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Bible Timeline Flood
Bible Timeline Flood
A Biblical Timeline Chart Presents A Graphical Way To Help Teach Biblical Characters And Events And Truths
In our Bible class years ago, somebody, who had been a Christian and worked in the Church for many 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 will really pick up the error in this assertion. Moses existed some 500 years after Abraham and so it is an impossibility. I have since put together a Bible history timeline and shown graphically the chronology of individuals and occasions.
Regrettably, a many preachers and Bible teachers in our churches continue to preach shallow, flimsy, light weight, superficial messages and their Church members hardly grow in Bible knowledge and understanding. Preachers love to preach'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we love people this is what we will do. Unfortunate it seems, if God's men and women are falling through the cracks'for an absence of knowledge' as long as we're positive and loving to all. Truly, the more relevant we become to this world, the less relevant we're to this world.
Years ago, I was preaching on the life, death, resurrection and burial of Christ Jesus, and a retired pastor and strong preacher of Scripture, who had been in the ministry for forty years, came to me and reproved me smartly over some fascinating points I made and he noted 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 at all, to which he answered"No". I continued to explain that in the case of that particular verse, it wasn't speaking to exploring the Bible but to the false teaching and school of thought of Gnosticism, but he wouldn't accept it. So, how can a forty year preacher & worker in the Gospel, not understand and know about a thing that possibly half the books of the New Testament refer to?
How can he understand and teach the Bible fully without knowing about a thing 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 effectively, if they are not told?
Why is it that we get stuck in a rut of our pet themes and feel good discourses?
We preach on a text from Acts and a story about Adam and a topic from the book of Ruth and then the obedience of John or the miracles of Jesus - parts from here and everyplace, but we do not put it all together in an evident understandable, easy to remember, perspective with a capable Bible TimeLine and Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, some of them hazardously leaning toward Liberal thinking, when if we could be taught the basic principles of Church history, we then wouldn't be so doomed to repeat it.
Let's us as tutors and preachers sew together the aspects of the Bible and God's plan into a logical whole that our people are able to draw on for the remainder of their lives, to help them to comprehend God, His Eternal Plan, the role of the Church and how to better interpret the Bible to live by.
It's not hard to do, and it is not boring if we're prepared to put in a bit of study with prayer and fervor, and just possibly you can use a Bible Timeline also.
For added information about a Bible TimeLine check out our Bible TimeLine Chart web site and read up on the scriptural study resource.
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