Archaeology

Pastor Bryan Windle joins us to count down the Top Ten Discoveries from Biblical Archaeology for the 2020 calendar year. 2020 was a difficult and challenging year to be sure, and many excavations in the world of the Bible were cancelled. Nonetheless, there were still many important discoveries made which both affirmed details in Scripture and will help us understand the biblical text in greater detail. Please join us!

For the past 150 years archaeologists have been digging in the lands of the Bible, unearthing hundreds of artifacts that directly relate to the biblical text. Many of these finds affirm specific details in Scripture, demonstrating that the Bible is a historically reliable document. ABR Staff Writer Bryan Windle will be counting down the top ten discoveries of all-time relating to the New Testament.

Every year hundreds of discoveries are made in archaeological digs in the lands of the Bible. Many of these finds relate directly to the Bible; others shed light on different periods in biblical history. While no discovery in archaeology can “prove the Bible is true,” hundreds of finds over the past 150 years have continuously demonstrated the historical reliability of Scripture. Pastor Bryan Windle joins us to count down the top ten discoveries in biblical archaeology of all-time relating to the Old Testament.

Uncovering Jerusalem's Lost Temple (The temple of the Jews in the City of David) Is it possible that the real location of the Temple of the Jews is lost? Was the Temple of Solomon originally on the Haram El Sharif or was originally Fortress Antonia? Was the Temple originally located in the City of David as the Bible seems to indicate? The City of David is the location for the ancient Jebusite city that David conquered and renamed the City of David or Jerusalem. It is approximately 12 acres in size. It begins at the Millo (i.e., a ravine that separated the City of David from the Ophel, which Solomon filled in during his reign) and extends southward. A biblical clue to the location of the temple is the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite, found in 2Chronicles 3:1, “Then Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where Yahweh appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.” The smoking gun for the temple as it relates to the Gihon Spring is eyewitness testimony of a spring-like reservoir within the temple precincts. Two men provide evidence for this. The first eyewitness to confirm this fact is a man named Aristeas, a Jew who lived during the 2nd or 3rd century BCE. Eusebius, the 4th century church historian, records his account. “There is an inexhaustible reservoir of water, as would be expected from an abundant spring gushing up naturally from within; there being moreover wonderful and indescribable cisterns underground, of five furlongs, according to their showing, all around the foundation of the Temple, and countless pipes from them, so that the streams on every side met together. And all these have been fastened with lead at the bottom of the side-walls, and over these has been spread a great quantity of plaster, all having been carefully wrought,” Eusebius’ recording of Aristeas, chapter 38. Possibly the greatest evidence for the temple’s real location are in the prophecies spoken by the Messiah. “And as he went out of the temple, one of his disciples saith unto him, Master, see what manner of stones and what buildings are here! And Yahshua answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down,” Mark 13:1-2. Read our in-depth article "The Lost Temple Mount" https://yrm.org/the-lost-temple-mount/ To subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/yahwehsrestorationministry To continue your journey, please visit our extensive website: http://www.yrm.org Download our free mobile App for Apple or Android from the App Store. Search: Yahweh's Restoration Ministry Join us on Roku! To find our channel search: Yahweh's Restoration Ministry Watch live Sabbath services every Saturday at 1:30pm central. www.yrm.org/live Find us on Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/yrm.org/ https://twitter.com/yrmministry https://plus.google.com/+YahwehsResto... https://www.pinterest.com/YRMinistry/ To link this video: https://youtu.be/qmrhndo3TaM