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Bible Timeline Exile
Bible Timeline Exile
A Bible History Timeline Offers A Graphic Representation To Aid And Help Bible Events And Facts
In a Bible class years ago, a lady who had been a Christian and been involved in the local Church for years, said,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they weren't referring to the pre-Moses law) I wonder how many Christians will really notice the error in this claim. Moses existed about five hundred years after Abraham and so it is not possible. I have since compiled a Biblical chronology chart and shown in a more graphic way the time period of men and women and occasions.
Unfortunately, a numerous preachers and teachers in our churches go on and preach superficial, light weight, flimsy, shallow sermons and their congregation barely grow in biblical knowledge. Preachers love to give us'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' so long as we're nice and loving to all. In reality, the more relevant we become to our world, the less relevant we're to our world.
Years ago, I was speaking on the resurrection, life, death and burial of Jesus Christ, and a retired pastor and strong preacher of the Gospel, who had been a minister for 40 years, came to me and reproved me smartly over some fascinating points I made and he referred to 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 at all, to which he replied"No". I continued to describe that in the case of that particular Scripture, it wasn't referring to exploring the Bible but to the false teachings and school of thought of the Gnostics, but he would not accept it. So, how can a 40 year preacher & worker in the Gospel, not know and understand about something that probably 1/2 the books of the New Testament refer to?
How can he study and teach the Bible fully without being familiar with 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 are not told?
Why is it that we dwell on our pet topics and sugar coated discourses?
We instruct on a text from Isaiah and a story about Nehemiah and a topic from the book of Revelation and then the obedience of Gideon or the miracles of Jesus - pieces from here and everyplace, but we do not put it all at once in an apparent understandable, simple 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 dangerously edging toward Progressive theology, when if we were to be coached the basics of Church history, we then would not be so bound to do the same again.
Let's us as instructors and preachers stitch together the fragments of God's Word and His plan into a logical whole that our people can draw on for the remainder of their lives, helping them to understand God, His Eternal Plan, the function of the Church and ways to better translate the Bible to live by.
It's not difficult to do, and it is not boring if we're prepared to put in a bit of study with prayer and fervor, and just perhaps you can employ a Bible Timeline also.
For added info about a Bible TimeLine go over to our Bible TimeLine Chart web site and read up on the scriptural study tool.
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