Tuesday, June 22, 2010


The Words of Three More Bible Writers Vindicated
Many sceptics question the accuracy of the Bible, claiming things like it is nothing but an anthology of mythical events and characters, but archaeologists are proving them wrong.
Take, for instance, the accounts of the destruction of the two Egyptian cities of Memphis and Thebes. Both of these cities were once famous cities of ancient Egypt. Memphis on the West side of the Nile River was about 14 miles to the South of Cairo. From here the ancient Pharaohs rule Egypt until about the Third Century B.C.E. when they moved their capital 300 miles farther South to the city of No or Thebes the site of the largest structure ever built with columns – a temple dedicated to their chief god: Anon.
Both Ezekiel (Ezekiel 30: 14,15) and Jeremiah ( Jeremiah 46: 25, 26) predicted the complete destruction of these cities along with their inhabitants. And that is exactly what happened.
If you were to travel to the old location of Thebes all you would find would be the modern town of Luxor built over part of the ruins of the ancient city. And, according to Bible scholar Louis Golding all that remains of ancient Memphis are stones protruding above the black soil for mile on mile.

Then there is the matter of one Belshazzar who Daniel said was the King of Babylon at the time that Cyrus the Great destroyed it. For centuries Belshazzar was never heard about outside the pages of the Bible so sceptics claimed that he never existed, that he was just the figment of Daniel's imagination.

But sometime in the Nineteenth Century somebody discovered cuneiform cylinders mentioning one Belshazzar, the oldest son of King Nabonidus – the recognized King of Babylon at the time of its fall at the hands of Cyrus and the Medes and Persians. So Belshazzar did exist after all.
And not only did he exist as the Bible says – but archaeologists also found other tablets with cuneiform text that proved that Nabonidus had entrusted the kingdom to this son, Belshazzar, some time before Cyrus attacked and destroyed the city.
He was the number two ruler of Babylon definitely – under his father, Nabonidus – but he was the King of Babylon – at the time of its destruction.