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Bible Timeline Before Christ
Bible Timeline Before Christ
A Bible Timeline Banner Presents A Graphic Way To Help Teach Bible Events And Characters And Realities
In our weekly Bible study years ago, one person who had been a Christian and been involved in the local Church for over 15 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 actually pick up the inaccuracy in this claim. Moses came about five hundred years after Abraham and so it is an impossibility. I have since then compiled a Bible chronology chart and shown in a more graphic way the chronology of individuals and occasions.
Alas, a many Pastors and teachers in our churches continue to preach shallow, light weight, flimsy, superficial messages and their Church members barely grow in Bible knowledge. Preachers love to preach'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we really love our people this is what we'll do. Regrettable it seems, if God's people are falling through the cracks'for an absence of knowledge' so long as we're nice and loving to all. In reality, the more like this world, the less relevant we're to this world.
Some years ago, I was speaking on the resurrection, burial, death and life of Jesus, and a retired minister and powerful preacher of Scripture, who had been a minister for 40 years, marched up and reproved me vigorously over some fascinating 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 saying 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 was not referring to exploring Scripture but to the false teaching and philosophy of Gnosticism, but he wouldn't accept it. Let me ask, how can a 40 year preacher & laborer in the Gospel, not know and understand about something that probably half the books of the New Testament discuss?
How could he understand and preach the Bible in fullness without being aware of something that was so influential in the New Testament church? And then how can the congregation hope to understand these things and be able to interpret their Bible well, if they're not informed?
Why do we dwell on our pet subjects and feel good messages?
We instruct on a verse from Isaiah and a narrative about Solomon and a topical from the book of Exodus and then the faith of Isaac or the fleece of Gideon - pieces from here and everywhere, but we do not put it all together in an evident understandable, easy to remember, perspective with a good Bible TimeLine with Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a number of them hazardously edging toward Liberal doctrine, but if we were to be instructed the basic principles of Church history, we then wouldn't be so doomed to repeat it.
Let's us as instructors and preachers sew together the fragments of the Bible and God's plan into a logical whole that our people are able to draw on for the rest of life, to help them to understand God, His Eternal Plan, the role of the Church and ways to better interpret the Bible to live by.
It's not difficult to do, and it's not boring if we're ready to put in a bit of effort prayer and fervor, and just perhaps you can use a Bible Timeline too.
For added information about a Bible TimeLine go to our Bible TimeLine Chart web site and see the Bible study tool.
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