Error of Ignoring Historical Example

The Error of Ignoring Historical Example occurs when the lessons that God has given in the past are not applied to the present. If you don’t know what has happened in the past, you have trouble understanding what is happening in the present. Failures of the past are lessons. Successes of the past are lessons. God can speak to you through history (His story). Reading through the Old Testament history, the Holy Spirit can speak into your mind the applications of these truths. You see the scoffers of the past and compare them to the scoffers of the present. And you see that not too much has changed. You see the people of God being sidetracked on many things things in which God has not called them to walk. You see the many times when decisions were made without asking God what to do along with the disaster that follows. In the same way, you can look at more recent history and see the Hand of God.

Examples of the Error of Ignoring Historical Example

People with personal agendas have stripped God out of Secular textbooks, so you have to dig deeper to find out what really happened.

The Hebrew people decided that they needed to serve their idols rather than God, repeating the same mistake that had gotten them into trouble in the first place. They did this by re-writing history to suit themselves.