Messiah In The Old Testament Episode 28
Greek Flood Story
Welcome to Messiah in the Old Testament. In our last two episodes we looked at the Babylonian Flood Story. Now, we looked at the story in excruciating detail. And we did that for a reason. The reason was, I wanted to look at the whole issue of origins of the Babylonian story versus origins of the Biblical story and address the controversy between the Assyriologists and the Hebrew scholars.
So, I looked at what we referred to as the provenance of the Babylonian story and then the provenance of the Hebrew story. So, here's what we found. In the Babylonian story, the story comes from one specific tablet that we identified.
That was tablet number XI from the series Epic of Gilgamesh. And we talked about, in our last episode, how every one of those other tablets I through XII except for XI have backups from other places. The 11th tablet, we found three different fragments of the tablet which have been reconstructed. And now we have the story of [The] Epic of Gilgamesh.
Now, that tablet is found in the British Museum. And I showed you a picture of it on display in our last episode. Its sitting there and all the other tablets are in the British Museum. Now, over the last century and a half, those tablets have been evaluated front to back, top to bottom, side to side.
And all the inscriptions have been documented. And then the language was unraveled. And the language, the Akkadian Language, was interpreted. And now we have a fairly complete translation of the Epic
of Gilgamesh, and we said last time there were numerous publications of that story. The Epic of Gilgamesh came from the library of Ashurbanipal. There were 12 tablets recovered from the library. The library was excavated in 1849. So, we know that the tablets were there before 1849.
We found them in the library of Ashubanipal. In actuality, there were two libraries in that palace complex. There was the library of Sennacherib and the library of Ashurbanipal. And the tablets kind of got all intermixed together, so we don't know which is which. So, we just generally say the Library of Ashurbanipal. They were carted off to the British Museum, but they were excavated in 1849 and years thereafter. They were in the Library of Ashurbanipal when it was destroyed.
And the time of the sacking of Nineveh and the burning of the palace and the Library of Ashurbanipal, happens somewhere around 609 to 613 range. Most historians will say 612 BCE was when the library burned down. So, the tablets were there when library burned down. So, we know they are at least from 612 BCE. Now there're some clues on the tablet that tell us that these tablets are older.
Now, they were written in the Akkadian language, so they weren't from Assyria. They were from Babylon. And we know that the Babylonian tablets were written at a much earlier date. There was the name of the scribe who wrote the Tablet Number XI actually on the tablet. And he identified himself as Sin Leqi Unninni.
And this scribe, we don't know exactly when he was working, doing his scribe work, but it was estimated somewhere around 1000 to 1300 BCE. Now whenever you get a range that big it's obvious that the people who are experts don't really know what they're talking about. That the scribe is theorized to be from that time. That is the farthest back we can take the lineage of the story that we told from the Epic of Gilgamesh, the flood story. Now its inferred that it goes back even further because there are tablets from excavations that were taking place at the ancient city state of Sumer.
And there were five tablets recovered that were from the Epic of Gilgamesh epic. So those tablets actually were about a guy named Bilgamesh which is the Sumerian name for Gilgamesh. But none of the stories on those tablets were the flood story. But by inference the Assyriologists say well if those stories from the 12-tablet epic existed at 2400 BCE, then obviously all the stories existed in 2400 B.C.E. That’s a subject of controversy. Some experts say that the flood story was a more modern story that the Babylonians added to the original epic which did not contain that story. So, that's it. That's all the information, all the data, all the stuff that the Assyriologists have to work with to say that the Babylonian story predates the Hebrew story and therefore the Hebrew scribes copied from the Babylonian scribes. So, now let’s look at the other side let's look at the Hebrew Story.
We know that there are manuscripts of the Torah that go back to ancient times. They go back to somewhere around 300 - 400 A.D. And those have survived, and they have been copied and copied by various scribes until we have the copy that we have today. And if you compare the ancient copies versus the current copy, it's amazing that they are identical. There are very few transcription errors on those versions that keep getting handed down generation to generation. Now in the 1950s there was a whole total upheaval in the concept of the age of the Torah.
And that was the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. There were several caves that were discovered that contained ancient scrolls: ancient manuscripts, sectarian manuscripts, biblical manuscripts. And we talked in the last episode about how the book of Isaiah has been found in its complete form. And it is identical to the current copy of Isaiah that you and I read in the Old Testament.
Now, the oldest copy of the book of Genesis goes back to the cave number six. Cave number six contained some scrolls. And one of those scrolls had the book of Genesis written on it. And I picked the scroll that had the part where God was telling Noah instructions on how to build the boat. That scroll is called 6Q1 “The PaleoGenesis Scroll.”
That is the earliest copy that we have of the book of Genesis telling the story of the flood. So, now we've gone back to somewhere around 150 to
250 BCE. And we find that there are manuscripts that old. And it's interesting if you look at the script that they were written in. The script that was used around the time of the Essene community when the caves of Qumran were used.
The script would have been the more modern Hebrew script which would be what we call Second Temple script. But the scroll that I'm referring to was written in Paleo Hebrew which is the First Temple Script. So, this was probably copied from a scroll that existed at the time of the first century [BCE]. So now that takes us back 500, 600 even 700 BCE. and we can go back even further because there are fragments of the Torah that date to 800 BCE.
And I showed you in the last episode that silver scroll that had the verse from the Torah on it. Now, we can do the same inference that the Assyriologists did, and we can say, “Okay who wrote the book?” And we know the author. The author was Moses. So, now like we did with Sin leqi unninni, we can go back to Moses as the author of the book. So, when did Moses live? And that is a matter of intense controversy which will get into in future episodes when we talk about Moses and the children of Israel.
Most scholars agree that is somewhere around 1400 BCE. So now we've gone back using the same inferences, the same method that the Assyriologists have. And we have gotten now an older date for our scribe and when he wrote it. We identified the scribe and when he wrote it. So now we've got the Hebrew manuscript that's older. Now we can also use the same inference about the Sumerian Tablets. We can talk about that the stories contain identifiable characters.
We can identify Noah. We can identify Abraham. We can identify these characters in the book of Genesis, and we can keep taking things back further and further. And we can easily get back to the 2000 BCE and beyond. So, what I'm showing you is that the archaeological, historical evidence; it is a wash. I don't think you can say that the Babylonian story is older than the Hebrew story based on that evidence, because I used the same logic and showed you that we can go back and back and back. Now, I think more important than the archaeological evidence, which is equivalent, I think the content is very important. Now we've gone back like 4000 years into the history past. And over that period of time, we have an abundance of literature that was written that turned into the book of Genesis. We also have literature that was turned into the Epic of Gilgamesh, that was turned into the creation story which is contained in
those five tablets and other tablets that were found in the excavations at Sumer.
So, we can look at the literature, the contents of the literature and compare those contents over that 4000 year plus period. I see on the Babylonian side, stories about very capricious gods that have no concern for man at all. The creation story is full of murder and mayhem and wars with evil, foul beings, and the creation of these beings, and the use of the Tablets of Destiny, and that of the mighty war that took place. And finally, the hero Bel Marduk came up and defeated everybody. But Bel Marduk, if you remember from our Babylonian Creation Story, Bel Marduk or Marduk as we called him. He thought that the gods should be liberated from all work and all endeavors and should just kick back and enjoy their life. So, they enslaved, he specifically Bel Marduk enslaved the people, enslaved the humans. And the humans were then taught that they existed purely to serve the gods. That their only purpose is to serve the gods and you had better keep the gods happy. Because if you don't, they will strike you, they will punish you, they will kill you. And the Babylonian system is just full of this violence and mayhem.
Now contrast that with the Creation Story, I told you from the book of Genesis. We start out with a single God not a whole pantheon of gods. We start out with a God who is full of love and compassion. Who creates a man, not to become a slave. He creates man to become family. He creates man in his image, according to his likeness. He is elevating man, not pushing man down. And even when man sinned, I mean, think of it. Elohim gave him a paradise. He gave him a mate. He gave him fruit that was pleasing to the eye and good for food. And he lived in paradise, but Adam and Eve sinned. And as their punishment, and we've been through all this, they were kicked out of the garden. But even then, God showed compassion. God showed forgiveness. God provided Adam and Eve a way forward. And when their offspring Abel was going astray, he offered Abel away back. You know through, if he would only turn away from his path and follow God, he would find reconciliation. So, God provides opportunity after opportunity after opportunity for reconciliation. In fact, this whole series is about God's compassion and love for man. That is why he is sending Messiah to the earth. So that man can be reconciled with him. So, compare that. I mean this is a ridiculous comparison. You've got one side which is rough and gruff and is just fighting and violence. And then you’ve got the other side which is just this smooth love that God displays towards his creation. Yeah, they mess up. Yeah, we talked about the violence that happened after Abel did his thing. But the concept is [that] God is still providing man away out. Now, there was an author that I have read extensively in my research on the subject. It’s EA Wallis Budge. We referred to him previously. And I'm going to refer to him again when we get to our Egyptian Flood Story.
Sir EA Wallis Budge published a book [Babylonian Life and History]. It was the second edition, this is one that I have, published in 1925. And there is a statement in the preface to this book which exactly addresses this issue. Now, this was that the very beginning of the thing, when the Germans were saying that the Babylonian story supersedes the Biblical story. And there was this this mad dash to discredit the Bible.
And EA Wallis Budge says the following:
The Hebrew’s sublime conception of Adonai, which I use Adonai like the Hebrews do. Whenever we have the fourletter name, the personal name of God that is translated in the NIV, which is what I use for our presentations, as L O R D, Lord. But it's translated like in your prayers and blessings as Adonai. So, I am going to use Adonai wherever it says YHWH.
Adonai was wholly different from the Babylonian’s conception of Bel-Marduk or Shamash, (the sun god) or Ashur, and the difference was fundamental. Adonai was one; to the Hebrew there was no
other; Bel Marduk, or Shamash, or Ashur was only “Lord of the gods” just as in Egypt Ra or Amen was “King of the gods.”
And we will talk about this also in our next presentation.
The Babylonians may have developed a monotheism comparable to that of the Hebrews, but there is no evidence that they did, and there is no expression of it in their religious texts. And the Accounts of the Creation given in Genesis and the Story of the Flood are not derived from any Babylonian Versions of them know to us. There are many points of resemblance between the cuneiform and the Hebrew Versions, and these often illustrate each other, but the fundamental conceptions are essentially different. The Babylonian god was a development from devils and horrible monsters of foul form, but the God of the Hebrews was a Being who existed in and from the beginning, Almighty and Alone, and the devils of chaos and evil.
And remember we talked about tohoo vu bohoo in the opening passage in Genesis, the chaos. The devils of chaos and evil, referring to the Babylonian gods.
were from the beginning, His servants.
Now, this is a point where you drop your mike. And you say, “That says it all. I don't need to say any more.” So, now were going to move on. And I’m going to talk about our next story. But I do want to say, that after all of that exhaustive research, that I have made a decision, that I am going to follow Elohim. I'm going to believe what Elohim says to me in the Tanakh. I'm going to put my faith in Elohim, my belief in Elohim. And I'm going to receive him as my eternal, compassionate Savior. And then I'm going to do the same thing with Messiah. I'm going to believe in Messiah. I'm going to believe what all the prophecies are saying about Messiah. And I'm going to receive Messiah in the same way that I receive Elohim.
Now, our seventh story was the [Babylonian] Flood Story. And I’m going to put up our map and I’m going to review the flood stories that we've done so far. Now I’ve added, you'll see there, I've added on the map a picture of tablet number XI over the country of Iraq. Which, is of course, is the Babylonian story. Now, over in South America, remember our Llama is representative of the Inca story. The llama herder who had llamas that were depressed. And when he found out why they were depressed, they told him that a flood was coming. and he went to Mount Vilcoto, and everyone was saved. Then, we went over to Africa, and I've got a picture of Tumbainot and one of his two wives over the country of Kenya. This is the Masai story. And remember Tumbainot was singled out by God as being a righteous man. He is given instructions to build a boat. He followed those instructions and built a boat. And he and his two wives and three sons and all the good animals rode out the flood in the boat. And then they came out on the other side in the Steppes of Africa. And there were four rainbows one in each of the four corners. And Tumbainot saw those rainbows is a promise from God. And then we went over to India, and I’ve got a picture of Manu and the Giant Fish towing the boat. And this is the story of the righteous man Manu who discovered a fish in the river who started a conversation with him. He took the fish home. He kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger and finally Manu threw him back into the ocean. and the fish told him to build a boat which he did. And when the flood came, he was saved in the boat, but the boat was floundering. And then the fish, who had grown a giant horn, told Manu to throw a rope around his horn. And he towed him off to mount Himavan and saved him. And now, next we’ve got a
picture of the giant frog Tiddalick over Australia. And that is the aboriginal story. And remember the aboriginal story is a very comical, fun story where this giant frog named Tiddalick decided he would drink all the water. Nobody knows why, but he drank all the water from the Billabongs, from the rivers and from the lakes and there was no more water. So, a severe drought ensued. And the animals got together to make him laugh. Nobody could make him laugh except the river eel who tied himself into a knot. And then Tillich started laughing and all the water came out. And next I have the canoe which is over the United States. The canoe is symbolic of the North American, Native American Story. And the canoe is more symbolic of the Ottawa story where the hero got the water deities upset because he killed one of them. They tried to throw water at him to kill him. But he was saved from the ensuing flood by a fair young maiden who rowed up in a canoe. And then he got up into the canoe. And in the canoe was the maiden and all the animals and they were saved from the flood. And then we go over to China. I've got a picture of an earthen bucket being held by the rain god. This was a symbol that was used for the rain god. He emptied his bucket and that's where rain comes from. And this is symbolic of the Miao story. The Miao story was the farmer who had it in for the god of thunder. And he injured him and put him in an iron cage. But through the compassion of his children, they gave him water and he revived and escaped and went up to heaven. And told the rain god to flood the earth which he did. But the two children were saved by escaping in a giant gourd which had grown from the thunder god's tooth. And they were saved by riding out the flood in the gourd. And then finally, the Babylonian Story. Now you’ll notice there are two X’s still on the map. One of those is for the Greek Story and the other one is for the Egyptian Story.
Now, we do need to fill in our next line on the chart of the elements of our flood stories. So, let's do that for the Babylonian story. So, our hero is Utanapishtim. The event that happened was the noise and violence. And we said it was because the people were partying instead of worshiping the gods. The cataclysm that was sent by Enlil was the flood. The means of escape was a giant boat that Utanapishtim had built by these craftsmen. And then the companions were his family and the craftsman and the animals. And then who is saved Utanapishtim, family craftsmen, animals. And the rescue came because the flood subsided. All the water went back into its proper place. And they were stranded on Mount Nimush. And the restoration came by the men and animals all getting out of the boat and repopulating. And remember Utanapishtim built an altar and sacrificed to the god Enlil. So, that brings us totally up to date for our next story.
The next story is the Greek Flood Story. The Greek Flood Story just flows seamlessly from the previous story that I told you, the creation story. It just flows right on out from there. So, if we had not stopped at Pandora and her box and releasing all the evil into the world, we would have just flowed right on into this next story. Now, the source, remember I told you I would tell you the sources for the stories I'm telling you.
The source for the Greek story comes from the same source we had for the creation story. Remember Hesiodus and his epic poem Theogony. He was the shepherd who lived 700 BCE and the nine muses, which were the daughters of Zeus, would come and talk to him and entertain him and tell him stories about the gods. And he wrote them down and that's where he claims he got Theogony. So, the second source is a book written by Ovid. Ovid is a Roman poet. It’s interesting that we get the story from the Roman world. And that's because, remember the Greek stories were all co-opted by the Romans. In his book Metamorphoses there are a couple to 300 poems. And in among those poems is one single poem which is entitled Deucalion and Pyrrha. And that's the story were going to take up today. So, between those two sources Hesiodus and Ovid, we put together this fairly complete story. Now, as I said this just smoothly goes from the previous story. So, what I'm going to do is I’m going to hit the rewind button. And I’m going to go back and I’m going to bring up a clip right now and play it for you. And that is the end of our Greek story, so we can just smoothly go on into the flood portion of the story. So, I’m going to play that for you right now.
Chronos and Rhea have their own children. Now Chronos had a prophecy cited to him that one of his children would rise up and overthrow him. So, he decided the safest thing to do would be to swallow each of his children as they were born.
So, one by one his children were swallowed, and he kept them in his belly where they were safe and would never rebel against him. Now Rhea was not too happy about this because she wanted to be with her children, so she decided she would fool Chronos. So, she was pregnant with her child, went to the island of Crete and gave birth in a cave. And her child Zeus was born and then he was taken to Mount Ida and hidden away and he was guarded by these warriors.
And when Chronos came to swallow up Zeus, she handed him a rock that was swaddled in baby clothes, gave him the rock, so Chronos swallowed the rock thinking he was consuming Zeus. Now, over time Zeus grew and matured and became a man. And it was at that point that his mother decided that she wanted all of her children back. So, she taught Zeus how to make this poison potion. So, he fed his potion to his father, and it caused his father to vomit. So, when Chronos vomited, all of his children came out and so now Zeus and all of his siblings were free. It was at that point were Zeus created the Olympians, of course, on Mount Olympus. And it was Chronos and the Titans.
And a war broke out with the Olympians versus the Titans. The Olympians won the day, and they took all the Titans, and they threw them into the abyss. So, then Zeus ruled on Mount Olympus with all of his Olympians. Zeus also had children. He had a wife; her name was Metis and they had children together. And Zeus had the same exact concerns about one of his children taking over. And so, Zeus was just crazy about it, so he decided he would just swallow his wife whole before she could have any children. Unfortunately, she was already pregnant with their first child. It was Athena and so Athena grew, and they both lived in Zeus.
And finally, Athena, fully grown, burst out of Zeus's head dressed in her warrior garb. So, the offspring of Zeus also included Prometheus and Epimetheus. And these two were tasked with creating man. So, it was Zeus’ offspring that created man, created animals. So, Prometheus was tasked with making man and Epimetheus was tasked with making the animals. So, they both went to work.
Prometheus created man out of clay and then he got his sister Athena to come and blow life into him. And Athena then raised that this clay man and put life into him and that is how man was created. Epimetheus did the same with the animals and brought all the animals to life. Prometheus thought that man needed a leg up because he was up against the Olympians and was at the whim of the Olympians.
And so, Prometheus snuck up on to Mount Olympus, stole fire and brought fire and gave it to man. And taught man how to use the fire. This caused Zeus to go off. He was infuriated so he wanted to punish his son. So, he took Prometheus and chained to this mountaintop.
And he had a vulture come and peck out his liver every day for eternity. Every night his liver would regenerate and the next day the vulture come back and peck it out again. It was just torture, torture, torture. Eventually, Hercules liberated him from the mountain.
This is one of the works of Hercules, [which is] another story. We will move on. So, the other brother Epimetheus was kind of agrarian and lived out in the in the field with all of all of his animals. So, Zeus decided he would punish him as well and punish man at the same time. So, he [Zeus] created a woman himself and this was a beautiful woman. Her name was Pandora, and he gave this beautiful woman to Epimetheus.
And he gave her this very intense curiosity and he presented her, when he gave her to Epimetheus with a box. And told her never, ever, ever open the box. So, he gave her the box and, of course, she was just so curious, it drove her crazy. She just wanted to know what was in the box and finally curiosity overtook her, and she opened the box. She screamed because out came pain and murder and fear and all the evils of the world were released. When Epimetheus, who was out in the fields with his animals heard the screams, he came and found that the box was open. So, he slammed the lid shut, but it was too late. All the evils had already gotten out of Pandora's box. Later they heard a voice coming from inside the box, “Let me out. I am hope. Let me out.” So, he opened the box and out came hope. And hope filled the world to balance of all the evils.
Our flood story picks up where we just left off. We had Pandora open her box. All the evil in the world got out. They shut the box, too late. But then finally later on, a small little voice said, “Let me out. Let me out. I am hope.” And then hope entered the world. Now Epimetheus and his wife Pandora had a child. They had a girl child. And her name was Pyrrha. Pyrrha was a beautiful young lady and as she grew up, she met this handsome young man. They fell in love, and they got married. His
name was Deucalion. Now, it turns out Deucalion was the son of Epimetheus’ brother Prometheus. Prometheus was still, at this time, chained to the mountain. And it identifies in this poem which mountain it was. It was Mount Caucasus.
So, he was chained up there. Hercules had not yet released him from his chains. So, Deucalion would make a sojourn, a pilgrimage every year and he will go up onto Mount Caucasus and he would see his dad. Now, it turns out Prometheus had some other superpowers. One of those was foresight. He was able to look into the future. And he had visions of the future. And when Deucalion went up to see him on the mount, he told him about one of his visions.
He had a vision of Zeus, who was really angry and upset about all the violence and all the evil that was being conducted and committed by the human beings. And he saw that Zeus would bring a counsel of the gods together, kind of like we saw in the Babylonian story and also will see in the Egyptian story. The counsel of gods got together and decided the best possible thing was to destroy the world with a flood. So, Prometheus warns his son that he should build a boat just in case the flood came. So, Deucalion went down off the mountain. He went home and set about building the boat. So, he and Pyrrha were ready in case the
flood would come. So then, Zeus releases the flood, and the flood covers the earth, and it says in the poem that the earth was covered above the trees, above the mountains, nothing was left except water and sky.
So, Pyrrha and Deucalion were saved by getting in their boat. Now, their boat floated, and it rained for days and days and days. And it doesn't really say how many days other than many days. And finally, the flood stops, the rain stops, and the water starts going down. And the boat runs aground on a mountain. And it was specifically Mount Parnassos.
And that is where Delphi is, near Delphi. And that is part of why the site at Delphi was sacred. And why a temple there was built to Zeus. So, they are coming down off the mountain and they are walking down the path, going back down to the plain to where they used to live. And a messenger comes up and the messenger is Hermes. And Hermes runs up to the couple and he says, “I have a message for you.” And the message was that they were to take the bones of their mother and they were to throw the bones over their shoulders. Now this was a very cryptic message. Deucalion and Pyrrha weren’t sure what to do with it. But, as they were walking, they thought about it, and they thought about it. And finally, Deucalion comes up with the idea that oh mother.
They’re talking about Mother Earth and her bones must be rocks. So, then they reached down and got some pebbles from the path that they were on, and they started throwing them over their shoulders. And every time Deucalion threw a stone it turned into a very handsome young man. And every time Pyrrha threw the stone it turned into a beautiful young maiden. And that is how the earth was repopulated. And then Deucalion and Pyrrha became their king and queen and ruled over the new world. That is the Greek story.
Thank you for watching our show today. We hope that you enjoyed watching it as much as we enjoyed bringing it to you. Now, after watching this episode you might be saying to yourself, “Who is this Messiah that Dr. Smith is talking about?
Is he talking about the Christian Messiah? Is he talking about Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was born of the Virgin Mary. And then lived a blameless and holy life on the earth, and then was tortured and crucified. And after he died, he then was resurrected from the dead after three days. Then after people witnessed this, he was then taken up bodily by Elohim into heaven from the Mount of Olives.
Or is Dr. Smith talking about the Muslim prophet Isa. Isa Ibn Maryam, the messenger, who was sent by Allah to bring a message to the people. The Quran says he that lived a holy and blameless life, was born of the virgin Mary. He fulfilled all the Jewish prophecies in exact accordance. But one difference, instead of being crucified, he then was taken up by Allah into heaven before the Romans laid hands on him. And he awaits there now in the fourth heaven where at the end of days at the day of judgment he will be revealed to all.
Or is Dr. Smith talking about the Jewish Messiah? The Messiah who has not yet been revealed that the entire Jewish world is waiting for his revelation. Now, the beautiful thing is that you can hold to any of these beliefs. And we can all still learn together about Messiah. We can learn about our Christian Messiah. We can learn about our Jewish Messiah. We can learn about our Muslim prophet Isa who will be revealed. It doesn’t matter what you believe. You can even be an atheist or agnostic and still learn from this program about Messiah. Now, I have to admit I am a Christian, so I approach things, obviously, from a Christian point of view. And I promise you, as we reveal these prophecies, which I believe have all been fulfilled through Jesus Christ. Or will be fulfilled when he comes back, returning in the clouds in the same way he was taken up. I believe that all of this is true, but I promise you I will do my very best to present these prophecies from a neutral point of view. And try to keep my Christian bias to a minimum. Obviously, it will pop up from time to time, but I will try to stay only in the Tanakh and try not to get into the New Testament very often. Now, if you want more information about Messiah, we have resources for you.
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Now, there’s going to come a time in this series where you are going to be confronted with the question: What are you going to do with Messiah? Who do you believe Messiah is? Which of these Messiahs do you believe Dr. Smith is talking about? And Messiah will become real to you if you look at all the information presented and come to your conclusions. So, join us as we continue our journey through the Old Testament Scriptures looking for all the Messianic Prophecies. And join us next time as we reveal those to you.
