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Bible Timeline History Chart
Bible Timeline History Chart
A Bible Timeline Gives A Graphical Approach To Help Teach Bible Events And Realities
In a Bible study years ago, somebody, who had been a Christian and been involved in the Church for many years, made this statement,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they weren't referring to the pre-Moses law) I wonder how many Christians would actually pick up the error in this assertion. Moses lived about five hundred years after Abraham and so it is an impossibility. I have since put together a Bible chronological chart and shown visually the time period of people and occasions.
Alas, a many preachers and Bible teachers in our churches go on and preach superficial, light weight, flimsy, shallow messages and their Church members hardly grow in Bible knowledge and understanding. Preachers love to preach'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we really love our people this is what we'll do. Regrettable it seems, if God's men and women are falling through the cracks'for an absence of knowledge' so long as we're nice and loving to all. In reality, the more relevant we become to our world, the less relevant we're to our world.
Some years ago, I was teaching on the death, burial, life and resurrection of Jesus, and a retired minister and strong preacher of the Gospel, who had been in the ministry for forty years, came to me and reproved me vigorously 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 had been saying anything of a heretical nature in any way, to which he replied"No". I continued to describe that in the case of that particular Scripture, it was not referring to exploring Scripture but to the false teachings and philosophy of Gnosticism, but he wouldn't accept it. So, how can a forty year preacher & laborer in the Gospel, not know and understand about a thing that possibly 1/2 the books of the New Testament refer to?
How can he understand and teach the Bible in fullness without being familiar with 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 interpret their Bible properly, if they're not informed?
Why do we dwell on our pet subjects and sugar coated discourses?
We instruct on a text from Zechariah and a narrative about John the Baptist and a topic from the book of Joel and then the faith of Jacob or the healings through Peter - parts from here and there, but we do not put it all at once in an obvious understandable, easy to remember, perspective with a good Bible TimeLine with Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a few of them dangerously edging toward Progressive thinking, but if we could be taught the basics 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 complete picture that our people can draw on for the remainder of life, helping them to understand God, His Eternal Plan, the function of the Church and ways to better interpret 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 and prayer and fervor, and just maybe you can employ a Bible Timeline also.
For more information concerning a Bible TimeLine check out our Bible TimeLine Chart website and check out the Bible study tool.
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