Isa. 40:6-85 I Pet. 1:24. This teaches that man comes in under the grace of God but leaves this earth either with the glory of God in him as the golden hues of autumn, or under the judgment of God as seen in the brown of dying vege- tation. White represents purity, holiness, righte- ousness, and justice, Rev. 19:7-83 Matt. 16:1-2: Matt. 28:1-33 Acts 11113 I Tim. 6:15-16. ....,-as Dr. Wagner and Students at Work on Bible Doctrine Chart When blue, representing Deity, is mixed with scarlet, representing the life of Christ in the flesh, We have purple, which repre- sents Christ in His royalty. The scarlet must be laid down before the purple can be made. Christ came first to the cross and will come back again in His royal power to the throne. Green represents the grace of God. It is the color in the solar spectrum between blue and yellow. When blue and the gold- en color are mixed we have green result- ing. This explains the green of Gen. 1:30, Psa. 23:1-2, Rev. 4:3. Page Thirty-two Black is God's color for sin and death, and is the first color mentioned in con- nection with sin. Job 38:95 cf. Gen. 1:2, 5: Job 10:22: Matt. 8:12g Matt. 22:13g Matt. 25:30, II Pet. 2:17, Psa. 49:l9g John 3:19g Nahum 1:8. The third heaven must naturally be in yellow and the yellow also is outside of the parenthesis line at the beginning and end of the chart. The coming of sin into the world is between the parenthesis lines. The Third Heaven, where God's throne is located, is set off clearly from the second or blue heavens, where Satan has his throne