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Bible Timeline Genesis To Revelation
Bible Timeline Genesis To Revelation
A Biblical History Timeline Gives A Creative Mode To Aid And Help Biblical Events And Characters And Principles
In our Bible study years ago, a lady who had been a Christian and been involved in the local Church for years, made this statement,"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 will really pick up the inaccuracy in this assertion. Moses lived some 500 years after Abraham and so it is impossible. I have since then compiled a Bible chronological chart and explained graphically the dating of men and women and occasions.
Regrettably, a numerous Pastors and teachers in our churches continue to preach light weight, superficial, shallow, flimsy messages 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 our people this is what we will do. Regrettable it seems, if God's men and women are falling through the cracks'for a lack of knowledge' as long as we are positive and loving to all. In reality, the more like our world, the less relevant we are to our world.
Some years ago, I was teaching on the burial, resurrection, death and life of Christ Jesus, and a retired minister and powerful preacher of the Gospel, who had been a pastor for 40 years, marched up 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 quietly asked him if I had been saying anything of a heretical nature at all, to which he answered"No". I continued to describe that in the case of that particular Scripture, it wasn't referring to examining the Bible but to the false teachings and school of thought of the Gnostics, but he would not accept it. Let me ask, how can a 40 year minister & laborer in the Gospel, not understand and know about something that probably half the books of the New Testament relate 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 understand their Bible effectively, if they're not informed?
Why do we dwell on our pet themes and feel good preaching?
We teach on a verse from Colossians and a passage about John the Baptist and a theme from the book of Ruth and then the obedience of Abraham or the miracles through Paul - parts from here and everywhere, but we do not put it all together in a clear understandable, simple to remember, perspective with a capable Bible TimeLine and Church History as well. Constantly we are bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a few of them hazardously edging toward Progressive doctrine, but if we could be taught the basic principles of Church history, we then would not be so doomed to repeat it.
Let's us as instructors and preachers stitch together the aspects of the Bible and God's plan into a logical whole that our people can draw on for the rest of life, to help them to figure out God, His Eternal Plan, the role of the Church and how to better translate the Bible to order our lives by.
It's not difficult to do, and it's not boring if we are prepared to put in a bit of study and prayer and fervor, and just possibly you can utilize a Bible Timeline too.
For more information concerning a Bible TimeLine go over to our Bible TimeLine Chart web site and check out the scriptural study resource.
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