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Bible Timeline From Genesis To Revelation
Bible Timeline From Genesis To Revelation
A Bible Timeline Chart Offers A Graphical Mode To Aid And Help Bible Characters And Events And Realities
In our weekly Bible group some years ago, one person who had been a Christian and laboured in the Church for years, said,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they weren't talking about the pre-mosaic law) I wonder just how many Christians would actually pick up the inaccuracy in this assertion. Moses lived five hundred years after Abraham and so it is impossible. I have since then made up a Biblical timeline and explained visually the dating of individuals and occasions.
Alas, a many preachers and Bible teachers in our churches continue to preach light weight, superficial, flimsy, shallow sermons and their Church members scarcely grow in biblical knowledge and understanding. Preachers love to preach'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we truly love people this is what we'll do. Unfortunate it seems, if God's people are falling through the cracks'for a lack of knowledge' so long as we are nice and loving to all. In reality, the more relevant we become to the world, the less relevant we are to the world.
Some years ago, I was speaking on the life, burial, resurrection and death of Jesus Christ, and a retired pastor and powerful preacher of the Gospel, who had been a minister for forty years, marched up and reproved me smartly over some interesting points I made and he remarked 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 was preaching anything of a heretical nature in any way, to which he replied"No". I continued to explain that in the case of that particular verse, it wasn't speaking to examining Scripture but to the false teachings and school of thought of the Gnostics, but he wouldn't have it. Let me ask, how can a forty year preacher & laborer in the Gospel, not know and understand about a thing that probably 1/2 the books of the New Testament refer to?
How could he study and teach the Bible clearly 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 properly, if they are not told?
Why is it that we dwell on our pet themes and sugar coated sermons?
We teach on a verse from Isaiah and a story about Luke and a theme from the book of Numbers and then the faith of Adam or the fleece of Gideon - parts from here and everyplace, but we do not put it all at once in an apparent understandable, simple to remember, perspective with a capable Bible TimeLine and Church History as well. Constantly we are bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, some of them dangerously leaning toward Progressive thinking, when if we were to be coached the fundamental 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 aspects of the Bible and His plan into a seamless tapestry that our people are able to draw on for the rest of their lives, to help them to comprehend God, His Eternal Plan, the role of the Church and how to better translate the Bible to live by.
It is not difficult to do, and it is not boring if we are ready to put in a bit of study and prayer and fervor, and just perhaps you can utilize a Bible Timeline too.
For added information about a Bible TimeLine check out our Bible TimeLine Chart web site and consider the scriptural study resource.
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