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THE INNER WITNESS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

If you have accepted Jesus as your savior , then He has given you his Holy Spirit. (John 3:3-8, 16:7,13-15) The Holy Spirit speaks to your spirit (Rom. 8:14-16) and tells you the Bible is the word of God but, as Christians, let us not get too comfortable with this fact.

Christians even with the Holy Spirit are not perfect. God given facts showing inspiration of the bible can strengthen our faith and make us better disciples to encourage, others especially, non believers to read and hear Gods word, believe. repent, confess, and be baptized.

God knew, that men would create other religions. We know this because there are so many man made world religions & false doctrines . Men need & create gods even before they find the real God. God's creations declares Him to men. (Romans 1:20-21) "For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so they are without excuse". (Isaiah 41:22-23; 48:2-5; 44:6-8 ) We also know because God charges those other gods to prove themselves as He has proven Himself the true & only God. He has in virtually every possible way provided an abundance of unwavering proof that the bible is His inspired word. What other religion can prove inspiration as God has done? (Acts 17:23) Paul showed the Greeks the real God because they had one god they called the unknown god.

Remember that God warns against man made religions & doctrines. ( Mat 15:9 ). Jesus said " in vain they worship me teaching as doctrines, the commandments of men".

A favorite, but false, argument of some is God will not judge those who worship other gods because they don't know Him ( they are with out excuse) . All men will face judgement, the Gentiles prior to Pentecost, not having the law, will be judged by the law of nature, heart, & conscience (Rom 2:13), the Jew up until Pentecost will be judged under the O T Law (Rom 2:12), and after Pentecost all will be judged by the New Testament law.

How would you have designed man and his plan of salvation yet leave him a free spirit to make choices remembering God's plan covers only a few days? (2 Peter 3:8). God made us higher than animals and expects us to behave differently or face discipline.( see poem Life Of A Bee).

Prophecies

Following Is Just A Few Of Over 2000 Bible Prophecies

Prophecies About Jesus

Prophecy Prediction Fulfillment
covering thousands of years
Genesis 3:15 Would be Human Matthew 1:1
Genesis 22:18 Would be Jewish Matthew 1:1
Genesis 26:4 Would be from Isaac Matthew 1:2
Genesis 28:14 Would be from Jacob Luke 3:34
Genesis 49:10 Would be from Judah Luke 3:33
Isaiah 9:7 Would be from David Matthew 1:1,6
Micah 5:2 Birthplace Luke 2:1-7
Malachi 3:1 Forerunner, John the Baptist Mark 1:1-8
Isaiah 61:1-2 Teaching and Healing Ministry Matthew 9:35
Isaiah 50:6 Spit Upon Mark 14:65
Isaiah 50:6 Scourged John 19:1
Psalm 22:16 Hands and Feet Pierced Mark 15:24-25
Isaiah 53:12 Crucified with Criminals Luke 23:33
Psalms 22:6-8 Ridiculed Mark 15:24
Psalm 69:21 Given Sour Wine Matthew 27:48
Psalm 34:20 Bones Not Broken John 19:33
Zechariah 12:10 Side Pierced John 19:34

Science In The Bible

The Bible was not written as a science book nor was its purpose to describe the physical world. It was written to guide man in spiritual principles. When the Bible does describe the physical world, it is accurate and far ahead of mans prideful disregard & stumbling discoveries. the writers did not have to know these scientific facts. God provided them through inspiration.

Fingerprints in the bible ? Job 37:7 He sealeth up the hand of every man that all men may know his works.

God gave information on many facts, of science. Vitamin K is necessary to prevent bleeding. . Vitamin K is produced in the gut but infants under eight days old cannot produce Vitamin K as the stomach hasn't become fully functional until eight days so His instructions were to circumcise at eight days of age. Merck Pharm Company discovered vitamin K, trade name Mephyton, and now infants are given Mephyton inj so they now can be circumcised at birth for convenience and the Old Law on circumcision was replaced by the New Testament so the eight day wait is no longer required.

Genesis 17:12 For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, .

The universe is expanding, Job 9:8, Psalms 104:2, Isaiah 40:22, Isaiah 42:5, Isaiah 44:24, Isaiah 45:12, Isaiah 48:13, Isaiah 51:13, Jeremiah 10:12, Jeremiah 51:15, Zechariah 12:1

Creation of matter and energy has ended in the universe (refutes steady-state theory), Genesis 2:3-4

The universe is winding down and will "wear out", Psalms 102:25-27

Every star is different, 1 Corinthians 15:41

Pleiades and Orion as gravitationally bound star groups, Job 38:31 ( TRUE)

Light is in motion, Job 38:19-20

The earth is controlled by the heavens, Job 38:33 see Galileo below

Earth is a sphere Isaiah 40:22

Earth is suspended in space, Job 26:7

Water cycle described, Job 36:27-28 Years later a man was given credit

Valleys exist on the bottom of the sea, 2 Samuel 22:16

Springs exist on the bottom of the sea, Job 38:16 Hydrothermal 660 degree vents discovered, at the mid ocean ridges, in 1977

Ocean currents, paths, in the sea, Psalms 8:8 in 1855 an oceanographer was given credit after having read the bible he searched and found it to be true.

Is this a nuclear process described? 2 Peter 3:10

Air has weight, Job 28:25

Winds blow in circular paths, Ecclesiastes 1:6

Biology, The chemical nature of human life, Genesis 2:7, 3:19

Life of creatures are in the blood, Leviticus 17:11 covered earlier

The nature of infectious diseases, Leviticus 13:46

Importance of sanitation to health, Numbers 19, Deuteronomy 23:12-13, Leviticus 7-9 This has been a long long battle among men before solving

Astrology Supports The Bible

Isaac Newton, in his famous scientific work, Principia, stated, "The most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion on an intelligent and powerful Being." Einstein, Galileo, and other great scientists & astronomers made similar statements.

"The scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection". - Professor Albert Einstein1 from 'The World as I see it.", Watts & Co. Page 9.

Galileo Galile was a Christian as were Nicholus Copernicus and Johannes Kepler and said the earth revolved around the sun. Galileo was called to Rome to deny this claim as the State Church, in error, said the earth was the center of the universe and did not want contradiction.

Archeology
The Findings Are Very Extensive

(For fulfilled prophecies see Nineva and Babylon in Eastons Bible Dictionary (access is listed below). Access and read the scriptures about each city as well as the dictionary information. Alexander The Great attempted to rebuild Babylon at the age of 33 but took a fever and died.)

The Walls of Jericho

During the excavations of Jericho (1930-1936) Garstang found something so startling that a statement of what was found was prepared and signed by himself and two other members of the team. In reference to these findings Garstang says: "As to the main fact, then, there remains no doubt: the walls fell outwards so completely that the attackers would be able to clamber up and over their ruins into the city." Why so unusual? Because the walls of cities do not fall outwards, they fall inwards. And yet in Joshua 6:20 we read "...The wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city every man straight ahead, and they took the city." The walls were made to fall outward.

The Dead Sea Scrolls Found In 1948 Further Prove The Accuracy Of The O. T.

Jesus Said that the Old Testament Is the Word of God and He lived under the Old Testament.

  • Mat. 5:17-20 " Think not that I come to destroy the law or the prophets, I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill"
  • Luke 4:16-21
THUS, IF YOU BELIEVE THE NEW TESTAMENT, THEN YOU SHOULD BELIEVE THE OLD.

Hittites Excavations Prove Bible Accuracy

Hittites excavations further proves reliability of the bible. There was virtually no known history, other than in 11 books of the the bible, of the Hittites prior to 1906 when archeologists excavations extensively proved their existence. Critics ( until 1906) often argued that the bible was not reliable because 11 books of the bible made mention of the Hittites many times yet there was nothing else to support the bible claim so many, LIKE TODAY, believed men instead of God.

Archeological findings

Hittite tablets were excavated from the ruins of the ancient Hittite capital Hattusa located near the modern Turkish town of Boghazkšy about 210 kilometers east of Ankara. Scientific excavation of the ruins by a German expedition began in 1906. About 10,000 clay tablets script were recovered so finally extensive evidence of the accuracy of the bible was proven.

EASTON BIBLE DICTIONARY
( www.htmlbible.com/kjv30/easton/index.htm )

Hittites - Palestine and Syria appear to have been originally inhabited by three different tribes.

  1. The Semites, living on the east of the isthmus of Suez. They were nomadic and pastoral tribes.
  2. The Phoenicians, who were merchants and traders; and
  3. The Hittites, who were the warlike element of this confederation of tribes. They inhabited the whole region between the Euphrates and Damascus, their chief cities being Carchemish on the Euphrates, and Kadesh, now Tell Neby Mendeh, in the Orontes valley, about six miles south of the Lake of Homs. These Hittites seem to have risen to great power as a nation, as for a long time they were formidable rivals of the Egyptian and Assyrian empires. In the book of Joshua they always appear as the dominant race to the north of Galilee.

Somewhere about the twenty-third century B.C. the Syrian confederation, led probably by the Hittites, arched against Lower Egypt, which they took possession of, making Zoan their capital. Their rulers were the Hyksos, or shepherd kings. They were at length finally driven out of Egypt. Rameses II. sought vengeance against the "vile Kheta," as he called them, and encountered and defeated them in the great battle of Kadesh, four centuries after Abraham. (See JOSHUA ) They are first referred to in Scripture in the history of Abraham, who bought from Ephron the Hittite the field and the cave of Machpelah (Gen. 15:20: 23:3-18 36:2 )They were then settled at Kirjath-arba. From this tribe Esau took his first two wives (Gen 26:34 36:2)

They are afterwards mentioned in the usual way among the inhabitants of the Promised Land (Ex. 23:28) They were closely allied to the Amorites, and are frequently mentioned along with them as inhabiting the mountains of Palestine. When the spies entered the land they seem to have occupied with the Amorites the mountain region of Judah (Num. 13:29) They took part with the other Canaanites against the Israelites (Josh. 9:1; 11:3)

After this there are few references to them in Scripture. Mention is made of "Ahimelech the Hittite" (1 Sam. 26:6), and of "Uriah the Hittite," one of David's chief officers (2 Sam. 23:39; ( 1 Chr. 11:41) In the days of Solomon they were a powerful confederation in the north of Syria, and were ruled by "kings." They are met with after the Exile still a distinct people (Ezra 9:1; ( Neh. 13:23-28)

The Hebrew merchants exported horses from Egypt not only for the kings of Israel, but also for the Hittites (1 Kings 10:28-29 ).

Hittite Religion

The Hittites adopted many of the gods of the Sumerians and Old Babylonians. The odd thing about the Hittites, though, is that they seemed to have recognized that all gods were legitimate gods. Whenever they conquered a people, they adopted that people's gods into their religious system.

As far as history is concerned, this has tremendous consequences for the history of the Hebrews. The Assyrians seem to have adopted the same tolerance towards other religions, which allowed the Jewish faith to persist after the Jewish state was decimated by the Assyrians. And the Assyrians seem to have adopted the same tendency to adopt the gods of conquered people, so the Assyrian conquerors of Palestine adopted the Hebrew God, Yahweh, into their religion. This eventually led to the only major religious schism in Hebrew history, the schism between Jews and Samaritans (there are still Samaritans alive today).

MORE ON THE HITTITES

I. The Hittite civilization dominated Mesopotamia from C. 2000 BC to 1200 BC.

  • Hittite civilization was almost unknown until excavations in the 19th century revealed the extent and importance of culture.
  • Hittites originally migrated from the Anatolia peninsula of present-day Turkey.
  • Hittites assimilated much from the Sumerian civilization.
  • Kings were warriors who were noted for the ferocity.
  • Only king of note was Suppilulimas (C. 1380-1340 BC) who spent most of his time expanding Hittite borders and conquering enemies.

II. The cultural achievements of the Hittites primarily occurred in the development of tools of war.

  • Hittite language has not yet been fully deciphered.
  • Hittites most remembered for the development of Iron which was used to forge new weapons.
  • Hittites created a new and improved three-wheeled chariot.
  • Hittites also developed many new siege tactics used throughout the Roman world.

III. Hittite civilization ended suddenly, C. 1200 BC, probably at the hands of the Assyrians

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