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Bible Timeline Figures
Bible Timeline Figures
A Biblical Timeline Presents A Graphical Representation To Aid And Help Biblical Characters And Events And Principles
In our Bible study years ago, a friend who had been a Christian and laboured in the local Church for many years, asserted that,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they were not talking about the pre-Moses law) I wonder how many Christians will really notice the error in this assertion. Moses existed about five hundred years after Abraham and so it is impossible. I have since put together a Bible timeline chart and shown in a more graphic way the time period of people and occasions.
Regrettably, a numerous Pastors and Bible teachers in our churches continue to preach superficial, light weight, shallow, flimsy sermons and their Church members barely grow in biblical knowledge. Preachers love to give us'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we truly love people this is what we'll do. Regrettable it seems, if God's men and women are falling through the cracks'for an absence of knowledge' so long as we're positive and loving to all. Truly, the more like the world, the less relevant we're to the world.
Some years ago, I was preaching on the life, death, resurrection and burial of Jesus, and a retired pastor and strong preacher of the Bible, who had been in the ministry for forty 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 had been saying anything of a heretical nature at all, to which he said"No". I continued on to spell out that in the case of that particular verse, it was not speaking to exploring Scripture but to the false teaching and philosophy of Gnosticism, but he would not have it. So, how can a forty year preacher & laborer in the Gospel, not understand and know about a thing that probably 1/2 the books of the New Testament relate to?
How could he study and teach the Bible clearly without being aware of a thing that was so influential in the New Testament church? And then how can the congregation hope to comprehend these things and be in a position to interpret their Bible effectively, if they're not told?
Why do we dwell on our pet topics and feel good discourses?
We instruct on a verse from 1 Samuel and a narrative about Jacob and a topic from the book of John and then the faith of Gideon or the strength of Samson - pieces 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 few of them dangerously leaning toward Progressive thinking, but if we could be instructed the fundamental principles of Church history, we then would not be so doomed to repeat it.
Let's us as tutors and preachers stitch together the fragments of God's Word and His 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 translate the Bible to live by.
It is not hard to do, and it's not boring if we're prepared to put in a bit of study with prayer and fervor, and just perhaps you can utilize a Bible Timeline too.
For more info about a Bible TimeLine go to our Bible TimeLine Chart site and consider the scriptural study resource.
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