Israel's Symbols and Heraldry - Origin of Nations

THE ASSYRIAN TABLETSevidence, we form a belief. It's our beliefs, that found our actions. Beliefs are what we act on.The Christain walk depends on a strong belief in God's reality. Christians say that the Bible is God tellingthem about Himself; what He wants, things He's said and done, things He's said will happen. But unlessthe Bible can be somehow verified, it's no more than any other book of stories. And being such, thethings that can't be verified, like heaven, God's constant Presense, and His provision, can hold nointerest.Our task, then, is to find as much verifiable evidence as possible, to help us act on those UN verifiableconcepts. And we can't verifiy the Bible with itself, can we? Just because the same event is prophesied intwo different places doesn't make it true. Objective evidence is always best. When we're sure we couldn'thave made up something, we have more confidence in it.Of course, the best places to check prophecy are history and archeology. On another page you find theBehistun Rock; a wonderful tie to the Lost Tribes. More than a century before Darius the Greatcommisioned Behistun rock, however, the Assyrians were watching their borders. Their enemies theUrartians and the Medes may start gathering an army. The Assyrians wanted to know everthing that wasgoing on with their foes. The border guards, and spies, would send back to the King, reports on themovements and activities occuring in the neighboring countries.A good king always keeps a library of books and letters, etc. In 1847, Sir Henry Layard, uncovered theAssyrian capitol city of Ninevah. The Royal Palace contained over 23,000 clay tablets with everythingfrom business deals to spy reports from the borders. It is these letters that become the transition point inprophecy fulfillment. Like Behistun Rock, these reports reveal the names used by the Assyrians for thedifferent groups of Israelites they had placed as a buffer state between them and their enemies. Withthese names in hand we can trace these people and check the prophecies about them.The "Royal Letters" are dated about 707 BC, only fourteen years after the fall of Samaria, the capitol cityof the Kingdom of Israel. Maps showing the deportation and subsequent migrations of the Lost Tribeswill show you the geographical locations.Letters number 1079 and 197 were written by Sennacherib to his father, King Sargon. Letter 1079 tells ofa resounding defeat of the army of the Urartians. The troops were slain, and were fleeing. In the followupreport of Letter 197 we find that this all happend in the land of Gamir. We still have one more step to gobefore we confirm that the Isrelites are the ones who live in that land.In letter 112 it's reported that a people "went forth" from the midst of the Mannai, and into the "land ofUrartu." Another Letter clearly separates the Urartians, the Mannai and the Gamera or Ga-me-ra-a-a asdistinct from each other. The people named in Letter 112 are those Gamerraan; Cimmerians, in English.In captivity, the Israelites were renamed Gimira and Gamera and finally Cimmerians.But these aren't ALL, just a smaller part of the total number of Israelites that were deported by theAssyrians. There were many thousands of others placed farther east. As the Persian writings on BehistunRock show, these people were called by a different name. Among the prayer texts of Esarhaddon to thehttp://asis.com/~stag/tablets.html (2 of 4) [05/07/2002 2:20:19 PM]