Bible -- Antiquities; Bible. Old Testament -- Evidences, authority, etc.
Our fathers believed also in the virgin birth of the Son of God. They
accepted literally the record that Almighty God himself had given of the
incarnation of His Son. Our fathers believed that the body of Jesus was
formed in the womb of a virgin woman because of the direct visitation of
the Holy Ghost. Thus, the birth of Jesus Christ was a biological
miracle, and He owed even His earth origin to His _heavenly_ Father
alone! This foundational fact of the Christian revelation has
disappeared from the walls and the worship of many a once-Christian
gathering. In the place of that golden fact there is the ghastly and
brazen substitute of an illegitimate child, who was probably the fruit
of a woman’s sin! And then men wonder that the old-time power and
greatness of the Christian faith seem lacking in much of our land today!
In like manner, the golden shield of redemption through the shed blood
of Calvary has been exchanged for the brazen substitute of a “Perfect
Example.” The physical resurrection of Jesus Christ has been bartered
for a misty idea of some sort of a spiritual resurrection that has no
bearing upon the facts of the record that God has given to man. Shield
by shield, and buckler by buckler, the things that were given to us for
our defense, gleaming with the intrinsic value of a supernatural
revelation, have been stolen away by the enemy. The humanistic
substitutes that have replaced them have left us at the mercy of the
enemy who would destroy our souls.
But great as are the moral lessons involved in this record, its
apologetical value is incalculably greater. It has been the custom in
our day to question the historical accuracy of much of the record of the
Scripture. So it is with considerable interest that we turn back to
ancient Egypt to see what can be learned from the external sources of
pure archeology concerning these sections of the Old Testament.
The visitor to the British Museum may come away well acquainted with
this man Shishak. In the fourth Egyptian Room, in Table Case “O”, there
is a pair of gold bracelets, the exhibits being numbered 134 and 135.
These beautiful ornaments are overlaid with lapis lazuli, and a blue
substance which is similar to faience. The inside of each is inscribed
with a text written in hieroglyphics stating that the bracelets were
“Made for the Princess,” the daughter of the chief of all the bowmen,
Nemareth, whose mother was the daughter of the Prince of the land of
Reshnes. This Nemareth was the descendant in the fifth generation of
Buiu-auau, a Libyan prince who was the father of Shishak the First.
In this same case, exhibit number 217 is a heavy gold ring set with a
scarab carved from soapstone, which is inscribed with a clearly cut
cartouche containing both the prenomen and nomen of Shishak the First.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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