A Prelude to the
End of the World

A Prelude to the End of the World

the King is coming

Seven timelines of Bible prophecy, drawn side by side on one chart, from Israel’s exile in 605 B.C. to the new heavens and the new earth. Every statement on it carries its reference, so you can check every one.

Open the chart or take the tour: fifteen stops, from the key to the gospel

The full prophetic timeline chart, reduced. It runs from Israel in exile on the left to the gospel on the right.We are herethe church age. Next on the chart: the rapture.

The whole chart, shrunk: scroll along it. Printed full size it is a scroll almost nine feet wide. Open it to read every box, or download it.

“But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.”

Matthew 24:36

“But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.”

Mark 13:32

“Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh.”

Matthew 25:13
This chart shows what God has revealed, in its order. It sets no date. Why not?

How to use the chart

It works on a phone with the book in your other hand, and on a screen in front of a class.

The chart open in the viewer: a search for Nisan 16 has lit the note on the resurrection, and 1 Corinthians 15:4 is open beside it.
Search “Nisan 16” and the note lights up on the chart, with its verse open beside it.
Scripture, by book
  • Daniel 2:33 · 7:8 · 9:27 again
  • Matthew 24:3-34 · 24:15 · 24:29
  • 1 Thessalonians 4:16-17 · 5:3
  • Revelation 3:10 · 4:1 · 13:16 · 20:11

  • Download the chart

    Keep a copy or print it. Free to download, print, and share. Full size (20,000 pixels wide, 9 MB; prints almost nine feet long) or smaller (8,000 pixels wide, 3.6 MB; prints about four feet long). If a download will not start, your browser can build the picture out of the chart’s pieces instead; give it a few seconds.

  • Read the key first

    The Timeline Key, bottom left of the chart, explains the arrows, the green anchor boxes, and the zig-zag where time is compressed. Anything marked ref explains a verse; it is not the verse itself.

  • Teach from it

    Present mode hides the controls and fills the screen. A clicker steps through the tour. Copy a link to any view and the class opens at the same spot.

    • A Prelude to the End of the World
    A Biblical Survey of Prophecy from Genesis to Revelation
    “Declaring the endfrom the beginning…”Isaiah 46:10
    Brandon Wallis
    • 22 chaptersThree parts of seven, then the gospel
    • King James VersionQuoted throughout, old words explained
    • Questions for studyAt the end of every chapter
    • Other views answeredStated fairly, then answered from the text
    • Six appendicesOrder of events, hard questions, tables
    • Scripture indexFind where any passage is treated

    The book

    God has never been silent about the future.

    One verse in four in the Bible is prophecy, and all of it points to one Person. Yet most believers have never seen the whole road laid out, from the promise in the garden to the city where God dwells with men. Most books on the subject either hand them a chart without the texts or the texts without the road.

    A Prelude to the End of the World is that road, in order, with a King James Bible open beside it. It follows seven timelines that converge on the return of Christ. It walks through the rapture, Daniel’s seventy weeks, the seals, trumpets, and bowls, the Antichrist, Armageddon, the kingdom, and the new creation, and it stops at every step to show the reader the verses and let him check them.

    It is written for the ordinary Christian who wants to know what the Bible actually says about the end, and for the pastor or study leader who needs one reference he can trust.

    The manuscript is in its final edit. It is not for sale yet. Leave your address and you will hear the day it is.

    Read Chapter 4 free More about the book

    Before you begin, see where the book stands: what it holds, what it will not do, and how to test it.

    Free from the back of the book: the appendices, tables and glossaries.

    Seven timelines, two endings

    Heaven’sIsrael’sthe believer’s the propheticthe earth’sfallen man’sLuciferSatan’s timebegins all thingsmade new the lake of fire

    History does not run on one track. Heaven, Israel, believers, the empires of prophecy, the earth itself, fallen man, and Satan each have a line of their own in Scripture. They do not all end in the same place.

    The chart draws the seven side by side so you can see what is happening on each at the same moment. The book follows the same seven twice: once through the age we live in, and once through the seven years of the tribulation.

    Watch where the lines go. From the return of Christ, Israel’s line and the believer’s are woven together. At the end heaven’s line and the earth’s meet them, and the four are woven into one where all things are made new. The prophetic line ends there, because by then every word of it has come to pass. Fallen man’s line and Satan’s go down to the lake of fire. Choose a line to follow it on the chart, or a chapter to see its subject there.

    TimelineBefore the tribulationDuring the tribulation
    Heaven’s 1The Author and Subject of Prophecy 8While Judgment Falls on Earth, Heaven Erupts in Celebration
    Israel’s 2God Is Not Done with Israel 9In Their Distress, They Will Finally Seek His Face
    The believer’s 3What Is Sown in Dishonor Is Raised in Glory 10God Never Leaves the Earth Without a Witness
    The prophetic 4This Is Where All of Human History Is Heading read it free 13Comply or Be Erased
    The earth’s 5The Instability in Nature Is Not Random 11The Creation Is Being Undone
    Fallen man’s 6People Will Call Good Evil and Evil Good 12What Began at Babel Goes Back to Babel
    Satan’s 7A Defeated Enemy Operating on Borrowed Time 14His Power Is Not His Own

    After the return

    From the return of Christ the book’s last part follows the story to its two ends: the lake of fire, and the city where God dwells with men. Then it closes with the gospel.

    The chart ends with the gospel

    There are two endings, and every reader will meet one of them. Jesus Christ is the only way of escape, and the Bible puts it simply.

    Read the gospel

    “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

    About the project

    The chart was begun in January 2019 and drawn in Microsoft Paint, one box at a time. It was made to be used with a Bible: for the glory of God in showing His plans from long ago, for the encouragement and equipping of the saints, to point the person who does not yet believe to the coming judgment and to Jesus Christ as the only way of escape, and to shed light on the schemes of the devil.

    The book grew out of the chart. The chart is a servant of the text and never a substitute for it. The Bible is the map, and everything here exists to send you back to it.

    The chart is older than the book, and it is being revised to match it. Where the two differ today, on a date or on how firmly something is said, the book is the author’s settled view.

    The author

    Brandon Wallis is a Bible teacher and disciple-maker. He leads several one-on-one Bible studies each week and is a student of Faith Bible Institute, a church-based program of biblical study. He is the founder of Strangers & Pilgrims and a painter. He wrote the book because he could not find one volume that laid the whole road out, from Genesis to the new creation, for an ordinary reader with a King James Bible open beside it.

    Write to him

    Questions, corrections, and a verse you think the chart has wrong are all welcome.
    aPreludeToTheEndOfTheWorld@gmail.com

    Not interested in Bible prophecy? Tell me why.

    Three minutes, ten questions, no name asked. The blunter the better. If you are interested, it asks what drew you instead.

    Take the three-minute survey

    News, and what is coming

    New in version 0.14

    • On a phone the pages no longer stop part way down, and the type is a little larger and heavier.
    • The book has a page of its own, with its contents, and the author has a What I believe page.
    • The chart can be downloaded as a picture file, full size or small.
    • One sign-up for the book, the Bible studies, and the shirts.
    • The picture of the seven lines draws in eight seconds now, and Lucifer falls before he is named Satan.
    • “How to use the chart” is eight pictures now, one for each thing the chart does.
    • Every page has a Report a problem link that names your browser for you.
    • A three-minute survey: why do people skip Bible prophecy? No name asked.
    Earlier

    Version 0.13, week of September 21, 2026

    • The chart is the newest edition, with its dates corrected.
    • The gospel has a page of its own.
    • Strangers & Pilgrims has a page, with the shirts in three colors.
    • Free resources: a gospel tract, the seven timelines, the seventy weeks, and the appendices of the book.

    Coming

    • The book. The manuscript is in its final edit; it is not for sale yet.
    • Bible studies on YouTube. The first has not been posted yet.
    • Strangers & Pilgrims shirts. The first designs are drawn; nothing is for sale yet.
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