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Bible Timeline Chronological Order
Bible Timeline Chronological Order
A Bible Timeline Chart Presents A Graphical Way To Aid And Help Bible Events And Characters And Realities
In our Bible class some years ago, a friend who had been a Christian and laboured 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 referring to the pre-Moses law) I wonder how many Christians would actually notice the error in this claim. Moses existed five hundred years after Abraham and so it is not possible. I have since then made up a Biblical timeline and shown visually the time period of people and events.
Unfortunately, a many preachers and teachers in our churches continue to preach flimsy, shallow, superficial, light weight messages and their congregation scarcely grow in biblical knowledge. Preachers love to preach'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we really love our 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' so long as we are positive and loving to all. In truth, the more like our world, the less relevant we are to our world.
Years ago, I was preaching on the resurrection, life, burial and death of Jesus, and a retired minister and powerful preacher of Scripture, who had been in the ministry for forty years, marched up 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 had been saying anything of a heretical nature at all, to which he replied"No". I continued on to spell out that in the case of that particular Scripture, it was not speaking to exploring Scripture but to the false teaching and philosophy of the Gnostics, but he wouldn't have it. Let me ask, how can a forty year preacher & worker in the Gospel, not know and understand about something that possibly half the books of the New Testament refer to?
How can he study and preach the Bible clearly without knowing about something 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 do we dwell on our favorite themes and sugar coated discourses?
We instruct on a verse from Ezra and a passage about Noah and a topic from the book of Colossians and then the obedience of Jacob or the fleece of Gideon - parts from here and everyplace, but we do not put it all at once in an apparent understandable, simple to remember, perspective with a capable Bible TimeLine including Church History as well. Constantly we are bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a few of them hazardously leaning toward Liberal theology, but if we could be instructed the fundamental principles of Church history, we then wouldn't be so doomed to repeat it.
Let's us as tutors and preachers stitch together the aspects of the Bible and His plan into a logical whole that our people can draw on for the remainder of life, helping them to understand God, His Eternal Plan, the function of the Church and how to better interpret the Bible to order our lives by.
It's not difficult to do, and it's not boring if we are prepared to put in a bit of study and prayer and fervor, and just perhaps you can use a Bible Timeline as well.
For added information concerning a Bible TimeLine go to our Bible TimeLine Chart site and read up on the scriptural study tool.
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