Moab, an ancient country;
Its future role for Israel's protectionduring Tribulation! Its role in ancient City "Petra"!
Its role in the tribulation!
Its role for the hiding Jewish people! A very remarkable role.....!
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Moab, an ancient country; Its future role for Israel's protection during
Tribulation!
Its role in ancient City "Petra"
Its role in the tribulation!
Its role for the hiding Jewish people! A very remarkable
role!
The Jewish
people in the ancient times (Old Testament) have specific things in
the Scriptures to refer for illustrations to
their occupation, environment and to the different kind of scenes in
their life's with which the Jewish people in ancient times had to
endure! So also what these writing's in this site reveals is based on
these things. This time it is (still) coming from God's revelations
toward us!
Personal I believe that archeology findings from Ancient Hebrew time's
will increase in this end-time, so that our generation will be
confronted with G-D's truth! That the
Scriptures
are truth! Examples are the most recent one is the "Death sea scrolls in
1946; skeletons of Giants of 18 feet', The
Moabite Stone” or the “Mesha Stele” and so much more! It is a
significant way how God can reveal TODAY certain things from ancient
time's!
There
are directions on how to profit by that which wisdom has already delivered; the
purpose for such examples and the nature of the message. Bow down your ears and
hear the words of G-Dly wisdom, who refer these illustrations to the
scenes what happened during these ancient time's! So
that you become able to apply your own heart to knowledge! That you may receive
personal profit to your own soul and can get experiential Divine knowledge and
be equipped to speak of wisdom also to others! So that on their turn they may
learn to trust in the Lord, get to know the absolute certainty of truth and the
excellent things in counsels and knowledge
(Proverbs 22:17-21)!
Moab,
ancient country on the hill
plateau
east of the Dead
Sea,
in what is now Jordan. The Moabites were closely related to the Hebrews
and were subject to Israel during the reigns of David and
Solomon(11th century BC to 10th
century BC).
They later regained their independence but were temporarily re-conquered
by Omri, king of Israel (reigned 876-869 BC).
Moab, like neighboring Judah,
became tributary to
Assyria
in the 8th century BC and was conquered by the Babylonians
in the 6th century BC. After that the Moabites ceased to exist as a
separate people. The Moabites are frequently mentioned in
the Scripture.
King Solomon had built an altar
tot heir “idol-god Chemosh”
in
Jerusalem.
After
Lot was spared from the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, he went up
into the hills above Zoar with his two daughters. Lot’s wife had been
turned into a pillar of salt for looking back toward Sodom in
disobedience to G-D’s Command. So, to preserve their line, Lot’s two
daughters conspired to conceive children by their father. Moab was the
son born to Lot and his elder daughter, while the incestuous union
between Lot and his younger daughter produced Moab’s half brother, Ben-ammi.
The descendants of Moab, the Moabites, were closely
related to the descendants of Ben-ammi, the Ammonites; through Lot. Both
tribes were connected to the Israelites, but they were often at war with
them. Once Moab’s birth is recorded, he is not mention again in the
Scripture.
Further references to Moab mean the land East of the Dead Sea between
the rivers Arnon and Zered or the Moabite people. And the firstborn
bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the
Moabites unto this day. (Genesis 19:37)
(Source: “Who’s Who in the Bible; Pg.: 295 ISBN 0-89577-618-9 1997;
Reader’s Digest)
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Ruth
is an ancient Hebrew short story. The book tells of a family from the
ancient town of Bethlehem
in Judah that takes refuge in the country of Moab
during a famine. While there, the sons of the Judean family marry
Moabite women. When the father and the two sons die, Naomi, the bereaved
mother, determines to return to her home in Bethlehem. She urges her
daughters-in-law to remain in Moab with their own people, but one of
them, Ruth, insists on returning with Naomi (Ruth
1:16-17). In Bethlehem, Ruth's devotion
and kindliness soon attract the attention of Naomi's near kinsman Boaz (Ruth 2:1-4:12).
Despite the fact that Ruth is a “foreigner”, Boaz, a Jew, marries her,
and she becomes the great grandmother of King David,
of whose familyYeshua Messiah or Jesus
Christwas born. This is noted in the genealogy given at
the beginning of
Matthew's Gospel.
Her place in the
genealogy of King David, and the acceptance of the book as part of the
Hebrew canon all suggest a deeper and more complex purpose!
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A good number of today's Bible teachers see
the book of Ruthas a propheticpicture of the End-time
Church. Ruth the Gentile clung to Jewish Naomi. Ruth had done what
all true Christians have done, whether they realize it on not, in makingthe G-D of the Jews,
their God. But Ruth had gone even further. She said to Naomi,
"Your people shall be
my people, and your G-D shall be my G-D Where you go I shall go, and
where you die I shall die" (Ruth 1:16)This is a picture of
total commitment and a picture of the end-time 'Ruth' Church standing
with the Jewish people in the last days! 'Ruth' means friend and
Israel needs as many friends as possible in the days of the
Great Tribulation.
Ultimately, the whole world will come against Jerusalem and Israel in
the final days. The non-Bible believing world will never be
Israel's friend - quite the opposite will be seen to be true. Only the
true Church of
Yeshua/Jesuswill stand with Israel in the
dark days ahead as both Jews and Christians pass through the days of
Jacobs Trouble standing united against the wrath of asatanically inspired one
world government and the false church, both of whichare already being formed.
(Source of 2 sd part of Ruth:
http://www.out-of-zion.com.htm
David Silver/Permitted) And Ruth said,
Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee:
for whither thou goes, I will go; and where thou lodges, I will lodge:
thy people shall be my people, and thy G-Dmy G-D: (Ruth 1:16)
1.
Do not ask me to leave you, or to stop following you.
2. Where you go, I
will go.
3. Where you lodge,
I will lodge.
4. Your people shall
be my people.
5. Your God shall be
my God.
6. Where you die, I
will die, and there will I be buried(Ruth 1:17).
7. YHWH; Elohim, G-Dאלהים
does so to me and more also, if anything but
death
should separate us.
Then—after the death of Ahab,
Moab rebelled against the northern kingdone up to the time of the
Septuagint translators in the third century B.C. It was then that the
book of Kings was divideom of Israel! The word "then"
indicates the book is a continuation of 1 Kings.
The two books were d into two sections.
Moab had been subdued by
David (2 Samuel 8:2; 2 Samuel
23:20).After the division of the
kingdom, the Moabites were under the northern kingdom. Omri and Ahab
greatly oppressed them. When Ahab died, however, Mesha, king of Moab,
rebelled and gained independence!
The Moabite stone discovered in 1868 at Dibon in
Moab is revealing. The writing is in ancient Hebrew characters down to
the time of 140 B.C. when it was replaced by the square characters used
today. According to the stone, Mesha, son of Chemosh-Melech, king of
Moab of Dibon, carried out his desire upon his enemies after Omri and
Ahab had oppressed them for many days. It tells of his victories
at Ataroth, Kerioth, Nebo, Jahaz, and other places. It gives all credit
for past defeats and slavery to Israel to “Chemosh, the national
idol - god” of Moab, because he was angry; this idol - god
is also credited for the victories won after this. (See 2 Kings 3:1-27)
Remarkably,
King Mesha’s own account of the ninth-century B.C. war of Israel and
Judah against Moab has been preserved in a block of black basalt stele
discovered near Dibon, east of Jordan in 1868. Before it could be
purchased, local Arabs smashed the stone – but only after a French
scholar had copied the inscription. The reassembled fragments are now in
the Louvre Museum in Paris. The 34 line on the Moabite Stone (also
called the Mesha Inscription or Stele) commemorate the King’s building
activities as well as his military accomplishments; his achievements are
attributed to the favor of the “Moabite
idol-god Chemosh”.
The inscription confirms Israel’s oppression of Moab under the house of
Omri, Mesha’s Revolt against Omri’s son (actually his grandson, Jehoram),
and a brutal slaughter to appease “Chomosh” – in this instance, the
Gadites living at Ataroth rather than Mesha’s own son, as reported in
2 Kings 3-4. The Moabite Stone bears the oldest known reference
to Israel’s God, Yahweh, outside the Bible! It records Mesha’s capture
of Israel’s sacred vessels and his presentation of them to “Chemosh”. The Moabite Stone bears an
inscription in the Moabite language; dates to c. 840 – 820 B.C.! It is
describing a 9th-century-BC - victory of King Mesha of Moab over the
Israelites. The stone is now in the
Louvre
Museum in Paris. (Source: “Who’s Who in the
Bible; Pg.: 295 ISBN 0-89577-618-9 1997; Reader’s Digest; also
information added from “Le Louvre Museum; Paris; France + added
information from Encarta)
The stele of King Mesha
constitutes one of the most important direct accounts of the history of
the world that is related in the Bible. The inscription pays tribute to
the sovereign, celebrating his great building works and victories over
the kingdom of Israel during the reign of Ahab, son of Omri. The mention
of "Israel" is its earliest known written occurence. Dhiban, ancient
Dibon, where the stele was found, was the capital of this kingdom of
Moab, located on the left bank of the Dead Sea.
The
history of the discovery of this stele in 1868 and its arrival at the
Louvre is a colorful one. It should be placed in the context of the
period. Researchers and missionaries were only just beginning to access
the inland areas of the Holy Land. An expedition on the right banks of
the Dead Sea was still full of dangers. In Jerusalem, scholars were
competing in a feverish quest for inscriptions and material proofs
relating to the Bible, which encouraged a number of antiquities dealers
and their intermediaries to produce forgeries. The most famous of these
were the Moab fakes,
crudely made items of pottery copied from the inscription on
Mesha's Stele, which had just been found.
Tribute should be paid to the sagacity of Charles Clemont-Ganneau
(1846-1923), a great Orientalist and disciple of Ernest Renan, to whom
we owe the stele's rescue. While in Jerusalem, Clermont-Ganneau learnt
from an Alsatian missionary, F.A. Klein that a large block of black
stone covered with characters had been found at Dhiban. He first sent an
Arab intermediary from Jerusalem, Selim al-Qarim, who, in October 1869,
made a schematic copy (today in the Louvre) of the inscription, which
enabled Clermont-Ganneau to recognize the importance and early date of
the monument. He then sent a second intermediary, Yaqoub Karavaca, to
make a stamp of the inscription, in December 1869. It is not known
exactly how and why this operation aroused the anger of the villagers:
in the skirmish, the print was torn (but the pieces reached Clermont-Ganneau
and eventually the Louvre) and the stele, hitherto intact, was broken
into many pieces, which were sent to the antiquities market in
Jerusalem. Thanks to his careful negotiations, Clermont-Ganneau
succeeded in retrieving the two main pieces and some remains; other
fragments went to the great British excavator in Jerusalem, Captain
Warren and the Palestine Exploration Fund company, and to Professor
Schlottmann, from the German Oriental Society (Deutsche Morgenländische
Gesellschaft). When the Palestine Exploration Fund learned that the
Louvre had acquired the pieces retrieved by Clermont-Ganneau, it
generously donated its fragments, and the daughter of Professor
Schlottman donated her piece in 1891.(Source from: “Le Louvre
Museum; Paris; France)
The
arched shape of the stele and the basalt used are characteristic of the
votive steles erected in the Levant since the Bronze Age, from Ugarit on
the Syrian coast to Hazor in Galilee. The complete absence of figurative
representation on this particular stele is exceptional, however, as is
the predominant place given to the text. With its thirty-four lines, it
is "the most important discovery ever made in the field of Oriental
epigraphy," as proclaimed by Ernest Renan. The glorification of the king
and his undertakings were a standard part of the traditional literature
of royal ideology in the ancient Orient and Egypt. The inscription
features the earliest written occurrence of the world Israel and
constitutes the most detailed documentary source of information about
the kingdom of Moab and its rivalry with the kingdom of Israel since the
time of King Omri and his successors, particularly Ahab (see
the Bible, 2 Kings 3-4).
It also cites the name of the great idol-god of Moab, “Chemosh”, whose
spiritual "son" Mesha claims to be. Chemosh was probably the god of
storms that appears on another Moabite stele, an epigraphic this time,
the stele found at Schihan showing a warrior god brandishing a spear in
a pose commonly found on Levantine steles. King Mesha's victories and
constructions concern mainly the northern territories of Moab, with the
tribe of Gad and Madaba. (Source from: “Le Louvre
Museum; Paris; France)
The identification of
present-day Dhiban as the biblical site of Dibon has been confirmed by
the text of the stele and American excavations over the years that have
shed new light on the capital of the kingdom of Moab. This site has been
occupied since the beginning of the 2nd millennium. The layers
corresponding to the Moabite period (9th-6th centuries) are well
represented by an official building (perhaps a palace) and a temple,
where a terracotta base of an altar was found. A "royal quarter" backing
onto an imposing wall, containing a podium with a tower, probably
corresponds to the constructions described by Mesha.
*1
(Source from: “Le Louvre Museum; Paris; France) Direct LinkTechnical information: The
Mesha Stele; 11th century BC; Jordan; Basalt; H. 1.24 m; W. 0.79 m; th.
0.36 m; Discovered in 1868 at Dhiban; AO 5066; Near Eastern Antiquities
The 17th Prophecy in
Isaiah The 17th
prophecy in Isaiah
(Isaiah 15:1-16:12; Isaiah 15:1-9 + Isaiah 16:6-12 fulfilled; + Isaiah
16:1-5 unfulfilled). Isaiah 16:13. Nine
Predictions—Unfulfilled, but will be fulfilled at the tribulation:
Moab will yet
be at the fords of Arnon (the northern border of Moab) to welcome
Israelas she flees fromAntichrist into the mountains of Edom
and Moab—countries that escapehim(Isaiah 16:2)
Moab will take
counsel (or advice) and execute justice in protecting Israel from
Antichristwho will be the common
foe of both Israel and Moab in the tribulation days(Isaiah 16:3)
Moab will protect Israel fromantichristlike hiding something
in the darkness of night
Moab will not betray the Israelites as they flee from Judea into the
mountains(Isaiah 16:3; Matthew
24:15-22; Revelation 12:6, 14)
Moab will permit Israel to dwell in her land during the last three and a
half years of this age and during the great tribulation—known as the
time of Jacob's trouble(Isaiah 16:4; Jeremiah
30:1-9)
Moab will be a
covering to Israelfromthe face of antichrist
the spoiler(Isaiah 16:4; Daniel
11:40-44)
Moab will
maybe protect Israeluntil the very end of
this age, until the end of Antichrist,
until
the spoilerceases to be, until
the oppressors of Israel are consumed out of the land, and until the
throne of David is established again underthe Messiah(Isaiah 16:4-5)
The throne of
David will be established in mercy again (Isaiah 9:6-7; Isaiah 16:5;
Jeremiah 30:1-9; Ezekiel 34:23-24; Ezekiel 37:24-25; Hosea 3:4-5; Acts
15:13-18)
The Son of
David, the Messiah,
shall sit in truth in
the tabernacle of David, judging, seeking judgment, and hastening
righteousness among men in all the earth(Isaiah 16:5; Isaiah
9:6-7; Luke 1:32-33; Acts 15:13-18)
Moab, the son of Lot
(Genesis 19:31-37),and his descendants
settled east of the river Jordan and the Dead Sea—from the south end of
this sea to the river Zered and north to about 5 miles above the sea and
30-40 miles east. Edom joined Moab south of the river Zered and Ammon
joined these on the north. The land was originally occupied by giants
called Emims, who were defeated and expelled by theMoabites
(Deuteronomy 2:10).The north part of Moab
was conquered by Sihon, giant king of the Amorites, and the river Arnon
then became the boundary of Moab. When Israel came out of Egypt, Sihon
was defeated by them and all his land (as well as that of Og, king of
Bashan, and the land north of Og's kingdom) became the possession of
Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh. Moab oppressed Israel for
18 years after the death of Joshua(Judges 3:14-21).Later peace was restored and
Moab became a place of refuge for many Israelites(Ruth 1:1; 1 Samuel
22:3).The record shows that
Saul(1 Samuel
14:47),David (2 Samuel 8:1-12), Ahab
(2 Kings 1:1; 2
Kings 3:4-5),and Jehoshaphat(2 Chronicles. 20:1-30) defeated Moab. The Moabites
continued as a nation after their defeat by Assyria about 3 years after
thisprophecy(Isaiah 15:1-9; Isaiah
16:6-14).
They are mentioned in propheciesof the latter days
along with Israel (Isaiah 11:14; Isaiah 16:1-5;
Jeremiah 48:47; Daniel 11:41).
*Ar,
the chief city of Moab, was located about 15 miles south of the river
Arnon, the northern border of Moab
(Numbers 21:15,28; Deut. 2:9,18,29). *Moab was defeated by
the Assyrians about the fourth year of Hezekiah's reign, and the
prophecies ofIsaiah 15:1-9; Isaiah
16:6-14were then fulfilled. *Moab was defeated by
the Assyriansabout the fourth year of
Hezekiah's reign, and the propheciesofIsaiah 15:1-9; Isaiah
16:6-14were then fulfilled. *Kir
was another large city of Moab located about 6 miles south of Ar (Isaiah 22:6; 2 Kings 16:9;
Amos 1:5; Amos 9:7).
As
a bird cast out of her nest wanders about, so the daughters of Moab are
to be disturbed at events when Antichrist suddenly takes over Palestine
and the Jews are forced to flee. The Moabites will be much distressed,
not knowing whether he will enter their country to take over. Many will
leave their homes to welcome the fleeing Israelites and flee with them
from a common enemy
(Isaiah 16:2).Antichristwould no doubt continue his conquests and take over
Moab if war tidings out of the North and East did not hinder him
(Daniel 11:44).According to the
predictions, Russia, and
allies, and other countries north and east of the ten kingdoms will
suddenly declare war on
Antichrist, andhewill leave the Jews and Moab
for the time being to go forth against these new enemies until
he
conquers them in the as three and a half years of this age. He will then come
back into Palestine to do what he formerly planned, only to be defeated.
During the last days of this three and a half years the Jews will have
regained control of Jerusalem, and Antichristwill come against the
city intending to destroy the Jews and Moab; butChristwill come suddenly
from heaven with His armies when Jerusalem
is only half taken and deliver them(Zechariah 14:1-15;
Revelation 19:11-21).
Picture above↑: *2 Ancient City Gate of Petra; Picture Right":
Yeshua Messiah'
return for His
1,000 Year Reign
For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out
of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.
(Isaiah 16:2)
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A good number of today's Bible teachers see
