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Bible Timeline Old Testament
Bible Timeline Old Testament
A Biblical Timeline Chart Gives A Creative Approach To Aid And Help Biblical Characters And Events And Principles
In a Bible class years ago, a lady who had been a Christian and worked in the local Church for years, asserted that,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they were not referring to the pre-Moses law) I wonder just how many Christians will really notice the inaccuracy in this statement. Moses existed some 500 years after Abraham and so it is not possible. I have since then compiled a Bible chronological chart and explained more visually the chronology of men and women and occasions.
Alas, a numerous preachers and teachers in our churches go on and preach light weight, flimsy, shallow, superficial sermons and their members hardly grow in Bible knowledge and understanding. Preachers love to give us'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we truly love people this is what we'll do. Too bad 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 like our world, the less relevant we're to our world.
Years ago, I was preaching on the burial, death, life and resurrection of Jesus, and a retired pastor and powerful preacher of the Bible, who had been a pastor for 40 years, marched up 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 was saying 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 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 preacher & laborer in the Gospel, not know and understand about something that probably half the books of the New Testament discuss?
How can he study and teach the Bible fully without being familiar with 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're not informed?
Why do we get stuck in a rut of our pet subjects and feel good messages?
We preach on a text from Ezra and a story about Jesus and a theme from the book of Hosea and then the faith of Abraham or the faith of Noah - parts from here and there, but we do not put it all at once in an evident understandable, easy to remember, perspective with a good Bible TimeLine and Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a few of them hazardously leaning toward Liberal doctrine, when if we were to be instructed the basics of Church history, we then would not be so doomed to do the same again.
Let's us as instructors and preachers sew together the aspects of the Bible and God's plan into a complete picture that our people are able to draw on for the remainder of life, to help them to comprehend God, His Eternal Plan, the function of the Church and how to better interpret the Bible to order our lives by.
It is not difficult to do, and it's not boring if we're prepared to put in a bit of study and prayer and fervor, and just possibly you can use a Bible Timeline as well.
For more information about a Bible TimeLine go over to our Bible TimeLine Chart site and see the biblical study resource.
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