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Bible Timeline Chart
Bible Timeline Chart
A Biblical History Timeline Gives A Graphic Approach To Aid And Help Biblical Events And Truths
In our Bible study years ago, a friend who had been a Christian and worked in the local Church for many years, made this statement,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they weren't referring to the pre-mosaic law) I wonder how many Christians would actually pick up the inaccuracy in this statement. Moses existed about five hundred years after Abraham and so it is an impossibility. I have since then compiled a Bible timeline chart and shown more visually the dating of men and women and occasions.
Regrettably, a large number of Pastors and teachers in our churches continue to preach superficial, flimsy, light weight, shallow sermons and their congregation scarcely grow in biblical knowledge and understanding. Preachers love to give us'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we really love people this is what we'll do. Too bad it seems, if God's men and women are falling through the cracks'for a lack of knowledge' as long as we're positive and loving to all. In reality, the more relevant we become to our world, the less relevant we're to our world.
Some time ago, I was speaking on the life, resurrection, burial and death of Jesus Christ, and a retired pastor and powerful preacher of the Gospel, who had been in the ministry for 40 years, came to me and reproved me smartly over some fascinating points I made and he mentioned 1Ti 1:4'Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.' I humbly asked him if I was saying anything of a heretical nature in any way, to which he answered"No". I continued to describe that in the case of that particular verse, it was not speaking to examining Scripture but to the false teaching and school of thought of Gnosticism, but he would not accept it. So, how can a 40 year minister & worker in the Gospel, not know and understand about a thing that possibly 1/2 the books of the New Testament refer to?
How could he study and teach the Bible clearly without being familiar with a thing that was so influential in the New Testament church? And then how can the congregation hope to understand these things and be in a position to interpret their Bible well, if they are not told?
Why is it that we get stuck in a rut of our pet subjects and sugar coated discourses?
We teach on a verse from Proverbs and a passage about Isaac and a topical from the book of Jonah and then the faith of Gideon or the miracles of Jesus - parts from here and all over, but we do not put it all at once in a plain understandable, simple to remember, perspective with a capable Bible TimeLine and Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a number of them perilously edging toward Liberal theology, but if we could be instructed the fundamental principles of Church history, we then would not be so doomed to repeat it.
Let's us as tutors and preachers sew together the aspects of God's Word and His plan into a logical whole that our people can draw on for the rest of life, helping them to understand God, His Eternal Plan, the function of the Church and how to better translate the Bible to order our lives by.
It is not difficult to do, and it is not boring if we're prepared to put in a bit of effort prayer and fervor, and just perhaps you can employ a Bible Timeline also.
For added information concerning a Bible TimeLine check out our Bible TimeLine Chart website and read up on the biblical study tool.
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