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The Living Kingdom

A living museum of Christian knowledge. Enter freely. Discover slowly. Return often. Every path leads back to Christ.

“In him we live, and move, and have our being.” — Acts 17:28 (KJV)

The Seven Worlds of the Kingdom

Seven doors, one house of study. Choose a door — every path meets the others inside.

Scripture

23 chapters and verses in the KJV — Genesis to Revelation.

Places

32 sacred and historical cities of the Bible.

People

34 named lives from the KJV, plus Christ the King.

History

Six eras of salvation, from the Patriarchs to Church history.

Timeline

The Nativity as the golden centre of the ages.

Families

How each entry meets the household in the five rooms.

Reflections

Household prayers and gentle applications for the little ones.

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SCRIPTURE

1 Corinthians 13

The Love chapter — 'the greatest of these is charity' — Paul's household letter to the Corinthians.

PERSON

Abraham

The father of the faithful — called from Ur, given the promise, offered Isaac — 'the friend of God.'

SCRIPTURE

Acts 2

Pentecost — the rushing mighty wind — the tongues of fire — the birthday of the Church.

PERSON

Adam

The first man — head of the human race — type of Christ, the second Adam.

PLACE

Alexandria

The great Egyptian city on the Mediterranean where the Septuagint was made, and where the earliest schools of Christian learning arose.

PLACE

Antioch

The Syrian city on the Orontes where the disciples were first called Christians.

PLACE

Athens

The Greek city of the Areopagus — where Paul preached the Unknown God.

PLACE

Babylon

The great Mesopotamian city — the empire of the exile — the biblical type of the world-city.

PERSON

Barnabas

The Son of Consolation — Levite of Cyprus — the man who took Saul when no one would.

PLACE

Bethany

The village of Lazarus, Mary, and Martha — on the eastern slope of the Mount of Olives.

PLACE

Bethlehem

The small town of the House of Bread — the city of David and the birthplace of Christ.

PLACE

Cana

The Galilean village of Christ's first miracle — the wedding, the water, the wine.

PLACE

Capernaum

The village on the north shore — 'his own city' — the Galilean headquarters of Christ's ministry.

PERSON

Christ Jesus

The eternal Word made flesh — Saviour, Son of God, Son of Man, King of Kings.

PLACE

Corinth

The Greek city on the isthmus where Paul stayed a year and six months — and to which he wrote the epistles that shaped every later church.

PLACE

Cyprus

The eastern Mediterranean island — home of Barnabas — first missionary destination — one of the oldest continuously Christian lands.

PLACE

Damascus

The oldest continuously inhabited city in the world — the road where Saul became Paul.

PERSON

Daniel

The prophet of the Babylonian court — the lions' den — the visions of the four kingdoms and the Son of man.

PERSON

David

The shepherd of Bethlehem — the king of Israel — the sweet psalmist — the man after God's own heart.

PLACE

Egypt

The land of Joseph, Moses, the Exodus — the land where the Holy Family found refuge.

PERSON

Elijah

The Tishbite — 'like unto whom the coming forerunner shall be' — taken up in a whirlwind.

PLACE

Emmaus

The village of the road — where two disciples knew Him in the breaking of the bread.

PLACE

Ephesus

The great Ionian city where Paul stayed three years, where John the Beloved is buried, and where Mary is honoured.

PERSON

Eve

'The mother of all living' — the first woman — recipient of the first Gospel promise.

SCRIPTURE

Exodus 20

The Ten Commandments — the law of the LORD spoken at Sinai — the household's rule of life.

SCRIPTURE

Genesis 1

'In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth' — the first chapter of the Bible.

SCRIPTURE

Genesis 22

The binding of Isaac — Abraham's greatest trial — the mountain of the LORD.

SCRIPTURE

Genesis 3

The chapter of the Fall — 'the serpent beguiled me' — and the first promise of Christ.

PLACE

Gethsemane

The garden of the olive-press — where Christ prayed 'thy will be done' — where He was betrayed.

PLACE

Golgotha

The place of a skull — where the Lord of glory was crucified — the centre of history.

PERSON

Hannah

Wife of Elkanah — mother of Samuel — the household of Mary's Magnificat is her house first.

PLACE

Hebron

The Judean city of the patriarchs — where Abraham bought the cave of Machpelah — David's first capital.

PERSON

Hezekiah

Righteous king of Judah — trusted the LORD against Sennacherib — his prayer preserved.

PERSON

Isaac

The son of promise — bound on Moriah — the type of Christ.

PERSON

Isaiah

The eighth-century prophet of Immanuel — 'a man of unclean lips' — the evangelist of the Old Testament.

SCRIPTURE

Isaiah 53

The Suffering Servant — 'wounded for our transgressions' — the Gospel written seven centuries before the Cross.

PERSON

Jacob

The heel-grasper who became Israel — father of the twelve tribes — wrestler with God.

PERSON

Jeremiah

The weeping prophet of the fall of Jerusalem — herald of the new covenant.

PLACE

Jerusalem

The city on the hill where the King James Bible unfolds from Melchizedek through the Passion and beyond — the mother church of Christianity.

SCRIPTURE

John 1

'In the beginning was the Word' — the prologue of the fourth Gospel — the Word made flesh.

SCRIPTURE

John 11

The raising of Lazarus — 'I am the resurrection, and the life' — 'Jesus wept.'

SCRIPTURE

John 3

Nicodemus by night — 'ye must be born again' — 'For God so loved the world.'

SCRIPTURE

John 6

The feeding of the five thousand, walking on water, and the Bread of Life discourse.

PERSON

John the Baptist

The forerunner — the voice crying in the wilderness — 'Prepare ye the way of the Lord.'

PERSON

John the Evangelist

The beloved disciple — son of Zebedee — writer of the fourth Gospel, three epistles, and the Revelation.

PERSON

Jonah

The prophet in the great fish — the sign Christ named of His own resurrection.

PLACE

Jordan River

The river of Israel — of Elias, of John, of the baptism of the Lord.

PERSON

Joseph of Nazareth

The just man of Nazareth — carpenter, husband of Mary, guardian of the Christ child.

PERSON

Joshua

The son of Nun — Moses's successor — who led Israel over the Jordan into the promised land.

SCRIPTURE

Joshua 24

Joshua's last words to Israel. The household covenant at Shechem.

PERSON

Lazarus

The friend of Christ — brother of Martha and Mary — raised from the dead at Bethany.

PERSON

Luke

The beloved physician — Paul's companion — the evangelist whose two books together are the longest single contribution to the New Testament.

SCRIPTURE

Luke 15

The three parables of mercy — the lost sheep, the lost coin, the prodigal son.

SCRIPTURE

Luke 2

The Nativity — the shepherds — the presentation — the child in the temple.

PERSON

Mark

John Mark — companion of Peter, Paul, and Barnabas — author of the second Gospel — the first bishop of Alexandria.

PERSON

Mary Magdalene

Mary of Magdala — out of whom Christ cast seven devils — the first witness of the Resurrection.

PERSON

Mary, mother of Christ

The Virgin of Nazareth — handmaid of the Lord — mother of the Word made flesh.

PERSON

Matthew

The tax-collector called from a booth at Capernaum — one of the Twelve — the first Gospel-writer.

SCRIPTURE

Matthew 5

The Sermon on the Mount begins — the Beatitudes — salt and light — a new law from a new mountain.

SCRIPTURE

Matthew 6

The middle of the Sermon on the Mount. The Lord's Prayer. The seek-ye-first.

PERSON

Moses

The lawgiver — servant of the LORD — the meekest man in all the earth.

PLACE

Mount Ararat

The mountain where the ark rested — the first mountain of Christian pilgrim imagination.

PLACE

Mount Carmel

The ridge above the Mediterranean — where Elijah called down fire and shamed the prophets of Baal.

PLACE

Mount Moriah

The mountain of Genesis 22 — the temple mount of Jerusalem — the ground on which the ram was offered in Isaac's place.

PLACE

Mount of Olives

The ridge east of Jerusalem — mount of the triumphal entry, the agony, the ascension.

PLACE

Mount Sinai

The mountain of God — where Moses saw the burning bush and received the Law.

PLACE

Nazareth

The Galilean village where Mary lived, where Joseph worked, and where Christ our Lord grew.

PERSON

Noah

'A just man and perfect in his generations' — builder of the ark — preserved through the flood.

PLACE

Patmos

The small Aegean island of the Revelation — where John saw the risen Christ in glory.

PERSON

Paul

Saul of Tarsus — persecutor turned apostle — 'a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles.'

PERSON

Peter

Simon called Cephas — the fisherman of Galilee — the rock — the shepherd of the sheep.

PLACE

Philippi

The Macedonian colony where the first European convert was baptised, and where Paul and Silas sang at midnight.

SCRIPTURE

Proverbs 9

Wisdom's feast, Folly's feast, and the beginning of learning.

SCRIPTURE

Psalm 119

The longest chapter in Scripture. Twenty-two letters, one hundred and seventy-six verses on the word.

SCRIPTURE

Psalm 23

The Shepherd Psalm. Six verses. The whole life of trust.

SCRIPTURE

Psalm 46

The refuge psalm. Eleven verses that answer fear with stillness.

SCRIPTURE

Psalm 91

The Protection Psalm. Sixteen verses. The household's night prayer under the shadow of the Almighty.

SCRIPTURE

Revelation 21

'And I saw a new heaven and a new earth' — the last vision — the marriage of the Lamb.

SCRIPTURE

Romans 8

'There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus' — the great chapter of Christian assurance.

PLACE

Rome

The imperial capital where Paul was tried, where Peter and Paul were martyred, and where the earliest Latin Christian church took root.

PERSON

Ruth

The Moabite widow — great-grandmother of David — the great household covenant of 'thy people shall be my people.'

PERSON

Samuel

The last judge — first great prophet — the anointer of Saul and of David.

PLACE

Sea of Galilee

The freshwater sea of northern Israel — where fishermen were called to become fishers of men.

PLACE

Shiloh

The first great sanctuary of Israel — home of the tabernacle — the sanctuary of Samuel's boyhood.

PERSON

Solomon

David's son — third king of Israel — builder of the temple — writer of Proverbs.

PERSON

Stephen

The first deacon, the first martyr — 'full of faith and of the Holy Ghost' — his face 'as it had been the face of an angel.'

PLACE

Tarsus

The Cilician city of Paul's birth — 'no mean city' — a Hellenistic capital of learning.

PERSON

Timothy

Paul's 'son in the faith' — young bishop of Ephesus — recipient of two epistles.

PLACE

Wilderness of Judea

The desert east of Jerusalem — the wilderness of John's preaching and Christ's temptation.

The Living Timeline

Choose an era above to filter the Kingdom.

More places on the map

Recently added — five biblical places worth walking through.

Newly added — content expansion Phase 1

Six people, three places. Each page a full portrait, cross-linked to Scripture and to the children's library.

Content Phase 2 · additions

Eight biblical people, five biblical places — from the household's Content Completion, July 2026.