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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YOU’VE GOT TODAY - How much time do you have? Only today is the correct answer. Who knows what tomorrow may hold? Don’t wait until a doctor quietly suggests that you put your financial house in order because there is no hope for you before you decide what is important, how you want to live, and how to make peace with God. Today is the day to put your house in order - it’s the only day that is really yours. “For dead men cannot praise you. They cannot be filled with hope and joy. The living, only the living, can praise you as I do today. One generation makes known your faithfulness to the next.” What you thought was important pales in comparison because you were alerted for the knock of the grim reaper, and suddenly the darkness gives way to the dawn of hope. One of the ways that God’s Word is timeless is the way it chronicles the very emotions and experiences of life which confront us today. Some 2,700 years ago, a man became ill. He was king, but when death stares you in the face, it doesn’t matter whether you are wealthy or poverty stricken. The hospital gown, which barely is broad enough to cover your backside, fits the wealthy and powerful just the same as those on welfare. “In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, ‘This is what the LORD says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.’”

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You’ve Got Today

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How much time do you have? Only today is the correct answer. Who knows what tomorrow may hold? Don’t wait until a doctor quietly suggests that you put your financial house in order because there is no hope for you before you decide what is important, how you want to live, and how to make peace with God. Today is the day to put your house in order - it’s the only day that is really yours

Harold J. Sala

God’s Word Today

“For dead men cannot praise you. They cannot be filled with hope and joy. The living, only the living, can praise you as I do today. One generation makes known your faithfulness to the next” - (Isaiah 38:18, 19, LB).

Your doctor tells you, “Put your house in order; you’re going to die.” 

Then someone says, “Hold it! You’ve got fifteen years to go!” 

How would you feel? Elated! Joyful! Thrilled beyond words! 

Suddenly your life would take on new meaning.

What you thought was important pales in comparison because you were alerted for the knock of the grim reaper, and suddenly the darkness gives way to the dawn of hope. 

Fifteen years is a long time.

One of the ways that God’s Word is timeless is the way it chronicles the very emotions and experiences of life which confront us today. 

Some 2,700 years ago, a man became ill. His life, though, wasn’t exactly that of a common laborer. 

He was king, but when death stares you in the face, it doesn’t matter whether you are wealthy or poverty stricken. 

The hospital gown, which barely is broad enough to cover your backside, fits the wealthy and powerful just the same as those on welfare.

Here’s how Isaiah put it: “In those days Hezekiah became ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz went to him and said, ‘This is what the LORD says: Put your house in order, because you are going to die; you will not recover.’” 

At that point, it seemed that it was all over. 

But Hezekiah did what you would probably do. 

He turned his face to the wall and prayed.

Hezekiah wept bitterly.

Scalding tears that fall on satin pillowcases are just as bitter and salty as those that are wiped by a dirty hand with grease beneath the fingernails.

He pointed out that he had faithfully served God and with “wholehearted devotion” had walked before the Lord. 

Then, Isaiah recorded one sentence that gives me great hope and confidence. 

God said, “I have heard your prayers and seen your tears.” 

At times, you think you are all alone, that nobody cares, that God is so far away He doesn’t notice. 

But He does. He knows your heart, and he also knows your motives. He sees your tears.

God gave Hezekiah another 15 years, and the sign of that was that the shadow cast by the sun would go back ten steps on the stairway of Ahaz. 

Knowing that he had a reprieve from his appointment with death, Hezekiah made some vows.

First, he vowed to walk humbly before God–something which is not too difficult to do when you have been to the edge.

Then he also vowed to focus on praise and thanksgiving. 

He said, “For the grave cannot praise you, death cannot sing your praise; those who go down to the pit cannot hope for your faithfulness. The living, the living–they praise you, as I am doing today; fathers tell their children about your faithfulness” (Isaiah 38:18, 19).

He also intended to spend the rest of his life glorifying God.

But –  and this is where intentions began to fade–when the crisis passed and life assumed a normal pattern of things, what he intended to do was soon forgotten. 

God kept His end of the bargain and the king lived for 15 years, but, according to Isaiah, pride in his accomplishments soon pushed aside the vow of humility and the desire to let God have the praise and glory for what He had done.

How much time do you have?  Only today is the correct answer. 

Who knows what tomorrow may hold? 

Don’t wait until a doctor quietly suggests that you put your financial house in order because there is no hope for you before you decide what is important, how you want to live, and how to make peace with God. 

Today is the day to put your house in order. It’s the only day that is really yours.

Resource reading: Isaiah 38:1-22

Dr. Harold J. Sala

Speaker, author and Bible teacher, Dr. Harold Sala founded Guidelines in 1963.Pioneering the five-minute commentary in Christian radio, Dr. Sala’s daily “Guidelines-A Five Minute Commentary on Living” is heard the world over in a variety of languages. Sala, who holds a Ph.D. in biblical text, has authored over 55 books published in 19 languages.He speaks and teaches frequently at conferences, seminars, and churches worldwide. Residing in Mission Viejo, California, Harold and his wife, Darlene, have three adult children (daughter Bonnie is now Guidelines president) and eight well-loved grandchildren.

https://cbnasia.org/home/2018/07/youve-got-today-gods-word-today/