A common difficulty that many new Bible students have is trying to place Bible characters and events in a proper time frame. Who came first, Bathsheba or Belshazzar? Which came first, Noah's Ark or the Ark of the Covenant? Even people who have attended church services for many years may have
difficulty clearly visualizing the flow of time covered in the Bible stories.
It may be possible to tackle understanding Bible chronology from an approach of just mindlessly memorizing a long list of dates connected with names
and incidents. But very few people find themselves consistently dedicated enough to such a project to be successful in both memorizing and then retaining in their memory from then on all
those little details.
This series of nine short, easy to read lessons approaches the problem from a different perspective. It is based on the concept that it may well be
more helpful, in understanding the story flow of the Bible, to focus on the relative order of people and events than on committing to memory isolated dates.
If you have found understanding and remembering Bible chronology a difficult chore in the past, maybe it's about time you tried this new method.
Written by: Pam Dewey |
