Messiah In The Old Testament Episode 29
Egyptian Flood Story
Welcome to Messiah In The Old Testament. We have been telling you flood stories from around the world over these last few episodes. And today we reached now our final flood story before we get to the Biblical Flood Story. And that story is going to come from the ancient country of Egypt.
Now, let's look at our map. We have added to our map now a picture over Greece. And it is a picture of a shoe with a wing on it. That represents the messenger Hermes. And Hermes was in this story. It is the story of Deucalion and Pyrrha.
If you remember, Pyrrha was the daughter of Epimetheus and his wife Pandora. She grew up fell in love with a young man named Deucalion who happened to be the son of Prometheus which was the brother of the Epimetheus. Prometheus, if you recall, was still chained to the mountain as a punishment for getting fire from Mount Olympus. Hercules had not released him yet.
And every year Deucalion would go up on the mountain to meet with his father. And one time when he was up there, his father, who had the ability to see into the future, knew that Zeus was going to destroy mankind with a flood. He was going to assemble a counsel of the gods. And they were going to make the decision to destroy mankind. So, he warned Deucalion and told him, make a boat. So that, when the flood comes, you’ll be able to get in the boat, you and Pyrrha, and be saved. So, Deucalion obediently followed his father's instructions, built the boat.
And when the flood came, he was able to enter the boat with Pyrrha and they rode out the flood. And then as the flood receded, their boat ran aground on Mount Parnassos. And this was near Delphi. And they
disembarked as the flood continued to go down. And they were walking down the mountain to go back to their original home.
And as they’re walking down, Hermes the messenger came running up to them and gave them a message. And that message was that they should take the bones of their mother and throw them over their shoulder. So, at first, they were kind of confused and didn't know what was going on. And finally, they figured out that their mother would be Terra Mater, Mother Earth and the bones then would be rocks or stones. So, they picked up some stones from along the path where they were walking, and they threw them over their shoulder. And as Deucalion threw his stones over his shoulder, when they hit the ground, they turn into handsome young men. And when Pyrrha threw her stones over her shoulder, they turned into beautiful young maidens. And that's how the earth was repopulated.
So, let's see now how that story fits into our table of flood elements. So, I’m going to put up the next line in our table. And the story is the Greek story. Our hero is Deucalion. The event is the evil that men were doing in the earth. The cataclysm was a flood sent by Zeus to destroy all mankind. The means of escape was a boat that Deucalion had built. And the companions were just Pyrrha his wife. And who is saved Deucalion and Pyrrha. The rescue came when the flood subsided. And then the restoration came from Deucalion and Pyrrha throwing the rocks over the shoulders, turning into men and women to repopulate the earth. Now, I think it is absolutely astounding that all of these stories that we have told you fit so nicely into these flood elements. Obviously, the flood elements, when I first came up with them, I took them from the Biblical Flood Story. And then saw whether each of these episodes that we present to you would actually fit into that table. And miraculously, they all do fit in, extremely well. And to me, that just gives more weight to my theory that this started as one story and spread out into the world. And what we’re hearing in all these flood stories are echoes of the original.
So, let’s look at our map one more time. You'll notice that we have now covered stories from every single continent on the map. We don't have Antarctica on there, obviously. But there's a story from North America, South America, a story from Africa. And when we tell the Egyptian story, there will be a second one from Africa. And now we added Europe, with the story from Greece. And then the story from Australia, another continent. And finally, the Asian continent, we have three stories, one was from the Indian subcontinent and the other one was from the Middle East with the Babylonian story [and China]. Now, you will notice there is only one more X left on the map. And that is for the story that I’m going to tell you today. Our story is similar, in the origins, as to our Egyptian creation story that I told you back in episode 6. If you want to, go back and take a look at that.
I told you in that Episode that the source for the Egyptian story came from pyramids, the so-called pyramidic texts from reliefs that were on the side of tombs and in hallways in these tombs. And also, we said it is found in the Egyptian book of the dead. So, the story we’re going to tell today, it actually comes from similar sources, and we’ll go over that in a second. Now, the creation story, we discovered had extreme variation. And it depended on which temple you went to as to which creation story you were taught.
For example, in Heliopolis their patron god was Atum. And remember Ra was the name of the sun disk when it was above the horizon. Atum was the name when it went below the horizon. So, Atum was another name for Ra. And in Heliopolis Ra was the creator god. And then in Memphis the creator God was Ptah. And then in Hermopolis it was Thoth. And in Thebes it was Amun. So, it varied as to where you are as to which God was in the creation story.
And then remember, we talked about the Ogdoad where there were the eight primordial gods. That story, the beginning of our creation story, came from one of those centers. And then the later events, where Ra
climbs up on Benben and all that other stuff, comes in some of the other stories [centers]. So, we had to synthesize and kind of put everything together to create a cohesive story. Now, our flood story’s not like that at all. Our flood story is already a cohesive, singular story. It is not variable. We don't find different versions of it depending on where we go in the country. All the versions are the same. Now, unfortunately, there is no one single [complete] copy of the story. But fortunately, there are multiple different copies, all incomplete. But if we can piece them together, we get an almost complete a copy of the story.
The story is entitled, “The Destruction of Mankind.” Now, it’s not specifically a flood story. But the name obviously tells you it that is a story where the gods decide they’re going to destroy mankind and then how mankind is saved. Now the text is found, as we said, inscribed on the walls of tombs and in the pyramids. And this story has one very famous location for its inscription and it's on the back wall of the burial chamber for King Tut. Now, it’s not the complete story, because it wouldn't fit in Tut’s tomb. Hieroglyphics tend to take up a lot of space because of all the symbols that you have to write to create a short sentence. It requires a bunch of symbols.
I think of it like my dining room. I have a formal dining room and around the top of the formal dining room I have Isaiah 61:1-3 inscribed there. I can't fit the entire book of Isaiah or the entire chapter 61. But I can you take those verses which are important to me (big messianic message in those verses). But I think the same thing was like King Tut's tomb. They took, just a snippet of that [story]. Now I’m going to give you an example of how the whole hieroglyphic thing works. You probably don’t share my enthusiasm for hieroglyphics and Egyptology. But I just wanted to show you, how the whole hieroglyphic thing is really difficult to post an entire book in hieroglyphics. Because it would take up so much room.
So, I’m going to take one single word. It's a very simple word that is used over and over. And that is the word for mankind or like men and
women. It’s the generic for all men. And it is the symbol that I’m going to put it up for you. And it's composed of five different parts. So, you have five parts to decipher in this one word.
So, the first part is the symbol of a mouth. And usually in hieroglyphics you have two, maybe three of these symbols that stand for sounds. They’re called phonograms. The mouth is for the letter “R” or the sound “ra.” Then, the next symbol is a bent rope was some handles on it. That is the rope that is used for hobbling animals when you want to tether them. And that has the sound “t h” or “th.” And when you have these phonetic symbols, to make it cohesive, they have to put the letter between. The Egyptian Hieroglyphics don't have vowels. Just like the Hebrew didn't have vowels. And today if you read a newspaper, there are no vowel pointing in the Jerusalem Post, written in Ivrit. Same thing [is true] with Egyptian. So, they just arbitrarily put the “short e” in between. So, this would be “reth,” is the word.
And then, the next part are the symbols or the pictograms. And these are also sometimes called ideograms. These, we’ve got a man and we’ve got a woman. And these are the symbols specifically referring to all men and all women, the generic symbols. So, now we've got reth and we got all men and all women. And then the very last part is a sign which refers to plurality. It is three dashes. You have three dashes in a row, three dashes underneath or three dashes on the side. In this case, it's on the side. So, this is the sign that means plural. So, putting all that together, you look at that and you say reth, all mankind. Now, as we said, there is no complete copy of “The Destruction of Mankind.” But fortunately, there was a scholar. And it's our old friend Sir EA Wallis Budge. He pulled all these pieces together and he put together the most complete copy that I have been able to find.
It was published in his book called, “The gods of the Egyptians” or “Studies in Egyptian Mythology.” It was published in two volumes in 1904. And on page 388 of volume 1, there is a copy. Now, I have a copy of this book, and I will show you pictures that I took from my actual
book. And you'll notice, I’ll put it up right now. You'll notice on the first picture, it’s page 388, you see there at the top. And it's called The Destruction of Mankind, just like we said that was the title of the of the story. And then you'll see it says Egyptian Text with Transliteration and Translation. So, I’m going to go over the first page and part of the next page to give you a flavor of what the story was like in its original form.
God who created himself.
This is referring to Ra. Ra who is considered to be the god over all the other gods.
After he was in the sovereignty of men and of God and creation.
So, this is saying that Ra was sovereign. He was the god over all men, all the other gods and all of creation. Now, this brings up a point.
A lot of Egyptologists will talk about how the Egyptians had a monotheistic religion because of this dominance of Ra over all the other gods, over creation, over men. And they considered that it was a form of monotheistic religion. But obviously there is this pantheon of gods. And there are gods for various things. And we will see in our story how other gods play into it. So, I understand what they're saying that there is an overarching god. And the Babylonians do the same thing. The Assyriologists say that there's a Babylonian god over all the other gods. So, in some respects, it's a monotheistic religion. And take that for what it's worth.
Now men and women were blaspheming, and saying, behold, his majesty
Talking about Ra’s life, strength, health. And you will see this over again when you're referring to the gods. You say life, strength and health. So, I think it's like, “Long live the King”
life, strength, health, has grown old. (So, Ra's growing old.) his bones are like silver, his limbs are like gold, his hair is like lapislazuli real;
So, they were mocking him. They were making fun of Ra. was his majesty listening to what said mankind. Said his majesty life, strength, health, to those who are his train. Call, bring me my Eye,
And we’re going to stop there and talk about the story. So, Ra had ascended over all the gods, over all mankind, over all of creation. He was now considered the supreme god, the sovereign god over all. He looked down on mankind and what they were up to. And he saw that men were mocking him and blaspheming him. Calling him old was blasphemy. Saying that his limbs were like gold, his bones like silver, his hair like lapis-lazuli I think is referring to like a mural on the wall. Where they make his hair out of actual lapis-lazuli and they make his arms golden. And I think it was like he's no longer a god. He's just an image on the wall, getting so old, he's relegated to just an image on the wall. So, that was blasphemy. This angered Ra. So, he wanted to mete out some retribution to man to punish him. So, he assembled a council of all the other gods. And this is a common thing that we see in several of our flood stories, like the Greek story were Zeus convenes a council of the gods. And in the Babylonian story where Enlil holds the council of the gods to decide what to do about the sin and disobedience, actually the blasphemy they were committing by not worshiping the gods. So, this is a common thing.
So, it says in the story Shu, Tefnut, Geb, the mother and father gods along with their ministers, they all met together in the great temple. So, they are all there together and he calls his Eye to come to him. Now, the Eye of Ra, if you’ll remember from our creation story. The Eye of Ra was sent out to find the missing twins. And in this case, the Eye of Ra is going to do the dirty work for Ra. He called his Eye. He tasked his Eye
to go forth and find all those men that were blaspheming and kill them. So, you know the Eye of Ra of course has to obey what Ra says. So, the Eye goes out. And when the Eye of Ra goes out, it takes the form of some other god.
So, in this case, it took the form of Hathor. And will talk about Hathor in a second. So, Hathor went out into the earth, found the blasphemers and started killing them. And after a while, there were enough of them killed that Ra had a change of heart. And he said, “Come, come in peace Hathor, the deed is done.” He was done killing men. He didn’t want it to go on too long and kill off most or all of the men.
Now, Hathor, and anybody who seen a diabetes ad has seen a picture of Hathor. Now Hathor was the goddess of the sun, the goddess of the sky and the goddess of fertility. She is depicted as a cow. So, I’m talking about that blue cow with the sun disc between the horns. It is also referred to as the Apis Bull. This is all part of Hathor worship. Normally, Hathor was peaceful. She was not violent it all. She was considered to be the goddess of pleasure. So, the opposite of violent, the goddess of pleasure.
So, you can imagine at her temple, she is a goddess of fertility, goddess of pleasure, people flocked to her temple to participate in the fertility rites. So that they could increase the fertility of their soil for their crops, increase the fertility of their flocks, increase the fertility of their wives and slaves so they could reproduce. So, people really, really liked Hathor. Now, there was another goddess who was sort of the antithesis of Hathor.
That was the goddess Sekhmet. Sekhmet was the goddess of war. She was considered the protector of Ra and the protector of the pharaohs. She is fierce and is always depicted as a lion. And she was the goddess that escorted men into the afterlife. Now, if you look at a mural on the wall, and if Hathor is on there, real easy to spot.
All you need to do is see the ornately dressed woman had a headdress with two horns and the sun disc in between. And to find Sekhmet, same thing, just find a well-dressed lady who has the face of a lion. Real easy to spot. Now, Hathor was out killing the blasphemers. And because of all the killing and the bloodlust, she just really got into it. And she transformed from peaceful Hathor into [the] fierce and violent Sekhmet, because of all this bloodlust and the violence. So, Sekhmet now, the goddess of war, she is set now on killing off all the men. And she relished the task. She was getting into it.
She was wading around in the blood of all the men that had been killed. Their blood was spilled and she was actually drinking the blood of all these men that had been killed. Now, Ra is in a panic because he knows that if Sekhmet has her way, there’s going to be no humans left at all. So, he devises a plan. And he quickly calls messengers to go out and procure a bunch of mandrakes. And they were to crush up these mandrakes and mix them in with the barley as they’re brewing the beer.
And the mandrakes mixed in with the barley created a reddish color in the beer. And then they brewed, it says, 7000 vessels of beer. And I don’t know how big their vessels are, if it’s a big keg or it’s just a little urn. I don't know how big their vessels are. But Ra said take all of those vessels out to where Sekhmet is killing all these men and pour it out. So, they did so. They poured it all out in a field and this created a lake of beer, a lake of red beer. Now Sekhmet thought this was just the blood of the humans that she had been killing.
So, she waded around in it, and she drank it, and she drank it and she drank it. She drank so much that she became drunk and fell asleep. Now, while she's sleeping, she transformed back from this fierce and violent Sekhmet to peaceful Hathor, the cow. So, the killing stops. Hathor obediently comes back to Ra and the whole story draws to an end. Now, this is a little different story than what we've seen in the other stories. Now, obviously Tiddalick the frog was a little bit off, a little bit out there. But this one, instead of a flood, we’re talking about a cataclysm
which is Ra sending his Eye out to kill all the humans. Now, let's see how this story actually does fit into our chart.
So, I’m going to fill in the next line of the chart. And this is going to be for the Egyptian story. Now, the hero and there's not really any hero in this story. I mean, Ra is sort of the protagonist and antagonist. He's the hero, but also the villain. And the event is the blasphemy of men saying that Ra was old, and comparing him to the bones of silver, limbs of gold and hair of lapis-lazuli. The cataclysm was the Eye of Ra that was sent out to kill all the blasphemers. The means of escape was Ra telling of the messengers to go crush up the mandrakes, put them in with the beer and then pour out the beer to create a lake of beer. Companions, not really applicable. Who is saved, the remnant of mankind that not yet been killed by Sekhmet. The rescue comes from Sekhmet getting drunk and morphing back into Hathor. And the restoration was the men that were spared. Now, we are ready to tell you the Biblical Flood Story. Now, all these stories have similar details, you see. And we will look at it in a giant chart here shortly. The details are all super, super similar. The Biblical Story, however, stands out from all these stories, not because of the elements that are contained in it, but it stands out as…the biblical story just has imagery and has this deeper meaning and has this flow to it that all of these other stories don't. It is like the Biblical Flood Story is just like a smoothly flowing river and these other stories are like water going over cataracts. It is just rough and confused and jumbled and jostled together. And I think you'll see when we present the Biblical Story what I mean by that.
Now, let’s look at our final map. I’m going to put it up. Our final map now shows the symbol over Egypt which is Hathor. Remember I said she should be easily recognizable with the horns and that sun disk between the horns. So, she is symbolic of the Egyptian Story. Now, there are literally hundreds and hundreds of other stories that we don't have the time or resources to go over. It would be very fascinating research project. But if you're inclined to do that go for it. I'm just going to tell you one short additional story which I think is important. I’m not
putting it in our table or on our map. If you want to know where it would go, it would be just above Tiddalick the Frog there. There is an island called Papua New Guinea just above Tiddalick.
There's the Huli Tribe. I talked about them when we talked about sacrificial systems. And we talked about the Huli Sacrificial System. The fact that they sacrificed pigs at these group meetings and at funerals. But I'm going to talk about their mythology, specifically their flood story. Now the Huli people were isolated from the rest of the world for millennia. They had no contact with the West. They had no contact basically with anybody outside the tribal groups that were around them. They lived in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea. And it was during World War II where there was a large influx of soldiers and things changed and the Hulis were discovered. And anthropologists went in and talked to the Huli Tribe. And in the rest is history.
And I had opportunity to live there and sit down and talk with the elders of the tribe. And during one of our conversations we were discussing the concepts that were common between the Bible and between their mythology that they had originally before Western contact. And one of the stories that the elders talked about was this story I’m going to tell you right now. They have a flood story. The story goes, there was a time in the past. And they don't say how far past, but I got a sense it was a long, long time in the past.
There were many villages and many huts. There were many people living in the jungle. And of course, the context was the Western Highlands. you living you in the jungles of the Western Highlands. So all these villages, all these huts. And one day, water just started coming up from the fire pits. Now, if you’ve ever been in a hut in New Guinea, the fire pit is the central part of the hut.
Around the fire pit is where the cooking is done, where the sleeping is done, where the pigs are kept. Everything happens in in the hut around the fire pit. So, it is sort of the central part. Most fire pits are dug out.
And if you get a really heavy, heavy, heavy rain you get water that leaks in and gets into the fire pit. Maybe that's the origin of the story. So, the fire pits start filling up with water. And the fire pits then spew water out onto the floor of the huts. And then outside the huts. So, now you have the huts which are like in little ponds.
And then these ponds get bigger, and they congeal. And then the people realize that this is a flood and they had better move to high ground. So, all the villagers go up to the high ground. And the water just keeps rising and rising. And they go to higher ground. And finally, they go to the highest mountain peak but the water overtakes them and they are all killed. So, mankind is completely wiped out because of this flood. Now, as the waters recede, you’ve got all these empty villages. You’ve got no people. And when everything kind of receded and dried out, the sun came up.
And the sun god looked down, the sun spirit I should say, they say spirits. The sun spirit looked down and saw that there were no humans left. So, the sun spirit talked to all the other spirits and said, “There are no more humans. What will we do?” So, they got together, and they all made these clay figures from the from the mud that was left behind from the flood. And they make clay figures of men and women and animals. Specifically, they talked about pigs and chickens and birds. But, obviously, all the wild animals. And then they brought those to life. And then life in the jungle resumed as usual. Now, I love New Guinea. I love the Huli people. And I really enjoy their stories. And this story speaks to me because we have elements from a culture, totally isolated. Remember we said that they had been totally isolated, and yet they had the sacrificial system. They were totally isolated and yet they have this story where they talk about clay people being brought to life by the spirits. They have a story where there is a flood that goes over the mountains and kills all the people. To me, that is extremely remarkable. Now, I believe, and I hope you agree with me in this. You can choose to believe whatever you want. I believe that the Tanakh is a basis, a set of scriptures, a set of stories that are all real and believable and we can
hang our hat on the Tanakh. The Old Testament is like gold that we can take to the bank every time. It is not a collection of myths. It is not a collection of just fanciful stories that we tell our kids to entertain them. It is real stories that have real meaning. And for us, in this specific series, that real meaning is talking about the coming Messiah. All of these stories point to the coming Messiah. I believe that Noah got on the boat. I believe that Noah rode out the storm. I believe that Noah exited the boat, sacrificed to Elohim and he and his sons went out with their wives and they repopulated the earth. And we’re going to talk in a future episode about what happened after the flood, when the people went out into the earth. There is a lot to be said out there in the literature, outside the Tanakh. And the Tanakh doesn’t really say much about it. But let me just give you a taste.
For example, Josephus in his book Antiquities of the Jews, Book One in section 124, he says that Japheth, one of Noah's sons (Shem, Ham, Japheth) Japheth had three sons. The three sons were Javan, Madai and Thobel. He then goes on to say that Javan was father of the Greeks. The Greeks came from Javan’s offspring. From Madai came the Medes and the Persians. And then from Thobel came the Iberes or the Spanish, those you in the Iberian Peninsula. And it goes on and on and on. But my feeling is that Noah told the story. His sons told the story, Noah to his grandchildren, sons to their children and on and on it went.
You know, Noah lived many years beyond the flood. and Shem, Ham and Japheth lived many years beyond the flood. So, they had a lot of opportunity to tell their offspring, their offspring’s offspring, and several generations down the stories from before the flood and the story of the flood. So, I believe that these stories were then carried and propagated and went out into the world. And that's how we get all of these stories, all over the world, from all the continents, all the major cultures. And that's why we have sacrificial systems all over the world. All the cultures, all the continents have sacrificial systems. And creation stories, same thing. So, now we’ve got creation stories, sacrificial systems and flood stories which are all emanating from the original, which is the
Tanakh. They’re all echoes of the original. So, if you don't believe that the Tanakh is the source, and you choose to believe the Babylonian story was the source and everything went out from the Babylonians. Same concept, it’s just you're picking the source to be different than what I am. But it is the same concept, all the stories went out from one single source.
Now, let's break out our full chart. And I’m going to put it up right now. So, the story. We’ve got the Inca story, the Masai story, the Hindu story, the Aboriginal story, the Native American story, the Miao Chinese story, the Babylonian story, the Greek story and now the Egyptian story. Our heroes are very specific. I mean, the shepherd, Tumbainot, King Manu, the Eel, A’zie, warrior nearly all of these are very specific. The event is pretty much the same. There's some form of evil or violence that happens. In the Native American story we’ve got the hero that kills that one of the River monsters and then they throw water at him. And then in the Miao story it's the attack on the thunder god, Lei Gong. But all the rest it’s just noise, violence, evil, blasphemy, man doing bad things. The cataclysm in every incident was a flood except for the last one which
was the killing by the Eye of Ra. The means of escape generally is something that floats on top of the flood. In the Inca story it was the mountaintop the breaks off and floats. And then you got boats and watercraft and bottle gourds and then, of course, the Egyptian [story] was the lake of beer. Companions, generally it's family and acquaintances. And in some cases animals, other cases no animals. In some cases good animals. And then who is saved, it’s basically man and the animals. And then the rescue comes from a variety of sources and the restoration. So, you can see all our stories fit into these elements and let's go over the elements one last time before we tell our Biblical Story.
And I'm going to put up all the elements of flood stories. Number one, there’s always a hero lifted up. And we saw that in a variety of heroes in all the stories. Number two, an event happens which angers God or gods. Number three, a form of punishment is meted out against mankind. Number four, the hero is provided a means of escape from that judgment. Number five, companions accompany the hero in their escape. Number six, a portion of mankind, animals and plants are saved. Number seven, a hero and companions are carried safely through the cataclysms. And then finally, number eight, all are saved, they’re provided a means to set the earth right again. So now, we are done with flood stories other than the Biblical Flood Story. So, I want you to think about these eight elements. And I want you to compare with the chart of the flood elements. And I'll add Noah at the very end of that chart. And we’ll put it up one last time for you to look at and compare. To me, this builds faith. This builds belief. This builds a surety for me that the stories I'm reading in the Tanakh are our real and valid. And I don't have to worry about all the noise coming from the world that says the Bible is fake, the Bible is untrue, archaeology doesn't support it. We just showed you in our Babylonian episode that's hogwash. Archaeology doesn't support it or deny it either way. I think it comes down to your heart and your faith, what you believe in. And I tell you over and over this is a very important point. It's important what you believe in. I believe in Elohim. I believe in Messiah. I believe in all of these prophecies that were talking about. I believe that the Tanakh is an accurate and an
infallible document that we can hang our hat on. I hope that you can come into that same sort of a belief because it brings me immense security and confidence as I go through life. So, join us next time as we unfold the Biblical Flood Story.
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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.
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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.