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30 THE SIGNS OF THE END

II.
Archaeological Discoveries

Modem Israel is a laboratory of Biblical developments.
Everything that is happening there has some Biblical significance,
whether it be in politics, archaeology or ecdesiology. It is an
amazing thing that stones, rocks and artifacts that have been
buried under hills for thousands of years are now being un­
earthed and displayed for all the world to see. These discoveries
not only educate us about long-lost cultures, but they invariably
confirm the veracity and historicity of the Old and New
Testaments of the Bible.

This is a little bit of a problem for scientific archaeologists.
They go to great lengths to establish their objectivity, and divorce
themselves from any pretense of "proving the Bible." Yet every
time they turn a spade in Israel and much of the Middle East,
that is precisely what they wind up doing. We who believe the
Scriptures have no such problem. We openly rejoice with every
discovery which confirms the Word of God, and make no
apology for our satisfaction with the process.

L e ts face it. For several hundred years, the scholarly elite
have been attacking the historicity of the Scriptures. They have
declared with their all-knowing erudition that the Bible is merely
a compilation of mythology. There was no actual Noah,
Abraham, Moses, David or Daniel. These were mythical heroes
invented by the priestly class that came to power in Israel after
the return from Babylon around 500 to 300 B.C. Furthermore,
there w as no actual historicity to Jesus of Nazareth or the
Galilean Apostles. These also were the pious inventions of
church fathers in the second and third centuries, who wanted to
give Christianity an apparent basis in history.

The average Christian today is shocked to find out that such
apostasy is taught in the halls of learning. But it most certainly
is, and not only in secular universities, but it has ruinously
infected most (though not all) of the seminaries of professing
Christianity and Judaism. No wonder our church and synagogue