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Bible Timeline Divided Kingdom
Bible Timeline Divided Kingdom
A Bible Timeline Gives A Graphic Approach To Aid And Help Bible Characters And Events And Realities
In a Bible group years ago, a lady who had been a Christian and worked in the Church for years, asserted that,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they were not talking about the pre-mosaic law) I wonder how many Christians would actually notice the error in this statement. Moses existed 500 years after Abraham and so it is an impossibility. I have since then made up a Bible chronological banner and explained more visually the dating of individuals and occasions.
Alas, a large number of preachers and teachers in our churches continue to preach superficial, flimsy, light weight, shallow sermons and their Church members scarcely grow in biblical 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. In truth, the more like this world, the less relevant we're to this world.
Years ago, I was speaking on the life, death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, and a retired pastor and strong preacher of the Bible, who had been in the ministry for forty years, came up and reproved me vigorously 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 quietly asked him if I was saying 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 speaking to exploring the Bible but to the false teaching and philosophy of the Gnostics, but he wouldn't accept it. Let me ask, how can a forty year preacher & laborer in the Gospel, not understand and know about something that possibly 1/2 the books of the New Testament relate to?
How could he understand and teach the Bible clearly without being familiar with something that was so influential in the New Testament church? And then how can the congregation hope to comprehend these things and be able to understand their Bible properly, if they are not informed?
Why do we dwell on our favorite subjects and feel good sermons?
We teach on a text from Romans and a narrative about Isaac and a topical from the book of John and then the faith of Noah or the miracles through Paul - bits from here and all over, but we do not put it all at once in a visible understandable, simple to remember, perspective with a capable Bible TimeLine and Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a number of them hazardously edging toward Liberal thinking, but if we could be instructed the fundamental principles of Church history, we then wouldn't be so bound to do the same again.
Let's us as tutors and preachers sew together the fragments of God's Word and God's plan into a complete picture that our people can draw on for the rest of their lives, helping them to comprehend God, His Eternal Plan, the role of the Church and ways to better interpret the Bible to order our lives by.
It is not difficult to do, and it is not boring if we're ready to put in a bit of study and prayer and fervor, and just maybe you can utilize a Bible Timeline as well.
For added information about a Bible TimeLine go over to our Bible TimeLine Chart web site and check out the scriptural study tool.
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