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Bible Timeline Genealogy Chart
Bible Timeline Genealogy Chart
A Bible Timeline Chart Presents A Graphic Way To Help Teach Bible Events And Characters And Principles
In our Bible class some years ago, a lady who had been a Christian and worked in the local Church for years, made this statement,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they were not referring to the pre-mosaic law) I wonder just how many Christians would actually notice the inaccuracy in this claim. Moses came about five hundred years after Abraham and so it is an impossibility. I have since then compiled a Bible chronology chart and explained graphically the dating of men and women and events.
Regrettably, a many preachers and Bible teachers in our churches go on and preach shallow, light weight, superficial, flimsy messages and their members scarcely grow in Bible 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 a lack of knowledge' as long as we're nice and loving to all. In reality, the more like this world, the less relevant we're to this world.
Years ago, I was teaching on the life, resurrection, burial and death of Christ Jesus, and a retired pastor and strong preacher of the Gospel, who had been in the ministry for forty years, came to me and reproved me smartly over some fascinating 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 said"No". I continued to explain that in the case of that particular Scripture, it was not referring to exploring Scripture but to the false teaching and school of thought of the Gnostics, but he would not accept it. Let me ask, how can a forty year minister & worker in the Gospel, not understand and know about a thing that probably half the books of the New Testament relate to?
How can he study and teach the Bible in fullness without knowing about 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're not told?
Why is it that we get stuck in a rut of our favorite topics and feel good discourses?
We instruct on a verse from Colossians and a story about Isaac and a topical from the book of Ruth and then the obedience of David or the faith of Noah - bits from here and there, but we do not put it all at once in a plain understandable, simple to remember, perspective with a good Bible TimeLine including Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, some of them hazardously leaning toward Progressive doctrine, but if we could be coached the basic principles of Church history, we then would not be so doomed to repeat it.
Let's us as instructors and preachers sew together the aspects of God's Word and God's plan into a complete picture that our people are able to draw on for the rest of life, to help them to understand God, His Eternal Plan, the function of the Church and how to better translate the Bible to model our lives by.
It's not hard to do, and it is not boring if we're prepared to put in a bit of effort prayer and fervor, and just possibly you can make use of a Bible Timeline also.
For more information about a Bible TimeLine go over to our Bible TimeLine Chart web site and check out the scriptural study tool.
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