How does the timeline help explain everything?
The timeline helps explain everything by showing how all biblical events unfold, fit together, and rest on what came before. It is especially needed to understand the church age and why God deals with believers as He does, by revealing where it all began.
Les explains that after finishing 2 Corinthians, he set aside Galatians to review the timeline because of many requests and comments. His local class people told him that if he ever did anything to open up the Bible, it was using the timeline. The timeline shows how everything unfolds, how it all fits, and how everything rests on that which is gone before. Les emphasizes that it is hard to understand the church age and why God is dealing with us the way He is unless we see where it all began.