Biblically Compatible Archaeology and Geography

    by   Damien F. Mackey     A reader has asked:   “Can you tell me more about Ezra?”       The truth is that I can tell a lot more about Ezra, too much to fit into this one article.   Here I shall simply run with my latest idea about Ezra, the one that I presented to the inquisitive reader for further information. I refer to my article:   High Priest, Jesus (Joshua), brand plucked out of the fire   (1) High Priest, Jesus (Joshua), brand plucked out of the fire   according to which Ezra, whom I had previously identified in articles as Azariah of the Fiery Furnace episode (Daniel 3), was also the same as the high priest, Jesus (Joshua), “a brand plucked out of the fire” (Zechariah 3:2).   The reader, obviously a follower of conventional dating, and apparently having little knowledge of my own revision of this, is perceptive enough, at least, to recognise immediately that my asso...

    by Damien F. Mackey     This is what the Lord says: ‘Record this man as if childless,      a man who will not prosper in his lifetime, for none of his offspring will prosper,      none will sit on the throne of David      or rule anymore in Judah’.   Jeremiah 22:30   Introduction   In my article:   Historical and chronological ramifications of inaccurately interpreting Daniel chapter 9   (2) Historical and chronological ramifications of inaccurately interpreting Daniel chapter 9   we learned, following Rabbi Bentzion Kravitz ’s helpful account of the proper meanings of the key Hebrew words in Daniel 9, that commentators have long been foisting their artificial translations upon the ancient Danielic text, usually for the purpose of ‘making’ it culminate with Jesus Christ the Messiah.   I also suggested that a flaw in the Rabb...