Teaching Scripture More Effectively With A Biblical Timeline Chart

In our weekly Bible class some years ago, a friend who had been a Christian and been involved in the Church for many 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 actually notice the inaccuracy in this assertion. Moses lived five hundred years after Abraham and so it is not possible. I have since made up a Bible chronological chart and shown in a more graphic way the dating of individuals and occasions.

Some time ago, I was teaching on the resurrection, burial, death and life of Jesus, and a retired minister and strong preacher of the Bible, who had been a minister for 40 years, came up and reproved me vigorously over some interesting points I made and he noted 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 teaching anything of a heretical nature at all, to which he replied”No”. I continued to explain that in the case of that particular verse, it wasn’t referring to examining Scripture but to the false teachings and philosophy of the Gnostics, but he wouldn’t accept it. So, how can a 40 year minister & worker in the Gospel, not know and understand about a thing that possibly half the books of the New Testament refer to?

How could he study and teach the Bible clearly without knowing about 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 well, if they’re not informed?

Let’s us as teachers and preachers sew together the fragments of the Bible and His plan into a seamless tapestry that our people are able to draw on for the rest of their lives, helping them to understand God, His Eternal Plan, the function of the Church and ways to better translate the Bible to order our lives by.

It is not difficult to do, and it is not boring if we’re ready to put in a bit of effort prayer and fervor, and just possibly you can employ a Bible Timeline as well.

For more information concerning a Bible TimeLine go to our Bible TimeLine Chart website and check out the Bible study resource.

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