Is the Current "Nation of Israel" Related to the Israel in Our Bibles?

BAR: Coins from the Era of Biblical Joseph Identified in Egypt

Source: http://www.bib-arch.org/news/dailynews.asp# 10/6/2009 11:02 PM
Date: September 28, 2009

B.A.R. Magazine News:
Coins from the Era of Biblical Joseph Identified in Egypt
September 28, 2009

Egyptian coins minted from the era of Biblical Joseph have been discovered in boxes stashed away for years in Egypt’s National Museum. Researches had begun to sort through the thousands of small artifacts in the museum’s vaults when they realized that small objects previously believed to be charms and ornaments are in fact coins. One of the coins is said to bear the image of Joseph as the minister of the treasury in the Pharaoh’s court.

This identification of these coins provides decisive evidence that ancient Egyptians were in fact familiar with a monetary system—an assertion that some historians have refuted. Some of the coins bear holes, which had lead the original discoverers of the objects to conclude that they were ornaments.

MEMRI reports on the re-discovery of Egyptian coins in Egypt’s National Museum


Dr. Thabet's Team Sep 28, 2009 Discovered Coins in Egypt Bearing Name And Image Of Biblical Joseph:
Dr. Thabet's Team Sep 28, 2009 Reported in Cairo's Al Ahram Newspaper ancient Egyptian coins bearing the name and image of the biblical Joseph. As so often happens these coins were discovered among a multitude of unsorted artifacts stored at the Museum of Egypt in Cairo's. For Bible students who have a high view of Genesis accounts about Israel’s first prophet Joseph overcomes past skeptics who were saying coins were never actually used in trade for commerce this early. The period in which Joseph was regarded to have lived in Egypt matches the minting of the coins in the cache, researchers said.

"A thorough examination revealed that the coins bore the year in which they were minted and their value, or effigies of the pharaohs [who ruled] at the time of their minting. Some of the coins are from the time when Joseph lived in Egypt, and bear his name and portrait," said the report.


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Threats from Our Southern Border Threaten Peace & Prosperity

Source: W*arstories@foxnews.com

Date: Aug 22, 2009

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Obama: Humanist ~ Utopian Commander in Chief

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Law of Unintended Consequences

http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.4e1e6bac-2f8f-4195-b95a-665df4725fb3&hl=en

Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God

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 Bill of Rights not a Suicide Pact

http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.2a6348af-1434-42f0-bbc0-af8ae726c390&hl=en

PALIN WARNS OF OBAMA 'DEATH PANEL

Source: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090808/D99UJ4B00.html

Date:

By MARK THIESSEN

Palin says Obama's health care plan is 'evil'

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin called President Barack Obama's health plan "downright evil" Friday in her first online comments since leaving office, saying in a Facebook posting that he would create a "death panel" that would deny care to the neediest Americans.

"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care," the former Republican vice presidential candidate wrote.

"Such a system is downright evil," Palin wrote on her page, which has nearly 700,000 supporters. She encouraged her supporters to be engaged in the debate.

The claim that the Democratic health care bills would encourage euthanasia has been circulating on the Internet for weeks and has been echoed by some Republican leaders. Democrats from Obama on down have dismissed it as a distortion. The nonpartisan group FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania says the claim is false.

The allegation appears to be based on a provision of the House bill that would require Medicare to pay for end-of-life counseling sessions, on a voluntary basis, for beneficiaries who want the service. Medicare already covers hospice care. And legislation passed by Congress in 1990 requires that patients be asked if they have a living will.

Obama addressed the controversy during a July 28 AARP-sponsored town hall.

"Nobody is going to be forcing you to make a set of decisions on end-of-life care based on some bureaucratic law in Washington," he said.

An e-mail sent to Palin's spokeswoman to confirm authorship of the Facebook posting was not immediately returned Friday. There was no immediate reply to phone messages left late Friday with the White House and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office seeking comment on Palin's remarks.

Republican criticism has also included claims that the reform plans will lead to rationing, or the government determining which medical procedures a patient can have.

However, millions of Americans already face rationing, as insurance companies rule on procedures they will cover. Denying coverage for certain procedures might increase under proposals to have a government-appointed agency identify medicines and procedures best suited for various conditions.

Palin resigned as Alaska governor on July 26 with nearly 18 months left in her term. She cited not only the numerous ethics complaints that had been filed against her also her wish not to be a lame duck after the first-term governor decided not to seek re-election next year.

Palin, popular with conservatives in the Republican party, has said she wants to build a right-of-center coalition, and there is speculation she will seek the presidency in 2012. In the two weeks since she resigned, Palin has made only one public appearance, giving a Second Amendment rights speech last Saturday before a gun owners group in Anchorage.

Palin or her aides post notes on her Facebook account about once or twice a week, usually to set out policy statements, issue news releases or refute rumors circulating on the Internet.

Palin also has been largely silent before Friday's Facebook post. She was a voracious user of the social networking site Twitter, and promised to keep her supporters updated with a new private account after she left office. But that hasn't happened, leaving some of her fans begging for updates in the past two weeks.

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Associated Press writer Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar in Washington contributed to this report.

Google doc:

Obama Ran as a man of faith?

http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.9b22e150-5869-409a-85de-376b2649ff2e&hl=en

Ronald Reagan Be A City on the Hill Mt 5:14

Be a City on a Hill that

Cannot be Hidden!!

Mt 5:14

Mat 5:13-16 City on a Hill

(HCSB)	(NIV)	(NLT)
Mat 5:13-16 13 "You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt should lose its taste, how can it be made salty? It's no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled on by men. 14 "You are the light of the world. A city situated on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 No one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket, but rather on a lampstand, and it gives light for all who are in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.	Mat 5:13-16 13 "You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men. 14 "You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl. Instead they put it on its stand, and it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.	Mat 5:13-16 13 "You are the salt of the earth. But what good is salt if it has lost its flavor? Can you make it salty again? It will be thrown out and trampled underfoot as worthless. 14 "You are the light of the world-- like a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden. 15 No one lights a lamp and then puts it under a basket. Instead, a lamp is placed on a stand, where it gives light to everyone in the house. 16 In the same way, let your good deeds shine out for all to see, so that everyone will praise your heavenly Father.

Walvoord’s Notes: 5:13-16. To demonstrate the impact these people would make on their world, Jesus used two common illustrations: salt and light. Jesus' followers would be like salt in that they would create a thirst for greater information. When one sees a unique person who possesses superior qualities in specific areas, he desires to discover why that person is different. It is also possible that salt means these people serve as a preservative against the evils of society. Whichever view one takes, the important quality to note is that salt ought to maintain its basic character. If it fails to be salty, it has lost its purpose for existence and should be discarded. A light is meant to shine and give direction. Individuals Jesus described in verses 3-10 would obviously radiate and point others to the proper path. Their influence would be evident, like a city on a hill or a lamp... on its stand. A concealed lamp, placed under a bowl (a clay container for measuring grain) would be useless. Light-radiating people live so that others see their good deeds and give praise not to them but to their Father in heaven. (V. 16 includes the first of 15 references by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount to God as "your [or 'our' or 'My'] Father in heaven," "your heavenly Father," "your Father." Also see vv. 45,48; 6:1,4,6,8-9,14-15,18,26,32; 7:11,21. One who stands in God's righteousness by faith in Him has an intimate spiritual relationship to Him, like that of a child to his loving father.)

Contextual Notes: Jesus language is meant to equip church unity sufficient to gather together in a winsome way allowing our love to be seen by the lost. In its past one of the earliest governing officials of America preached this passage aboard the Arabella in 1630. British puritans were fleeing official state run religion in that period. The produced the Mayflower Compact ten years before. Now many post modern Christians have so rewritten their history they make it seem unreal. But to those struggling on the decks of ships and planting new fields in America God was never left out until the last century in the counter-culture revolution. Salt: A common food preservative, often used symbolically. Believers are a restraint upon the world's corruption. Unbelievers are often kept from evil deeds because of a moral consciousness traceable to Christian influence. Lost its savor (ASV). Christ's illustration may be hypothetical to show the anomaly of a useless believer. Light on a Hill: Believers function positively to illuminate a world in darkness because they possess Christ, who is the Light (Jn 8:12). Christ's light should shine forth publicly, like the cluster of white stone houses in a Palestinian city. It should also be displayed in our individual, private relationships (candle, lampstand, house). Application Questions: Q: most postmoderns are saying religion should have nothing to do with government of any kind. How would Jesus react to that as we study v14? A: you are in v14 a city on a hill which defines our individual and church ethics as not being hidden. A: Jesus makes this teaching as part of His Sermon on the Mount. This means Jesus wants to raise the bar on our ethics during the lengthy Inter-Advent age. A: the verb that defines this section evste verb indicative present active which defines an ongoing behavior that should define our personal lifestyle as well as the church. A: is it safe for the church today to follow skeptics and just shut up publically. Q: does this mean we want to combine church and government totally? A: NO!! A: if we study history we fail to find a single example that worked. Our American founding documents had an amazing balance that allowed churches to fulfill their purposes without formally being an arm of the government.

Governor John Winthrop City on a Hill Message

Sermon On The Deck Of The Arabella

Off The Massachusetts Coast 1630

Governor Winthrop’s text was based on a paraphrase of a passage from Jesus’ Sermon of the Mount Matthew 5:14-16: Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. 15 Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven."

President Reagan March 11, 1987 Road to Liberties Exhibit:

The documents gathered here are the springs from which the great river of human freedom rises. Assembling this exhibit at any time would be a great service to our nation. Doing it this year is, of course, especially appropriate, because this year we mark the 200th anniversary of the start of the greatest experiment in self-government in the history of man.

Just 200 years ago this May, a small group of men from 12 of the 13 American States gathered in a hall in Philadelphia to debate the form of a new order for the ages. They came from as far north as New Hampshire and as far south as Georgia. Barriers of distance and special interest might have divided them and the people of their States from one another, but something even greater held them together. That something was a common dedication to the rights of man. It was their common devotion to the proposition that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. And it was their mutual conviction that here on these American shores they would raise alight unto the nations -- a light of self-government, of liberty, and of hope. Yes, many of the Founding Fathers traveled great distances to get to Philadelphia 200 years ago, but in a larger sense, mankind has traveled a great distance to that hall, as well. And today we have a glimpse of how long that journey was. And in the months ahead there in the ``Roads to Liberty'' exhibit, millions of Americans will also be able to see the landmarks of that trail.

The greatest landmark was, perhaps, the first, as the Chief told us. The year was 1215. The place was Runnymede. King John signed a great charter that declared that all free men had rights and that there were limits to the powers of the King. Yes, it was a great and enduring charter. Its letter remains in part in the statute books of Britain to this day, more than seven-and-a-half centuries later. Its spirit remains entirely in the hearts of free people everywhere and will forever. And now let me say here to Dean Oliver Fiennes how deeply all Americans appreciate the generosity of the Lincoln Cathedral for the loan of the Cathedral's copy of the Magna Carta for this exhibit.

Many of the other landmarks on this road are small: the Mayflower Compact -- the statement of a small group of settlers as they were about to set foot in the New World; the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut -- the first constitution agreed upon on American shores; it set out the government of just three towns. And even the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of the Confederation, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights were written for a small country. Sometimes I can't help thinking there must have been monarchs and nobility around the world who smiled at our pretensions in that long, hot summer of 1787. We Americans were so small and weak. And yet each of these documents speak with a force far greater than all the armies that have ever marched: the force of the love of freedom that is born with the birth of every living soul. That force has guided us and given us strength in our journey for two centuries, our journey across a continent and to the stars and into the heart of every man and woman on Earth who dreams of a life of liberty.

Today and in the months ahead we celebrate this 200th anniversary. Let us, as we remember from where we have come, also think of the journey ahead. Let us rededicate ourselves to America's mission of freedom; and let us resolve that we will stand, as did those before us, with all who love freedom and yearn for democracy, wherever they might be. And let us remember our heritage and, with it, our destiny -- the destiny of this shining city on a hill, this beacon of freedom for all the peoples of the Earth.

And now, I've talked enough, and with what remains for us to do -- to go through and see this exhibit here -- I will say as King Henry VIII said to each of his six wives, ``I won't keep you long.'' [Laughter]

Note: The President spoke at 2:33 p.m. at the South Portico of the White House. In his opening remarks, he referred to Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., president of the American Express Co. After making opening remarks, former Chief Justice Warren E. Burger introduced the President. The exhibit toured 82 cities in 19 States.

Source: http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/search/speeches/speech_srch.html

Our Country is Pretty Sick this Morning How About You?

Root Problems Behind America's Fall

Because you say, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and know not that you art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked' (Revelation 3:17).

• We are spiritually bankrupt.
• We are fighting a war against dangerous enemies we are in denial about [they call it a legal problem for courts to win]
• Our current leaders are out of touch with our founding fathers idea of liberty
• For the First time an Official White House History a web Invites Citizens to Turn in Other Citizens in a Brand New type of Fascist or Marxist Unity.
• Every economic indicator since this group began winning elections in 2007 is sick
• Our current leaders lied to all of us to come to power
• We lack trust in our leaders of every party
• Because no one is making money [for the first time] even tax paying is WAY DOWN forcing cities, counties and even states into bankruptcy. Will Obama call the national guard to run jails, prisons, and local police departments because local governments every where are failing?
• Our current congress wants to silence all opposition from radio, television, and even the internet.
• Pres. Obama is the first utopian humanist to win a presidential election and be our Commander in Chief.
• Current Leaders on Every Level of Government Have Lost Touch with Their Oath of Office they made to protect our liberties.
• Current Leaders are Proudly for the First Time Since Pres. Nixon Waging War on Domestic Citizens who Oppose them.
• For the first time in our History we have Elected a Dangerous Marxist president.
• On June 9, 2009 Pre. Obama told some lies about the nature of Islam at Cairo that will take time to understand the depth of harm to our defense against Jihadists.

Lies Defending the Benefits of Our Enemies in his June 4th Cairo Speech: As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam. It was Islam - at places like Al-Azhar University - that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe's Renaissance and Enlightenment. Ref: no student of history would make a statement like that. It is true Islam is associated with major breaks in the Age of Enlightenment but only as an extremely negative one.

Reality Check 1: It was Islam’s violent attack of Turkey and slaughter of tens of thousands of Christians that forced Christianiy west with the most ancient Greek New Testaments. Suddenly there in western Europe there was a thirst for common people to learn Greek so they could for the first time understand Jesus’ words. It was this same era that invented moveable type and suddenly cheap books were available for a new mass audience. What was the demand for books like in those early days? Historians say common people who wanted to study their Bibles for the first time in various western languages. This fact changed the world forever. Colleges and universities sprung up to teach Greek, Latin and the ability to translate core materials into various western tongues. Of course not everyone was equally happy. Not everyone wanted a freedom and liberty to read their Bibles in common language. Many passed laws demanding loyalty to old Latin Bibles. Many who hated liberty and thinking by people who were not ordained priests saw this as Satan moving into church.

Reality Check 2: it was the violent move west by growing Islam that for the first time in history closed old Roman roads available for centuries. Rich caravans that for centuries linked China and India with Europe were suddenly stopped by greedy Islamic leaders. Spices, gunpowder, noodles, and silk could only be purchased by people rich enough to pay Islamic leaders bribes. Suddenly cheap goods were ten times more expensive. This caused a strange demand among a few sailor’s to advocate expensive trips of exploration looking for a westward routes to India and China. One of those brave explorers was Columbus.

Get Stoked Google docs:

Fall of Capitalism Rise of Islam

http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=F.ed370757-b2ac-4657-8bee-f70e84259ec4

Are We Holding Our Current Leaders Accountable to Their Oath?

http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B0jE9taMWseFMWM4NDgyNTAtZTBjNS00YTc3LTgwOTgtNGIzMWQ2ZWY5MTc0&hl=en