Paul's arguer's proven Pic of 2000 yrs ago from Acts 26: Do you think you can convince me to become a Christian in such a short time?NKJV Footnote. 60 to 9o% of US Christian youth left the faith-Kirk Cameron, Josh Mcdowell. British are druids today. Why?

[rontiger]

On 6/16/2023 at 11:15 AM, farouk said:

There is a strong and simple need to keep 'looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith" (Hebrews 12.2) and for 'Thy word' to be 'a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path' (Psalm 119.105), and not to become distracted.

Thanks a million farouk for your great reply! My thanks comes almost exactly a year after your post. Time doesn't fly- it rockets.

Yes, Psalms 119:105 "Thy Word..." says it best. The Lord has put it on my heart as a true calling to simply prove the Word to Christian youth/children and even adults sometimes. As my posts on this thread show, about 80 percent of church-going evangelical youth under 30 are leaving the Christian faith-mainly because no one in church simply proved that the Bible was really true.

It actually happened to me when I was 19. 

For those peeking into Worthy for the first time from the web, I'm begging you to share-if you can- the authentic photos of the proven eyewitness recording in ancient stone from 2700 years ago of Isaiah 36:1-2: Thank you!!

Thanks only to Jesus , I used these proven pictures to keep a 16 year old evangelical youth  in Christ in Texas and other church-going youth. It works -thanks only to the guidance of the Lord Jesus. 

The New Zealand family who took the photos in London closed their Bible museum a few years ago so who knows how long the free photos of the Lachish relief from https://www.windowintothebible.com/the-siege-of-lachish  will be online?

The photos are free to use in anyway for Christians and they will send you higher quality ones if you ask them. I don't know the family.

Below: The authentic 2700 year old eyewitness stone depiction of Isaiah 36:1-2(also in 2 Chronicles 32:9) found in the proven ruins of Nineveh(outskirts of Mosul, Iraq.)

https://static.wixstatic.com/media/586fde_ac897046158d489ca5db2711bd70e8f2.jpg/v1/fill/w_768,h_576,al_c,lg_1,q_85,enc_auto/586fde_ac897046158d489ca5db2711bd70e8f2.jpg

Thank you all for you contributions!  May the Lord God bless you all and Worthy forums.

[rontiger]

On 6/20/2023 at 9:16 PM, Anne2 said:

And everyone of them claims to believe what the bible teaches. No wonder they do not believe it.

We all have been a part of this sad situation. 

Thanks a super a lot for your poignant reply sister Anne!

For those of you peering into Worthy -an amazing site where I have learned quite a bit- please, after prayer share the windowintothebible link if you think it is a good idea, with Sunday School teachers, and fellow Christians.

The photos are free to use! Yes we ae saved by faith alone in Christ alone; but Jesus encouraged us to work for unimaginable rewards/treasures that last an eternity.

There is a photo in this link of the real image of King Sennacherib of Isaiah 36-37. His superpower of the world nation of Assyria's army was destroyed by the proven miracle of Isaiah 37:36-the Angel of the Lord neutralized them!  King Hezekiah's prayer was heard by the Lord Almighty.

 (Sadly , the below website was taken offline on The week of Oct.4/2024. Some of its Bible proving images are on this thread below-free for any Christian to use.)

The Siege of Lachish - Window into the Bible-offline until unknown future date

-offlinehttp:// https://www.windowintothebible.com/the-siege-of-lachish?lightbox=image5zd

 

Thanks a million for spending your time and reading my 2 cents-May God bless you all!

Edited October 11, 2024 by rontiger
Window into the Bible link is offline sadly

[rontiger]

 I sadly just found out the Window into the Bible -Siege of Lachish website has been taken offline. I'm going to try to put up some of their invaluable authentic images of the eyewitness documentation of the 2700 year old destruction of Judean city Lachish told of in Isaiah 36:1-2.

The NZ kiwi family took great effort to travel to the University of Chicago, Israel and the British Museum to take the photos which I will post below for any Christian to use freely without any copyright limitations.

(Free-to-use in any way permission is almost unheard of and is offered truly generously by the now on sabbatical windowintothebible website. ) 

Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, " - Benjamin Franklin

I very humbly say some American and Norwegian pastor friends of mine use this simple pictorial proof of the veracity of the Bible for edifying their church's youth, adults and even themselves because it is easy to understand and undeniable. Turning Point Pastor Dr. David Jeremiah says he goes to the books of Psalms and Isaiah when he has doubts.

The famous archaeologist Sir Austen Layard, discovered in the ruins of Nineveh the Lachish relief. It is an 60 feet long stone picture of the eyewitness detailed stone panel carvings of the battle of Lachish-the second largest city after Jerusalem in Judah- described in Isaiah 36:1. He said the carvings were the actual picture of an event that took place in Scripture. If any of my dear brothers and sisters reading, after prayer, think it is good and are inspired by the Holy Spirit to share the authentic photos below -which are free to use in any Christian way- I very humbly and greatly thank you!
Jesus declared that the stones themselves would cry out if his apostles kept quiet-Luke 19:40.

1)Just below (I put a much higher quality photo in the recent edit,Oct. 12/24) is the true image of King Sennacherib of Isaiah 36- 37 and 2 Kings 18-19 when he was the royal crown prince of Assyria. From the University of Chicago's Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures

 

Thank you so much for generously spending your precious time reading my 2 cents! I'm only distributing Dr. Millard's work and the New Zealand family's photos preserved from Nineveh by the Spirit of Christ so that all his children can have perfect faith. The photos are from deep Bible time-it is truly unreal we have so much undisputed evidence that the Bible really is the only Word of God. But most Christian children and youth do not understand this; and never will unless we roll up our sleeves a bit. VBS, Sunday School, Youth studies and even church sermons, are all places these photos can be shown. May God bless you all.

I will post the other photos soon to use freely.
 

 

Edited October 28, 2024 by rontiger
put higher res image 2 days after posting

[rontiger]

Below is part of the proven picture of Isaiah 36:1 from 701 BC. The late renowned Christian Professor of Hebrew of the University of Liverpool, Alan Millard, wrote about this picture in his book Discoveries From Bible Times. It is 100 percent authentic. Not even secular scholars question its genuineness.

Even a couple of pastor friends of mine were shocked-in a good way- after seeing the pics and were glad we have undisputed evidence the Book of Isaiah is unquestionably true. Isaiah is oft called the Fifth Gospel as you know. I really wish one of my Sunday School teachers-or pastors- had shown me this pic of the Word before I lost my faith in Christ(but thanks to the Spirit of Christ showing me undeniable evidences in and of the Word of God I'm back in Christ with 100 percent faith-thank you Jesus for not giving up on me or any of your Father's precious children.)

Unfortunately no one taught my pastors or Sunday School teachers the proofs and pics of the precious Bible that have been known from the early 1800s, exist. Pastors and youth teachers desperately need our help. 

In fact the Holy Spirit anticipated these discoveries (he of course caused it) because the NT starts off in Matthew 1:10 mentioning Christ's ancestor King Hezekiah who we can objectively prove existed  as certainly as President Reagan or Einstein because of these evidences found in Nineveh between 1830 to 1849. 

But I cannot just say: "Nice stuff! Thanks Dr. Millard and Window into the Bible guys! " (I am not affiliated with either.) After praying , I could just take 5 minutes and print of the free-for any-use photos of Isaiah 36:1 and share it with Sunday School teachers, VBS students  and even pastors. These photos with explaining captions work at keeping all in Christ. 

Why?

Because as you know the Bible says in Romans 10:17 that faith comes from hearing the Word of God.

Also in Ephesians 6:17 we are told that the Word of God is the sword of the Spirit.

Lord Jesus has given his beloved Church the thermonuclear sword, if you will, of the true images of Isaiah 36:1 to get rid of doubt and double-mindedness and to keep all his beloved children in Christ.

The sweet New Zealand family of, now offline, Window into the Bible broke their bank account traveling to 3 continents photographing hundreds of objects and ruins associated with the Bible and putting it up for Christians with free to use terms. It was a huge website for a simple family to put together. But it was actually a great work of the Spirit of Christ. All the glory belongs to the God!

Tried and Tested:

Several years ago a Christian mom from Texas told me that her sixteen year-old daughter came home terribly crying because all her classmates told her that the Bible was "all myth". This happened in the Bible Belt.

Just a week before I stumbled upon the Window into the Bible site so I told them to check out the proven pic of Isaiah 36:1. I very humbly say they were grateful because it cemented their faith in Christ. It was all only because of Jesus!

I humbly but joyfully say that Elaina, an 18 year old in Virginia, is using these pics for edifying her church and Bible study groups, and so are Katheryn in Ukraine and  a few of my pastor friends .....but they need help.  Thanks again for reading my 3 cents-was 2 but yea, inflation. 

The following statistics come Dr. Paul Elliot,  the Barna Research Group, Bible Literacy Center, and Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion:

 

• Nearly 75% of Evangelical young people leave the church when they reach adulthood. Their main stated reason is that they no longer believe the Bible is true, and the church has done little or nothing to answer their doubts. 

Below: The Spearmen of superpower Assyria attack Judah's 2nd largest city Lachish in 701 BC panel of the Lachish relief. Information caption below. Any Christian may use both freely without restrictions as long it is not anti-Christian or anti-Bible. More photos will be put up in the near future.

The Lachish relief is a 60 feet long and 8 feet high intricate stone carving created in 701 BC by superpower Assyria and found at the ancient ruins of the greatest city in the world of its time, Nineveh (Mosul, Iraq) between 1847-1849 by the British archaeologist Sir Austen Henry Layard.

The Lachish relief is undisputed archaeologically. It is pictorial eyewitness documentation from 701 BC of an event recorded in Isaiah 36:1.

The renowned Assyriologist Austen Henry Layard said that the Lachish relief :" was the actual picture of the taking of Lachish, as we know as the Biblical city, besieged by Sennacherib." A true picture of the Word of God - Isaiah 36:1

It was found at the archaeologically proven 2700 year- old world famous Southwest Palace site of King Sennacherib of Assyria by Layard. Assyria was the most advanced nation on earth in the time of the Prophet Isaiah and King Hezekiah.

In fact Assyria was the economic and military superpower of the entire world.

The Lachish relief commemorates Sennacherib's destruction of the Kingdom of Judah's second largest fortified city Lachish. The fact that there was no relief of Jerusalem in his palace shows that the most powerful nation on earth did not achieve its goal to destroy Jerusalem and capture King Hezekiah. Hezekiah was the ringleader of the Middle East's rebellion against their Assyrian Empire master. And it was so imperative for Assyria to destroy King Hezekiah and Jerusalem that, as both the Bible and Sennacherib's own word's state, that the Assyrian king went personally with his superpower army to vanquish King Hezekiah and Jerusalem. But King Sennacherib failed when the God of the Bible intervened to save Jerusalem.

This like the USA not being able to conquer tiny Iceland if it needed to.

Note: Assyria destroyed the entire northern Kingdom of Israel only about 20 years earlier.

Clearly the miracle of the destruction of the Assyrian army told in Isaiah 37:36 by the Angel of the Lord is given absolute credible support by the Lachish relief. The renowned late evangelical Hebrew scholar Professor Alan Millard of the University of Liverpool has stated this in his books/writings.

May God bless you and Worthy forums! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 28, 2024 by rontiger
fix image

[rontiger]

My brain exploded. My heart did in Feb. when my gf died of BC. I found billions of dollars of images of the Lachish relief in 3D! Site linked below- they're giving it away free. You might be asking: How is it worth billions of dollars bud? Well a 1 800 call I made to the UK  about the licensing fees for a Lachish relief pic for a pastor friend proved to me that in sum total for the entirety of all the churches on earth it is worth a billion easy. You see the sales lady Holly -at one of those large image sellers -told me, after I exclaimed I didn't understand the licensing legalese : "Ron, I don't know much about Christianity but basically the pastor can use the photo you buy for a sermon on Noah's ark but he can't use it for a sermon or display for Baby Jesus. And you can't share it with another church."

Never has it been easier to help the Church and earn eternal treasures

The late Professor of Hebrew, Alan Millard, and the producers of the images have done the heavy-lifting. All we have to do is distribute their work, which is just as important to Lord Jesus. Millard died on June 6 before I got the chance to email him-my year has been the worst of my life.

My Heart exploded in February

My sweet Cali girlfriend Lesley unexpectedly died of breast cancer this year. Every moment of every day I miss her so much. I meditate on the super amazing verse in which Jesus proclaims that our Abba, Father is overjoyed to give us the Kingdom. These words keep my heart from shattering. Prettiest redhead that ever walked the earth. When the cancer spread to her lungs, docs had to make a hole in her chest to drain her every couple of days while she still was home. At first Kaiser Permanante told her they will teach her -by phone!-to drain herself which I found preposterous. After having an entire church pray to get her more help , they sent her a nurse, Praise Jesus! Lesley's fingertips split open from chemo in November and they had to get a special pulmo doc to take blood from her hands because her arm veins had collapsed. My little sister died when she was 6 after going through lung-piercing procedures at a another hospital. Deja-vu.

The cancer then spread to Lesley's liver so she had to get these giant needles inserted into her side. She would say  to me "Easypeasy sweety," because she saw a change in me . Her belly swelled up like a beachball in January. That was the first time I heard her ask why God was letting this happen to her. I told her-without knowing how little time she had left-that Romans 8 says unless we suffer we cannot be co-heirs with Christ. She was a real trooper-so brave. I would always tell her also how Jesus told the Apostles that there are many rooms in our Father's mansion. The Apostles rolled their eyes probably so Jesus had to emphatically declare  in John 14:2" IF it were not so would I tell you I go there to prepare a place for you?"

Lesley so loved that teaching of Jesus and I would tell her our rooms would be beside each other's forever.

Doc had told her in July that she could easily live for many, many years so I was thinking of decades of happy future years with her on earth.

The months of profound emotional and physical suffering for valiant Lesley and sometimes secretly distraught I, forced us into a truly infinitely deeper and intimate bond with our dearest Abba, Father through Jesus and the Spirit.

I get to spend forever with Abba, Father and his most lovely daughter Lesley! Thank you dear Jesus and dear Holy Spirit!

And the Oscar goes to ....

 The Lachish relief would no doubt have won the Academy Award for best eyewitness documentary if the award existed in 701 BC. It shows all facets in great detail of the most powerful army on earth's attack on Judah's 2nd largest city of Lachish.( I wrote a caption for it in the previous post.) We even see leaders of Lachish's resistance skinned alive and 3 citizens impaled. We see captives and their cattle being deported and more.

The free to download and use in any way (Public Domain -you own it) 3d view of the entire 80 feet relief with a the ability to swipe over to a easier to view lighter color version on the back, transports you to the British Museum. Maybe even back  to Lachish of Isaiah's time, which was about 30 miles south of Jerusalem.

I have no doubt that the Lord Jesus has made this available to his beloved Church. Pastors are too busy to do everything. Sunday School teachers, and the lay person I pray, hopefully can chip in and help edify the youth and adult Christians alike.

No Christian or pastor I ever have spoken to had heard about the Lachish relief. Everyone -including me- assumes, "Oh they'll see it somehow someday."

No they won't.

Below the Lifeway research link is the free Lachish relief link-I'm not sure how much longer it will be online.

-Thanks so much for spending your valuable time reading my stuff.

http:// https://research.lifeway.com/2021/05/25/protestant-church-closures-outpace-openings-in-u-s/

Lachish relief- proven image of Isaiah 36:1

The siege of Lachish - Download Free 3D model by danielpett (@danielpett) [d48dff9] (sketchfab.com)

http:// https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/the-siege-of-lachish-d48dff905be64f9c82b904f27983e104

 

 

 

[Daniel Marsh]

 

There is no sound research to date that US Christian youth left the faith in such high numbers. 

According to available information, there are roughly 10,000 practicing Druids in Britain today.  Population is less than 68 million.  Do the math for percentage.  I expect, less than one percent.