ON TOPIC | JACK KINSELLA


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n 2008 an Israeli archaeologist named Yossi Garfinkel discovered a potery shard dating to the time of


King David and bearing five lines of faded characters writen in what appeared to be a form of Hebrew.


More than 3,000 years old, it was the oldest example of archaic Hebrew text ever discovered. Yet Hebrew as a spoken language was already long dead when the contemporary language of the Empire was Latin.


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As a functional, working language, clas- sical Hebrew flourished until around the time of the Babylonian captivity in the sixth century B.C. Under the subsequent Persian, Greek, and Roman empires, the popular use of classical Hebrew waned.


Ezekiel’s Prophetic Vision Bible prophecy is the term we give to the Bible’s outline of history, as seen across multiplied millennia, emanating from the distant past and describing a single, future generation somewhere in time.


According to the ancient prophets, the Jews of that future generation would be restored to their ancient homeland—that they would call “Israel”—and in a manner that would be undeniably miraculous.


Te Prophet Ezekiel recorded in his vi- sion of the ‘dry bones’ that Israel would be restored in the Last Days in a process that would bring the Jews back to the exact same piece of real estate from which they had been scatered.


In Ezekiel’s day, there was no such place


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