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Bible History Timeline Amazing Facts
Bible History Timeline Amazing Facts
A Biblical History Timeline Gives A Graphical Representation To Aid And Help Biblical Events And Principles
In our Sunday Bible group years ago, a woman who had been a Christian and laboured in the local Church for years, made this statement,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they were not talking about the pre-mosaic law) I wonder just how many Christians will really pick up the error in this statement. Moses existed about five hundred years after Abraham and so it is impossible. I have since put together a Biblical chronological banner and explained more visually the time period of individuals and occasions.
Regrettably, a large number of Pastors and teachers in our churches continue to preach shallow, light weight, superficial, flimsy sermons and their members hardly grow in biblical knowledge. Preachers love to give us'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we truly love people this is what we will do. Regrettable it seems, if God's people are falling through the cracks'for a lack of knowledge' as long as we're nice and loving to all. In reality, the more like the world, the less relevant we're to the world.
Some time ago, I was teaching on the death, burial, resurrection and life of Jesus, and a retired pastor and powerful preacher of the Gospel, who had been a pastor for 40 years, marched up and reproved me smartly over some interesting points I made and he noted 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 preaching anything of a heretical nature in any way, to which he replied"No". I continued on to spell out that in the case of that particular verse, it wasn't speaking to examining the Bible but to the false teachings and school of thought of Gnosticism, but he would not accept it. Let me ask, how can a 40 year preacher & laborer in the Gospel, not understand and know about a thing that possibly 1/2 the books of the New Testament discuss?
How can he understand and preach the Bible clearly without knowing about a thing that was so influential in the New Testament church? And then how can the congregation hope to figure out these things and be in a position to understand their Bible well, if they're not informed?
Why do we get stuck in a rut of our pet subjects and sugar coated sermons?
We instruct on a text from Habakkuk and a story about Solomon and a theme from the book of Esther and then the example of Samuel or the faith of Noah - pieces from here and everyplace, but we do not put it all together in a plain understandable, easy to remember, perspective with a decent Bible TimeLine with Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a number of them hazardously edging toward Progressive thinking, when if we were to be taught the basics of Church history, we then would not be so bound to repeat it.
Let's us as tutors and preachers sew together the fragments of the Bible and God's plan into a seamless tapestry that our people are able to draw on for the remainder of life, to help them to figure out God, His Eternal Plan, the function of the Church and ways to better translate the Bible to model our lives by.
It is not hard to do, and it's 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 as well.
For more info about a Bible TimeLine check out our Bible TimeLine Chart website and read up on the scriptural study tool.
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