There is a poetic form of God’s name found in early editions of the King James Bible that Keith calls, Grandma’s Bible!
Torah scrolls are impressive enough, but what happens when you look a little closer? Nehemia Gordon breaks out his 50-times magnification microscope to give you a detailed view of Keith Johnson’s Torah scroll under normal light, ultraviolet, and infrared. What you will see in this BONUS episode are details that few others have ever seen!
After getting a glimpse into the conflict between Saddam Hussein and the Shiite Muslims in the marshland, I realized that it was a microcosm of a macro mess that had morphed throughout the Middle East.
Before Abraham became the father of Ishmael and Isaac, he dwelled between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The place he resided has given us a peek into the past, and the people he lived among have raised their voices to reveal a secret through the discovery of an ancient artifact from Abraham’s hometown of Ur in biblical Iraq.
While in biblical Iraq, I kept having experiences that sometimes caused me to laugh out loud as I met people, visited places, and saw things that simply cracked me up. One such encounter happened after I had finished my visit to Ur.
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As I was thinking about how to introduce this episode, I was standing in line at the grocery store and saw an intriguing LIFE magazine. I quickly opened it to see if Abraham’s hometown in Iraq made the list as “one of the holiest places on earth.”
There is a famous song by Led Zeppelin titled “A Stairway to Heaven.” I wonder if Led was influenced by the misunderstanding of the story of the Tower of Babel when he wrote this popular piece of music.
There are two prophecies in the Hebrew scriptures that clearly state that Babylon would not be rebuilt and there would be no repopulation program.
Whenever I come across two words repeated in Scripture, my eyes and my ears perk up. When those two words are connected to the second most mentioned city in the Bible, my mind and my spirit join in.
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