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ESCAPE FROM PLANET EGYPT
Part XIV
In our last
installment, we showed how the ancient letters found at Tell El Amarna
between Pharaoh Amenhotep IV and the king of Israel indicated
that king was Ahab, and his correspondence with the Pharaoh
coincided with the time of several of Israel’s many wars with Syria.
The Amarna
letters (as well as numerous stone monuments), tell us that Amenhotep IV
was the Pharaoh who changed his allegiance from the historic Egyptian deity Amon,
to another god that he called Aton. This was illustrated by the
fact that he changed his name from Amenhotep (which was a
compound name that included Amon’s name) to the infamous name of Akhnaton
(a compound named which incorporated the name of Aton).
In this
regard, it is certain there was an affinity between Ahab (who
departed from the historic worship of Yahweh in Israel, and turned to
the worship of Baal), and Akhnaton. Ahab
was the noteworthy Israelite king who set an unholy example for Israel, as he
prominently sought to shift Israelite religion away from Yahweh,
the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to the Mesopotamian Baal.
The context
of at least one of the letters showed that Aman Appa, who had
been posted to Samaria as an official of Israel’s Egyptian overlords, had
already been recalled to the city of Akhet Aton. In the
Scriptural narrative where this “Aman Appa” was mentioned, our last
installment noted a sequence wherein Ahab sent one of the
prophets of the LORD to this Egyptian governor, to be detained in his custody.
“Then the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah,
and carry him back to Amon the governor of the
city” (II Chronicles 18:25).
In
examining the Amarna documents, although the names in the Egyptian inscriptions
are periodically similar to the Scriptural names, on other occasions the name
is so dissimilar the connection is only deduced by the context. For instance,
the name Urusalem (which is seen in the Egyptian letters), is easily
identified, whereas other names are more mysterious as they are among the
multiple monikers of many of the places and the people.
Among the
scholars who deciphered the Amarna letters, Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky
deduced that a frequently mentioned city called Gubla, had
multiple names, including Batruna , Byblos, and Botrys.
Internal evidence indicated this place was toward the coast of Northern Israel,
and since it was frequently mentioned in the Amarna letters, it was clearly
important.
Toward the
time of the New Testament, the historian Flavius Josephus
mentioned that Botrys (one of the many names of Gubla) was
founded by Ethbaal, who the Scriptures tell us was the King of
Sidon, and the father of Queen Jezebel.
At this
point, a little background concerning the ancient twin cities of Tyre and
Sidon, is in order.
The Sidonians
were the coastal people of Tyre and Sidon, to the Northwest of Israel,
and they were skilled in building with Lebanon’s legendary forests
(see “the cedars of Lebanon,” for example, in Psalm 104:16).
This people
group was related to the Israelites, and the man appointed to manage the
interaction between Tyre/Sidon and Solomon for the massive temple building
project was descended from the tribe of Dan.
“[The king of the Sidonians] sent a cunning
man…the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his
father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in
iron, in stone, and in timber” (II Chronicles 2:14).
The portion
of the promised land given to the Israelite tribe of Dan was
coastal, and it bordered the town of Joppa – the very
Mediterranean port where the massive timbers were off-loaded from the ships of
the Tyrians and the Sidonians.
“[The Sidonians] will cut wood out of Lebanon…and
we will bring it to [Solomon] in floats by sea to Joppa”
(II Chronicles 2:16).
As a result
of the enormous temple building project, the entire population of Tyre and
Sidon were virtually acquired by Solomon, when he embarked on the decades long
building of the great temple.
The Scriptures
repeatedly mention Hiram, the leader of Tyre (and a friend of King
David), who contracted with the Israelite king to build David a great
house.
“And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David,
and cedar trees, and carpenters, and masons: and they built David an
house” (II Samuel 5:11).
When Solomon
came to power, he was acutely aware of the prophecy issued to David
that he was not to build the temple he had envisioned, but his son
would be the person that God would raise up to build the temple. The prophet Nathan,
speaking for the LORD, specifically told David he was not to build the
LORD a house.
“Thus saith the Lord, Thou shalt not build
me an house to dwell in. Furthermore I tell thee that the Lord will build thee
an house…I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall
be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build me an
house, and I will stablish his throne for ever” (I Chronicles
17:4, 10, 11,12).
The New
Testament conclusively establishes that JESUS CHRIST, who was a direct descendant of King
David in the flesh, “builds” the temple of the LORD, in the
Spiritual realm. Multiple Scriptures tell us that because of Christ’s
sacrifice on the cross (and subsequent resurrection), it is the Christian’s
bodies, which are the “temple” that hosts the Spirit of the LORD.
“The temple of God is holy, which temple ye
are. Ye also, as [living stones], are built up a spiritual
house” (I Corinthians 3:17, I Peter 2:5).
As Solomon
was the flesh and blood seed of David, he erroneously assumed
that he was the one who would fulfill the prophecy that David’s
“son” would build the house of the LORD. Undoubtedly, Solomon also
coveted the fact that the prophecy also said that ”son” would reign
forever.
Thus, when
Solomon sought to construct the great temple, he recruited Hiram,
the King of Tyre, who had previously built a great house for David.
“Thou knowest that there is not among us any that
can skill to hew timber like unto the Sidonians” (I Kings 5:6).
The massive
wealth of Solomon had provided long term employment for the naval capabilities
of Hiram’s people as well, for the process of transporting the huge
timbers to Jerusalem for building the temple was no small feat.
The Word of
God tells us that significant numbers of Israelites were deployed to live in Lebanon
for years, while timbering for the vast construction of the temple.
“And [Solomon] set threescore and ten
thousand of them to be bearers of burdens, and fourscore thousand
to be hewers in the mountain, and three thousand and six hundred overseers to
set the people a work” (II Chronicles 2:18).
During the
temple construction period, extensive naval resources of Solomon and the
Tyrians were developed to explore foreign lands, in the search for the gold and
silver required for the great project. Thus, after the temple was completed,
these maritime projects continued, in order to sustain trade with foreign
lands.
During this
period, following his marriage to Hatshepsut, the daughter of
Egypt’s Pharaoh, Solomon married hundreds of princesses from the
nations adjacent to Jerusalem, so it is inconceivable that he
would have slighted the hereditary royal house of the Sidonians. The
result was that Israel completely absorbed the coastal nation, and the
offspring of the mingled people in the region became known as the Phoenicians.
The
distinction between Solomon’s Sidonian wife and Ahab’s wife
Jezebel, was in the fact that Jezebel was the premiere wife of Ahab,
whereas Solomon’s first wife was the Queen of Sheba. Although Solomon
foolishly allowed the construction of high places and a priesthood for the gods
of his many Gentile wives (which would have facilitated religious writings
extolling the supposed virtues of the foreign deities), it wasn’t until Ahab
that the kings of Israel brazenly and prominently chose to serve Baal,
and not the LORD.
“But there was none like unto Ahab,
which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom
Jezebel his wife stirred up” (I Kings 21:25).
A century
after Solomon, as Ahab repeatedly warred with the Syrians, there was a time
when the capital city of Samaria had been taken, as Ahab had
surrendered it to the king of Syria.
“And the king of Israel answered and said, My
lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have”
(I Kings 20:4).
In one of
the Amarna letters from the king of Samaria to the Pharaoh, the correspondence
confirms that the king of Syria had taken Samaria.
“When Abdi-Ashrati [Ben Hadad the Syrian]
conquered Sumurri, I protected the city by my own hand. I had no
garrison” (Amarna letter #138).
As Samaria
was taken in at least one of the Syrian wars, letters came to the Egyptian king
from the king in the aforementioned “Gubla” – and it appears
that it was Ahab corresponding with Pharaoh Akhnaton
from a retreat position.
In what
amounts to an ancient change of address notification, Ahab asked Akhnaton
to re-route any Egyptian assistance to his alternative headquarters.
“What was formerly given [to] Sumura should
now be given [to] Gubla” (Amarna letter #85).
This
answers a question plaguing the scholars for many years, who have never been
able to explain the many Scriptural references indicating that Ahab and Jezebel
were no longer located in the capital of Samaria, but reigned from a second
capital named Jezreel.
We’ve
already noted the Israelites considered the Sidonians the world’s best
builders (I Kings 5:6), and the place/name Gubla has been
identified as having been constructed by the King of Sidon, so it’s
hardly a stretch to see this city was renamed Jezreel when Ahab
and Jezebel moved there from the compromised capital of Samaria.
It’s
even conceivable that Jezreel/Gubla was given as a present (or
even as a dowry) to Ahab from Jezebel’s father, the king of the
Sidonians. In fact, it may have actually been part of a tradition, as a century
earlier, the Pharaoh had given an entire city to his daughter, who
married the king of Israel.
”For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken
Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city,
and given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon’s wife” (I
Kings 9:16).
As
previously noted, this “Gubla,” which we’ve connected to Jezreel,
was also known as Byblos. As Tyre and Sidon were within the
region of ancient Lebanon, it is no surprise that Byblos/Gubla
has been located in the coastal region of Lebanon, and it has the
revealing modern name of Jbail, or Jbayl!
Amazingly,
there is even a temple in this modern city which is dedicated to Baalat
Gubal, or the Lady of Gubla, which references a famous female
who once had a presence there. We know her from the Scriptures where she is
plainly identified as Jezebel.
In other
words, the ancient capital of Ahab and Jezebel, then known as Jezreel, is
actually named after Jezebel in our time. Further, archaeologists who
are searching for Jezreel in their excavations of Northern Israel
have not connected Jezreel with the “Gubla” of the Amarna
letters, because they place “Gubla” in the 14th century
BC, 600 years before Jezebel lived there in the time of Ahab and
Akhnaton.
To put it
another way, the stone and bones people will never find Jezreel in their
many efforts to excavate Northern Israel, because the scholars have misled them
to the degree that they’re looking in the wrong country. Christian
Media, on the other hand, is still using the Holy Bible as a repository of
the light of the LORD, which allows us to peer through the surrounding
Spiritual darkness, as we continue our walk through the treacherous times in
which we live.
“Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto
my path” (Psalm 119:105).
– James Lloyd
To Be
Continued
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