As my wife and I read through chapters 17-20 of 2nd Kings, God began to lead me to write another article, which would also become a radio broadcast. I feel that God was showing that I could prove much of what is in those chapters. The world today not only needs to be taught the Bible is provable, but Christians need proof too. The world needs it to bring them out of ignorance, and Christians need it to gain enough faith to be able guide the world into the truth. The Lord first focused me on Tirhakah King of Cush (Ethiopia) who came to the aid of Hezekiah when he was under attack by the Assyrian king Sennacherib. Were these real kings living in the time of Hezekiah? As I researched the matter, imagine my surprise when I received an e-mail notification that day from the Biblical Archeology Society dealing with that exact same person (Tirhakah of Cush) , and mentioning his relationship with Hezekiah. Assyrian King Sennacherib laid siege to Jerusalem in 701 B.C. The Assyrians had already taken over the ten tribes of Israel in Samaria, which archaeology has proven, and had begun to defeat regions of Judah where Hezekiah was King in Jerusalem. It looked bleak for Hezekiah and Jerusalem. Then the prophet Isaiah told Hezekiah that Sennacherib wouldn’t prevail against Jerusalem, urging him not to surrender. The prophecy stated that not an arrow would be fired into Jerusalem, and that the Assyrians would be driven back into their own country. Tirhakah, though his intent was good, was not the reason that Sennacherib fled from Judah and Jerusalem. Our Bible tells us that God sent an angel into the camp of the Assyrians and slaughtered over one hundred thousand of them. At that juncture, according to the Bible, Sennacherib fled back to his own country and never came against Judah again. Is this provable? History says yes. The writings of King Sennacherib, found by archaeologists, tells us he didn’t overtake Hezekiah and Jerusalem, but suddenly left when it seemed he was just about to win. Why? I believe the Bible is correct reporting that over one hundred thousand of his men died. What action the angel used to cause this is debatable, but the evidence points to this being the reason the King fled. Isaiah’s prophecy also stated that the sons of Sennacherib would kill that king when he arrived home, wanting the kingdom for themselves. In the Assyrian and other writings found by archaeologists, we find that this event took place; the killing of Sennacherib by his sons. The notification that I received from Biblical Archaeology Society included an image of a new statue of Tirhakah that’s been found. We now have proof from archaeology that Sennacherib, Tirhakah and Hezekiah all lived at the same time, the battles took place, Samaria and Israel fell, and we have statues and writings which back the Bible. Wow! Talk about seeing God at work! How likely is it that God would speak to me about this very man (Tirhakah) and then, as I was writing, to receive a notification in my e-mails from an archaeological society dealing with the same Tirhakah… and even mentioning the very chapter of 2nd Kings in which I had just been studying? This is not the first time that God has done this as I research a particular person, event or battle. I shouldn’t be shocked when He does this, but stand in awe when it happens. I feel this is the Lord’s way of confirming my ministry and my calling. We are living in a world that totally rejects the Bible as being authored by God and written by men whom God ordained to do so. The Bible is the single most attacked book ever, standing the test of time by answering critics with archaeological and other evidence, proving it’s accuracy and being truly the very Word of God. Many in this world are now rejecting God and angered at those who accept Jesus as their Saviour. Once again, the prophecies of the Bible tell us this would happen in the latter days. Those who wish to punish Christians for their beliefs are only confirming that these beliefs are accurate and verifiable. The antagonists themselves are proving the prophecies true! We can trust in our Lord for all things; for all things are in His hands. Look for us at evidenceforthehope.org or Evidence for the Hope Ministries, Inc. Please support this station. Have a nice day.
Throughout the Bible God has made covenants with Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, the Priestly Covenant, the covenant with David and the New covenant; seven in all. Each covenant came with conditions, as any contract does. God has never broken any part of the seven covenants. When the ten commandments were given to Moses on Mt. Sinai (the mountain of God), God promised to guide the people as long as they obeyed His laws and served Him only. His desire was for His people to be a holy people. In Genesis 9, God made a covenant with Noah, pledging never to destroy the Earth again with water. Noah and his family were saved because God found Noah to be righteous and the only one who “walked with God”. In Hebrews 11:7, he is listed as one of the heroes of the faith. In Genesis 12:1-3, God promised Abraham, via a covenant, that He’d give him descendants that couldn’t be counted. For this, Abraham and his people were to remain faithful to God and serve as a conduit of blessing to every future generation. When His people fell into sin, God allowed them to become enslaved by Egypt for 400 years, but then heard their pleas and remembered His covenant with Abraham. The Mosaic covenant at Mt. Sinai (Exodus 19;3-6), encompasses the ten commandments as foundational to the covenant. This was between the Israelites and God…no one else. We Christians are part of the New Covenant. Jeremiah explains this Mosaic covenant to be a temporary contract, stating a new contract would be made in the future, for all people groups (Jeremiah 31:31-34). The reason the New Covenant was to be made was because the Israelites once again fell into sin and worshiped other gods. They broke their covenant with God. God also made a covenant with King David. David’s lineage was to rule on the throne of Israel forever. Jesus, a descendant of David, will be the eternal King on that throne. David fell into sin more than once, but God will keep His part of this contract. It is the only contract that we can’t break. In Galatians 4:24-26, Paul speaks of two covenants, the old and the new. The Old Covenant put us under the law, but the New Covenant puts us under the grace of God. Our sins are placed upon Jesus on the cross, setting us free forever for those who accept Christ as their Saviour. This covenant included all mankind. Pilgrims who founded our country made a covenant with God as well; the Mayflower Compact, which was the forerunner of our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution, another covenant. Columbus also planted a cross as his first act when he reached this new land, dedicating it to God. This country was intended to be a haven for all mankind, and has faithfully tried to fulfill that role, welcoming people from all nations. This is a symbol of the New Covenant made by the death and resurrection of Jesus in that everyone was to be blessed by this undocumented covenant with God. The rules still apply to this new land and this covenant; we must follow God in all things and avoid sinful natures that would corrupt the covenant. When this nation turns it back on God, our days will end as the place of freedom for all. When I was a young man, I remember people flocking to churches to praise and worship God. Evil was not anywhere near as rampant as it is today. We never even locked our doors. To even think of aborting a baby was considered horrendous and despicable. Neighbors helped neighbors…and I was living in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. It was quite a bit more spiritual than we see today. Our politicians, though faithful to their party, could be trusted completely to lead this country. We relaxed in their faithfulness to God and country. Where are we today? We old folk are dying out, and many are glad of it. We represent a time when this country was glorious and stood for righteousness. We, who are believers, need to be more vocal in sharing our faith and being servants who are unselfish and godly. Revival can still come when the children of God rise up and cause the Holy Spirit to move once again across this country. It is never too late with God. We are evidenceforthehope.org and Evidence for the Hope Ministries, Inc. Please pray for evangelical ministries such as this. Pray for this station. have a nice day.
I was recently challenged as to there being giants living in the days of King David, especially the one known as Goliath. I feel that pictures are worth more than a thousand words, so I’m sending you to see a picture of the giants that lived near Gath, Goliath’s home. The Egyptian Rameses II wall relief (a very large image carved in stone) shows two captured Canaanite Shasu Warrior giants from the area where Gath was found in 2015 being beaten with rods by Egyptian soldiers. Look up Rameses II Sashu warriors being beaten by Egyptians. These warriors lived during the days of Joshua, who reported that there were giants in Canaan that made the Israelites appear like grasshoppers. These soldiers were captured in the mountain passes of Canaan which is where Goliath would eventually be born in Gath. Goliath lived in Gath with his four giant brothers when the battle began between him and king David. David killed Goliath in battle, according to the Bible. Goliath is thought to have been nearly nine feet tall. This carved stone image is pretty convincing evidence that the Bible is right about there once being giants in the land. There is another Egyptian report from general Horus about encountering Shasu Warriors in a Canaanite mountain pass. It is called the Egyptian ‘Anastasi Papyrus’. General Horus made a dispatch back to Pharaoh that he fought with these giants, stating in this report that the giants were anywhere from 7’6” to 9” tall. The Anastasi Papyrus would have been written shortly after the Israelites departed from slavery in Egypt on the Exodus, and when Joshua was leading them to conquer Canaan. Look at the massive physic of the warriors in the Rameses II carved stone image compared to the skinny Egyptians. Who can doubt that these men would be called giants? Notice that to make the Egyptians look taller their legs have been exaggerated in comparison to their bodies. I have hundreds of such images, coming from archaeological discoveries, in my saved pictures. Many have stated that Goliath was a fictional character, including the belief of him being a Giant. When Gath was discovered in 2015, pottery was found in one of the homes bearing the name of ‘Goliath’. With the accumulated knowledge that is being brought forward by archaeological discoveries, one can hardly dispute that Goliath was not only real, but a man up to nine feet tall. The ruins of Gath where the pottery was found was dated to about 930 B.C. This is exactly when David was said to have fought and won a battle with Goliath. Gath was burned by the Israelites at that time. The ash layers show that this is true. History records that Gath was later lived in again after that battle, but would never be the same. It’s a shame that most pastors are not aware of the discoveries in archaeology that could bear proof for nearly all stories in the Bible. This would include Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead (look up Lazarus second tomb Cyprus), The story of Jonah going to Nineveh to preach repentance (as found within the library of King Ashurbanipal of Nineveh, which includes 30,000 written tablets), and much more. On the stone coffin of Lazarus are these words, “Lazarus, friend of Jesus, once dead four days”. I have nearly six hundred radio presentations that I am about to put on this website over the next years. Look for them and the written presentations. This website has remained dormant for a while but we are about to reinstitute it. Tell your friends that we are at evidenceforthehope.org or at Evidence for the Hope Ministries. Enjoy the pictures. Have a nice day
Job 40:18 says, ‘Behold Behemoth, which I made as I made
you; he eats grass like an ox. Behold, his strength is in his loins, and his
power is in the muscles of his belly. He moves his tail like a cedar: the
sinews of his thighs are knit together. His bones are as strong pieces of
brass; his bones are like bars of iron. He is the chief of the ways of God. He
that made him can make his sword to approach him. Surely the mountains bring
him forth food, where all the beasts of the field play’. Many new versions of
the Bible are now portraying Behemoth as a rhinoceros. If Behemoth had a tail
like a cedar tree, which can grow fifty feet, how does one compare that to a six
inch tail of a rhinoceros? It appears that numerous new renditions of the Bible
are trying to accommodate the idea of evolution stating man didn’t live alongside
of dinosaurs. The Bible said Behemoth was made at the same time as man.
I believe if God meant rhinoceros, He would have said so. Rhinoceroses existed
alongside of Job. Thanks to Kenneth Lacovara, PhD. of Drexel University, we
just might have discovered a Behemoth in Southern Patagonia, Argentina. He
found a nearly complete dinosaur fossil sporting a tail over 30 feet long. Its
neck is 37 feet long, and its body is said to be as “big as a house”. Total size
is 85 feet long. Its weight comes in at a whopping 65 tons, or 130,000 lbs. They
named it Dreadnoughtus after the heavy duty battleships of WWI, which were
considered nearly unsinkable. The thing that shocked the paleontologists is
that the bones revealed this was a young dinosaur not fully
grown yet. The fossilized remains are nearly complete, and a younger Dreadnoughtus
was found beside it. Both the upper arm bone and the thigh bone are what
researchers use to estimate overall weight. Luckily, both were intact,
guaranteeing the estimated weight at 130,000 lbs. Dr. Lacovara stated, “it
weighed as much as…seven T Rex”… dinosaurs combined. One can only guess at the
size and weight of a mature Dreadnoughtus. It was found to belong to a group of
dinosaurs known as planteaters. Compare this creature to the Biblical Behemoth.
Both are planteaters. The Bible calls Behemoth the “chief” of all creatures,
and this creature is said to “ have feared nothing” by the discoverers. It is
also the largest of all dinosaurs. Dr. Lacovara said, “It had a weaponized
tail…” Muscle scars show that the tail had been scarred in battle. The tail
would have weighed nearly 15 tons as it swung out and then smashed back at
great speed into an enemy, doing more damage than several wrecking balls tied together.
The Bible describes Behemoth’s tail as large as a Cedar tree, matching the tail
of Dreadnoughtus. Behemoth eats grass as an ox, and its strength came from his
loins and its power from the belly. So did this creature’s. Behemoth’s sinews
of its thighs were knit together for strength, and its bones are said to be
like strong brass and iron. The legs and bones of this creature required
supernatural strength just to support its weight. The neck vertebra was over a
yard long by itself. Remember, this animal was not fully grown yet.
Both Behemoth and Dreadnoughtus got its food from a forest where there were
other animals. The researchers go on to explain that the two
skeletons are evidence that these individuals were buried quickly by massive
flooding; though they theorize a rising river probably burst a
dam. If a female with child, momma would have been smaller than a male. How
does one deeply bury this size animal before it had time to run to higher
ground? Creatures must be buried much deeper than their size to
get fossilized, or they’d be eaten by microbes or scavengers. Dreadnoughtus
would have stood taller than the surrounding trees. That’s a lot of mud and
debris coming from a river flood. The better answer is that it must have been
buried deeply during the massive mud and debris flows of Noah’s flood. Have we
found Behemoth? The evidence suggests we just have. This is no tiny rhinoceros.
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I love those moments when God reveals something new to me
while reading the Bible. As my wife and I read Chapter eight of Genesis this
morning, I spied a tiny notation in the side column. Genesis 8:4 states, “And
the Ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon
the mountains of Ararat.” I had often wondered why had it been necessary for
God to record the day and month the Ark landed on Mt. Ararat. It seemed
unnecessary information. How wrong I was. My side column notation sent me on a research
project. The notation was that this date in Genesis 8:4 was considered the Civil
calendar month and day and that God later ordered, in Exodus 12:1-2, that that
calendar be changed from a civil calendar to a religious
calendar. The seventh month of the civil became the first month for the
Israelites. I wondered if there were biblical relationships to this change.
Boy, was I shocked. The date change came when nine of the plagues of Egypt had
finished, and God was about to send the tenth; the death of all first born who
did not put the blood of the lamb on the door posts. Exodus 12:1-3 says, “And
God spoke unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, this month, the 7th,
shall be unto you the first month of the year to you”. The civil calendar month seven was to become
their first month of the religious calendar. God then ordered that each family
gather a lamb on the tenth day of that month and keep it until the 14th
day of that month. That evening, the Israelites were to kill their lambs and
place the blood on the door posts, knowing the death angel was to pass over any
house having the blood of the lamb on it that night. At midnight, the 15th
day, all first born died, according to Exodus. The next night, the evening of
the 16th, Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron and told them to
leave. The following day, the 17th, the Israelites
gathered their goods, food and families and departed Egypt, leaving behind 400
years of slavery. This would have been the 17th day of the 7th
month; same day that the Ark came to rest on Mt. Ararat. The month was ordered changed
that week of the Passover by God; from the 7th month to the 1st
month. My study got a little better. I remembered Jesus was crucified on the 14th
day of Nisan, which is the first month of the new religious
calendar. I immediately realized that this would have been the 7th
month in the days of Noah’s flood on the old civil calendar. That calendar
would not change until the first Passover. Jesus was buried on the 14th
day and rose again on the 17th. This would have been
the same day and month that Noah’s Ark rested on Mt. Ararat. This would mean
that Noah’s Ark came to rest on Mt. Ararat, the Jews Exodus from Egypt to
freedom from slavery took place, and Jesus being crucified and rising again all
happened on the same day of the same month; the seventeenth day of the seventh
month! ‘Wow’! Only God could orchestrate
something like this. Noah didn’t orchestrate what day his boat would land, the
Jews couldn’t possibly know what day they would leave slavery for freedom, and the
death and resurrection of Jesus couldn’t have been planned by man. There are no
coincidences in the Bible. I wonder how many others have figured out these
three things correlate. I had never read or heard about it until I started
researching. Things like this should shame those who say the Bible cannot be
trusted. I’ve run into a few, but you can bet that I’ll use this bit of
information to lead people to accepting Jesus as their Saviour. Who can deny
that God did all this? Those three events were written down long before each
happened. I guarantee that this will go into my new book when it is published.
Look for my first book, ‘Learning the ABC’s; Apologetics, the Bible, and
Creation’ at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other bookstores. We’re at
evidenceforthehope.org or Evidence for the Hope Ministries, Inc. Keep listening
to these stations for more each evening. Please support them. Have a nice day. (I
am currently researching to find out what day and month the Israelites were
freed from Babylonian captivity. I hope it turns out to be the 17th
day of the 7th month. I wouldn’t be surprised. “For nothing is
secret that shall not be made manifest; neither hid, that shall not be made
known”…Luke 8:17.)
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