DIGGING UP THE PAST?

 ?????

The answer to this question is

BOTH

No and Yes!

NO,

Because we are not supposed to dig up our past when we become new creations in Jesus/Yeshua

For as far as the East is from the West* is as far as He has removed our transgressions from us (Psalm 103:12)

and they are forgotten and erased when placed under Jesus’/Yeshua’s Blood.

YES

is also correct,

as in the case of

DIGGING UP THE PAST..

is acceptable..

for it is all part of..

‘HIS’tory.

Archeological evidence reinforces the Biblical narrative.

A SEAL Bearing the name of King HEZEKIAH has been found in Jerusalem

A clay imprint, known as a bulla,(bulae), which was unearthed

Maps showing location of Israel

from excavations near Jerusalem’s Old City,

Jerusalem Temple mount and Area marked in red showing archeological excavation site.

and later discovered to be from the seal of the biblical King Hezekiah,

The seal in its protective display case

it was displayed during a news conference at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem December 2, 2015.

Below The archaeological site of Tel Lachish  

Near to Jerusalem,

Lachish was the most important city from the time of King Rehoboam, until the exile of Judea in 586 BCE.

The City of Lachish during the Judean Kingdom 8th Century BC

The late Iron Age gate where the Lachish Letters* were discovered is marked by an oval (almost circle).

This is the entry to the site used by tourists who visit.

The newly-identified entrances are in the area of the rectangle marking. This is the area where most (or all) of the current excavations have been conducted.

The newly-identified entrances have preliminary dating to the earlier Iron Age [1200-900 BC, the period of the Judges and the United Kingdom] and the Middle Bronze periods [2050-1550 BC, the period of the Patriarchs].  This is where Prof. Yosef Garfinkel began the 2015 season of excavations.

If this is in fact a gate that can be dated to the “early Iron Age,” then this is a very important discovery for reconstructing Israel/Judah’s geopolitical character in the 10th and 9th centuries BCE.

This from the article stated at the time:

The archaeological site of Tel Lachish has been undergoing excavation for decades. However, given its enormous size, only in March of this year, was the elaborate structure of the city gate fully revealed in its original state.

King Hezekiah

 According to excavation director Sa’ar Ganor, the “Gate Shrine,” which is the specific site that now is being fully exposed, points to none other than King Hezekiah.

More specifically, the findings at the Gate Shrine are linked to Hezekiah’s religious reforms mentioned in 2 Kings 18:4: “He [Hezekiah] removed the high places and broke down the sacred pillars and cut down the *Asherah.”

The broken horns of the twin alters located within the Gate’s structure were broken to desecrate the pagan altars of Baal.

The latrines found within the Gate also point to a common practice used to desecrate pagan holy places, first mentioned in connection with King Jehu:

“They also broke down the sacred pillar of Baal and broke down the house of Baal, and made it a latrine to this day” (2 Kings 10:27).

Tests conducted by the Israel Antiquity Authority found that these latrines were never used, adding weight to the notion that they served as a sign of defilement.

The Gate also reveals that the biblical institution of the “City Gate” was real.

Ganor points to well persevered benches located within the gate’s chambers and stated that, “According to biblical descriptions, the gate of a city was where everything happened. The city elders, the judges, governors, kings, and bureaucrats – all of them sat on the benches at the city gates,” which now can actually be seen for the first time.

Sketch showing measurements and detail of the paleo Hebrew Ancient Pictographic language.

For helpful charts showing their meanings:

https://www.minimannamoments.com/alef-bet-alphabet/

and

https://www.minimannamoments.com/ancient-pictographic-hebrew-language

Tracing of the bulla, (bulae)

Seal impression of King Hezekiah unearthed in the Ophel excavations.

   

More detailed pictures of Seal impression of King Hezekiah unearthed in the Ophel excavations.


BULAE (CLAY SEAL) INSCRIBED IN ANCIENT HEBREW; ‘TO HEZEKIAH (SON OF) AHAZ KING (OF) JUDEA’ DATING FROM THE 7TH. C. B.C.

More detailed images.

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Modern Hebrew Translation

King Hezekiahs Seal and the Egyptian Ankh.

The text above reads:

ANKH (Crux anasta,Key of Life, Key of the Nile) The Ankh is an ancient Egyptian symbol of Life and is also considered to have meaning in ritual magic and in wiccan/neopagan traditions, as a symbol of immortality and completeion…the ankh …is somehow leading the civilization to communicate the underworld.
On the right side the representations of Egyptian gods holding the ankh.

 

Detail of the central image showing image of ahkh on far right.

As expected, politicians were quick to seize the opportunity to emphasize modern Israel’s connection to its biblical past.

Israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu commenting on the Seal:

Minister of Culture and Sport, Miri Regev, said that this discovery is one of many in a long line that “gives us a glimpse into our rich past.”

Text from above picture.

Location of Underground Tunnels Beneath Jerusalem

Carved out underground tunnels that carried water.

These archaeological findings are opening the doorway to some of the most incredible biblical sites known to man and will continue to shed light on the significance of the area’s incredible past.

More interesting and exciting discoveries will be added as they present themselves.

Helps the ‘doubting Thomas’s’, as we witness to others when:

Archeological evidence reinforces the Biblical narrative.

*What are Asherah? Posts explaining what they are on MMMM site, plus some extra photos. See links below:

Interesting point: East and West will never meet if one continues for ever in that same straight direction and is essentially infinite: However, moving from West to East will eventually meet and is measurable and is like in a circle. So this statement is more meaningful than thought of at first glance.

For  *  See Posts:

*Digging Up The Past (cont.)

https://minimannamoments.wordpress.com/2017/01/24/digging-up-the-past-continued/

*What are Asherah?

https://wordpress.com/post/minimannamoments.wordpress.com/274

*Lachish Letters

https://minimannamoments.wordpress.com/2017/01/24/what-are-the-lachish-letters/

Also coming soon more on… *East to West 

Some of the above Article Originally posted at Israel Today Magazine

Archaeological Findings: Tel Lachish and King Hezekiah

 

BECAUSE – REASONS TO BELIEVE

YOU

are the only one of you there will ever be.

You are precious to the Lord.

He loves you so much He gave His life for Yours.

Declaring who and what you are according to the Word of God is a great way of personal encouragement.

BECAUSE I am fearfully and wonderfully made I will praise you for your works are marvelous and my soul knows very well.

From Psalm 139:14

I will give thanks unto Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made

אוֹדְךָ–    עַל כִּי נוֹרָאוֹת, נִפְלֵיתִי:

Od•cha al ki no•ra•ot nif•lei•ti nif•la•eem

 Hebrew is a phonetic language – simply read what you see and you’ll be speaking in Jesus’/Yeshuas’ native language just as they still do in Israel today.

wonderful are Thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

נִפְלָאִים מַעֲשֶׂיךָ;    וְנַפְשִׁי, יֹדַעַת מְאֹד.

 ma•a•se•cha ve•naf•shi yoda•at me•od.

Dare To Feel Small

Just for one moment…

dare to feel vulnerable…

Whether we are within four seemingly solid walls of a building or in a vehicle of transportation we feel protected, safe and proportionally significant to our surroundings.

We feel able to coordinate and work within and as much as is possible, able to control our immediate environment.

Everyone has a certain image of themselves whatever they claim.

Beauty in the eye of the beholder.

 In this instance it’s how we see ourselves in relation to God’s creation,

to our immediate environment and how we interact with what is around us.

Take away our boundaries, our walls, our secure zone; remove the walls and fences and protective insulating layers and reveal where you are.

In reality we a just a miniscule part of the whole creation.

A tiny dot

in the vastness of space

For it is a certainty that everything is connected and truly no man is an island.

Everything you see around you that is not part of nature, was made by humans and was made here on this earth.

All the elements that construct everything in your home, your vehicle and everywhere you go are made of the same basic elements that the earth and stars in the heavens are made of;

that includes our physical bodies which came from the DUST of the earth. (Genesis 1)

The nitrogen that is in our DNA,

the calcium in our nails and teeth,

the iron in our blood,

(The reason why rock and stones are red is from the iron content which is the same as the iron in our blood)

the carbon and minerals

in the food we eat.

We are made of the same elements and components that are present in the universe.

You could even say we are made from Star Dust,

from the interior of the very creation of the universe.

It’s time to get our eyes away from the TV, PC and cell Phone screens and look up and around at the panoramic iMax of reality.

Open our eyes Lord that we may see!

So let’s see ourselves as who we really are.

From above we look like an ant colony on a huge scale but 7 billion people are not visible from a mile up

And yet we can see further than a mile on the ground, so we are really small to not be seen from a mile away.

Our place in the cosmos is tiny in the vastness of his universe,

we are almost imperceptible but yet God knows every hair on our heads. That should be a very comforting thought.

Feel small yet?

We need to have a deeper appreciation of all that He was, all that He is now and all that He will be; and by the same token all that you are, and the promise of all that you will become by His spirit.

At that moment of daring to feel small alone and vulnerable its overwhelming, for we are ultimately powerless within the living environment that surrounds us.  Yet all of nature in itself does not require our assistance to continue its existence and progression.

Shockingly, we are dispensable to natures cycle of life and yet God created us from its essential elements, from the same dirt that the whole of creation is comprised.

The roots of the trees reach ever further downward and their trunks soar to the sky, may be even trying to reach the heavens to get closer to their creator.

Everything God created has living movement and the essence of life within it.

We are the pinnacle of his creation and it made the Angels gasp.

We are unique in everything that He made and yet we were not to be annexed from the creation He placed us in to guard and keep.

We are intrinsically connected not only to creation itself but also to one another, so we should not ever feel alone, isolated and small in its fine array of environments. It is not strange therefore, when we meet someone for the first time and feel like we’ve known them forever. We have!

From Desert

to Ice Shelf,

Mountain Top

to

Valley

Open Plain

to Forest

and

Woodland to Seashore.

waterfalls

to lakes

Vast Continents

to

Tiny Islands

volcanoes

to glaciers

and from

the immense vistas

to the secluded niches.

Nor have we any need to feel overwhelmed

by the gigantic

towering

redwoods

of California;

and feel humbled by the intricacies of the construction in the dragonflies wings,

there is no need to fear the waves of the rolling sea

 

because

the waters will become calm at a word from the master.

Our fascination of the hummingbird speed

and the scientifically,

non aerodynamic shaped bee,

who technically should not be able to fly, and maybe it is an indication to us,  a visual example of doing the impossible by faith.

In allowing ourselves to feel small, we see that we are truly part of the whole creation that He formed and it is here, right before us and He has placed us in this vast and magnificent environment.

In that moment of vulnerability, we are also the most secure in the knowledge of His unfathomable and unconditional love.

In all His living things,

the Flora and Fauna,

Animals, Birds and Plants,

the beauty of Blossoms

and faithfulness

and

 

affection

 

of the creatures we take into our homes and quickly

become as members of our families.

And in realizing the same Creator God loves us so much that He sent His son

to experience all that we do in this life and suffered so much more so that we don’t ever have to.

 

 He suffered and died in our place that we can be redeemed and

now the sin that resulted in the slow death of all that He made, can be reversed in our individual lives.

His ultimate goal for us to be in close relationship with Him and it’s available to each and everyone of us,

right here,

right now.

So enjoy feeling small in the vast array of His Grace

and

Glory

and take a moment to drink in His presence

encapsulated within the enornmity

and magnificence of His creation.

For you are more precious to Him than all the images above and He gave His life for YOU not them.

How marvelous, how wonderful is our Saviors love for each and every one of us.

Know you are greatly loved and therefore blessed beyond measure.

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May the fullness of His Shalom fill your hearts and minds continually.

 

 

 

 

BECAUSE….

REASONS TO BELIEVE:

The most common answer to the question ‘why’?, often starts with the word

‘because’,

denoting a reason.

According to the In the Merriam-Webster dictionary;

the word BECAUSE means:

for this cause / for this reason/

by reason of/ for the reason that

 

There are so many reasons to believe and so many Scriptures that contain the word because.

So, ‘for this reason’, there will be one of the ‘BECAUSE’ series added into the blog from time to time and archived in a separate page for reference.

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BECAUSE my God is my shield and my exceeding great reward I will not fear (Genesis 15:1).

Also My Shield, Maginni,

in the Hebrew text of 2 Samuel 22:3

Maginni in Hebrew is magen or meginnah:    a shield  מָגֵן

Transliteration: magen or meginnah
Phonetic Spelling: (maw-gane’)

The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; 
my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, 
my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. (Psalm 18:2)

In some verses, the KJV alters the word to ‘defense’ or ‘buckler’, (an old word for a shield).

A variation on this name of God is,        Shield of your help.

Strong’s Concordance number: 4043

Bible references:

2 Sam. 22:3; Pss. 7:10; 18:2; 28:7; 33:20; 115:9-11; 119:114; 144:2

HEBREW AND TRANSLITERATION

After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision, saying,

A•char had•va•rim ha•e•le ha•ya d`varAdonai elAv•ram ba•ma•cha•ze

אַַחר הְַדבִָריםָ הֵאֶלהָ הָיה דְַברְיהָֹוהֶ אלַ

Fear not, Abram; I am your shield, and your reward will be great.

le•mor alti•ra Av•ram Ano•chi ma•gen lach s`char•cha har•be me•od.

ִתיָרא אְַברָםָ אנִֹכי מָגֵןָ לְךְׂ שָכרְָךַ הְרֵּבהְ מֹאד: