What Was Written in the Past

Most people who know me know my love of history. My undergraduate and graduate education is in history. For seven years I was a public school social studies teacher. When I went into full-time ministry, I often wrote or spoke on history subjects. And after joining Creation Truth Foundation, I was encouraged to develop our program Our American Founding, which I’ve conducted in numerous churches in several states. However, everywhere I go, including when conducting dinosaur programs, I tell everyone which is my most favorite history book – THE BIBLE!

From purely academic, critical/textual, and historiographical analyses, there is no book like the Book. No other book has been more faithfully transmitted through history and be proven to be so historically accurate. There has never been a single discovery from any field of study to disprove a single fact recorded in Scripture; every detail connected to archeological, historical, and scientific discoveries has been confirmed.

This should not be surprising for Christians. When Jesus spoke with Nicodemus in John 3, He based the authenticity of spiritual truths on the physical/observable truths in the perfect record of His Word (verse 12). Paul declared in Romans 15:4, “For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope.”

Hence, God has commanded (it’s not a suggestion) that fathers and grandfathers pass on to their children and grandchildren their history and what all God has done. Psalm 78:4-7 tells us, “⁴ We will not conceal them from their children, but we will tell the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and His power and His wondrous works that He has done. ⁵For He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers that they were to teach them to their children, ⁶so that the generation to come would know, the children yet to be born, that they would arise and tell them to their children, ⁷so that they would put their confidence in God and not forget the works of God, but comply with His commandments.”

May we all be about the Kingdom work of passing on “what was written in the past” to the next generation and all generations to come so they will know “His wondrous works that He has done” that they “might have hope” and there will be generational faithfulness to the glory of God.

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