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Cycle of the Ages
After the Flood - Before the 2nd Advent
Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. Ec 1:10

 
  • Past Ages - (Col 1:26)
  • Present Age - (Eph 1:21)
  • Future Ages  - (Eph 2:7)
After the Flood
Comparisons


  • First covenant - (Heb 9:15)
  • "Law of Moses" - (1 Cor 9:9)
  • Moses - (Deut 18:15)
  • "Fleshly Israel - (1 Cor 10:18)
  • Twelve sons of Jacob
  • Priests
  • High Priest - (Heb 9:11)
  • Sin offering
  • Sabbath day
  • "David's Throne" - (Lk 1:32)
 
Before the 2nd Advent
Comparisons
 
  • Second Covenant - (Heb 8:7; 10:9)
  • "Law of Christ" - (Gal 6:2)
  • Christ - (Acts 3:22)
  • Spiritual Israel - (Rom 2:28,29; 9:6,8)
  • Twelve apostles - (Gal 2:9; Eph 2:20)
  • Priests - (1 Pet 2:5,9; Rev 1:6)
  • High Priest - (Heb 9:11; 7:17)
  • Sin Offering - (Heb 9:28)
  • First day of the week
  • Christ on David's throne - (Acts 2:30)
After the Flood
Contrasts

  • "Law  of sin and death" - (Rom 8:2)
  • "The bond" - (Col 2:14)
  • "Spirit of bondage" - (Rom 8:15)
Before the 2nd Advent
Contrasts

  • "Law of the spirit of life" - (Rom 8:2)
  • "The law of liberty" - (Jas 1:25)
  • "Spirit of adoption" - (Rom 8:15)

After the Flood
Beginnings

  • "Canaan" a "servant" - (Gen 9:25-27)
  • Organized warfare - (Gen 14:1-3)
  • Foreign mission work begun - (Gen 12:1-3)

Before the 2nd Advent
Endings

  • Slavery begin abolished
  • "Peace and safety - (1 Thes 5:3)
  • "Foreign mission work" - (Matt 24:14)

Alvin Hobby
Author, Missionary, Linguist and Amatuer Astronomer

Alvin Hobby, the author of Cycle of the Ages, was a native of Tennessee who was a missionary in Northern Rhodesia. As of 1961, when the book was published, he had been on the mission field 22 years and had taken only one furlough home. He had never seen a television set!

Mr. Hobby, his wife and 5 children ran the Namwianga Mission, a school with over 350 students. He became proficient in the Tonga language and translated seven books into the native language. In addition, he had worked for 22 years on the translation of the Bible into the Tonga dialect.

His special interest was astronomy. In 1958, after working for 5 years in his spare time, Mr. Hobby completed the construction of a ten-inch reflecting telescope which was perhaps the largest in Central Africa.
 
He began work on this book in 1949, and consulted over 70 ministers and educators about this project and incorporated their ideas into the published version. The web pages are taken from the chart at the end of the book. The first part of the book discusses the cycles in nature and the various forms in which cycles appear.
 
He concludes that the Creator has ordained that all things in the Heavens and the Earth run in cycles. All that we see, hear or feel is influenced by cycles from the electrons which orbit the atom to the stars which swirl around the galaxies.

Cycle of the Ages by Alvin Hobby. Vantage Press, New York, 1961. Taken from the chart on the inside cover.

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