Showing posts with label Prophet Isaiah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prophet Isaiah. Show all posts

Saturday, June 30, 2018

King Hezekiah, Prophet Isaiah Debut in Oklahoma - CBN News Julie Stahl,Chris Mitchell

Ophel Excavation, Photo, CBN News, Jonathan Goff
Ophel Excavation, Photo, CBN News, Jonathan Goff
King Hezekiah, Prophet Isaiah Debut in Oklahoma
06-28-2018
CBN News Julie Stahl,
JERUSALEM, Israel – King Hezekiah and the Prophet Isaiah worked together in biblical times and 
now thanks to archaeology, they're together again…in Oklahoma of all places!

Personal seal impressions that likely belonged to the two men are on display together for the first time. 
A simulcast linking Jerusalem with Oklahoma's Armstrong Auditorium marked the debut.

"This is a celebration day for all our friends and especially for the lovers of Israel and the Bible," 
Archaeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar told participants in both Jerusalem and Oklahoma during the opening 
of the exhibit.

 

Dr. Eilat Mazar, Photo, CBN News, Jonathan Goff
Mazar helped uncover the artifacts in 2009.

"This is one of the bullae that we found," Mazar said pointing to a large poster of the artifact. "It's a 
seal impression, very tiny, as large as you can see it now but this is all of one centimeter [less than 
half an inch] in diameter, even not the nail on my finger."

Workers uncovered both items just a few feet apart at the foot of the Temple Mount, just outside the 
present-day walls of Jerusalem's Old City. Historically that area has been called the "Ophel" meaning 
"a high place to climb to."

King Hezekiah, considered one of Judea's greatest leaders, and the Prophet Isaiah lived some 2,700 
years ago.

"When people wanted at that time, biblical times, to seal a document, they tied the document with 
a string and then they took a little tiny mud and pushed their private seal to the soft mud and made 
[a] seal impression. You could read their names," Mazar told CBN News.

Hezekiah's reads, "Belonging to Hezekiah, [son of] Ahaz, King of Judah."

"To find such a private item, that relates to one of the Judean kings, I believe we've reached kind of 
a peak in that matter. We came so close to that kind of figure," Mazar said.

Isaiah's isn't as clear. It reads: "Belonging to Isaiah"… but the second word is missing a letter that 
could complete the Hebrew word for "prophet."


 
Exhibit Curator Brad McDonald, from the Armstrong International Foundation, said it sends a message 
when artifacts back up the Bible.

Curator Brad McDonald, Photo, CBN News, Jonathan Goff
"Whenever you find discoveries like this, actual physical items that people can touch and they have 
inscribed on them the names of biblical figures, it's always powerful. This is science proving the 
Bible," McDonald told CBN News.

Mazar's grandfather Benjamin Mazar, led the first excavation after the 1967 Six-Day War that 

Prof. Benjamin Mazar, Photo, GPO archive
 
"My grandfather excavated 10 continuous years without stopping," Mazar said. "This was a fantastic
project – almost no parallel in dimensions. Hundreds of people worked. They revealed fantastic remains 
of ancient Jerusalem from all periods."

Prof. Ben Mazar in 1936, Photo, GPO archive, Kluger Zoltan
Stephen Flurry, vice president of the Armstrong International Foundation and president of the 
Herbert W. Armstrong College in Edmond, Oklahoma, where the exhibit opened, said the foundation 
has been working with the Mazar family for decades.

"We've had a partnership with Dr. Eilat Mazar since 2006, but our relationship with the Mazar family 
actually goes back to 1968 when her grandfather worked with the name sake of our college, Herbert 
W. Armstrong," Flurry told CBN News.

"Since that time we've sent students to volunteer on the excavations, and we've also provided funding 
for some of her work," Flurry said.

Dr. Michael Oren, Israel's minister of diplomacy calls Eilat Mazar "a hero."


Dr. Michael Oren, Photo, CBN News, Jonathan Goff

"She's fought for Israel's future by fighting for its past in the face of a lot of naysayers and particularly 
people in the world today who deny a historical connection between Israel and the city of Jerusalem, 
people who deny there ever was a King David or King Hezekiah or a Prophet Isaiah," Oren told 
CBN News.

"Eilat digs down and she finds it and she proves them all wrong," Oren said.

Ten years ago, while digging in the City of David, Mazar believed she discovered King David's palace.

"It's monumentality is obvious. Everybody can see," Mazar said at the time.

"Also its date - [it has] been constructed sometime around 1,000 BC, the time of King David in 
general based on the pottery that we found underneath and within. These facts brought us to 
understand that we have got [a] fantastic monumental construction," she said.

While many archaeologists dismiss the Bible, Mazar maintains it to be an "important historical source."

"The biblical stories and the New Testament stories by the way, it goes together because [it] just 
prove[s] quite accurately the development of Jerusalem and the way Jerusalem is described is quite 
accurate," Mazar said.

The Oklahoma exhibit provides other artifacts, including a life-size replica of Hezekiah's underground 
water tunnel. It's open to the public through mid-August.

Oren believes the significance of these pieces go way beyond science.

"Archaeology is not just about revealing the past. Archaeology is about securing our present. 
Archaeology is about ensuring our future. Archaeology is about richness; it's about rootedness; and 
as Eilat Mazar will tell you, it's about truth," Oren told participants at the exhibit's opening.

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Was Christopher Columbus a Jew Led By Belief in Prophet Isaiah? ✡ "Teach Them Diligently" - ISRAEL365

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thy house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

וְשִׁנַּנְתָּם לְבָנֶיךָ וְדִבַּרְתָּ בָּם בְּשִׁבְתְּךָ בְּבֵיתֶךָ וּבְלֶכְתְּךָ בַדֶּרֶךְ וּבְשָׁכְבְּךָ  וּבְקוּמֶךָ

דברים ו:ז
v'-shi-nan-tam l'-va-ne-kha v'-di-bar-ta bam b'-shiv-t'-kha b'-vay-te-kha
u-v'-lekh-ti-kha va-derekh u-v'-shokh-b'-kha u-v'-ku-me-kha

Today's Israel Inspiration

Today's verse brings to light the tremendous importance of educating our children and imparting them with the wisdom carried throughout the generations from father to son, mother to daughter, since time immemorial. Perhaps the most crucial piece is also the most basic; learning the ancient language native to the Jewish nation: Hebrew. Understanding the beauty behind the Hebrew language is a skill that will undoubtedly deepen your connection to the Holy Land of Israel, and bring you closer to our Biblical ancestry. Through the power of technology, the Israel Institute of Biblical Studies has discovered unique methods to weave both ancient and modern together, as they encourage you to discover the Hebrew expert within!

Exploring the Land of the Hebrew Bible

The Bible is a universal text with timeless lessons, but it is also full of specific stories that took place in specific times in specific places. For this reason, the spiritual meaning of the Bible can only emerge once you have thoroughly mastered the literal understanding.

The Incredible Connection Between Columbus and the Prophet Isaiah

“There is a lot of evidence that Christopher Columbus was a man of faith seeking to help his brethren escape certain death or conversion in Spain and even that he dreamed of rebuilding the third holy temple in Jerusalem.”

    

WAY More than Just a Bible!


The Israel Bible includes many unique and special features to heighten your Bible study experience. One of these fantastic features is the Hebrew letter chart. This chart will introduce you to and teach you the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. With some practice, you will be able to read the verses from the Bible in their original Hebrew. Moreover, many of the verses in the Bible are transliterated to help you read along in Hebrew! In comparison to other editions of the Bible, the Israel Bible will help and teach you what you need to know to get to the original Biblical text. Check it out for yourself!
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Today's Israel Photo

A photo of the city of Haifa by Ilan Rosen. Haifa is a contraction of the two Hebrew words Hof Yafe - beautiful shore. Indeed situated on a rounded bay, at the meeting place of mountain, valley and sea, Haifa does enjoy magnificent scenery.

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