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Bible Timeline Explained
Bible Timeline Explained
A Biblical Timeline Banner Offers A Graphic Mode To Aid And Help Biblical Events And Truths
In a Bible study years ago, a woman who had been a Christian and worked in the local Church for many years, asserted that,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they were not referring to the pre-Moses law) I wonder just how many Christians will actually pick up the error in this statement. Moses existed five hundred years after Abraham and so it is not possible. I have since then compiled a Biblical timeline chart and explained graphically the chronology of individuals and events.
Unfortunately, a many preachers and Bible teachers in our churches go on and preach superficial, flimsy, light weight, shallow messages and their members scarcely grow in biblical knowledge. Preachers love to give us'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we love our people this is what we will do. Unfortunate it seems, if God's men and women are falling through the cracks'for a lack of knowledge' as long as we are positive and loving to all. In truth, the more like the world, the less relevant we are to the world.
Some years ago, I was preaching on the life, resurrection, death and burial of Jesus Christ, and a retired pastor and strong preacher of the Bible, who had been a pastor for 40 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 quietly asked him if I had been preaching anything of a heretical nature in any way, to which he replied"No". I continued to describe that in the case of that particular Scripture, it wasn't speaking to examining Scripture but to the false teaching and school of thought of the Gnostics, but he wouldn't have it. Let me ask, how can a 40 year preacher & worker in the Gospel, not know and understand about a thing that possibly 1/2 the books of the New Testament discuss?
How could he study and teach the Bible clearly without being familiar with a thing that was so influential in the New Testament church? And then how can the congregation hope to understand these things and be able to understand their Bible well, if they are not told?
Why do we get stuck in a rut of our pet topics and feel good preaching?
We preach on a verse from Nehemiah and a passage about Jesus and a topic from the book of 1 Samuel and then the obedience of Jamws or the strength of Samson - parts from here and there, but we do not put it all together in a visible understandable, simple to remember, perspective with a good Bible TimeLine including Church History as well. Constantly we are bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a number of them dangerously edging toward Liberal doctrine, when if we were to be coached the basic principles of Church history, we then wouldn't be so bound to do the same again.
Let's us as instructors and preachers sew together the fragments of God's Word and God's plan into a seamless tapestry that our people are able to draw on for the rest of their lives, helping them to understand God, His Eternal Plan, the function of the Church and how to better translate the Bible to live by.
It's not difficult to do, and it is not boring if we are prepared to put in a bit of study and prayer and fervor, and just perhaps you can employ a Bible Timeline too.
For added info about a Bible TimeLine check out our Bible TimeLine Chart site and read up on the biblical study resource.
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