ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR PROPHET ISAIAH - According to the Bible, the prophet Isaiah served during Hezekiah’s reign and interacted directly with the king. The archaeological layer containing both the Hezekiah bulla and now the Isaiah clay seal occurs below Byzantine and early Roman debris. This matches the biblical time of Hezekiah’s reign, which lasted from 729 to 687 BC. Thus, these two artifacts found together confirm the fact that those Old Testament figures really lived at the time the Bible says they did. Recently, Israeli archaeologist Eilat Mazar and her team made a stunning discovery during excavations in Jerusalem. It provides strong support for the reality of Isaiah and his Old Testament world. Digging at the base of the southern wall of the Temple Mount, the team found a clay seal bearing Isaiah’s name. Mazar provided a transliteration of this Isaiah bulla in Biblical Archaeology Review as “Yesha‘yah[u] Nvy[?],” where brackets indicate unknown letters from damage to the clay. “Yesha‛yahu” is “Isaiah.” If the Hebrew letter aleph stood in place of the missing letter “[?],” then the word after “Isaiah” would spell “prophet.” Possibly the hand of Isaiah himself formed this seal. In 2015, only ten feet away, the team had found a clay impression called a bulla bearing King Hezekiah’s seal. According to the Bible, the prophet Isaiah served during Hezekiah’s reign and interacted directly with the king. The archaeological layer containing both the Hezekiah bulla and now the Isaiah clay seal occurs below Byzantine and early Roman debris. This matches the biblical time of Hezekiah’s reign, which lasted from 729 to 687 BC.

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Archaeological Evidence for Prophet Isaiah

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According to the Bible, the prophet Isaiah served during Hezekiah’s reign and interacted directly with the king. The archaeological layer containing both the Hezekiah bulla and now the Isaiah clay seal occurs below Byzantine and early Roman debris. This matches the biblical time of Hezekiah’s reign, which lasted from 729 to 687 BC. Thus, these two artifacts found together confirm the fact that those Old Testament figures really lived at the time the Bible says they did.

BY BRIAN THOMAS, PH.D.

 

Recently, Israeli archaeologist Eilat Mazar and her team made a stunning discovery during excavations in Jerusalem.

It provides strong support for the reality of Isaiah and his Old Testament world.

Digging at the base of the southern wall of the Temple Mount, the team found a clay seal bearing Isaiah’s name.

Mazar provided a transliteration of this Isaiah bulla in Biblical Archaeology Review as “Yesha‘yah[u] Nvy[?],” where brackets indicate unknown letters from damage to the clay.

“Yesha‛yahu” is “Isaiah.”

If the Hebrew letter aleph stood in place of the missing letter “[?],” then the word after “Isaiah” would spell “prophet.”

Possibly the hand of Isaiah himself formed this seal. 

In 2015, only ten feet away, the team had found a clay impression called a bulla bearing King Hezekiah’s seal.

According to the Bible, the prophet Isaiah served during Hezekiah’s reign and interacted directly with the king.

The archaeological layer containing both the Hezekiah bulla and now the Isaiah clay seal occurs below Byzantine and early Roman debris.

This matches the biblical time of Hezekiah’s reign, which lasted from 729 to 687 BC.

Thus, these two artifacts found together confirm the fact that those Old Testament figures really lived at the time the Bible says they did.

These two bullae wreck decades of Bible-doubting scholarship.

For example, skeptics have long claimed that unknown authors compiled the book of Isaiah sometime during the Babylonian captivity — centuries after the biblical time of Hezekiah’s life and reign.

Supposedly, collections of scribes somehow borrowed from Babylonian myths to fabricate biblical events from the beginning of the world through the time of Kings.

But poor scholarship underlies these speculations.

Perhaps the unbiblical, and now archaeologically-inaccurate, assertion that Isaiah did not exist conveys a desire to thwart precise prophecies of Jesus.

One way to try to erase the miracle of fulfilled prophecy is to deny that Scripture was written long before the foretold events.

Similar attempts to delete other miracles — like Creation, the Flood, and the Exodus — abound, just as Peter forewarned.

A handful of Isaiah prophecies strikingly confirm details of Jesus’ life as recorded in the New Testament and confirmed by many eyewitnesses:

Detail of Jesus' Life Prophecy Fulfilment Born of a virgin Isaiah 7:14 Matthew 1:18 Remained silent at execution Isaiah 53:7 Matthew 26:63 Died like a sinner Isaiah 53:8 Matthew 27:50 Buried in a rich man's grave Isaiah 53:9 Matthew 27:57 Rose from the dead Isaiah 53:10 Matthew 28:6 Saves sinners Isaiah 53:11 Acts 5:31

Before these tandem discoveries, those who accepted Isaiah as a real prophet had the New Testament to verify Isaiah’s prophetic words. Now, they have the New Testament plus a couple of profound pieces of archaeology.

Brian Thomas is Science Writer at the Institute for Creation Research.

The Institute for Creation Research (ICR) wants people to know that God’s Word can be trusted in everything it speaks about—from how and why we were made, to how the universe was formed, to how we can know God and receive all He has planned for us.

After 50 years of ministry, ICR remains a leader in scientific research within the context of biblical creation. Founded by Dr. Henry Morris in 1970, ICR exists to conduct scientific research within the realms of origins and Earth history, and then to educate the public both formally and informally through professional training programs, through conferences and seminars around the country, and through books, magazines, and media presentations.

https://www.icr.org/article/archaeological-evidence-for-prophet-isaiah/

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A WAY THROUGH THE SEA - God is prepared to do in principle for His Kingdom children as we face the unknown and potentially dark days ahead - no matter how dire the circumstances we may encounter, God always has a “road through the sea, a pathway through the mighty waters” - Probably the most difficult challenge to our faith since the onset of the coronavirus is not being able to see ahead, to know what’s coming, to have some sense of predictableness about our future. Most of us feel as if we are definitely in uncharted waters and that flies in the face of our natural bent to see around the next corner and be able to maintain control over our own lives. No one feels comfortable in circumstances ranging beyond one’s own control and what we are presently experiencing has the eerie sense that we could easily be facing the end of life as we have always known it. God supernaturally provided a way through the Red Sea as Egypt was in hot pursuit of the escaping Israelites. Israel was bound by mountains and a pursuing army behind and the Red Sea before them. And then the seeming impossible happened, a way opened to them through the sea and they crossed over on dry ground. This is the kind of omnipotent and merciful God we serve. He wants to bring us into that relationship with himself wherein he can show himself mighty on our behalf.

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A Way Through the Sea… 

God is prepared to do in principle for His Kingdom children as we face the unknown and potentially dark days ahead - no matter how dire the circumstances we may encounter, God always has a “road through the sea, a pathway through the mighty waters.”

BY DR. F. STONER CLARK

“Your road led through the sea, Your pathway through the mighty waters — a pathway no one knew was there.” - Psalm 77:19 NLT

Probably the most difficult challenge to our faith since the onset of the coronavirus is not being able to see ahead, to know what’s coming, to have some sense of predictableness about our future.

Most of us feel as if we are definitely in uncharted waters and that flies in the face of our natural bent to see around the next corner and be able to maintain control over our own lives.

No one feels comfortable in circumstances ranging beyond one’s own control and what we are presently experiencing has the eerie sense that we could easily be facing the end of life as we have always known it.

It is circumstances like these that always usher me back to the Psalms of David. I have always been impressed with his honesty before the Lord and the willingness to pour his heart out to God.

He never failed to uphold the true character of God while consistently taking responsibility for his own failings.

Recently it was in Psalm 77 that I found tremendous encouragement and hope. Although not a Psalm of David, it conveys the same tenor and spirit of the Davidic Psalms.

It is likely this particular Psalm came from the time of the Babylonian captivity and so we can imagine the feeling and heart of those singing this refrain.

To have been militarily defeated and then deported as captives to a strange land and culture would leave most people utterly reeling and maybe wondering where the God of their ancestors was in the whole scenario.

In this passage the psalmist begins with the bemoaning of one rejected and forgotten but readily transitions to the recollections of the promises and providences of God (verses 11, 12).

For me, the most significant remembrance of this psalmist was recalling how God supernaturally provided a way through the Red Sea as Egypt was in hot pursuit of the escaping Israelites.

In this situation, Israel was bound by mountains and a pursuing army behind and the Red Sea before them.

And then the seeming impossible happened, a way opened to them through the sea and they crossed over on dry ground.

This is the kind of omnipotent and merciful God we serve. He wants to bring us into that relationship with himself wherein he can show himself mighty on our behalf — a relationship of absolute faith, belief and trust that wonderfully frees the hand of God to act magnanimously on our behalf.

I would like to share a very recent personal experience wherein I believe with all my heart that God was “prophesying” the miraculous walk we are going to be having with him as we learn to utterly abandon ourselves to him, trusting not in the things of this world but solely in him.

My wife and I went to Lowes to purchase softener salt. I was concerned that it could be one of those items in short supply and possibly already being rationed.

Upon entering the store, I proceeded to ask an employee for assistance in finding the salt. This man didn’t know but he connected with a second individual who looked it up and gave us the exact location all the way across the store.

Rather than sending me on my way with that information, the original employee led us all the way to that aisle and to the salt.

We were elated to discover that the softener salt was there in abundance and without any prescribed limits.

While traversing the store to the salt I was thinking about the need for a flatbed cart that would handle several hundred pounds of salt. Once we got to the salt, lo and behold, sitting right there in front of the salt was the very device we needed.

As I began to load the 40 lb. bags onto the cart, two more employees show up and insisted on doing the chore for me. This was indeed a welcome offer given the trouble I have with my back.

They commenced to load up approximately 500 lbs. of salt and then took the cart to the nearest checkout.

As I was going through that procedure, getting the military discount and putting the charge on my Lowes’ card, there was some kind of glitch getting the transaction completed.

Ultimately, three different clerks worked on the sale to resolve the issue with the third one meeting with success. All three could not have been more patient and willing to help me and conquer the problem before them.

While we were involved in this process at the checkout, another entirely different employee arrived asking if he could take the salt out to my truck for me and load it!

By this time, I was utterly amazed in how blessed I was from the first I stepped into the store. The last attendant rolled the cart to my truck and cheerfully loaded 12 heavy bags aboard.

The only downside in the whole scenario was my inability to talk him into coming home with me to unload.

I believe God was showing me a simple illustration of what he is prepared to do in principle for his Kingdom children as we face the unknown and potentially dark days ahead.

No matter how dire the circumstances we may encounter, God always has a “road through the sea, a pathway through the mighty waters.”

Our part is to faithfully remember the promises and providences of God. Israel of old was always urged to faithfully recount God’s wonderful deeds to their children that they might in turn share the same with the next generation.

It is a wonderful and spiritually profitable exercise to periodically take time to recall in your own life all the times you experienced the incredible providence of God.

Think about all those experiences where God’s presence changed circumstances from disaster to victory. Many times, this happens in ways other than our particular choosing but always redounds to our benefit spiritually.

Nothing is more faith building in the face of trials and testing than remembering the mercy, grace and goodness of God through his providing a way through the mighty waters, “…a pathway no one knew was there.”

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One of the major calls on my life is Bible study, so you will find on this site the results of many years of protracted studies compiled into articles, books and videos that reveal many things pertinent to the end times. Much to my surprise, many of the strange, supernatural things I have encountered in the satanic ritual abuse ministry have shown up in my studies when I wasn’t even looking for them. Take dissociation for example. I have written a book entitled Dissociation Revealed and Healed in Scripture based on Judah and his strange experiences with Tamar in Genesis 38. I wasn’t looking for anything related to dissociation in Genesis 38, but I found it there in the first verse. The whole chapter about Judah and Tamar is explained in my book and also in my video series on this site entitled From Dissociation to Perfection Revealed in Judah. (The book, Dissociation Revealed and Healed in Scripture, is available on this site and also on Amazon in hard copy and Kindle.)

This website, His Presence Online, focuses on the presence of God coming to us through the difficulties of our lives to heal broken hearts and lead us beyond the veil into His glorious kingdom even while we are still on earth. As many of my videos and articles reveal, God intends to take His church of the end times into realms of His presence and kingdom reserved only for the church of the end times. We will face atrocities of such magnitude that humanity will only survive by the presence and power of God. It is my hope that the teachings offered here will bring great excitement and expectancy into the hearts of all those who truly love Jesus and desire to be conformed to His image.

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AVOID SETTLING FOR LESS THAN GOD’S BEST - God is a miracle-working God. Regardless of where your life is headed, there is hope for you! Perhaps you’re experiencing captivity in some area of your life today — whether it’s spiritual, mental, financial, or physical. You might feel overwhelmed, isolated, or trapped; and it may seem like things are never going to change. God is thinking about you. He wants to give you a future and a hope. He wants you to believe by faith that things will not always be as they are now. First and foremost, your hope comes from hearing God’s Word. The promises in God’s Word are pregnant with power. They can help you recognize the path God wants you to pursue. Regardless of where you find yourself today, there is hope. God has a bright future and an eternal destiny in mind for you. He will never leave you nor forsake you. Never give up hope!

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Avoid Settling for Less than God’s Best

How Do I Avoid Settling for Less than God’s Best?

Bayless Conley

I was raised like any normal Southern California kid.

But as a teen, my life began a slow descent. It started with cigarettes and alcohol until I moved on to pot and LSD, as well as other harmful drugs.

It may sound crazy, but even in the midst of the drinking and drugs, I was on an earnest spiritual trek, searching for truth. I was looking for something — anything — that would satisfy the emptiness I felt inside.

Then one night at a local street mission, God made Himself known to me. I came to know that Jesus is real, and that He could save even me!

This realization set me free through the power of God in my life that night.

After I’d lived as an alcoholic and addict for far too long, God miraculously delivered me. My life is a testimony to the fact that God is a miracle-working God.

Today I want to tell you: Regardless of where your life is headed, there is hope for you!

Jeremiah 29:11 says, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”

God is speaking to the captives in Babylon in this passage.

Perhaps you’re experiencing captivity in some area of your life today — whether it’s spiritual, mental, financial, or physical. You might feel overwhelmed, isolated, or trapped; and it may seem like things are never going to change.

Just as God cared for those captives, He is thinking about you. He wants to give you a future and a hope. He wants you to believe by faith that things will not always be as they are now.

First and foremost, your hope comes from hearing God’s Word.

The promises in God’s Word are pregnant with power. They can help you recognize the path God wants you to pursue.

You can be sure the devil will try to keep you from hearing God’s Word. In fact, he specializes in feeding you lies. He’ll tell you things will never change and there is no hope for your situation.

Friend, hearing God’s Word overturns the lies that make you feel hopeless.

If you’re feeling hopeless today, pray this with me:

“Father, I thank You for Your goodness and mercy in my life. You forgive all my iniquities; You heal all my diseases; You crown me with lovingkindness. You are the same yesterday, today, and forever; nothing is too difficult for You. Thank You that Your Holy Spirit is guiding my every step.”

Regardless of where you find yourself today, there is hope. God has a bright future and an eternal destiny in mind for you. He will never leave you nor forsake you. Never give up hope!

The personal story of my journey to find hope and peace in Christ is way too long to tell in this article; so what I would like to do is send you my booklet, “There Is Always Hope,” along with two CD or DVD messages to help point you to the hope of Christ as well.

This inspiring collection is my “thank you” for your gift today. May you be blessed as you support the broadcast of Answers with Bayless Conley as we’re reaching so many lives around the world.

Bayless Conley

My wife Janet and I are pastors of Cottonwood Church, a thriving church located in Orange County, California. We truly believe in the concept of local church as the center of Christian community.

There is an old saying that goes, “The light that shines the farthest shines the brightest at home.” We are able to reach the world through our broadcast because we have a strong home base. This allows us to shine the light of the Gospel even farther and in a more powerful way.

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