The Bible is From God
Super Sunday – Lesson 3
• Archeology – is from two words
(archos – ancient) and (logos –
discourse) = the study of human
culture through recovery and analysis
of documents and artifacts.
• Can the things we find in the earth,
buried for centuries, prove the Bible is
from God? YES!
• Why are they still there?
– DRY – In many areas of
the Middle East the rainfall
is less than one half of one
inch per year.
– SAND AND WIND –
Things and even buildings
are quickly buried in sand
by the windstorms
• What do archeologists find?
• Documents – scrolls, parchments,
writings on clay, stone, monuments
• Cities – whole cities have been buried
in the sand, abandoned because of
disease (Ephesus) or destroyed by
invasion
• What do archeologists find?
• Artifacts – dishes, pottery, coins,
tools, household items, furniture
• The rest of this lesson will look at
some of the discoveries that have
proved the Bible to be from God.
• Dead Sea
Scrolls
• Qumran was
occupied from
250 BC to about
150 BC
• Copied OT
Scriptures
• Dead Sea
Scrolls
• Isaiah scroll was
most important
• More than 1,000
years older then
any known copy
• Preserved in clay
jars
• Dead Sea
Scrolls
• Many coins found
• Emperor’s picture
on coins
• Type of inks used
help to date the
time of the scrolls
• Moabite Stone
• A German
missionary
discovered this
stone in 1868
• It recorded an
event from 850
BC
• Moabite Stone
• King Mosha, king of
Moab was in
subjection to Israel
• This stone names
Omri as king of Israel
• This event is recorded
in 1 Kings 16:16
• Belshazzar
• The Bible teaches that Belshazzar
was the last king of Babylon – Daniel
5:22; Daniel 7:1
• Critics said the Bible was wrong
• The last records showed that
Nabonidus was king of Babylon
• Is the Bible in error here?
• Belshazzar
• In 1876, Sir Henry Rawlinson
discovered more than 2,000 tablets
relating to Nabonidus
• Nabonidus decided to travel and
appointed his son, Belshazzar to be
king in his absence
• They were co-regents for several
years.
• Here is one of the
tablets now known
as the Nabonidus
Chronicles.
• We now know
that the Bible
was correct.
Belshazzar was
king of Babylon
• Sargon II
• Isaiah 20:1 - In the year that Tartan
came to Ashdod, when Sargon the
king of Assyria sent him, and he
fought against Ashdod and took it,
• For centuries – there was NO
RECORD of any king of Assyria
named Sargon.
• Sargon II •A team of archeologists
were walking along in the
desert.
•One stubbed his toe on a
stone.
•As the sand was swept
away they realized it was
a stairway.
•The stairway led to a
room.
• Sargon II •Another room and then
another room.
•Sargon’s name on the
walls
•There was a huge
entrance arch which led
to the main palace.
•THIS WAS THE
PALACE OF SARGON!
• Sargon II
•The entire palace
had a wall around
•Here is a long
section of the original
wall.
• Sargon II
•Around the outer
wall was a large
moat with bridges
that could be closed
if under attack
• Sargon II •The entire area
has now been
excavated
•It is a 72 room
palace
•Sargon’s name
and exploits are all
over the walls
• Sargon II •On the wall was the
description of how Sargon
captured Samaria (the
capital city of Israel in the
divided kingdom)
•SARGON REALLY DID
EXIST
•Isaiah was right all the
time.
• There are dozens more similar
examples that could be given
• But I hope that these examples have
given you a renewed assurance that
the Bible is from God.
• It could not be the product of man –
because many of these points would
have been missed.
• You can be assured that:
– The Bible is accurate in detail
– The Bible is correct in names and
places
– The Bible gives information that is
without error
– THE BIBLE IS FROM GOD