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Bible Timeline Study
Bible Timeline Study
A Bible History Timeline Gives A Graphical Way To Aid And Help Bible Characters And Events And Facts
In our weekly Bible group years ago, a friend who had been a Christian and laboured in the Church for over 15 years, said,"Yes, but Abraham had the Law and so he understood about......" (they were not talking about the pre-Moses law) I wonder how many Christians will really notice the inaccuracy in this assertion. Moses existed some 500 years after Abraham and so it is impossible. I have since then made up a Bible history timeline and shown visually the chronology of individuals and events.
Alas, a many preachers and Bible teachers in our churches continue to preach flimsy, shallow, light weight, superficial sermons and their members scarcely grow in Bible knowledge. Preachers love to give us'moral essays' and'warming affirmations' because supposedly, if we really love people this is what we'll 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 positive and loving to all. In reality, the more like this world, the less relevant we're to this world.
Some time ago, I was speaking on the death, resurrection, life and burial of Jesus Christ, and a retired minister and strong preacher of Scripture, who had been a minister for forty years, came to me and reproved me smartly over some fascinating points I made and he stated 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 teaching anything of a heretical nature at all, to which he said"No". I continued to explain that in the case of that particular Scripture, it was not speaking to examining Scripture but to the false teaching and philosophy of Gnosticism, but he wouldn't have it. Let me ask, how can a forty year preacher & worker in the Gospel, not understand and know about something that possibly 1/2 the books of the New Testament relate to?
How could he understand and preach the Bible fully without being aware of something that was so influential in the New Testament church? And then how can the congregation hope to understand these things and be in a position to understand their Bible well, if they're not informed?
Why do we dwell on our favorite subjects and sugar coated messages?
We preach on a verse from Ezra and a passage about Jesus and a topic from the book of Deuteronomy and then the example of Jacob or the perseverance of Noah - parts from here and everyplace, but we do not put it all at once in an evident understandable, easy to remember, perspective with a capable Bible TimeLine and Church History as well. Constantly we're bombarded with new books, modernist ideas, a few of them perilously edging toward Progressive doctrine, but if we could be coached the fundamental principles of Church history, we then wouldn't be so doomed to do the same again.
Let's us as tutors and preachers stitch together the aspects of God's Word and God's plan into a seamless tapestry that our people can draw on for the rest of life, to help them to understand God, His Eternal Plan, the role of the Church and ways to better interpret the Bible to model our lives by.
It is 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 perhaps you can make use of a Bible Timeline too.
For added info concerning a Bible TimeLine go to our Bible TimeLine Chart site and read up on the scriptural study resource.
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