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Bible Timeline For Kids
Bible Timeline For Kids
A Biblical Timeline Gives A Graphical Mode To Aid And Help Biblical Events And Facts
In our weekly Bible class years ago, a lady who had been a Christian and been involved in the Church for over 15 years, made this statement,"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 would actually pick up the error in this statement. Moses lived about five hundred years after Abraham and so it is an impossibility. I have since compiled a Biblical timeline and explained more visually the chronology of individuals and events.
Alas, a large number of preachers and teachers in our churches go on and preach shallow, light weight, superficial, flimsy sermons and their congregation hardly grow in biblical knowledge and understanding. Preachers love to preach'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we love our people this is what we'll do. Unfortunate it seems, if God's people are falling through the cracks'for an absence 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 teaching on the resurrection, life, burial and death of Jesus Christ, and a retired minister and strong preacher of the Bible, who had been a pastor for forty years, came to me and reproved me smartly 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 humbly asked him if I was teaching anything of a heretical nature in any way, to which he answered"No". I continued on to explain that in the case of that particular Scripture, it wasn't speaking to exploring Scripture but to the false teaching and school of thought of Gnosticism, but he wouldn't accept it. So, how can a forty year minister & laborer in the Gospel, not understand and know about something that probably half the books of the New Testament refer to?
How can he study and teach the Bible in fullness without being familiar with something that was so influential in the New Testament church? And then how can the congregation hope to figure out these things and be in a position to interpret their Bible properly, if they're not told?
Why do we get stuck in a rut of our favorite themes and sugar coated sermons?
We preach on a text from Isaiah and a passage about Noah and a topic from the book of Numbers and then the obedience of Abraham or the miracles of Jesus - pieces from here and there, but we do not put it all at once in an apparent understandable, easy to remember, perspective with a decent Bible TimeLine and Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a number of them hazardously leaning toward Progressive doctrine, 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 teachers and preachers stitch together the fragments of the Bible and God's plan into a seamless tapestry that our people are able to draw on for the remainder of their lives, helping them to figure out God, His Eternal Plan, the function of the Church and how to better translate the Bible to order our lives by.
It's not hard to do, and it's not boring if we're prepared to put in a bit of study and prayer and fervor, and just maybe you can employ a Bible Timeline also.
For more information about a Bible TimeLine check out our Bible TimeLine Chart site and view the biblical study resource.
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