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The study of the Bible in its historical context - with a focus on the archaeology, history, geography, customs , culture, and even the languages of the ancient Middle East. WE ask what did they understand THEN - the original intent of the Lord - so that we can expand and enrich our understanding NOW and thus become true disciples of Adonai Yeshua as in John 8:31-32.
Lesson 1 additional resources
* Joel Kramer's video - The Star Prophecy
* Joel Kramer's video channel -Expedition Bible
* Joel Kramer's video that argues for the real site of Sodom and Gomorah
Zoar: the City That Didn't Burn
* Article from Associates for Biblical Research by Dr. Bryant Wood. Argument for Sodom and Gomorrah at southern end of the Dead Sea
Locating Sodom: A Critique of the Northern Proposal
Lesson 2 additional resources
* Joel Kramer's awesome video on Babylon - Babylon
* Bible Prophecy againset Babylon historically accurate
- The Specific Conquering Power: Isaiah 13:17 specifically identified "the Medes" as the nation God would stir up to destroy Babylon, which occurred when the Medo-Persian alliance under Cyrus the Great took the city in 539 B.C..
- The "Two-Leaved Gates" and Drying River: Isaiah 45:1 prophesied that the "two-leaved gates" of the city would be opened to Cyrus and that the "waters" (the Euphrates River) would be dried up. Historically, Cyrus diverted the Euphrates, allowing his army to enter the city along the riverbed.
- Conquest During a Feast: Jeremiah 51:39 and 51:57 predicted that Babylon's leaders would be drunk when they were attacked. This corresponds with the account in Daniel 5, where King Belshazzar was holding a feast the night the city fell.
- Permanent Desolation: Isaiah 13:19-20 predicted that Babylon would "never be inhabited... from generation to generation." Following its defeat, the city went into a long, irreversible decline and never regained its status as a world power, ultimately becoming the ruins described by historians.
- Name of the Conqueror: Isaiah 44:28 and 45:1 explicitly named Cyrus, the Persian ruler, as the one who would subdue nations and allow the Jewish people to return to their land, written nearly 150 years before his birth. [1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8]