redemptive story through CASKET EMPTY(R) enables you to trace its storyline in chronological sequence through five key periods: Expectations, Messiah, Pentecost, Teaching, and Yet-to-come, represented by the acronym EMPTY. This twelve-week Bible study has weekly summaries, Bible readings, and questions for reflection and discussion. Through this study you will learn that Jesus is at the center of God's plan of redemption and that God's saving work in Christ advances through the expanding missionary witness of the church. When used with the companion Old Testament Bible Study, represented by the acronym CASKET, the entire story of the Bible can be studied from Genesis to Malachi.