Akin for the Truth

For more information and sources you could check out http://akinforthetruth.net. For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL 1300 AM radio, Jacksonville, Oregonhttp://www.kaplradio.com/ called " Akin For the Truth", or at KCGP LP 106.7 Radio, andhttp://www.calvarygp.com/taxonomy/term/83. For other tools, you may want to check out our Website at akinforthetruth.net. Finally, there is a somewhat interesting website, a work in process, at jackakinforthetruth.com To listen to the entire spot on this Podcast (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack Last chapter we found from the Israel stele that Israel was mentioned by name as a nation during the reign of Merneptah, who reigned from 1213 – 1203 BC, during the time of the Judges, two centuries before the anointing of King Saul by Samuel, and the reign of David. Such an Egyptian campaign easily fits into the scenario we find in Israel during the time of the Judges, when various foreigners would, from time to time, venture into Canaan and, for a while, conquer Israel, or sections of it. This time period would therefore, by Scriptural record, be during the somewhat disheveled period of Israeli history.

For more information and sources you could check out http://akinforthetruth.net. For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL 1300 AM radio, Jacksonville, Oregonhttp://www.kaplradio.com/ called " Akin For the Truth", or at KCGP LP 106.7 Radio, andhttp://www.calvarygp.com/taxonomy/term/83. For other tools, you may want to check out our Website at akinforthetruth.net. Finally, there is a somewhat interesting website, a work in process, at jackakinforthetruth.com To listen to the entire spot on this Podcast (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack As we discussed last time there is, based on fairly recent archaeological work in the delta regions of Egypt, no real doubt that a substantial Israeli population lived in Goshen prior to the Hyksos invasion, and, further, that the existence of Israel has also been documented to exist just a few hundred years afterwards. "What documentation?" you might ask. If the Biblical account of Jewish history is accurate, then it would be expected that there should also be some archeological evidence of a large Israeli population in Canaan a few hundred years later. Back in 2002 I noted in the reference book "Archeology and the Bible", by Thompson, resident at the Cairo Museum, dated to more than 3200 years ago, a poem, written by Merneptah (1213-1203) and found in a stele, the then Pharaoh of Egypt, boasting of his victories in battles held in Canaan, this quote "Israel is laid waste". The Merneptah Stele

For more information and sources you could check out http://akinforthetruth.net. For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL 1300 AM radio, Jacksonville, Oregonhttp://www.kaplradio.com/ called " Akin For the Truth", or at KCGP LP 106.7 Radio, andhttp://www.calvarygp.com/taxonomy/term/83. For other tools, you may want to check out our Website at akinforthetruth.net. Finally, there is a somewhat interesting website, a work in process, at jackakinforthetruth.com To listen to the entire spot on this Podcast (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack Last chapter we summarized, as we adjust our guess regarding the area of location of Mt. Sinai to a more Scripturally and historically supported area, that the path from Goshen, the trek across the Sinai Peninsula, and the Red Sea encampment and crossing are adjusted as well, with stunning results. And so we began our retracing of the Exodus at the beginning….Goshen, Egypt. We saw that the earliest remains of Asiatics at Tell el-Daba included houses and tombs (12th Dynasty, mid-19th century BC). Called Rowaty ("the door of the two roads") at that time, this Asiatic settlement was probably Rameses (Gn 47:11, 27; a later name for the same site) where Jacob and his family settled in Goshen. One particular house and tomb excavated there may actually be Joseph's. Interestingly, directly atop this Jewish settlement was found a later and larger early Hyksos palace (13th Dynasty), making the dating of the Jewish settlement a very secure one. The palace was likely owned by the first Hyksos Pharaoh, "who did not know about Joseph" (Ex 1:8), who began pressing the Israelites into slavery, and had them build the store city of Rameses (Ex 1:11; a later name for this Hyksos city). Recent archaeologists protest at the notion of slaves having been used to build Egyptian projects. But what real evidence do we have?

For more information and sources you could check out http://akinforthetruth.net. For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL 1300 AM radio, Jacksonville, Oregonhttp://www.kaplradio.com/ called " Akin For the Truth", or at KCGP LP 106.7 Radio, andhttp://www.calvarygp.com/taxonomy/term/83. For other tools, you may want to check out our Website at akinforthetruth.net. Finally, there is a somewhat interesting website, a work in process, at jackakinforthetruth.com To listen to the entire spot on this Podcast (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack Last time we were reading Genesis 47: 5 and 6, which records Pharaoh's response to Joseph's request to bring his family into Egypt. There the Bible records "Then Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, saying, "The land of Egypt is before you. Have your father & brothers dwell in the best of the land, Let them dwell in the land of Goshen." We then put forth the question, "Have there been any relatively recent archaeological evidences supporting this Scripture?" Simplest answer… Yes.

For more information and sources you could check out http://akinforthetruth.net. For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL 1300 AM radio, Jacksonville, Oregonhttp://www.kaplradio.com/ called " Akin For the Truth", or at KCGP LP 106.7 Radio, andhttp://www.calvarygp.com/taxonomy/term/83. For other tools, you may want to check out our Website at akinforthetruth.net. Finally, there is a somewhat interesting website, a work in process, at jackakinforthetruth.com To listen to the entire spot on this Podcast (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack Last chapter we began our series on the Hebrew Exodus by observing that much of the theory about the Exodus in modern times has been, it seems to be turning out, based on Christian lore and myth, rather than any real historic or archaeological bases. As a consequence, it would seem that findings along the lines of these theories had been found wanting, fueling skepticism among critics. Even archaeological and historical defenders of Scriptural accuracy find themselves rationalizing or otherwise scrambling for explanation because of the obvious lack of any evidence of the Exodus. Fortunately, as was mentioned already, recent discoveries appear to have shed bright light on the subject, in some ways revolutionizing our understanding of the Exodus, and in other ways bringing us back to what we perhaps should have known all along.

For more information and sources you could check out http://akinforthetruth.net. For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL 1300 AM radio, Jacksonville, Oregonhttp://www.kaplradio.com/ called " Akin For the Truth", or at KCGP LP 106.7 Radio, andhttp://www.calvarygp.com/taxonomy/term/83. For other tools, you may want to check out our Website at akinforthetruth.net. Finally, there is a somewhat interesting website, a work in process, at jackakinforthetruth.com To listen to the entire spot on this Podcast (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack Last time we were identifying a question that does, to many, present a serious challenge to the historicity of the Exodus, namely; "why does there seem to be such a large body of missing archaeological evidence for such a grand event?" So the question is, I think, rightly asked, that, if such a miraculous, titanic event as the Exodus actually occurred: this sudden, monumental occurrence, the birth of a nation by a series of unparalleled miracles, then why has so little evidence been found? Was the Biblical record accurate, real, or just an elaborate legend? Well, now a lot of evidence has been found, once we get on the right track…the Biblical track.

For more information and sources you could check out http://akinforthetruth.net. For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL 1300 AM radio, Jacksonville, Oregonhttp://www.kaplradio.com/ called " Akin For the Truth", or at KCGP LP 106.7 Radio, andhttp://www.calvarygp.com/taxonomy/term/83. For other tools, you may want to check out our Website at akinforthetruth.net. Last time we noted how that much of the theory about the Exodus in modern times has been, it seems to be turning out, based on Christian lore and myth, rather than any real historic or archaeological bases. So we posed the question "Is there really no reliable evidence that the Exodus took place? Can it be possible that the Scriptural records, found so historically accurate by both critics and defenders alike in so many instances, could have made such a blatant blunder as to report such huge and historically significant errors about the very origin of the nation of Israel?" Listen for more.

For more information and sources you could check out http://akinforthetruth.net. For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL 1300 AM radio, Jacksonville, Oregonhttp://www.kaplradio.com/ called " Akin For the Truth", or at KCGP LP 106.7 Radio, andhttp://www.calvarygp.com/taxonomy/term/83. For other tools, you may want to check out our Website at akinforthetruth.net. Finally, there is a somewhat interesting website, a work in process, at jackakinforthetruth.com To listen to the entire spot on this Podcast (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack Have you ever heard it said, or read somewhere that the story of the Exodus, that incredible, monumental series of events, hasn't really left an archaeological footprint? Indications that these huge scenes, such as the parting of the Red Sea (wherever that was), a trek across the desert by millions, destruction of hundreds of Hebrew-seeking, Egyptian chariots don't seem to have turned up, though diligently searched for by archaeologists, historians and pilgrims, for centuries. Let's see if we can't find a bit more on the subject, when considering new information and studies.

For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL 1300 AM radio, Jacksonville, Oregonhttp://www.kaplradio.com/ called " Akin For the Truth", or at KCGP LP 106.7 Radio, andhttp://www.calvarygp.com/taxonomy/term/83. For other tools, you may want to check out our Website at akinforthetruth.net. Finally, there is a somewhat interesting website, a work in process, at jackakinforthetruth.com To listen to the entire spot on this Podcast (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack Last time we ended our discussion pondering how intelligent observers in the last century could miss such obvious facts as we've been discussing as they were developing theories about the origin of coal. It was proposed that, as is often is the case when discussing origins, that it may have to do with foundational beliefs, world views if you will, upon which any theory is built. If you don't believe, or worse, are vehemently opposed to the Biblical claim of a worldwide flood, then the idea of a violent, world-wide, sudden event occurring in marine waters creating coal beds is at best an idea that would not occur to you, and at worst is repulsive and perhaps a little frightening...Jack

For your consideration...the following is an excerpt from a radio spot on KAPL 1300 AM radio, Jacksonville, Oregonhttp://www.kaplradio.com/ called " Akin For the Truth", or at KCGP LP 106.7 Radio, andhttp://www.calvarygp.com/taxonomy/term/83. For other tools, you may want to check out our Website at akinforthetruth.net. Finally, there is a somewhat interesting website, a work in process, at jackakinforthetruth.com To listen to the entire spot on this Podcast (a few minutes long), click the little microphone icon....Jack This fourth of a five part, closer look at what most of us have been taught about coal and how it developed, continues to challenge the idea that coal developed in freshwater swamps over millions of years. So far we've reviewed seven observable facts that demonstrate that coal contains marine plants and animals and so should not be theorized to have been generated from freshwater swamps; that coal beds are often impaled by tree trucks oriented in all directions and so should not be believed to have layered over long time periods; that the beds and the trees and roots within them often contain materials that are foreign to the areas where the coal beds are found. Something sudden and energetic, violent, not slow and calm, seems to be associated with coal beds. Also, we saw evidences that these beds are often too vast to be credible swamp floors, and that many coal beds found today are without soils beneath them, necessary to the swamp theory...Jack