By Nick Dalgety
I created a photo book to highlight some of the important events in God’s dealings with Man. The creation of the heavens and the earth, Man created, Man’s fall, and then the early outworking of God’s plan to restore a right relationship between God and Man.
We see how the God of the Bible chooses Abram, a man out of Chaldea, who is destined to father a nation. There is a time of trial in Egypt for this people.
God hears their cry of distress and chooses Moses, to lead them out of captivity, through the desert wilderness and to the edge of the promised land.
Joshua, a man of great courage, then leads the Hebrews into the promised land the people seek after a worldly king – they choose Paul though he falls from grace. Then the magnificent reign of David. Solomon his son follows and he oversees the building of the first temple in Jerusalem.
Israel waxes and wanes through the centuries in its commitment to God. God sends His prophets to warn the people, saying they must return to Him in obedience. Finally judgment comes, culminating in the destruction of the temple in 585 BC by the Babylonians.
The people are dispersed, yet to return to Jerusalem after the 70 years of captivity in Babylon. The temple is restored, though a spiritual barrenness pervades the Land.
Who is able to restore the people to a right relationship with God? The need for a Messiah. I developed another photo book to bring to life this Messiah, Yeshua (Jesus). He comes as prophesied, a suffering servant to die for our sins – for both Jew and Gentile.
The final book I created highlights His imminent return, as a conquering King – to gather to Himself those who believe in Him and to judge those who reject Him.
About the Author
Nick Dalgety is a Kiwi born in Wellington, the capital city of New Zealand. In recent times my wife and I have made Nelson in the top of the South Island home.
My day job involves working with people making a living from land and sea. In my spare time my passion is taking pictures that celebrate what is iconic about Aotearoa New Zealand. Inevitably this involves discovering amazing people, in their special place making and doing what they do best.
When travelling overseas, I often seek out similar experiences. I created Provenance101 to share these experiences.
The Garden of Eden
The Lord God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed (GENESIS 2:8). God makes known in the first chapter of Genesis a sweeping account of the creation of the earth, the heavens, plants, animals, birds, fish and ultimately Man. God then turns His attention…
Man To Cultivate
Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it (GENESIS 2:15). Right from the start God intended that Man have real purpose in life. Here Man was to cultivate the land and care for the creatures that inhabited the Garden. There is real…
Not Good To Be Alone
Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him” (GENESIS 2:18). Relationships. As a Christian I believe in one God yet three Persons in nature, namely Father, Son and Holy Spirit – a truth revealed overtime in the Bible. Therefore relationship…
Man and His Wife Hid
They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden (GENESIS 3:8). Adam and Eve are together for the scripture says they heard the Lord God.…
Enmity Between the Seeds
The Lord God said to the serpent, “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise Him on the heel” (GENESIS 3:15). Here we witness the greatest calamity of Mankind. Adam and Eve chose to disobey an…