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Bible Hub Timeline Old Testament
Bible Hub Timeline Old Testament
A Bible Timeline Chart Offers A Graphical Approach To Aid And Help Bible Events And Truths
In our Sunday Bible class years ago, one person who had been a Christian and been involved in the local Church for 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 just how many Christians would actually pick up the error in this claim. Moses existed about five hundred years after Abraham and so it is an impossibility. I have since compiled a Bible chronological banner and explained in a more graphic way the dating of people and occasions.
Alas, a large number of Pastors and teachers in our churches continue to preach light weight, shallow, flimsy, superficial messages and their Church members barely grow in Bible knowledge. Preachers love to give us'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we truly love people this is what we'll 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. Truly, the more like this world, the less relevant we're to this world.
Some time ago, I was speaking on the life, burial, resurrection and death of Christ Jesus, and a retired minister and strong preacher of Scripture, who had been a pastor for 40 years, marched up and reproved me vigorously over some fascinating points I made and he stated 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 quietly asked him if I was preaching anything of a heretical nature in any way, to which he replied"No". I continued to describe that in the case of that particular verse, it was not speaking to examining the Bible but to the false teachings and school of thought of Gnosticism, but he would not have it. Let me ask, how can a 40 year minister & worker in the Gospel, not know and understand about a thing that possibly half the books of the New Testament relate to?
How could he study and teach the Bible in fullness without being aware of 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 able to interpret their Bible effectively, if they are not informed?
Why do we dwell on our favorite topics and feel good messages?
We teach on a text from Zechariah and a narrative about John the Baptist and a topic from the book of Jeremiah and then the example of John the Baptist or the miracles through Paul - pieces from here and everyplace, but we do not put it all together in an obvious understandable, simple to remember, perspective with a capable Bible TimeLine including Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a number of them dangerously edging toward Progressive thinking, when if we could be taught 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 fragments of the Bible and God's plan into a seamless tapestry that our people can draw on for the rest of their lives, helping them to figure out God, His Eternal Plan, the role of the Church and ways to better interpret the Bible to model our lives by.
It's not hard to do, and it's not boring if we're prepared to put in a bit of study with prayer and fervor, and just possibly you can utilize a Bible Timeline as well.
For more information about a Bible TimeLine check out our Bible TimeLine Chart website and check out the Bible study resource.
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