By COGwriter Arrived safetly home late last night after about 20 hours of traveling from Trinidad and Tobago (where my family and I observed the Feast of Tabernacles). The following news item I received in an email caught my attention: Celebrate fall – the Chinese way Chinese people around the world celebrate autumn by gathering […]
Category: Old Testament History
“Now all these things happened to them as examples, and they were written for our admonition, on whom the ends of the ages have come” (1 Corinthians 10:11).
Truly a Land With Milk and Honey
The following news item was of interest: ‘Land of Milk and Honey’ lives up to its name Jerusalem Post – Sept 3, 2007 Now it’s official. The Land of Milk and Honey has lived up to its name. A Hebrew University archeologist has uncovered the oldest known apiary, or beehive colony, in the Middle East. Prof. […]
Temple Wall Found in Jerusalem?
The following news item was of interest: Possible remains of second temple found in Jerusalem: TV AFP – August 30, 2007 4:20pm US/Eastern Remains of the Jewish second temple may have been found during work to lay pipes at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in east Jerusalem, Israeli television reported Thursday. Israeli television broadcast footage of […]
AW Questions Historical Validity of Genesis
By COGwriter This morning I noticed that Gavin Rumney of the anti-COG Ambassador Watch website included the following in his post: Even more basic is the assumption that Genesis relates real history. Was there truly a garden called Eden in prehistory, a place which we might find if we had H. G. Wells’ Time Machine […]
Chinese Characters and Early Genesis
COGwriter Is there any evidence that Chinese people ever knew about the early accounts in the Book of Genesis, such as a devil in the Garden of Eden, the great flood, or the Tower of Babel? Yes, as some evidence seems to exist in early Chinese writings. Notice for example that an ancient Chinese character […]
Tisha B’Av- Jewish Temple Mourning Tonight
Although there is no biblical requirement (which is why we in the COGs do not observe it), a Jewish holiday called Tisha B’Av begins Monday evening at sundown, which is the ninth day (Tish’a) of the Jewish month of Av. It commemorates two of the saddest events in Jewish history…the destruction of the First Temple built by […]
Nahum’s Possible Tomb to Be Studied
Antiquities Department to renovate synagogue holding Nahum’s tomb Azzaman (Iraq) -July 15, 2007 The Antiquities Department has included an ancient synagogue where Biblical prophet Nahum is purportedly buried in its 2008 renovation plans. “The Antiquities Department has added the tomb of Prophet Nahum, peace be on him, to its 2008 preservation plan,” said department’s chief, […]
Archaeology Again Proves Bible is Right
Tiny tablet provides proof for Old Testament The Telegraph (UK) – July 11, 2007 The sound of unbridled joy seldom breaks the quiet of the British Museum’s great Arched Room, which holds its collection of 130,000 Assyrian cuneiform tablets, dating back 5,000 years. But Michael Jursa, a visiting professor from Vienna, let out such a […]