The Five Tools of Personal Bible Study

INTRODUCTION

What are The Five Tools ?

Tool #1: Read the Bible Chronologically

Tool #2: Know the End of the Bible Story from the Beginning

Tool #3: Know the 7-Point Outline of the Story Through 12 Time Periods

Tool #4: Know the 10 Essential Elements of the New Testament Message

Tool #5: Know the 16 Important Teachings from God

Tool #1: Read the Bible Chronologically

The Holy Bible is first and foremost a non-fiction historical record about real

people, in real places, in real times, saying and doing real things. This story

opens with a perfect situation in the Garden that was ruined by Adam and Eve

and was going to be fixed by God. The account of this story, when God steps in

to begin to make everything right, begins with a man named Abram in Genesis

chapter 12, and goes all the way through the Bible, to the end of the four

Gospel accounts: from Genesis chapter 12 through John 21. It spans a period

of time that is more than 2,100 years long -- from about 2,100 BC to around

AD 33.

But there’s one serious difficulty with our Bibles, and that problem is this: our

Bibles are not arranged in anything like a chronological order through time

whereby we can pick it up and read right through the story. This is because

our Bibles are arranged into 66 different books, but they are not in an order

that lets us follow the story as it unfolds through time.

We solve this problem when we disassemble the Bible and rearrange its

contents into a strict chronological order -- the order through time in which the

story took place.

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