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Bible Timeline Graph
Bible Timeline Graph
A Bible Timeline Chart Presents A Graphical Way To Help Teach Bible Events And Truths
In our Bible study some years ago, a woman who had been a Christian and been involved in the local Church for many years, made this statement,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they were not referring to the pre-Moses law) I wonder how many Christians would actually notice the error in this statement. Moses came about 500 years after Abraham and so it is not possible. I have since then made up a Bible history timeline and explained more visually the dating of people and events.
Regrettably, a numerous Pastors and teachers in our churches continue to preach flimsy, shallow, superficial, light weight messages and their Church members scarcely grow in Bible knowledge. Preachers love to preach'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we truly love our 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 nice and loving to all. In reality, the more like our world, the less relevant we're to our world.
Some years ago, I was teaching on the death, life, burial and resurrection of Jesus, and a retired minister and strong preacher of Scripture, who had been in the ministry for 40 years, came to me and reproved me smartly over some interesting 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 humbly asked him if I was saying anything of a heretical nature at all, to which he answered"No". I continued to describe that in the case of that particular verse, it wasn't speaking to exploring the Bible but to the false teachings and school of thought of Gnosticism, but he would not have it. Let me ask, how can a 40 year preacher & laborer in the Gospel, not know and understand about something that probably 1/2 the books of the New Testament refer to?
How can he understand and teach the Bible clearly without being aware of something that was so influential in the New Testament church? And then how can the congregation hope to comprehend these things and be in a position to interpret their Bible well, if they are not told?
Why do we dwell on our pet subjects and feel good messages?
We teach on a verse from 2 Peter and a story about Jesus and a topical from the book of 2 Kings and then the faith of John the Baptist or the strength of Samson - pieces from here and everyplace, but we do not put it all together in an apparent understandable, easy to remember, perspective with a decent Bible TimeLine including Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, some of them hazardously leaning toward Progressive theology, but if we were to be taught the fundamental principles of Church history, we then would not be so bound to repeat it.
Let's us as instructors and preachers stitch together the fragments of God's Word and God's plan into a complete picture that our people can draw on for the remainder of their lives, helping them to comprehend God, His Eternal Plan, the function of the Church and how to better translate the Bible to order our lives by.
It is not hard to do, and it's not boring if we're prepared to put in a bit of study with prayer and fervor, and just maybe you can use a Bible Timeline as well.
For more info concerning a Bible TimeLine go to our Bible TimeLine Chart website and see the scriptural study resource.
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