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Bible Timeline Daniel
Bible Timeline Daniel
A Biblical Timeline Offers A Graphic Representation To Aid And Help Biblical Events And Characters And Truths
In a Bible group years ago, somebody, who had been a Christian and laboured in the local Church for years, said,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they weren't talking about the pre-Moses law) I wonder how many Christians would actually pick up the error in this statement. Moses lived 500 years after Abraham and so it is an impossibility. I have since compiled a Biblical history timeline and shown graphically the dating of men and women and events.
Unfortunately, a large number of preachers and teachers in our churches continue to preach shallow, superficial, light weight, flimsy messages and their Church members barely grow in Bible knowledge and understanding. Preachers love to preach'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we really love our people this is what we'll do. Unfortunate it seems, if God's men and women are falling through the cracks'for a lack of knowledge' as long as we're nice and loving to all. Truly, the more like our world, the less relevant we're to our world.
Years ago, I was speaking on the death, burial, resurrection and life of Jesus Christ, and a retired minister and powerful preacher of Scripture, who had been a pastor for forty years, came to me and reproved me smartly over some interesting 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 preaching anything of a heretical nature in any way, to which he answered"No". I continued to describe that in the case of that particular Scripture, it was not referring to examining Scripture but to the false teachings and school of thought of the Gnostics, but he would not have it. So, how can a forty year preacher & worker in the Gospel, not understand and know about something that probably half the books of the New Testament discuss?
How can he understand and preach the Bible in fullness without being familiar with something 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 interpret their Bible well, if they're not informed?
Why do we dwell on our favorite topics and feel good sermons?
We teach on a verse from 2 Kings and a passage about Hezekiah and a theme from the book of Romans and then the obedience of Jamws or the miracles of Jesus - pieces from here and all over, but we do not put it all at once in an evident understandable, simple to remember, perspective with a decent Bible TimeLine including Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, some of them hazardously leaning toward Liberal theology, but if we could be instructed the basics of Church history, we then would not be so doomed to repeat it.
Let's us as teachers and preachers stitch together the fragments of God's Word and God's plan into a complete picture that our people can draw on for the remainder of life, to help them to figure out God, His Eternal Plan, the role of the Church and how to better translate the Bible to live by.
It's not hard 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 also.
For more info concerning a Bible TimeLine go to our Bible TimeLine Chart website and consider the scriptural study resource.
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