The Writings of History
Is the history in the Original Covenant (Tanakh aka The Old Testament) reliable?
The Original Covenant is divided into three major sections, sometimes called, The Law, The Prophets, and The Psalms (Luke 24:44). In Hebrew, these sections are called "Torah", "Nevi'im", and "Ketuvim". The first letters of each section (T-N-K) are used to from the acronym "TaNaKh" for the entire collection of the books that form what is commonly called, "The Old Testament", in English. However, "Ketuvim" does not mean "Psalms" but rather "Writings".
The section called "The Writings" is often referred to as "the Psalms" ("Tehillim" in Hebrew), because the Book of Psalms is the first book of the Writings, in the Jewish ordering of the books of the Original Covenant. The Writings consists of two subsections, the first is "The Writings of Poetry", that begins with the book of Psalms, and the second is "The Writings of History", that begins with the book of Joshua (Yah'shua).
The Writings of History contain the history of the people of Israel, from when they first entered the Promised Land, until the Jews resettled the Promised Land, after the exile to Babylon. While all of the sections of the Original Covenant contain historical information, the Writings of History, contains the bulk of the history. The Writings of History connect all of the other books together, like the trunk of a tree of wondrous strength. So if the history, in The Writings of History is reliable, then it is reasonable, that the history in the rest of the Original Covenant is reliable.
The Writings of History cannot be understood without understanding the Torah first. The Torah contains the Law that the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) gave to Moses, so the entirety of the Torah is the first section of the Original Covenant. In fact, the Torah is the foundation of the entire Original Covenant, so the entire Original Covenant is often referred to as the Torah (The Law). For example, the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) used this term about a quote from the Psalms, that is part of The Writings of Poetry (John 10:34).
The Torah starts with the very beginning of everything (Genesis 1:1). It progresses, to the giving of the covenants to Abraham (Abram), Isaac (Yitzakh), and Jacob (Ya'acob aka Israel), to give the descendants of Israel, the Promised Land (Genesis 35:10-12). It then provides a record, of all the events that lead up to the descendants of Israel coming into Egypt, via Joseph, who was the prime minister of Egypt, as well as a son of Jacob (Genesis 46:26-34). After that it, tells of the deliverance of the descendants of Israel, from slavery in Egypt by Moses (Moishe), to bring them into the Promised Land (Exodus 3:15-17). It establishes the duties the priests, who came from Aaron (Aharon), for leading worship in the Temple (Leviticus 8:5-13). It continues to tell how, the descendants of Israel and the mixed multitude, were bound together into one people, in the wilderness, through the law, that was given to Moses (Numbers 15:14-16). After that it details, the instructions that Moses gave to the people of Israel, for when they entered the Promised Land (Deuteronomy 4:1-5). The people of Israel were instructed, to destroy the Canaanites from the Promised Land, for their wicked deeds, and so that the Canaanites would not teach them, to do the same kind of wicked things (Deuteronomy 20:16-18). The Torah ends shortly after the commandment is given, for Joshua to lead the people of Israel into the Promised Land (Deuteronomy 31:3-8).
The Writings of History continues where the Torah leaves off. The Writings of History can be summarized as follows:
After Moses died, then Joshua became the next Prophet of Truth, to deliver the word of the Father of Truth to the people of Israel, and to lead them in carrying out His will (Joshua 1:1-4). Everything Joshua did, was a continuation of what was written in the Torah, given through Moses (Joshua 1:5-8). So Joshua lead the people of Israel, in driving out the Canaanites from the Promised Land (Joshua 3:10). After many years of war, the people of Israel had destroyed many of the Canaanites out of the Promised Land, with the help of the Father of Truth, so they could begin to possess the Promised Land (Joshua 24:11-13). Joshua, the Prophet of Truth, then had the record of what happened to the people of Israel, in response to their obedience or disobedience to the Torah, to start being written in a section added to the Book of Truth, after the Torah, that is appropriately called "The Writings" (Joshua 24:19-26).
The Father of Truth continued to speak to the people of Israel, after Joshua and his generation died (Judges 2:4-10). The record of the four hundred and thirty years, between Joshua and the time of the last Judge of Truth, were in like manner included in the Writings of History (Acts 13:19-21).
During the time of the Judges of Truth, Ruth (Rut) the Moabitess chose to take care of Naomi, and cleave to the Father of Truth, rather than to return to her own people, and the idols they worshiped (Ruth 1:15-17). Ruth then married the nearest available relative of Naomi, to raise up a son to carry on the name of her dead husband, the son of Naomi, so that his line would not die out, as commanded in the Torah (Ruth 4:10-13). So this son was counted as the son of Naomi, to preserve the line of her dead husband (Ruth 4:14-17). So the Father of Truth choose this son, as the eighth generation in the line of Pharez, that start the line would later lead to the King of Israel, who had to be in the tenth generation of Pharez (Ruth 4:18-22).
The Father of Truth raised up one last Judge of Truth, to judge the people of Israel according to the Torah, and record His dealings with them in the Writings of History, named Samuel (Shmuel) (1 Samuel 3:18-20). When Samuel grew old, the people of Israel demanded a king, because his sons would not rule over them, in accordance with what was written in the Torah, as Samuel had done, and because they wanted to be like the nations around them, who all had a king, instead of the Father of Truth ruling over them, through the Judges of Truth (1 Samuel 8:5-7). So Samuel showed them Saul (Shual), the son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin (Benyamin), was chosen to be their king, because he had the appearance, like one of the king of the nations around them, and because the people of Israel had rejected, the Father of Truth ruling over them, through Judges of Truth, like Samuel (1 Samuel 10:19-24). So Samuel began recording the next part of the Writings of History, that dealt with the period of the kings of Israel (1 Samuel 10:25).
The Father of Truth had always intended to give a king to Israel, from the tribe of Judah (Genesis 49:8-10). However, no one who descended from someone who was born out of wedlock, could stand in the congregation of the Father of Truth, until the tenth generation was born (Deuteronomy 23:2). Judah had sinned with Tamar, to bring about Pharez and Zerah, out of wedlock (1 Chronicles 2:3-4). So the Father of Truth could not give Israel a king, from the tribe of Judah, until David was old enough, because he was the tenth generation in the line of Pharez (1 Chronicles 2:5-15).
King Saul did not carry out the will of the Father of Truth, so the Father of Truth said, that He would raise up a replacement, who was in pursuit of His own heart (1 Samuel 13:13-14). The Father of Truth had Samuel, anoint David to be the next king of Israel, because his heart was in right with Him (1 Samuel 16:7-12).
King David then had a son named Solomon (Shlomo), to replace the child that had been conceived in adultery by him and Bathsheba, whom the Father of Truth had caused to die, because he could not be on the throne, to carry out His will after David (2 Samuel 12:23-25). King Solomon loved the Father of Truth greatly in his youth, that he demonstrated by obeying Him, so the Father of Truth offered him anything he wanted (1 Kings 3:3-5). Since Solomon asked Him for wisdom, to lead the people of Israel in following the Father of Truth, then the Father of Truth made him wiser than anyone on Earth, and also gave him riches and honor, as well as the promise of a long life, if Solomon continued to obey His commandments (1 Kings 3:6-14).
Yet, Solomon married many foreign wives, who turned his heart from pursuing after the Father of Truth completely, when he grew old (1 Kings 11:1-4). Solomon filled the land of Israel, with places for his wives to worship the idols of the lands, where they had came from, and even joined them in their idol worship (1 Kings 11:5-8). Therefore the Father of Truth said, that He would tear most of the kingdom of Israel, out of the hand of the son of Solomon, with only one tribe remaining loyal to the tribe of Judah, that Solomon came from (1 Kings 11:9-13). So the Prophets of Truth finished, putting the history of the twelve tribe kingdom of Israel, in The Writings of History, when King Solomon died, as the last king, of the twelve tribe kingdom of Israel (2 Chronicles 9:29-31).
The Father of Truth had Ahijah (Achiyah), the Prophet of Truth, tell Jeroboam (Yerob'am), that he was going to be king over ten tribes of Israel, because of what King Solomon had done, in bringing idol worship into the twelve tribe kingdom of Israel (1 Kings 11:28-35). Jeroboam became the king of the ten tribe kingdom of Israel, while the son of Solomon, King Rehoboam (Rechab'am), became the king of the kingdom of Judah, that consisted of his own tribe, Judah, and Benjamin, as the one tribe that remained loyal to the tribe of Judah (1 Kings 12:15-24). However, the people from the other ten tribes of Israel, who lived in the cities of the two tribe kingdom of Judah, were also ruled by King Rehoboam (2 Chronicles 10:17).
Now the Father of Truth had promised King Jeroboam, to make his throne as secure as the throne of King David, to rule over the ten tribe kingdom of Israel, if he would continue to lead the ten tribe kingdom of Israel, in following His commandments in the Torah, like King David had done (1 Kings 11:37-38). Yet King Jeroboam was afraid, that the people would turn against him, if they kept going to Jerusalem, to keep the feast three times a year, as the Torah commanded of all Jewish men, who lived in the Promised Land (1 Kings 12:26-27). So he set up two golden calves, like the people of Israel had done, when they provoked the Father of Truth in the wilderness, and created his own worship system, as an alternative to the one commanded in the Torah (1 Kings 12:28-33). Therefore, the Father of Truth had Ahijah the Prophet of Truth, tell Jeroboam that because he did worse than King Solomon, after He made him to be king of the ten tribe kingdom of Israel, then He would cause everyone, who pissed against the wall in the family of Jeroboam, to die a violent death, without a proper burial, except for his one infant son, who had not turned against the Father of Truth (1 Kings 14:7-13). So Baasha (Ba'asha) slayed the entire family of Jeroboam, and took over the ten tribe kingdom of Israel, as Ahijah the Prophet of Truth had spoken (1 Kings 15:25-30).
In the Torah, the Father of Truth had said, that when the people of Israel left off following Him, to follow after idols in the Promised Land, then He would scatter the people of Israel, among other nations outside of the Promised Land, where they would have to serve idols (Deuteronomy 4:25-28). So the infant son of Jeroboam died, and Baasha (Ba'asha) was raised up as king, when he destroyed the rest of the house of Jeroboam, to show that the Father of Truth would one day destroy the entire ten tribe kingdom of Israel, and scatter them to nations beyond the Euphrates River, for following Jeroboam in forsaking the Torah, that He had given (1 Kings 14:14-16).
Hundreds of years later, the Assyrian king Pul, invaded the ten tribe kingdom of Israel, and put it under tribute, because Menahem (Menachem), the king of Israel, continued to lead the people in the idolatry, that King Jeroboam had started (2 Kings 15:27-28). After this, Pekah (Peqah) became the king of the ten tribe kingdom, and continued to lead the ten tribe kingdom of Israel in the idolatry, that King Jeroboam had started, like all the kings of the ten tribe kingdom of Israel before him, had done (2 Kings 15:27-28). So Tiglathpileser, the king of Assyria, came and took the northern part of the ten tribe kingdom of Israel, captive to Assyria (2 Kings 15:29). Then the last king of the ten tribe kingdom of Israel, Hoshea, rebelled against the Assyrian king, Shalmaneser, so that the rest of the people of the ten tribe kingdom of Israel, were scattered east of the Euphrates River, particularly among the cities of the Medes, on the eastern edge of the Assyrian Empire (2 Kings 17:3-6). So the ten tribe kingdom of Israel came to an end, as the Father of Truth had warned in the Torah, because the ten tribe kingdom of Israel forsook the Torah, to worship idols, despite the Father of Truth sending many Prophets of Truth, to turn them back to the Torah (2 Kings 17:7-18).
The Writings of History contain the entire history of the ten tribe kingdom of Israel, from its separation from the two tribe kingdom of Judah, to the removal of the people of the ten tribe kingdom of Israel out of the Promised Land, to live east of the Euphrates River, in Assyria (2 Kings 17:21-23).
During the reign of King Rehoboam, the two tribe kingdom of Judah turned to the idols of the Canaanites, and did worse than any of the people of Israel before them, in that they tolerated homosexuality throughout the kingdom of Judah (1 Kings 14:21-24). King Rehoboam, and people from all of the tribes of Israel, who lived in the two tribe kingdom of Judah, had forsook obeying the commandments of the Father of Truth, in the Torah, as soon as the kingdom had became stable and strong (2 Chronicles 12:1). Yet when the Prophet of Truth told them, that trouble had came upon them for their wickedness, they repented, and the Father of Truth spared them from being removed from the Promised Land, at that time, but did not leave them completely unpunished (2 Chronicles 12:5-8). Rehoboam had done evil in the eyes of the Father of Truth, at the beginning of the two tribe kingdom of Judah, because he had not prepared his heart, by seeking after the Father of Truth, before he became king, as the Prophets of Truth reported concerning the two tribe kingdom of Judah, in The Writings of History (2 Chronicles 12:12-15).
Afterwards, King Asa became the first king of Judah, to do what was right in the eyes of the Father of Truth, by destroying the homosexuals and idols of his father, out of the kingdom of Judah, and even removed his own mother from being queen, because she had set up an idol in a grove of trees (1 Kings 15:11-14). Then came more wicked kings over Judah, like King Ahaziah (2 Kings 8:25-27).
It continues to tell of how centuries later, after the ten tribe kingdom of Israel had been carried away captive to Assyria, Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, invaded the two tribe kingdom of Judah, and put it under tribute, during the reign of King Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:11-14). However, the two tribe kingdom of Israel was not taken into captivity, by the Assyrians, because King Hezekiah asked the Father of Truth for deliverance, instead of seeking after idols, as the kings of the ten tribe kingdom of Israel had done (2 Kings 19:14-20). Since King Hezekiah did what was right in the eyes of the Father of Truth, the Father of Truth killed the entire Assyrian army, and then caused King Sennacherib, to die in the house of his own idol, at the hand of his own sons (2 Kings 19:31-37).
This pattern of some kings of Judah doing what was evil, interrupted by other kings doing what was right, continued to ratchet the kingdom of Judah downward, until King Manasseh made the kingdom of Judah, to become worse than the Canaanites, who had been cast out of the Promised Land, before the people of Israel (2 Kings 21:1-9).
The Father of Truth had said in the Torah, that He would cast out the people of Israel out of the Promised Land, like He had cast out the Canaanites, when they did the same things as the Canaanites (Leviticus 18:24-28). He said, that when they became this evil, then He would send a terrible nation from far away, whose speech they could not understand, to bring such evil upon their land, that they would even eat the flesh of their own children (Deuteronomy 28:49-57). He said, that He would remove the few survivors off of the Promised Land, and cause them to be carried away to other nations, where they would serve idols, instead of Him (Deuteronomy 28:62-64). So He spoke through the Prophets of Truth, that all of this would soon come upon the kingdom of Judah, because King Manasseh had lead the kingdom of Judah, into doing worse than the Canaanites had done (2 Kings 21:10-16).
A Prophet of Truth had told Jeroboam, that a king of Judah named "Josiah" (Yoshiyahu), would one day destroy the altar that he had set up in Bethel, and burn the bones of his priests on it (1 Kings 13:1-2). The last king of Judah to do what was right in the eyes of the Father of Truth, was named "Josiah" (2 Kings 22:1-2). So Huldah (Chuledah), the Prophetess of Truth, told King Josiah, that the terrible judgment, announced in the days of King Manasseh, would not come upon the kingdom of Judah in his lifetime, because he had sought to bring the kingdom of Judah, to repentance (2 Kings 22:14-20).
Therefore, King Josiah lead the kingdom of Judah, in destroying both the idols and the homosexuals, out of Jerusalem (2 Kings 23:1-7). King Josiah then proceeded to do the same, throughout the kingdom of Judah (2 Kings 23:8-14).
The king of Assyria, Tiglathpileser, had replaced the ten tribes with in the Promised Land, with people of other nations, who came to be known as Samaritans (2 Kings 17:24). After that Tiglathpileser, the king of Assyria, had commanded that some of the corrupt priests, from the ten tribe kingdom of Israel, to return, and teach these Samaritans, how to worship the Father of Truth (2 Kings 17:25-28). So these Samaritans ended up worshiping, both the Father of Truth and the idols of the lands, that they had came from (2 Kings 17:29-33).
However, King Josiah proceeded to go to Bethel, in the former ten tribe kingdom of Israel, that had came to be known as Samaria, to destroy the altar, and burn the bones of the priests, who Jeroboam had set up, as foretold by the Prophet of Truth, hundreds of years earlier (2 Kings 23:15-18). King Josiah then proceeded to cleanse, the entire land of the Samaritans, of idols and their priests (2 Kings 23:19-20).
King Josiah then lead the kingdom of Judah, in keeping the Passover, as commanded in the Torah, in a greater manner than anyone had, since the days of Joshua (2 Kings 23:21-23). King Josiah actively spent his days, destroying every thing that the Torah said was wicked, to the point, that He did what was right in the eyes of the Father of Truth, in keeping the Torah, more than any other king, including King David (2 Kings 23:24-25). Yet, he could not prevent the terrible punishment, that would come upon the kingdom of Judah, for the sins, that King Manasseh had lead them into committing, as recorded in The Writings of History (2 Kings 23:26-28).
After Josiah had died, then Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, conquered the kingdom of Judah, during the reign of the next king, to bring about all that the Father of Truth had said, would come upon the kingdom of Judah, for committing the sins, that King Manasseh had lead them to commit (2 Kings 24:1-4). The next king of Judah rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar, and the terrible siege of Jerusalem, where people ate their own children, came to pass (2 Kings 24:8-11). After being besieged for more than seven years, the king of Judah, and all but the poorest people of Jerusalem that survived, were carried away to Babylon (2 Kings 24:12-16). The last of king of Judah rebelled against the king of Babylon, so again Jerusalem was besieged in a terrible siege, until the king of Babylon destroyed Jerusalem, and carried all, but the poorest survivors of the entire kingdom of Judah, off to Babylon (2 Kings 25:1-12). Finally, the few who were left in the kingdom of Judah, killed the governor appointed by the king of Babylon and fled to Egypt, so that there were none of them left in the Promised Land, as Moses had written in the Torah (2 Kings 25:22-26).
However, the Father of Truth also said in the Torah, that when the people of Israel would turn back to Him, while they were in captivity for their sins, then He would bring them back into the Promised Land, from all the places that He had scattered them (Deuteronomy 30:1-5). So the history of the people of Israel in The Writings of History, does not end with destruction brought upon the kingdom of Judah, by the Babylonian Empire, but continues until the time of the Persian Empire, which took over the Babylonian Empire (2 Chronicles 36:17-20).
Cyrus, the King of Persia commanded the people of Judah to return to Jerusalem, to rebuild the Temple (2 Chronicles 36:22-23). Cyrus the Persian not only sent back whoever would return to Jerusalem, to rebuild the Temple, but also commanded that all of the Jews, who remained out of the Promised Land, were to help them with supplies (Ezra 1:2-6). Cyrus the Persian then had everything, that Nebuchadnezzar had removed from the Temple, returned to Jerusalem to be used in the rebuilt Temple (Ezra 1:7-11).
The Samaritans, who had remained in the Promised Land since the time of the king of Assyria, became adversaries, who hindered the Jews from carrying out the decree of Cyrus the Persian, until the days of Darius the Mede (Ezra 4:1-5). In particular, they accused the Jews of seeking to rebel against the Persians, to Ahasuerus (Ezra 4:6-16). So Ahasuerus caused the rebuilding of the Temple to cease, until Darius the Mede became the next king of Persia (Ezra 4:17-24).
Also during the reign of King Ahasuerus, Esther (Hadassah) became the Queen of Persia (Esther 2:15-17). Queen Esther, and her cousin Mordecai, brought about the destruction of everyone in the Persian Empire, who sought to destroy the Jews, during the reign of King Ahasuerus (Esther 9:1-5). Mordecai became the Prime Minister of Persia, and ensured that the Jewish people would be preserved, during the reign of King Ahasuerus (Esther 10).
After this, Darius the Mede decreed that the rebuilding of the Temple should resume, at his own expense (Ezra 6:8-12). So the second Temple was finished, in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the Mede (Ezra 6:13-15).
So in the seventh year of the reign of Artaxerxes, the next king of the Persian Empire, the priest and scribe Ezra requested that those in Babylon, who were needed to conduct worship of the Father of Truth in the rebuilt Temple, to be allowed to return to Jerusalem (Ezra 7:6-8). Artaxerxes not only sent them back, but he also gave a huge free offering to the Father of Truth, and issued a decree that no one was to hinder them, in any way whatsoever, from carrying out worship in the rebuilt Temple, or teaching people how to obey the commandments of the Father of Truth, that were written in the Torah (Ezra 7:11-26).
Yet for all of this, some of the chief Jews who returned to Jerusalem, again married idol worshiping wives from other nations, like King Solomon had done (Ezra 9:1-3). So Era the priest commanded, that those Jews divorce their idol worshiping wives, so that they would not again be put out of the Promised Land (Ezra 10:10-14). So the idol worshiping wives were divorced by the Jewish men, who had married them (Ezra 10:15-17).
Even though the Temple had been rebuilt, the walls of Jerusalem were still in ruins (Nehemiah 1:1-3). So Nehemiah (Nechemiyah) confessed that the people of Israel had brought this on themselves, and reminded the Father of Truth, that He had said in the Torah, that He would restore the people of Israel to the Promised Land, if they would return to keeping His commandments in the Torah (Nehemiah 1:5-9).
So in the twentieth year of the reign of Artaxerxes, Nehemiah asked the king of Persia, for permission to return to Jerusalem, to rebuild its walls (Nehemiah 2:1-5). Artaxerxes also gave Nehemiah an armed escort to Judah, and granted to him all the timber that he would need, to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem (Nehemiah 2:6-8). So Nehemiah became the governor of Judah, for twelve years (Nehemiah 5:14). Despite his enemies doing all they could, to stop the walls of Jerusalem from being rebuilt, Nehemiah lead the Jews into rebuilding the walls, in just fifty-two days, because the Father of Truth was with him (Nehemiah 6:14-16). Nehemiah returned to Shushan, in the thirty second year of Artaxerxes, as he had promised, but was granted leave to return again to Jerusalem, when he learned that Eliashib, the high priest, had turned the store room for the provision of the Levites, in the Temple, into an apartment for Tobiah - the same enemy of the Father of Truth, who had tried to keep Nehemiah from building the walls around Jerusalem (Nehemiah 13:4-6). So he returned to Jerusalem to throw out Tobiah, and to restore the provision of the Levites, so that the worship at the rebuilt Temple would not come to an end (Nehemiah 13:7-13). Nehemiah also caused the Jews, to separate yet a second time from the idol worshiping wives of the nations around them, so the Jews would not repeat the mistakes that had began, when King Solomon had done the same thing (Nehemiah 13:23-27). So the history of the people of Israel, in the Writings of History, ends with the people of Israel being once again in the Promised Land, to carry out all that is commanded in the Torah, in the time of Nehemiah (Nehemiah 13:29-31).
So The Writings of History contain all of the history of the people of Israel, from the day that Joshua brought them into the Promised Land, in obedience to the Torah, until the day that the people of Israel were restored to obedience to the Torah, in the Promised Land, by Nehemiah.
The Writings of History, plus the Torah, tell about four ancient empires - Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian - that each succeeded each other. These sources tell of the events from the beginning of the Egyptian Empire to well into the history of the Persian Empire. They tell who ruled these empires, and what these rulers did. They tell about the capital of these empires, and the principle cities of these empires. They also tell about life in these empires, and how these empires were ruled. They about the customs of the people in these empires, and the philosophy of each empire. They tell about the food people ate, and the decorations of their palaces.
These sources also tell about the Canaanites, and other ancient peoples, like the Philistines, who lived in the Promised Land before the Hebrews arrived, during the time from Joshua to the carrying away of the Jews to Babylon, and after the Jews returned to the Promised Land. They also tell of the ancient Samaritans, who came into the Promised Land, after the Jews began to be cast out. These sources tell all of the same kinds of details, about these other inhabitants of the Promised Land, that they tell about the four ancient empires.
Most of all, these sources tell about the people of Israel. They tell about how the Hebrews came from a single man, of Syrian descent, who left the area of Babylon, to live in the Promised Land, as a foreigner. They tell of how from this one man, came a family of people, along with their servants, in the land of Canaan, who came to be known as Hebrews, because they were foreigners, whose ancestors had crossed over the Euphrates River, to live in the land of Canaan. ["Hebrew" means "one who crossed over".] They tell of how these Hebrews went into Egypt, and grew into a nation of people there. They tell of how these Hebrews left Egypt, with a multitude of people from other nations, to be forged together, by being given one law, into the people of Israel. They tell about how the people of Israel came into the Promised Land, to destroy the Canaanites for their wickedness. They tell about how the people of Israel conquered the Promised Land, and eventually became the twelve tribe kingdom of Israel. They tell about how the twelve tribe kingdom of Israel, was split into a ten tribe kingdom of Israel, and a two tribe kingdom of Judah. They tell about how these two kingdoms came to an end. They tell about the return of the descendants of the people of Israel from the two tribe kingdom of Judah, who were called Jews, to the Promised Land, to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple.
These sources tell about the interactions, between the four empires, the other inhabitants of the Promised Land, and the people of Israel. They tell of how the other inhabitants of the Promised Land, and these empires, were used to punish the people of Israel, for doing evil. They tell of how the people of Israel, were used to bless many of the other inhabitants of the Promised Land, and the people of these empires, because they sought to do what was right, even though they did not know what was right. They tell of various times when a man, or a woman, of Israel was raised to the second highest position, in these empires.
All of this historical information in these sources is so detailed, and so precise, that many skeptics of the Original Covenant, said that it had to be made up. These skeptics have been to be proven wrong in big ways, particularly since the 1930s. At time, archaeologists were able to begin excavating the lands described in the Original Covenant, in a bigger way than they ever have before. What they found was not just artifacts, that reinforced what written in the Original Covenant, but also ancient documents, that only collaborated - and never contradicted - the history given in the Original Covenant, but especially what was written in the Writings of History.
They found that the people groups in the Writings of History, as well as the rest of the Original Covenant, told an incredibly accurate story. The people lived where, the Original Covenant said they lived. The people had the customs, that the Original Covenant said they had. People lived in those places, when the Original Covenant said they lived there. The people came into the places that they moved into, from the places that the Original Covenant said they came from.
They found that the four empires all began, flourished, and ended, when the Original Covenant said they did. These empires were ruled by the people, that the Original Covenant said they were ruled by, the rulers ruled for the length of time, that the Original Covenant said that they ruled, and the rulers ruled in the order, that the Original Covenant said they ruled in. These empires were engaged in the wars, that the Original Covenant said they were engaged in, and had the results that the Original Covenant recorded.
They found that a people of Syrian descent did indeed come into Egypt from the land of Canaan, as recorded in the Original Covenant, at the time that the Original Covenant recorded. They found that these people did indeed leave Egypt, go into the wilderness in modern Saudi Arabia, and then come into the Promised Land exactly as recorded in the Original Covenant. They found that these people did indeed destroy the cities of the Canaanites as recorded in the Original Covenant. They found that the cities and rulers of the Canaanites all matched was was recorded in the Original Covenant. They found that really was first one, and then two kingdoms of these people as recorded in the Original Covenant. They found that these kingdoms were ruled by the kings listed in the Original Covenant, for the length of time recorded in the Original Covenant, and in the order listed in the Original Covenant. They found that these kingdoms came to an end exactly in the manner described in the Original Covenant. They found that the Jews returned to the Promised Land to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple, in the exact manner described in the Original Covenant.
They found that these people did indeed have the interactions with the four empires and other inhabitants of the Promised Land that are described in the Original Covenant. They found statues and monuments, as well as writings, that actually have the names given in the Original Covenant for people, who came from those foreigners in the land of Canaan, that were made second in command in these empires, at the time given in the Original Covenant.
Modern science, like DNA, has also only confirmed, not contradicted, the history given in the Original Covenant, especially what is written in The Writings of History. The truth is there has never been found anything, to show that the Original Covenant was ever wrong, in even one point of the history given in it. There have only been occasional "finds", that were later proven to be misinterpreted evidence, or even complete frauds.
The Writings of History, and the rest of the Original Covenant, are not like the Book of Mormon, which tells of empires, people groups and people, that left behind no physical evidence, that they ever existed. These sources do not contain stories about events that happened a long, long time ago in a galaxy, far, far, away. They tell of what happened in real time and space, on a very real planet, called "Earth". They contain accurate and detailed history, because people who actually witnessed these events, who were actually there, recorded what they actually saw. This kind of eye witness evidence is considered to be the most reliable evidence, by historians. It is simply beyond reason to believe, that the history recorded in the Original Covenant, is not reliable.
Since the Original Covenant does contain reliable history then there is no reason to doubt the rest of the Original Covenant. The Original Covenant said, that a Prophet of Truth, like unto Moses, would be raised up and the people must obey that Prophet of Truth (Deuteronomy 18:15-18). The Man of Truth is that Prophet of Truth who was sent, so you could come into the House of Truth (Acts 3:22-26). You can come into the House of Truth when you decide to obey the Man of Truth because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9). After all, everything that was written in the Writings of History, was written so you come into the House of Truth (1 Corinthians 10:11).
Come into the House of Truth!
The Original Covenant is divided into three major sections, sometimes called, The Law, The Prophets, and The Psalms (Luke 24:44). In Hebrew, these sections are called "Torah", "Nevi'im", and "Ketuvim". The first letters of each section (T-N-K) are used to from the acronym "TaNaKh" for the entire collection of the books that form what is commonly called, "The Old Testament", in English. However, "Ketuvim" does not mean "Psalms" but rather "Writings".
The section called "The Writings" is often referred to as "the Psalms" ("Tehillim" in Hebrew), because the Book of Psalms is the first book of the Writings, in the Jewish ordering of the books of the Original Covenant. The Writings consists of two subsections, the first is "The Writings of Poetry", that begins with the book of Psalms, and the second is "The Writings of History", that begins with the book of Joshua (Yah'shua).
The Writings of History contain the history of the people of Israel, from when they first entered the Promised Land, until the Jews resettled the Promised Land, after the exile to Babylon. While all of the sections of the Original Covenant contain historical information, the Writings of History, contains the bulk of the history. The Writings of History connect all of the other books together, like the trunk of a tree of wondrous strength. So if the history, in The Writings of History is reliable, then it is reasonable, that the history in the rest of the Original Covenant is reliable.
The Writings of History cannot be understood without understanding the Torah first. The Torah contains the Law that the Father of Truth (YHVH aka God aka THE LORD) gave to Moses, so the entirety of the Torah is the first section of the Original Covenant. In fact, the Torah is the foundation of the entire Original Covenant, so the entire Original Covenant is often referred to as the Torah (The Law). For example, the Man of Truth (Yeshua HaMashiach aka Jesus Christ) used this term about a quote from the Psalms, that is part of The Writings of Poetry (John 10:34).
The Torah starts with the very beginning of everything (Genesis 1:1). It progresses, to the giving of the covenants to Abraham (Abram), Isaac (Yitzakh), and Jacob (Ya'acob aka Israel), to give the descendants of Israel, the Promised Land (Genesis 35:10-12). It then provides a record, of all the events that lead up to the descendants of Israel coming into Egypt, via Joseph, who was the prime minister of Egypt, as well as a son of Jacob (Genesis 46:26-34). After that it, tells of the deliverance of the descendants of Israel, from slavery in Egypt by Moses (Moishe), to bring them into the Promised Land (Exodus 3:15-17). It establishes the duties the priests, who came from Aaron (Aharon), for leading worship in the Temple (Leviticus 8:5-13). It continues to tell how, the descendants of Israel and the mixed multitude, were bound together into one people, in the wilderness, through the law, that was given to Moses (Numbers 15:14-16). After that it details, the instructions that Moses gave to the people of Israel, for when they entered the Promised Land (Deuteronomy 4:1-5). The people of Israel were instructed, to destroy the Canaanites from the Promised Land, for their wicked deeds, and so that the Canaanites would not teach them, to do the same kind of wicked things (Deuteronomy 20:16-18). The Torah ends shortly after the commandment is given, for Joshua to lead the people of Israel into the Promised Land (Deuteronomy 31:3-8).
The Writings of History continues where the Torah leaves off. The Writings of History can be summarized as follows:
After Moses died, then Joshua became the next Prophet of Truth, to deliver the word of the Father of Truth to the people of Israel, and to lead them in carrying out His will (Joshua 1:1-4). Everything Joshua did, was a continuation of what was written in the Torah, given through Moses (Joshua 1:5-8). So Joshua lead the people of Israel, in driving out the Canaanites from the Promised Land (Joshua 3:10). After many years of war, the people of Israel had destroyed many of the Canaanites out of the Promised Land, with the help of the Father of Truth, so they could begin to possess the Promised Land (Joshua 24:11-13). Joshua, the Prophet of Truth, then had the record of what happened to the people of Israel, in response to their obedience or disobedience to the Torah, to start being written in a section added to the Book of Truth, after the Torah, that is appropriately called "The Writings" (Joshua 24:19-26).
The Father of Truth continued to speak to the people of Israel, after Joshua and his generation died (Judges 2:4-10). The record of the four hundred and thirty years, between Joshua and the time of the last Judge of Truth, were in like manner included in the Writings of History (Acts 13:19-21).
During the time of the Judges of Truth, Ruth (Rut) the Moabitess chose to take care of Naomi, and cleave to the Father of Truth, rather than to return to her own people, and the idols they worshiped (Ruth 1:15-17). Ruth then married the nearest available relative of Naomi, to raise up a son to carry on the name of her dead husband, the son of Naomi, so that his line would not die out, as commanded in the Torah (Ruth 4:10-13). So this son was counted as the son of Naomi, to preserve the line of her dead husband (Ruth 4:14-17). So the Father of Truth choose this son, as the eighth generation in the line of Pharez, that start the line would later lead to the King of Israel, who had to be in the tenth generation of Pharez (Ruth 4:18-22).
The Father of Truth raised up one last Judge of Truth, to judge the people of Israel according to the Torah, and record His dealings with them in the Writings of History, named Samuel (Shmuel) (1 Samuel 3:18-20). When Samuel grew old, the people of Israel demanded a king, because his sons would not rule over them, in accordance with what was written in the Torah, as Samuel had done, and because they wanted to be like the nations around them, who all had a king, instead of the Father of Truth ruling over them, through the Judges of Truth (1 Samuel 8:5-7). So Samuel showed them Saul (Shual), the son of Kish, from the tribe of Benjamin (Benyamin), was chosen to be their king, because he had the appearance, like one of the king of the nations around them, and because the people of Israel had rejected, the Father of Truth ruling over them, through Judges of Truth, like Samuel (1 Samuel 10:19-24). So Samuel began recording the next part of the Writings of History, that dealt with the period of the kings of Israel (1 Samuel 10:25).
The Father of Truth had always intended to give a king to Israel, from the tribe of Judah (Genesis 49:8-10). However, no one who descended from someone who was born out of wedlock, could stand in the congregation of the Father of Truth, until the tenth generation was born (Deuteronomy 23:2). Judah had sinned with Tamar, to bring about Pharez and Zerah, out of wedlock (1 Chronicles 2:3-4). So the Father of Truth could not give Israel a king, from the tribe of Judah, until David was old enough, because he was the tenth generation in the line of Pharez (1 Chronicles 2:5-15).
King Saul did not carry out the will of the Father of Truth, so the Father of Truth said, that He would raise up a replacement, who was in pursuit of His own heart (1 Samuel 13:13-14). The Father of Truth had Samuel, anoint David to be the next king of Israel, because his heart was in right with Him (1 Samuel 16:7-12).
King David then had a son named Solomon (Shlomo), to replace the child that had been conceived in adultery by him and Bathsheba, whom the Father of Truth had caused to die, because he could not be on the throne, to carry out His will after David (2 Samuel 12:23-25). King Solomon loved the Father of Truth greatly in his youth, that he demonstrated by obeying Him, so the Father of Truth offered him anything he wanted (1 Kings 3:3-5). Since Solomon asked Him for wisdom, to lead the people of Israel in following the Father of Truth, then the Father of Truth made him wiser than anyone on Earth, and also gave him riches and honor, as well as the promise of a long life, if Solomon continued to obey His commandments (1 Kings 3:6-14).
Yet, Solomon married many foreign wives, who turned his heart from pursuing after the Father of Truth completely, when he grew old (1 Kings 11:1-4). Solomon filled the land of Israel, with places for his wives to worship the idols of the lands, where they had came from, and even joined them in their idol worship (1 Kings 11:5-8). Therefore the Father of Truth said, that He would tear most of the kingdom of Israel, out of the hand of the son of Solomon, with only one tribe remaining loyal to the tribe of Judah, that Solomon came from (1 Kings 11:9-13). So the Prophets of Truth finished, putting the history of the twelve tribe kingdom of Israel, in The Writings of History, when King Solomon died, as the last king, of the twelve tribe kingdom of Israel (2 Chronicles 9:29-31).
The Father of Truth had Ahijah (Achiyah), the Prophet of Truth, tell Jeroboam (Yerob'am), that he was going to be king over ten tribes of Israel, because of what King Solomon had done, in bringing idol worship into the twelve tribe kingdom of Israel (1 Kings 11:28-35). Jeroboam became the king of the ten tribe kingdom of Israel, while the son of Solomon, King Rehoboam (Rechab'am), became the king of the kingdom of Judah, that consisted of his own tribe, Judah, and Benjamin, as the one tribe that remained loyal to the tribe of Judah (1 Kings 12:15-24). However, the people from the other ten tribes of Israel, who lived in the cities of the two tribe kingdom of Judah, were also ruled by King Rehoboam (2 Chronicles 10:17).
Now the Father of Truth had promised King Jeroboam, to make his throne as secure as the throne of King David, to rule over the ten tribe kingdom of Israel, if he would continue to lead the ten tribe kingdom of Israel, in following His commandments in the Torah, like King David had done (1 Kings 11:37-38). Yet King Jeroboam was afraid, that the people would turn against him, if they kept going to Jerusalem, to keep the feast three times a year, as the Torah commanded of all Jewish men, who lived in the Promised Land (1 Kings 12:26-27). So he set up two golden calves, like the people of Israel had done, when they provoked the Father of Truth in the wilderness, and created his own worship system, as an alternative to the one commanded in the Torah (1 Kings 12:28-33). Therefore, the Father of Truth had Ahijah the Prophet of Truth, tell Jeroboam that because he did worse than King Solomon, after He made him to be king of the ten tribe kingdom of Israel, then He would cause everyone, who pissed against the wall in the family of Jeroboam, to die a violent death, without a proper burial, except for his one infant son, who had not turned against the Father of Truth (1 Kings 14:7-13). So Baasha (Ba'asha) slayed the entire family of Jeroboam, and took over the ten tribe kingdom of Israel, as Ahijah the Prophet of Truth had spoken (1 Kings 15:25-30).
In the Torah, the Father of Truth had said, that when the people of Israel left off following Him, to follow after idols in the Promised Land, then He would scatter the people of Israel, among other nations outside of the Promised Land, where they would have to serve idols (Deuteronomy 4:25-28). So the infant son of Jeroboam died, and Baasha (Ba'asha) was raised up as king, when he destroyed the rest of the house of Jeroboam, to show that the Father of Truth would one day destroy the entire ten tribe kingdom of Israel, and scatter them to nations beyond the Euphrates River, for following Jeroboam in forsaking the Torah, that He had given (1 Kings 14:14-16).
Hundreds of years later, the Assyrian king Pul, invaded the ten tribe kingdom of Israel, and put it under tribute, because Menahem (Menachem), the king of Israel, continued to lead the people in the idolatry, that King Jeroboam had started (2 Kings 15:27-28). After this, Pekah (Peqah) became the king of the ten tribe kingdom, and continued to lead the ten tribe kingdom of Israel in the idolatry, that King Jeroboam had started, like all the kings of the ten tribe kingdom of Israel before him, had done (2 Kings 15:27-28). So Tiglathpileser, the king of Assyria, came and took the northern part of the ten tribe kingdom of Israel, captive to Assyria (2 Kings 15:29). Then the last king of the ten tribe kingdom of Israel, Hoshea, rebelled against the Assyrian king, Shalmaneser, so that the rest of the people of the ten tribe kingdom of Israel, were scattered east of the Euphrates River, particularly among the cities of the Medes, on the eastern edge of the Assyrian Empire (2 Kings 17:3-6). So the ten tribe kingdom of Israel came to an end, as the Father of Truth had warned in the Torah, because the ten tribe kingdom of Israel forsook the Torah, to worship idols, despite the Father of Truth sending many Prophets of Truth, to turn them back to the Torah (2 Kings 17:7-18).
The Writings of History contain the entire history of the ten tribe kingdom of Israel, from its separation from the two tribe kingdom of Judah, to the removal of the people of the ten tribe kingdom of Israel out of the Promised Land, to live east of the Euphrates River, in Assyria (2 Kings 17:21-23).
During the reign of King Rehoboam, the two tribe kingdom of Judah turned to the idols of the Canaanites, and did worse than any of the people of Israel before them, in that they tolerated homosexuality throughout the kingdom of Judah (1 Kings 14:21-24). King Rehoboam, and people from all of the tribes of Israel, who lived in the two tribe kingdom of Judah, had forsook obeying the commandments of the Father of Truth, in the Torah, as soon as the kingdom had became stable and strong (2 Chronicles 12:1). Yet when the Prophet of Truth told them, that trouble had came upon them for their wickedness, they repented, and the Father of Truth spared them from being removed from the Promised Land, at that time, but did not leave them completely unpunished (2 Chronicles 12:5-8). Rehoboam had done evil in the eyes of the Father of Truth, at the beginning of the two tribe kingdom of Judah, because he had not prepared his heart, by seeking after the Father of Truth, before he became king, as the Prophets of Truth reported concerning the two tribe kingdom of Judah, in The Writings of History (2 Chronicles 12:12-15).
Afterwards, King Asa became the first king of Judah, to do what was right in the eyes of the Father of Truth, by destroying the homosexuals and idols of his father, out of the kingdom of Judah, and even removed his own mother from being queen, because she had set up an idol in a grove of trees (1 Kings 15:11-14). Then came more wicked kings over Judah, like King Ahaziah (2 Kings 8:25-27).
It continues to tell of how centuries later, after the ten tribe kingdom of Israel had been carried away captive to Assyria, Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, invaded the two tribe kingdom of Judah, and put it under tribute, during the reign of King Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:11-14). However, the two tribe kingdom of Israel was not taken into captivity, by the Assyrians, because King Hezekiah asked the Father of Truth for deliverance, instead of seeking after idols, as the kings of the ten tribe kingdom of Israel had done (2 Kings 19:14-20). Since King Hezekiah did what was right in the eyes of the Father of Truth, the Father of Truth killed the entire Assyrian army, and then caused King Sennacherib, to die in the house of his own idol, at the hand of his own sons (2 Kings 19:31-37).
This pattern of some kings of Judah doing what was evil, interrupted by other kings doing what was right, continued to ratchet the kingdom of Judah downward, until King Manasseh made the kingdom of Judah, to become worse than the Canaanites, who had been cast out of the Promised Land, before the people of Israel (2 Kings 21:1-9).
The Father of Truth had said in the Torah, that He would cast out the people of Israel out of the Promised Land, like He had cast out the Canaanites, when they did the same things as the Canaanites (Leviticus 18:24-28). He said, that when they became this evil, then He would send a terrible nation from far away, whose speech they could not understand, to bring such evil upon their land, that they would even eat the flesh of their own children (Deuteronomy 28:49-57). He said, that He would remove the few survivors off of the Promised Land, and cause them to be carried away to other nations, where they would serve idols, instead of Him (Deuteronomy 28:62-64). So He spoke through the Prophets of Truth, that all of this would soon come upon the kingdom of Judah, because King Manasseh had lead the kingdom of Judah, into doing worse than the Canaanites had done (2 Kings 21:10-16).
A Prophet of Truth had told Jeroboam, that a king of Judah named "Josiah" (Yoshiyahu), would one day destroy the altar that he had set up in Bethel, and burn the bones of his priests on it (1 Kings 13:1-2). The last king of Judah to do what was right in the eyes of the Father of Truth, was named "Josiah" (2 Kings 22:1-2). So Huldah (Chuledah), the Prophetess of Truth, told King Josiah, that the terrible judgment, announced in the days of King Manasseh, would not come upon the kingdom of Judah in his lifetime, because he had sought to bring the kingdom of Judah, to repentance (2 Kings 22:14-20).
Therefore, King Josiah lead the kingdom of Judah, in destroying both the idols and the homosexuals, out of Jerusalem (2 Kings 23:1-7). King Josiah then proceeded to do the same, throughout the kingdom of Judah (2 Kings 23:8-14).
The king of Assyria, Tiglathpileser, had replaced the ten tribes with in the Promised Land, with people of other nations, who came to be known as Samaritans (2 Kings 17:24). After that Tiglathpileser, the king of Assyria, had commanded that some of the corrupt priests, from the ten tribe kingdom of Israel, to return, and teach these Samaritans, how to worship the Father of Truth (2 Kings 17:25-28). So these Samaritans ended up worshiping, both the Father of Truth and the idols of the lands, that they had came from (2 Kings 17:29-33).
However, King Josiah proceeded to go to Bethel, in the former ten tribe kingdom of Israel, that had came to be known as Samaria, to destroy the altar, and burn the bones of the priests, who Jeroboam had set up, as foretold by the Prophet of Truth, hundreds of years earlier (2 Kings 23:15-18). King Josiah then proceeded to cleanse, the entire land of the Samaritans, of idols and their priests (2 Kings 23:19-20).
King Josiah then lead the kingdom of Judah, in keeping the Passover, as commanded in the Torah, in a greater manner than anyone had, since the days of Joshua (2 Kings 23:21-23). King Josiah actively spent his days, destroying every thing that the Torah said was wicked, to the point, that He did what was right in the eyes of the Father of Truth, in keeping the Torah, more than any other king, including King David (2 Kings 23:24-25). Yet, he could not prevent the terrible punishment, that would come upon the kingdom of Judah, for the sins, that King Manasseh had lead them into committing, as recorded in The Writings of History (2 Kings 23:26-28).
After Josiah had died, then Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, conquered the kingdom of Judah, during the reign of the next king, to bring about all that the Father of Truth had said, would come upon the kingdom of Judah, for committing the sins, that King Manasseh had lead them to commit (2 Kings 24:1-4). The next king of Judah rebelled against Nebuchadnezzar, and the terrible siege of Jerusalem, where people ate their own children, came to pass (2 Kings 24:8-11). After being besieged for more than seven years, the king of Judah, and all but the poorest people of Jerusalem that survived, were carried away to Babylon (2 Kings 24:12-16). The last of king of Judah rebelled against the king of Babylon, so again Jerusalem was besieged in a terrible siege, until the king of Babylon destroyed Jerusalem, and carried all, but the poorest survivors of the entire kingdom of Judah, off to Babylon (2 Kings 25:1-12). Finally, the few who were left in the kingdom of Judah, killed the governor appointed by the king of Babylon and fled to Egypt, so that there were none of them left in the Promised Land, as Moses had written in the Torah (2 Kings 25:22-26).
However, the Father of Truth also said in the Torah, that when the people of Israel would turn back to Him, while they were in captivity for their sins, then He would bring them back into the Promised Land, from all the places that He had scattered them (Deuteronomy 30:1-5). So the history of the people of Israel in The Writings of History, does not end with destruction brought upon the kingdom of Judah, by the Babylonian Empire, but continues until the time of the Persian Empire, which took over the Babylonian Empire (2 Chronicles 36:17-20).
Cyrus, the King of Persia commanded the people of Judah to return to Jerusalem, to rebuild the Temple (2 Chronicles 36:22-23). Cyrus the Persian not only sent back whoever would return to Jerusalem, to rebuild the Temple, but also commanded that all of the Jews, who remained out of the Promised Land, were to help them with supplies (Ezra 1:2-6). Cyrus the Persian then had everything, that Nebuchadnezzar had removed from the Temple, returned to Jerusalem to be used in the rebuilt Temple (Ezra 1:7-11).
The Samaritans, who had remained in the Promised Land since the time of the king of Assyria, became adversaries, who hindered the Jews from carrying out the decree of Cyrus the Persian, until the days of Darius the Mede (Ezra 4:1-5). In particular, they accused the Jews of seeking to rebel against the Persians, to Ahasuerus (Ezra 4:6-16). So Ahasuerus caused the rebuilding of the Temple to cease, until Darius the Mede became the next king of Persia (Ezra 4:17-24).
Also during the reign of King Ahasuerus, Esther (Hadassah) became the Queen of Persia (Esther 2:15-17). Queen Esther, and her cousin Mordecai, brought about the destruction of everyone in the Persian Empire, who sought to destroy the Jews, during the reign of King Ahasuerus (Esther 9:1-5). Mordecai became the Prime Minister of Persia, and ensured that the Jewish people would be preserved, during the reign of King Ahasuerus (Esther 10).
After this, Darius the Mede decreed that the rebuilding of the Temple should resume, at his own expense (Ezra 6:8-12). So the second Temple was finished, in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the Mede (Ezra 6:13-15).
So in the seventh year of the reign of Artaxerxes, the next king of the Persian Empire, the priest and scribe Ezra requested that those in Babylon, who were needed to conduct worship of the Father of Truth in the rebuilt Temple, to be allowed to return to Jerusalem (Ezra 7:6-8). Artaxerxes not only sent them back, but he also gave a huge free offering to the Father of Truth, and issued a decree that no one was to hinder them, in any way whatsoever, from carrying out worship in the rebuilt Temple, or teaching people how to obey the commandments of the Father of Truth, that were written in the Torah (Ezra 7:11-26).
Yet for all of this, some of the chief Jews who returned to Jerusalem, again married idol worshiping wives from other nations, like King Solomon had done (Ezra 9:1-3). So Era the priest commanded, that those Jews divorce their idol worshiping wives, so that they would not again be put out of the Promised Land (Ezra 10:10-14). So the idol worshiping wives were divorced by the Jewish men, who had married them (Ezra 10:15-17).
Even though the Temple had been rebuilt, the walls of Jerusalem were still in ruins (Nehemiah 1:1-3). So Nehemiah (Nechemiyah) confessed that the people of Israel had brought this on themselves, and reminded the Father of Truth, that He had said in the Torah, that He would restore the people of Israel to the Promised Land, if they would return to keeping His commandments in the Torah (Nehemiah 1:5-9).
So in the twentieth year of the reign of Artaxerxes, Nehemiah asked the king of Persia, for permission to return to Jerusalem, to rebuild its walls (Nehemiah 2:1-5). Artaxerxes also gave Nehemiah an armed escort to Judah, and granted to him all the timber that he would need, to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem (Nehemiah 2:6-8). So Nehemiah became the governor of Judah, for twelve years (Nehemiah 5:14). Despite his enemies doing all they could, to stop the walls of Jerusalem from being rebuilt, Nehemiah lead the Jews into rebuilding the walls, in just fifty-two days, because the Father of Truth was with him (Nehemiah 6:14-16). Nehemiah returned to Shushan, in the thirty second year of Artaxerxes, as he had promised, but was granted leave to return again to Jerusalem, when he learned that Eliashib, the high priest, had turned the store room for the provision of the Levites, in the Temple, into an apartment for Tobiah - the same enemy of the Father of Truth, who had tried to keep Nehemiah from building the walls around Jerusalem (Nehemiah 13:4-6). So he returned to Jerusalem to throw out Tobiah, and to restore the provision of the Levites, so that the worship at the rebuilt Temple would not come to an end (Nehemiah 13:7-13). Nehemiah also caused the Jews, to separate yet a second time from the idol worshiping wives of the nations around them, so the Jews would not repeat the mistakes that had began, when King Solomon had done the same thing (Nehemiah 13:23-27). So the history of the people of Israel, in the Writings of History, ends with the people of Israel being once again in the Promised Land, to carry out all that is commanded in the Torah, in the time of Nehemiah (Nehemiah 13:29-31).
So The Writings of History contain all of the history of the people of Israel, from the day that Joshua brought them into the Promised Land, in obedience to the Torah, until the day that the people of Israel were restored to obedience to the Torah, in the Promised Land, by Nehemiah.
The Writings of History, plus the Torah, tell about four ancient empires - Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian - that each succeeded each other. These sources tell of the events from the beginning of the Egyptian Empire to well into the history of the Persian Empire. They tell who ruled these empires, and what these rulers did. They tell about the capital of these empires, and the principle cities of these empires. They also tell about life in these empires, and how these empires were ruled. They about the customs of the people in these empires, and the philosophy of each empire. They tell about the food people ate, and the decorations of their palaces.
These sources also tell about the Canaanites, and other ancient peoples, like the Philistines, who lived in the Promised Land before the Hebrews arrived, during the time from Joshua to the carrying away of the Jews to Babylon, and after the Jews returned to the Promised Land. They also tell of the ancient Samaritans, who came into the Promised Land, after the Jews began to be cast out. These sources tell all of the same kinds of details, about these other inhabitants of the Promised Land, that they tell about the four ancient empires.
Most of all, these sources tell about the people of Israel. They tell about how the Hebrews came from a single man, of Syrian descent, who left the area of Babylon, to live in the Promised Land, as a foreigner. They tell of how from this one man, came a family of people, along with their servants, in the land of Canaan, who came to be known as Hebrews, because they were foreigners, whose ancestors had crossed over the Euphrates River, to live in the land of Canaan. ["Hebrew" means "one who crossed over".] They tell of how these Hebrews went into Egypt, and grew into a nation of people there. They tell of how these Hebrews left Egypt, with a multitude of people from other nations, to be forged together, by being given one law, into the people of Israel. They tell about how the people of Israel came into the Promised Land, to destroy the Canaanites for their wickedness. They tell about how the people of Israel conquered the Promised Land, and eventually became the twelve tribe kingdom of Israel. They tell about how the twelve tribe kingdom of Israel, was split into a ten tribe kingdom of Israel, and a two tribe kingdom of Judah. They tell about how these two kingdoms came to an end. They tell about the return of the descendants of the people of Israel from the two tribe kingdom of Judah, who were called Jews, to the Promised Land, to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple.
These sources tell about the interactions, between the four empires, the other inhabitants of the Promised Land, and the people of Israel. They tell of how the other inhabitants of the Promised Land, and these empires, were used to punish the people of Israel, for doing evil. They tell of how the people of Israel, were used to bless many of the other inhabitants of the Promised Land, and the people of these empires, because they sought to do what was right, even though they did not know what was right. They tell of various times when a man, or a woman, of Israel was raised to the second highest position, in these empires.
All of this historical information in these sources is so detailed, and so precise, that many skeptics of the Original Covenant, said that it had to be made up. These skeptics have been to be proven wrong in big ways, particularly since the 1930s. At time, archaeologists were able to begin excavating the lands described in the Original Covenant, in a bigger way than they ever have before. What they found was not just artifacts, that reinforced what written in the Original Covenant, but also ancient documents, that only collaborated - and never contradicted - the history given in the Original Covenant, but especially what was written in the Writings of History.
They found that the people groups in the Writings of History, as well as the rest of the Original Covenant, told an incredibly accurate story. The people lived where, the Original Covenant said they lived. The people had the customs, that the Original Covenant said they had. People lived in those places, when the Original Covenant said they lived there. The people came into the places that they moved into, from the places that the Original Covenant said they came from.
They found that the four empires all began, flourished, and ended, when the Original Covenant said they did. These empires were ruled by the people, that the Original Covenant said they were ruled by, the rulers ruled for the length of time, that the Original Covenant said that they ruled, and the rulers ruled in the order, that the Original Covenant said they ruled in. These empires were engaged in the wars, that the Original Covenant said they were engaged in, and had the results that the Original Covenant recorded.
They found that a people of Syrian descent did indeed come into Egypt from the land of Canaan, as recorded in the Original Covenant, at the time that the Original Covenant recorded. They found that these people did indeed leave Egypt, go into the wilderness in modern Saudi Arabia, and then come into the Promised Land exactly as recorded in the Original Covenant. They found that these people did indeed destroy the cities of the Canaanites as recorded in the Original Covenant. They found that the cities and rulers of the Canaanites all matched was was recorded in the Original Covenant. They found that really was first one, and then two kingdoms of these people as recorded in the Original Covenant. They found that these kingdoms were ruled by the kings listed in the Original Covenant, for the length of time recorded in the Original Covenant, and in the order listed in the Original Covenant. They found that these kingdoms came to an end exactly in the manner described in the Original Covenant. They found that the Jews returned to the Promised Land to rebuild Jerusalem and the Temple, in the exact manner described in the Original Covenant.
They found that these people did indeed have the interactions with the four empires and other inhabitants of the Promised Land that are described in the Original Covenant. They found statues and monuments, as well as writings, that actually have the names given in the Original Covenant for people, who came from those foreigners in the land of Canaan, that were made second in command in these empires, at the time given in the Original Covenant.
Modern science, like DNA, has also only confirmed, not contradicted, the history given in the Original Covenant, especially what is written in The Writings of History. The truth is there has never been found anything, to show that the Original Covenant was ever wrong, in even one point of the history given in it. There have only been occasional "finds", that were later proven to be misinterpreted evidence, or even complete frauds.
The Writings of History, and the rest of the Original Covenant, are not like the Book of Mormon, which tells of empires, people groups and people, that left behind no physical evidence, that they ever existed. These sources do not contain stories about events that happened a long, long time ago in a galaxy, far, far, away. They tell of what happened in real time and space, on a very real planet, called "Earth". They contain accurate and detailed history, because people who actually witnessed these events, who were actually there, recorded what they actually saw. This kind of eye witness evidence is considered to be the most reliable evidence, by historians. It is simply beyond reason to believe, that the history recorded in the Original Covenant, is not reliable.
Since the Original Covenant does contain reliable history then there is no reason to doubt the rest of the Original Covenant. The Original Covenant said, that a Prophet of Truth, like unto Moses, would be raised up and the people must obey that Prophet of Truth (Deuteronomy 18:15-18). The Man of Truth is that Prophet of Truth who was sent, so you could come into the House of Truth (Acts 3:22-26). You can come into the House of Truth when you decide to obey the Man of Truth because you believe that the Father of Truth raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9). After all, everything that was written in the Writings of History, was written so you come into the House of Truth (1 Corinthians 10:11).
Come into the House of Truth!
Labels: History, Old Testament, Original Covenant, Tanakh
posted by The House Of Truth @ October 21, 2015
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