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Bible Timeline
Bible Timeline
A Bible Timeline Chart Presents A Graphic Mode To Aid And Help Bible Events And Principles
In our weekly Bible study years ago, a lady who had been a Christian and laboured in the Church for over 15 years, said,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they weren't talking about the pre-Moses law) I wonder just how many Christians would actually notice the error in this assertion. Moses existed 500 years after Abraham and so it is impossible. I have since put together a Biblical chronological chart and shown visually the dating of individuals and events.
Unfortunately, a numerous preachers and teachers in our churches continue to preach shallow, superficial, light weight, flimsy sermons and their members scarcely grow in Bible knowledge and understanding. Preachers love to preach'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we truly love our people this is what we will do. Unfortunate it seems, if God's men and women are falling through the cracks'for an absence of knowledge' as long as we're positive and loving to all. Truly, the more relevant we become to the world, the less relevant we're to the world.
Some years ago, I was speaking on the death, burial, life and resurrection of Christ Jesus, and a retired minister and powerful preacher of the Bible, who had been a pastor for forty years, marched up and reproved me smartly over some interesting points I made and he said 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 teaching anything of a heretical nature in any way, to which he replied"No". I continued to explain that in the case of that particular Scripture, it wasn't speaking to examining the Bible but to the false teachings and school of thought of the Gnostics, but he wouldn't accept it. So, how can a forty year preacher & worker in the Gospel, not know and understand about a thing that probably half the books of the New Testament refer to?
How could he understand and preach the Bible fully without being familiar with 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 properly, if they're not told?
Why is it that we dwell on our favorite topics and sugar coated preaching?
We teach on a text from Jeremiah and a narrative about Hezekiah and a topical from the book of Proverbs and then the example of David or the faith of Noah - pieces from here and everywhere, but we do not put it all together in a clear understandable, simple to remember, perspective with a good Bible TimeLine with Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, some of them perilously leaning toward Progressive doctrine, when if we could be taught the basic principles of Church history, we then wouldn't be so doomed to do the same again.
Let's us as instructors and preachers stitch together the aspects of the Bible and God's plan into a seamless tapestry that our people can draw on for the remainder of life, helping them to figure out God, His Eternal Plan, the function of the Church and how to better interpret the Bible to model our lives by.
It is not hard to do, and it is not boring if we're ready to put in a bit of study and prayer and fervor, and just perhaps you can make use of a Bible Timeline too.
For more information concerning a Bible TimeLine go over to our Bible TimeLine Chart site and read up on the biblical study resource.
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