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Faithless Israelites scared of a few giants

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  by   Damien F. Mackey     ‘We saw Nephilim there. (The descendants of Anak are Nephilim.) We felt as small as grasshoppers, and that’s how we must have looked to them’.   Numbers 13:33   Only Jesus Christ can lead us into the Promised Land (Acts 4:12): “ And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” .   Metaphorically speaking, the Israelites would be led into the Promised Land by a Jesus - at least, by a warrior with a Jesus name, Joshua ( יְהוֹשֻׁעַ ), meaning “The Lord will save”. The name Jesus ( יֵשׁוּעַ ) means, similarly, “He will save”.   Metaphorically, again, it would not have been fitting for Moses to have led the Israelites into the Promised Land because Moses embodied the Law (Torah), and the Law alone was never sufficient to save Israel ( cf. Romans 7:13-24).   As Ike Clanton said to Wyatt Earp, ‘Law don’t go around here, K...
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Evidence for the prophet Isaiah during the reign of King Josiah

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    by   Damien F. Mackey     It seems ridiculous, doesn’t it, the prophet Isaiah, considered to have been martyred during the reign of King Manasseh of Judah (d. c. 643 BC, conventional dating), yet somehow still functioning during the reign of King Josiah of Judah (c. 640-609 BC)?   How to explain this?   That Isaiah was, with his father, Amos (Amoz) (Isaiah 1:1), or Micah, a Simeonite – unlike the typical prophets of Israel ( cf. Amos 7:14) – I have now well established in articles such as:   God can raise up prophets at will - even from a shepherd of Simeon   (5) God can raise up prophets at will - even from a shepherd of Simeon   Now, there was a Simeonite leader whose name was Asaiah ( 1 Chronicles 4:36), and his name is the same as King Josiah’s personal secretary, “Asaiah, servant of the king” ( עֲשָׂיָה עֶבֶד - הַמֶּלֶךְ ). This was a very high office: Topical Bible: The King of Israel's Se...
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Solomon and Sheba

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  by Damien F. Mackey   Contents   News.................................................................................................................2 Articles Solomon and Sheba .......................................................................................4   Damien Mackey presents new evidence that Hatshepsut was the Queen of Sheba. ….   Society for Interdisciplinary Studies CHRONOLOGY AND CATASTROPHISM REVIEW 1997:1 Editor's Notes Probably few articles caused more disappointment in SIS circles than John Bimson's 1986 ‘Hatshepsut and the Queen of Sheba’, which presented strong evidence and argument against Velikovsky’s proposal that the mysterious and exotic queen who visited King Solomon was none other than the famous Egyptian female pharaoh. This removed one of the key identifications in Velikovsky’s Ages in Chaos historical reconstruction and was a key factor in the rejection of his proposed chronology by Bims...
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