Thanks Swordmaker.
Posted on 09/26/2015 4:43:10 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
A rare 3,000 year-old seal dating to the period of kings David and Solomon of the 10th century BCE was recently discovered at the Temple Mount Sifting Project in Jerusalem. According to Dr. Gabriel Barkay, co-founder and director of the Temple Mount Sifting Project, the seal is the first of its kind to be found in the Israeli capital.
“The dating of the seal corresponds to the historical period of the Jebusites and the conquest of Jerusalem by King David, as well as the construction of the Temple and the royal official compound by his son, King Solomon… What makes this discovery particularly significant is that it originated from upon the Temple Mount itself,” he said in a statement on Thursday.
Amazingly enough, the seal was discovered by Matvei Tcepliaev, a 10-year-old boy who had been visiting the Temple Mount Sifting Project from Russia, and was only recently deciphered by archeologists. Since the project’s inception in 2004, more than 170,000 volunteers from Israel and around the world have taken part in the sifting, representing an unprecedented phenomenon in the realm of archaeological research.
The historical credibility of the Biblical text regarding Jerusalem during the 10th century BCE has been hotly debated by archaeologists since the 1990s, but recent finds from other excavations, including the Ophel (south of the Temple Mount,) the City of David, as well as those from the Temple Mount Sifting Project, indicate that the descriptions found within the Biblical text relating to Jerusalem may, in fact, be authentic...
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
The more that the Islamic world (and sycophantic oil bound Western world) contests Jewish/Israeli ownership of the land of Israel, the more ancient proof of this very fact that is excavated from the ground. The Lord said that in the last days, he would bring back the Nation of Israel to the mountains of Israel, Judea, and Samaria and plant them firmly and securely. They shall not be uprooted till the Messiah of Israel (Yeshua/Jesus Christ) comes back in glory!
Isaiah 63: 1 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save. 2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat? 3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. 4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come. 5 And I looked , and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me. 6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
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I love it when that happens.
Although true faith does not require relics or archaeological proof, it’s still edifying to me.
Pingeroonie
The Jews ain’t ever leaving their land again:
Amos 9:
11In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
12That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.
13Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
14And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.
15And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.
(Joel 3:16) The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
(Joel 3:17) So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.
(Joel 3:18) And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
Yeah that land is theirs and they are not going anywhere ... her enemies though are going to pay for what they are doing to her
(Joel 3:19) Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
(Joel 3:20) But Judah shall dwell for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.
(Joel 3:21) For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the LORD dwelleth in Zion.
Very cool
The Bible is never proven wrong by archaeology.
Not once. Not ever.
For some reason mention of a seal makes me think of the college seal in one of the Marx brothers movies...
Hey, I got my degree at Huxley College! Uh, although, that was in the 1970s, so I *may* have just hallucinated the whole thing.
to date eveything found has only proven the biblical accounts of history that has been recorded there, to be true.
Exactly! ;-)
“For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.” Psalm 102:14
Even the stones would cry out (as in this archaeological instance) if people held their peace (the ones who are now dead that saw and hoorayed for Him):
Luke 19:40 And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.
bkmk
No proof can be enough to satisfy the anti-Hebraics, Moslems, or liberals anywhere.
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