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  WHO ARE THE MERCHANTS OF TARSHISH？
  by Keith Malcomson
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Summary: This sermon delves into the historical and prophetic
significance of Tarshish, exploring its potential location and trade
connections with Israel and the British Isles. It highlights the
accuracy of biblical prophecies, particularly focusing on the future
role of the merchants of Tarshish in speaking out against Russia's
invasion of Israel, as foretold in Ezekiel 38.

Topics: "Prophecy Fulfilled", "The Role of Nations in God's Plan"
Scripture References: Isaiah 23:1, Ezekiel 27:12, Jeremiah 10:9, Genesis 10:4

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This sermon delves into the historical and prophetic significance of
Tarshish, exploring its potential location and trade connections with
Israel and the British Isles. It highlights the accuracy of biblical
prophecies, particularly focusing on the future role of the merchants of
Tarshish in speaking out against Russia's invasion of Israel, as
foretold in Ezekiel 38.

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I want you to turn here to Ezekiel chapter 38 again and we've done two
messages on this in previous weeks concerning Magog being Russia and
about a war that has never happened and Israel will have to be rebirthed
as a nation which happened in 1948. The Bible prophesied this 2,600
years ago accurately about nations, about cities, about a war, very
specifically. This present situation is not that but it is going to come
very soon.

You see Ezekiel 38 talks about an alignment of Russia and we proved that
Magog is ancient Russia with Turkey and with Iran. That happened for the
first time four years ago when they aligned themself in connection with
the crisis in Syria and so I want to go a bit further with this tonight
but as you are just before we read from Ezekiel 38, I want to make three
apologies. Number one, I apologize there's no pictures.

You'd be greatly helped tonight if I could put up maps and pictures. It
would really help you and I wish I had the ability and the time to do
that but I'd rather preach the word than fiddle around with those things
but it would help you so maybe hopefully someone online can keep
stopping, googling and then come back. The second thing, I want to
apologize for the subject and you don't know what it is yet.

You might think you know but you don't know. This subject's a bit
unusual. I would rather not preach it yet I believe this is God's will
to preach it.

It's unusual and almost everybody disagrees with one another on it. You
know I like subjects like that but it is a biblical subject so it may
seem a bit strange. I'm not preaching the gospel tonight or on the blood
or how to be born again.

I'm preaching on something unusual but I still believe because it's a
part of scripture and all scripture is profitable, really profitable for
us and so we preach it all. My third apology and this is my final one
before we read our text here and I give you my title. My third apology I
hinted at at Sunday morning.

There's something that I taught and inferred from scripture down over
the years, all the years that you've known me and especially one person
in this room was deeply impacted by a and a comment concerning this in
reference to Spain and I'm coming tonight to actually say I have to
change that. So I'm going to make an apology because I've always said
Tarshish is Spain but actually I'm going to broaden it. It's not total
denial of that and in fact I knew parts of this.

I had a suspicion years ago about what I'm going to preach tonight but I
never had the time to look into it or to be brave enough to preach it
but I am tonight. Be careful and say him hallelujah or amen but I'm
looking forward to this. I don't know how far I'll get.

Maybe we'll have to do two messages or a whole series but my title
tonight and it does fit in with Magog and Russia and what is just about
to happen. It's very important. My title is who are the merchants of
Tarshish? Reading from Ezekiel chapter 38 verse 1 and the word of the
Lord came unto me saying son of man set thy face against the land of
Magog the chief prince of Meshach and Tabul and prophesy against him and
say thus saith the Lord God behold I am against thee O Gog the chief
prince of Meshach and Tabul and I will turn thee back and put hooks in
thy jaws and I will bring thee forth and all thine army horses and
horsemen all of them clothed with all sorts of armor even a great
company with bucklers and shields all of them handling swords Persia
Ethiopia and Libya with them all of them with shield and helmet Gomer
and all his bands the house of Togomer of the north quarters and all his
bands and maybe and many people with thee be prepared and prepare thy
self and then I want to jump to my text this is the important part I'm
just giving a context but verse 13 is our verse tonight Sheba and Dedan
and the merchants of Tarshish with all the young lions thereof shall say
unto thee that is Magog and all the confederation of nations art thou
come to take a spoil hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey to
carry away silver and gold to take away cattle and goods to take a great
spoil will you pray with me here tonight father we do humble ourself
we're not playing games or trying to be smart with your word but we are
seeking to know your mind you've given us specific prophecies about our
generation about the future exact details about nations and what they
are going to do and what they are what's going to happen to them and
their demise and their fall and Lord God we pray tonight will you speak
to us and as you open up these scriptures make us to stand in awe make
us to know that you are the God of the Bible the only God who could ever
reveal both the past and the future who gives accurate details in every
book of the Bible to prove and to verify that every word of this book is
accurate and we pray tonight make this word this unusual word to be
profitable unto us in Jesus name amen our message tonight is who are the
merchants of Tarshish it's a remarkable prophecy in Ezekiel 38 13 we see
is this a vision of Russia Turkey Iran and several other nations comes
against the little nation of Israel in the last days just before Jesus
comes back we read of a reaction a response we don't read of any other
nation in the world coming to fight on behalf of Israel not America not
Britain not Europe no other nation no one else comes to defend them and
the little nation of Israel is left defenseless with this great army
marching into its nation it would seem naturally there's no hope and yet
the Bible prophesies the utter destruction of that army but you know
what it does say here in verse 13 it talks about two groupings of
nations and they actually speak out what do they say in verse 18 that is
Saudi Arabia and the merchants of Tarshish with all of the young lions
thereof shall say and notice here when Russia is invading Israel with an
Islamic a large Islamic army all that these Tarshish and Sheba and Dedan
all that they do is say or speak or publicly speak out and rebuke Russia
for what it is doing but they don't act have you just seen what's
happening in Afghanistan all these world powers with all of their
military strength and yet nobody acts on behalf of Afghanistan they just
move out helplessly and say you shouldn't do this what's just happened
with Ukraine you see everyone's speaking against Russia but nobody does
anything really it's all covert but they don't put armies in the field
they just say Russia you should not be doing that and so here with this
invasion of Russia into Israel in the Middle East we actually find that
there's a whole grouping of nations and you know what this is what they
say art thou come to take a spoil hast thou gathered thy company to take
a prey to carry away silver and gold and to take away cattle and goods
to take a great spoil but they don't act it's left for God to deliver
Israel in a remarkable way and we have two chapters about it so I've
told you who Sheba and Dedan are but who are these merchants of Tarshish
that is our message who are the merchants of Tarshish and also who are
all of their young lions we know that if Sheba and Dedan it's the whole
if you look on a map for this you will find it it's present-day Saudi
Arabia and we know that Saudi Arabia is in place it's not going to be
part of this invasion neither is Iraq mentioned is not interesting
neither is Syria that hasn't been involved with every invasion of Israel
since 1948 but yet Syria isn't mentioned here so Iraq is out Syria is
out and Saudi Arabia speaks against this invasion by Russia but who are
the merchants of Tarshish with all the young lions I'm telling you we're
very close to this war this is one of the unique prophecies in the Bible
that have never taken place yet but it's going to happen very soon I'm
fully persuaded and so I've got four points I'm not sure if I get to all
of them maybe I'll only get through the first one I I don't know but
let's begin here my first point Tarshish in biblical history the first
mention or let me say just before that that all through the Bible there
are 28 mentions of Tarshish 24 of those mentions it's spelled T-A-R at
the beginning but there's another four mentions where it's spelled T-H
so there's 28 complete mentions scattered throughout the entire Bible
sometimes we read about the ships of Tarshish the merchants of Tarshish
like here so this prophecy isn't necessarily about Tarshish it's the
merchants connected with Tarshish and yet at other times we read of the
navy of Tarshish but there's four different ways that the word Tarshish
is used in the Bible number one it appears as a personal name of three
individuals and one of them I'm going to mention here secondly it's it's
the place name of an actual country third of all it's about the ships or
a fleet a massive merchant convoy of ships that's how it's used in the
Bible and those ships can either belong to Tarshish or to some other
nation they can either be traveling Tarshish or coming back from
Tarshish but they are associated with Tarshish and then the fourth way
it is used is as a precious stone so that's the four ways that you so
number one Tarshish in biblical history the first mention of Tarshish is
in Genesis chapter 10 verse 4 and you'll remember in Genesis 10 it
mentions Magog it mentions all the names mentioned here in Ezekiel 48
you can trace them back to Genesis 10 what is Genesis 10 it is the
history of all mankind just after the flood as nations as peoples begin
to spread out so it gives you a very unique record of 70 different
nations and of 70 different languages that begin to rise up but listen
let me just home in on one verse from Genesis 10 this is speaking about
all the nations so it mentions the father the initial person who gave
birth to an entire nation and I hope you do believe that Adam and Eve
were real people who gave birth to the entire 8 billion people in the
world it took a few years but over the past several years DNA experts
have caught up with it and now they realize an African an Asian a South
American and an Irish man we all go back to guess what the same
individual man one man gave birth to us all wow they didn't believe it
until DNA come in my bible told me that when I was a child and it's the
same for women all women go back to the same individual women we didn't
evolve differently and so this is an accurate history of mankind no
other book contains it but the bible it contains the true past history
and it contains the true future prophecy it tells you everything that's
going to happen and it happens accurately in and precision in Genesis 10
and 4 we read about this and the sons of Javan were four four sons one
of them is called Tarshish he is the first man called Tarshish and you
know what this man called Tarshish he is an individual person he's going
to raise up a family then he's going to raise up an entire people then
he's going to move to a certain locality a position on the earth and
he's going to raise up a nation or a country it's going to be a specific
place notice will not be a city it's going to become an entire nation or
an entire people in a remarkable way one man is going to be so
remarkable and he's going to sow his seed in such a remarkable way that
in the last days our day when Russia invades Tarshish is noted at that
time and you can find Tarshish today in our world it's remarkable and so
we see this repeated in 1 chronicles 7 and 10 there's two other
individuals mentioned in the bible who are called Tarshish in 1
chronicles 7 and 10 a great grandson of Benjamin is called Tarshish or
in Esther chapter 114 one of the seven princes of Persia and Medea who
served Artaxerxes was called Tarshish so this was a name used in
cultures from Israel to Persia it was a known recognized name but I'm
bringing you to Tarshish in biblical history that's the first mention
the second time that you read about Tarshish is in context with Solomon
in the old testament let me get into this now because this is where it
gets very very interesting you see we want to find out who is Tarshish
but that's only a part of my message who are the merchants of Tarshish
that could be different and so concerning Solomon in 1 Kings chapter 10
verse 22 it says for the king that is Solomon had at sea a navy of
Tarshish notice the navy doesn't belong to Tarshish this is king Solomon
in Israel put an entire navy out to sea in the Mediterranean and he
called that navy a navy of Tarshish and it actually went with the navy
of Haram and it says here once in three years came the navy of Tarshish
bringing gold and silver and ivory and apes and peacocks this is just
after the year 1000 BC that's when Solomon reigned and that's when Haram
also reigned he was also a king both had a fleet of ships both worked
together and Solomon called his ships a navy of Tarshish very
interesting it says in 2nd Chronicles chapter 9 21 for the king's ships
went to Tarshish so not only does Solomon call his entire fleet of ships
for some reason he calls them ships of Tarshish it actually then says
that the king that is Solomon with his ships went to Tarshish with the
servants of Haram every three years once came the ships of Tarshish
bringing gold and silver and ivory and apes and peacocks so you've got
these ships that every three years they've done an entire journey you're
talking about a massive fleet traveling a long distance and this wasn't
just within the Mediterranean I mean look they get apes and they get
peacocks and they get gold and silver and all of this certain things
that you could find within the Mediterranean but not all of it this
means they had to go out beyond the Mediterranean beyond the streets of
Gibraltar in order to go seeking for all these things I'm going to build
on this and prove everything that I'm saying notice it says a navy of
Tarshish that means an entire fleet it's a name given to a long range
ships in a thousand BC that are either coming or going to Tarshish and
Tarshish was such the furthest place that they would ever go to that
they called these ships ships that could go a great distance they called
them ships of Tarshish Tarshish become the name of them even though
Tarshish wasn't very local now notice here who works together with
Solomon it is Haram and he has an entire navy and Solomon works with him
who is this Haram he is the Phoenician king of the city of Tyre
sometimes in the bible he's called Haram or Aram and in 2nd Samuel
chapter 5 and 11 listen to what it says and Haram king of Tyre sent
messengers to David so Solomon's father before him Haram had a
relationship with David and with Solomon a very special relationship and
he says that he sent messengers to David and cedar trees and carpenters
and masons and they built David a house he was actually this king this
Phoenician king that built the house and the palace for King David it
was this man a king of Tyre it's remarkable he sent carpenters and
masons and builders that were expert then it also says in 1 Kings
chapter 5 and 1 for Haram was ever or always a lover of David he loved
King David and you know what he loved Solomon after him as well in 1
Kings chapter 9 we read about this same Phoenician king helping Solomon
build the temple at Jerusalem the most remarkable building in the world
and in fact Solomon we read in that chapter a very comical thing that
Solomon gives 20 cities in the land of Galilee to Haram and when Haram
leaves his city and he comes to Galilee remember where Jesus ministered
and he comes to Galilee and he sees them and he calls them a very
derogatory name and he says I really don't want these cities what what
are you trying to do to me but they kept their relationship and their
fellowship you see it was Solomon and Haram that worked on the great
temple that God had planned to be raised up for his name they joined
together they worked together they sent out ships together they raised
money together remember it says that Solomon was the richest king who
ever lived one of the most rich and do you know what he made this other
country rich or this other city in a very remarkable way as they worked
together historians now tell us just recently that during the reign of
David and Solomon that this king Haram who they used to worship Baal and
Ashtoreth entire but during this unique period he set all of that aside
their priests their temple everything and he raised up one unique god
called the god of the city that he began to worship and his people began
to worship just during this very unique period as he's working with
these two kings and so the Phoenicians are very important as we look at
Tarshish you may not know anything about the Phoenicians or you may know
lots but I want to tell you a bit about them it's very important what
we're saying and if you don't know about the Phoenicians you will never
know who the merchants of Tarshish are never you may say I don't need to
know these things then you will not know who will be standing against
Russia when they invade Israel I would actually like to know I would
like to know what's about to happen and is the bible accurate I'd like
to know that so the Phoenicians most historians say they go from about
1200 BC to about 300 BC I would push that back a lot further at least to
2000 BC I believe there's evidence for that they actually dwelled in
modern Lebanon which is just above Israel it touched on Israel and it
still touches on Israel and it was a thin strip of land and if you can
see this in your mind's eye they had cities all down that stretch of
water on the Mediterranean and right at their back was steep mountains
that got covered in snow it was noted for its snow in the song of
Solomon and great trees called the trees of Lebanon grew there and so
this was the situation there was the city of Tyre the second most
important city was the city of Sidon that's where Jezebel come from but
I'll say something about that in a moment then there was the city of
Babelos you can find all of this in history the word Babelos gave the
name to the bible Babelos paper so if you have a bible and you talk
about the bible it's a Phoenician word from the city of Babelos we
literally are using words that descended from this time and this kingdom
in ancient days which is remarkable these Phoenicians had no room to
expand their people had no room to expand their populations were
exploding they were great cities and great people very intelligent so
what did they do they began to navigate if they were going to have an
explosion of population they can't build bigger cities they can't build
other cities that's why Solomon gave them the cities in Galilee but he
didn't like it he said I'm not living here it's barren it's barren
that's why Jesus always got a bad name in the bible they said he's from
Galilee or you're a disciple you're one of those Galileans remember that
Galilee had a very bad name and this king was wise enough to realize
that so he didn't want that but you know what they done they expanded
out remember Russia I said they were the Scythians they were the
horsemen they had tribes of horsemen that just flooded over the Russian
steppes and it's present-day Russia but here see these these Phoenicians
they actually took to the seas and they sailed out into the
Mediterranean they had a unique gift and to navigate by the stars of the
sky they were remarkable seamen that traveled everywhere they dominated
the Mediterranean this was a time where nations hadn't formed yet and so
as they went out many of the land masses we know in the Mediterranean
were not yet entire countries and what they would do in the
Mediterranean all along the coastline from Israel all the way to the um
the gates of Gibraltar or Straits of Gibraltar all the way there every
30 miles you would have a colony of Phoenicians who were the Phoenicians
they set out their people they didn't send out families or individuals
they sent an entire colony of merchant men of traders of shipmen and
they began to build cities all the way down the Mediterranean Carthage
was one of the most famous ones all the way through to Spain and they
found a place in Spain and they built a colony but these colonies were
for trade and so all the all through the Mediterranean as you travel you
find Phoenician harbors you find Phoenician towns you find Phoenician
boats sailing everywhere this dominated this was hundreds of years
several hundred years maybe a thousand years before Rome was even a
village on a few hills this was several hundred years or a thousand
years before the Greeks even had a written language you had the
Phoenicians they had a 22 letter alphabet and they spread that to the
Greeks and to the Romans and to the Africans 22 and they got that from
the Middle East from Babylon that's where they stole it from it all come
out from a common source and so we see that they were dominating they
traveled the earth don't believe the secular history books you know
Candace all the time as we look into these things and she turns says I
wish she had a very good education and said they never taught me this I
wish I could have seen history and perspective so we think before the
Greeks 500 BC there is nothing the Greeks were the intelligent ones
actually the Phoenicians were far more intelligent and educated and they
spread education to the Greeks and the Greeks were always trying to find
their secrets out of where are you trading where are you going where is
Tarshish and the Phoenicians zipped their mouth and never told them
refused to tell them or would tell them made up stories of where
Tarshish is do you realize that right down to her own day everyone
argues about where Tarshish is it started right back here the
Phoenicians started it the misnamed places told lots of stories to put
the Greeks and the Romans off the track but for a thousand years they
dominated and sailed with freedom the word Phoenician is a Greek word
Greek name given to them and it's the Greek word phonics which means
purple dye do you realize purple dye comes from just off the coast of
Lebanon from these cities and this was one of their main trade and
things was there's a little creature you need thousands and thousands of
this sea creature to squeeze out the purple dye and that purple dye was
so valuable it become the color of kings and queens they traded it you
couldn't get it anywhere else in the world in 1000 BC and even in the
first century AD you couldn't get purple anywhere else than here these
people had a monopoly on purple and they loved to trade it for a great
price and to royalty so that's the Phoenicians what about Tarshish the
name means to smelt it's connected to mining wherever you find Tarshish
you're going to find mining it's the word refinery so we see with ships
of Tarshish we see ships bringing refined metals from abroad and in the
bible it's a metal trade the ships of Tarshish wherever it is are
trading do you know who created these ships of Tarshish it was the
Phoenicians their entire fleet were ships of Tarshish do you know why it
got named that because they would reach the furthest outpost and they
weren't telling anyone where they're getting all their resources from it
was a best-kept secret and it still is and so they used the trees of
Lebanon in fact three kinds of trees they use for the boats not only for
the temple in Jerusalem isn't it amazing this used for the temple in
Jerusalem as well as all of these fleets of boats that reached Tarshish
and reach many other nations to bring back their goods but going back to
Solomon here in 1 Kings chapter 9 verse 26 and it says and King Solomon
made a navy of ships in Esgen Heber which is beside Eloth on the shore
of the Red Sea in the land of Edom and verse 27 and Haram sent in the
navy his servants and shipmen that had knowledge of the sea with the
servants of Solomon so notice here they've got two fleets out on the
Mediterranean which are going out to the west but this place that's
mentioned in 1 Kings chapter 9 it isn't on the Mediterranean they create
a new port called Esenagibbar and you have to find it or if you're going
to find it you have to go south of Israel down to the Red Sea and once
you reach that port where they built all these boats once you sail out
from this particular time you have Egypt on one side and Saudi Arabia on
the other and you keep sailing down there and past Saudi Arabia it leads
you into the Arabian Sea then the Indian Sea and we actually know that
these ships of Tarshish even are supposed to have went to India and the
Philippian Islands that's how far they went it says that Haram sent with
the navy remember it's Solomon's navy his own men because they were
shipmen that had knowledge of the sea they understood the sea these
Phoenicians actually directed the ships of Solomon to go find gold in
the very eastern parts of our world they sailed the seas this is a
thousand BC don't listen to the historians that tell you Britain about
the year 100 when Rome invaded was a very backward nation it's absolute
trash we're talking about a thousand BC here where Solomon in Israel is
sailing the seas in search of the richest no wonder he got so rich so
that's Solomon we read about the initial Tarshish then we read about
King Solomon sending out these ships of Tarshish sending them to
Tarshish do you know wherever Tarshish is he swapped goods and brought
back goods from Tarshish and there's goods that went from Israel and
these cities of Phoenicia and they went to Tarshish so in our day maybe
when archaeologists begin to look is it possible that in Tarshish
they're going to begin to find things from Solomon's day from Israel and
the reverse could we possibly find things from Tarshish which are
actually on the shores of Israel by the end of this message if I ever
get there you're going to see that that is true that happens maybe I'll
have to leave it maybe I won't get to tell you who Tarshish is until
next week then the next mention in the Bible is Jehoshaphat we know that
Jehoshaphat in 1 Kings chapter 22 he joins himself to Ahab king of
Israel Ahab's the king of the 10 tribes in the north and Jehoshaphat is
a good king descended from David he is the king of Jerusalem and of two
of the tribes and so you have Israel and Judah they're a split nation at
these days and we're told in 1 Kings 22 that Jehoshaphat joined himself
to King Ahab in the north remember who Ahab was married to he was
married to a Phoenician princess that's who he was married to and so
Ahab asked him join with me to go to war against Syria that is fighting
against me join with me join armies and Jehoshaphat was a good man a
godly man a man who loved the Lord but you know what he didn't separate
himself from Ahab Ahab is an apostate Ahab is confused Ahab is a wicked
man Ahab has an evil queen at his shoulder but you know what Jehoshaphat
joined together said well let's unify on what we can agree on and fight
against the enemies of God and people still do it in the church today
don't they they say I love Jesus and I know I don't agree with
everything with them it doesn't matter if they deny creation and the
authority of the Bible and it doesn't matter if they don't believe you
need to be born again well we believe in Jesus or we believe in some
sort of thing about God don't allow that it's very dangerous but
Jehoshaphat joined Ahab and there was a prophet Micaiah rose up and
prophesied don't do it 400 prophets were yeah God is with you go out
they had a spirit upon them and they prophesied and they're all
prophesying but you know what this one lonely prophet stands up and says
you're in trouble if you go out Jehoshaphat don't do it well Jehoshaphat
didn't listen and he went out because he loved Ahab and he was such a
kind man and a gracious man so he went into the battle and you know the
story Ahab gets killed in that battle he bleeds to death in his chariot
but listen to what verse 44 says it says then that Jehoshaphat made
peace with Ahab and Jezebel's son Jezebel's father was king Ethel of the
Sidonians or Zidon the second Phoenician city that's how she was and
they gave birth to a son so when Ahab was dead Ahaziah the son was
joined together with Jehoshaphat he didn't learn from joining with Ahab
no he is joined with the son and it says that Jehoshaphat made peace
with Ahaziah made peace with him it's a very dangerous thing in second
chronicles chapter 20 verse 36 it says and he Jehoshaphat joined himself
with him this wicked king to make ships to go to Tarshish so they
remember what Solomon done that's a long time ago they weren't there but
they remember the stories how the nation got rich so here's Jehoshaphat
and this wicked king hey let's agree together I know my father died but
hey God's blessing will be upon us let's again build ships of Tarshish
let's go to Tarshish and it says they made the ships at Izzi Agheber
hold on you're going the wrong direction you've got to go west if you
want to get to Tarshish they want to go to Tarshish where are they
building the boats down in Arabia you're going to go in the wrong
direction do you know what this means they didn't actually know where
Tarshish was they're going the wrong direction have you ever met anyone
who thinks they know they're going the right direction you try to tell
them they can get rather annoyed with you I mean telling them directions
on the street but it's even worse it's even worse as far as spiritual
things you try to point something out of someone and say no no I know
what I'm doing they don't have an idea so we see there's confusion over
where Tarshish is listen to what happens then Eliezer the son a young
prophet rises up and he prophesies isn't God good to try and warn you
when I think of the people that walked in this church God tried to warn
he's very gracious saying because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah
the Lord hath broken thy works and the ships were broken that they were
not able to go to Tarshish you would have had a long journey I want to
tell you it says in Psalm 48 and 7 thou God breakest the ships of
Tarshish with an east wind and that's what happened with Jehoshaphat and
after this happened this wicked king comes to him and says hey let's do
it again let's build ships of Tarshish and let's go looking for Uther
gold of Uther let's make a journey Jehoshaphat said no way no way your
father caused me trouble you have caused me trouble God has judged us
and destroyed all these ships we'll never go to Tarshish again listen
the third example from bible history about Tarshish it's with Jonah and
you know the story Jonah chapter 1 verse 3 but Jonah the prophet who God
had sent to Nineveh which was northeast that's where God sent him go
preach listen to what he done but Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish
from the presence of the Lord see if you're running from God you better
find the furthest place the farthest place you go you're trying to hide
from his voice from conviction from your conscience you have to go very
far and you know what people have run very far from God trying to get
away from that voice but you can't escape you can go to Tarshish that's
like saying you can go to the ends of the earth you're not going to
escape me the bible says you can make your bed in hell he'll still be
there to find you and so we see here that Jonah he said I'm going to
flee to Tarshish so he went down to Joppa which was a coastal port on
the coast of Israel and he found a ship going to Tarshish so he paid the
fare and went down into it and to go with them onto Tarshish from the
presence of the Lord are you starting to get a picture of Tarshish here
I hope you are and you know the story of Jonah very well do you know at
this very time the Phoenicians owned the port of Joppa they'd taken it
off the Philistines and the Canaanites before that it belonged to David
and Solomon but it went through the hands of the Philistines then it
came into the hands of the Phoenicians and at the time where Jonah goes
down to the boat why did he go to Joppa to get to Tarshish because these
are Phoenicians and he knows they know how to get there I don't know it
Jehoshaphat didn't know it but those Phoenicians know how to get to the
furthest away port and I'm going to go with them I'm running from God
and of course God sank the ship he as one specific person in here I
won't name any names tonight I preached some years ago and I said you've
got a Ryanair flight to Spain and it was Jonah that person I didn't
realize that just bought a Ryanair flight to Spain preached two weeks
running got to be very careful what you do that's my first point in
Bible history my second point Tarshish in Bible prophecy in the past I'm
really going to drive you nuts because there's no way I'm going to get
to my main point in all of this and you will have to wait point two
Tarshish in Bible prophecy in the past because we will get to Tarshish
in the future there are prophecies that mention Tarshish in the past in
connection with the Phoenicians and with tar the first one is in Isaiah
chapter 23 when Isaiah preaches from chapter 13 all the way through to
chapter 23 he mentions about 10 or 11 specific pagan nations or cities
that God is going to judge and destroy he also prophesies about God's
judgment on Israel and Judah so all through these 10 chapters place
after place city nation people he begins to prophesy because they've
turned away from the real God you know things can get so wicked God has
to judge do you know we're at that same point right now things are
getting so bad the abortion of babies murdering babies they'll they'll
do you know if you don't take a jab they'll say you're the worst
criminal ever but if you don't abort your baby they say you're not
thinking of that poor mother our entire world is heading for a time
they've thrown off any sort of morality and they're saying we can do
anything we can change gender you can't call a little boy a boy anymore
you can't call me a girl even if I look like a girl that it's a crazy
world and that's what was happening on Isaiah's day it was a real point
of judgment and so he begins to prophesy against Babylon Assyria
Philistia Moab Damascus Ethiopia Egypt Edom Arabia and he gives specific
details and you can find this in history all of the details in history
but listen to this last one he prophesies in Isaiah chapter 23 verse 1
listen closely he says the burden of Tyre remember Tyre was that city of
the Phoenicians the number one city so he has a burden here against Tyre
howl you ships of Tarshish so he said I'm gonna judge Tyre I'm gonna
bring Tyre down I'm gonna stop I'm gonna wipe it out momentarily and
when I do the ships of Tarshish are going to howl or cry or weep all
this trade all this merchant trade you know what they would do in their
trading they would you see you could find gold in a place and
everybody's got gold and it's it's it's everywhere but take that gold to
somewhere where there's not much gold or you could be in Phoenicia and
everyone's got purple everyone's wearing purple well then you better
take it to somewhere that doesn't have purple or if there's tin bring in
tin to the Mediterranean because there's no tin in the Mediterranean so
you become rich because you sell certain things not in the place you
find it but you're trading moving it and that's why when God judges Tyre
these ships of Tarshish are gonna wail or cry listen to what it says for
it is laid waste the city so that there is no house no entering in from
the land of Chittim that's Cyprus it is revealed to them be still ye
inhabitants of the isle thou whom the merchants of Zidon that pass over
the sea have replenished verse 6 pass ye over to Tarshish go visit
Tarshish haul ye inhabitants inhabitants listen this carefully of the
isle Tarshish is an isle says it here who has taken counsel against Tyre
the covering city whose merchants are princes whose tracker traffickers
are the honorable of the earth see this it's massive trade but God is
going to judge them pass through the land as a river oh daughter of
Tarshish there is no more strength verse 11 he stretched out his hand
over the sea he took the kingdoms the lord has given a commandment
against the merchant city to destroy the stronghold thereof and he said
thou shalt not no more rejoice oh thou oppressed virgin daughter of
Zidon arise pass over to Chittim Cyprus there also thou shalt have no
rest no escape even if you go to Cyprus verse 14 haul ye ships of
Tarshish for your strength is laid waste then he prophesies there's
going to be 70 years where it's destroyed all the trade all the
merchants all the ships all the richness of this culture 70 years and
then it says they will be restored again at the end of that 70 years it
says but sadly you shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the
world upon the face of the earth so they're going to continue trading
with all the nations of the earth again and then it inserts a little
interesting prophecy and I'll just mention this briefly it then says
concern Tyre it totally changes to a time way into the future where Tyre
her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the lord it shall not
be treasured nor laid up she done that before for her merchandise shall
be for them that dwell before the lord to eat sufficiently and for
durable clothing there's a time Tyre is going to get raised up I believe
it's going to be in the time of messiah when he comes back again to
reign on the earth the Tyre is again going to become a city do you know
it's still existing as a city it's still there functioning then Ezekiel
also prophesied these are prophecies in the past about all of this and
Ezekiel 27 remember we're going to get to eventually Ezekiel 38 this is
Ezekiel 27 how can you understand Ezekiel 38 if you don't look at
Ezekiel 37 if you don't understand a prophecy in the past that involves
Tarshish how will you ever from the same prophet understand a prophecy
in the future about Tarshish impossible and so Ezekiel 27 and 3 it says
and say unto Tyrus that's Tyre just different way of saying it say unto
Tyrus who thou that are situate at the entry of the sea which are a
merchant of the peoples of listen this next of many isles of the sea see
in a pattern here if you go through all these scriptures you begin to
understand and so Tyrus Ezekiel says is trading with all the islands of
the sea as far as you can go thus saith the Lord God O Tyrus thou has
said I am of perfect beauty that city got so proud so rich so prosperous
verse 8 the inhabitants of Sidon and Arvid were thy mariners thy wise
men Sidon that's where Jezebel came from she was a prince from there do
you see that they got their mariners their salesmen for these ships from
there O Tyrus that were in thee those that were in were thy pilots thy
wise men were thy pilots verse 12 Tarshish was thine merchant by reason
of the multitude of all kind of riches with silver notice you're now
reading the things that come from Tarshish they come these products come
from Tarshish all the way through to Tyrus what are they the multitude
of all kinds of riches silver iron tin lead and they traded a knife
fairs in Phoenicia in Lebanon so Tarshish is trading these things these
are actually the things that you only find in Tarshish in a very unique
way boy I got you thinking verse 25 then the ships of Tarshish did sing
of thee in thy market and thou was replenished and made very glorious in
the midst of the sea thy rulers have brought thee into great waters the
east wind has broken thee in the midst of the seas and so judgment we
get Isaiah and Ezekiel prophesy against the city and this entire
merchant culture that had cities all over the place you know what they
done they raised up colonies they planted their people and raised up
entire city states that traded all over the Mediterranean and out across
the nations of the world and they especially targeted the islands of the
sea number three where is Tarshish where is it who is it can we identify
it can we know who it is because see the prophecy about Tyre was
fulfilled you go back in Bible prophecy it was fulfilled first of all
Nebuchadnezzar came and invaded took them over then do you remember a
man called Alexander the Great of Greece and he was the first king of
Greece the Bible actually predicts how Tyre is going to be destroyed
what it's going to look like you know the original Tyre was a little
island just out from the shoreline that was the original island and
there was a second city rose up in the land so it's all called Tyre but
Tyre's really on that island Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the island city
when Alexander the Great come he come down through Babylos and said look
I'll worship in your temple and this is the fulfillment of prophecy so
he come down through Babylos through Sidon and they all surrendered and
he said I'll save you alive I won't harm you I won't destroy your cities
and then he came to Tyre and he said surrender and they were going to
and he says I want to come into that island of Tyre into your temple and
I want to offer a sacrifice to your God and they said oh no here in Tyre
no one who doesn't worship our God can come in no stranger and he says
yes I'm coming in they said no no no you can't and he says I'll fight
you they say you fight them and he besieged them for several months and
he took it and you know what the prophet actually prophesies about Tyre
it will be scraped into the sea Tyre will be scraped do you know what
Alexander done he scraped into the sea that was God's judgment and it
disappeared all the trade disappeared for 70 years now you want me to
get to this point and we'll close with this I've got so much I've got
pages but let's finish with this and next week maybe no it won't be next
week I'll be two weeks away because we've got a guest speaker coming
next Wednesday night point three where is Tarshish if you don't know the
answer to this you can't identify who speaks out against Russia in union
with Saudi Arabia when they invade you won't be able to do that well we
have a look where is Tarshish there's thousands of opinions some believe
that really Tarshish is Carthage on the north of Africa Tunisia there's
only one person in here I know of who has some Tunisian blood within him
and it was Carthage that was actually there in his homeland you know in
the Greek Bible the Hebrew Bible translated the Old Testament translated
into Greek it's called the Septuagint and I don't like the Septuagint I
reject it as being authoritative it makes a lot of mistakes but a lot of
people think it's authoritative it's not authoritative but listen the
Septuagint the Old Testament translated over into the Greek when it
comes to Tarshish it inserts the word Carthage and other times Africa so
the person translating it and we we traced this back to Alexander didn't
we it's a corrupt translation and so you see men are starting to think
who is Tarshish when that Greek translation was made they didn't know
they assumed they thought they're trying to find out who is Tarshish the
mystery goes on straight through to tonight the mystery of Tarshish
instead of Tarshish they've put that then others say it's Tarsus because
it sounds the same Tarshish Tarsus where the apostle Paul came from it's
in Turkey Josephus the Jewish historian in the first century often he's
right about things but he says Tarshish is Tarsus I disagree with him
are you going to send all these ships and nobody knows where Tarshish is
and it's only a little bit up the coast a wee sailing ship could go up
there and what are you going to bring back from there that's so
extraordinary that you don't already have others say it's Cyprus but
Cyprus has already been mentioned in connection with Tarshish it can't
be Cyprus others mention Sardinia this is a new view on this because
just recently a few years ago they found for the first time the name
Tarshish in an ancient text outside the Bible until then they'd never
found the name Tarshish but there in Sardinia they found this ancient
text translated and it talks about in Tarshish or from Tarshish that
statement they're not sure exactly what it says but the word Tarshish is
clear and in that text a bit further down it says in the ancient city of
Nora in Sardinia that there came a king called Mokuton driven out of
Tarshish and he settled in Nora in Sardinia that's where he settled down
so some people in recent times begin to say I think Sardinia is Tarshish
it must be it's the only place we've found this text the text talks
about Tarshish doesn't say Sardinia is Sardish boy I'm stringing the
suspense out and then we have also there those who believe it's the
Philippines or it's India or it's Malaysia I don't believe those things
or it's Ethiopia Jerome in about 400 AD he actually was a Christian
writer he thought that Tarshish in the Bible remember he he done the
second translation he done a new translation of the Latin the Greek New
Testament in the Latin and it become the Catholic Bible well Jerome
thought it was India that's what he wrote it down as but here's the most
popular one and that's the one I conveyed to you in past times but now
I'm having to apologize and expand it's assertive the next one but it's
not really okay what is the next one Spain it is the most popularly
spread belief of where Tarshish is most Christians believe it's Tarshish
most Bible lexicons will say it's Tarshish or sorry it's the Tarshish is
Spain and so it goes on there's only one problem with that that the
Phoenicians actually traveled out beyond the gates of Gibraltar the
straits of Gibraltar the gates of Hercules do you know where Spain comes
down and almost meets Africa to I forget maybe 18 miles or something I
was only there once and wanted to take a boat but Candace said that's a
rough place over there in Tunisia and all those places so maybe we
should stay in Gibraltar two continents so close together and that's the
only way to get out of out of the Mediterranean at that point now the
Phoenicians did establish cities in Spain they did one of them called
Gades it was just past the gates of the pillars of Hercules out past and
to the right and they established a city and guess what it was an island
just out from the shoreline and they begin to trade into Spain with all
of the locals and so most people believe that it must be Spain in fact
one of the oldest mines in the world is in the south of Spain a
remarkable mind Greek writers say that it was actually further than the
area of Iberia which is Spain so they said this area called Tarshish
it's out way beyond this area it's not Spain it's way way out all the
Greek writers were pretty sure about that and they discussed it but they
didn't really know where it was either and listen from 700 BC Greeks
come and settled in Spain they had bases and colonies and trade ports so
they knew Spain by 500 BC Greek writers are saying where is this place
they don't know so if it was Spain why didn't the Greeks know where it
was if they live there and they trade from there in Jeremiah chapter 10
verse 9 we start to read what we get from Tarshish Jeremiah 10 verse 9
silver spread and the plates brought from Tarshish or Ezekiel as we've
already said Ezekiel 27 12 let me remind you Tarshish was thy merchant
by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches silver iron tin lead
they traded in nigh fairs in Phoenicia do you know gold you can get it
almost anywhere right across the Mediterranean at certain amounts you
need to know the place these other metals you could get in various
places but I want to pick one of the metals that's only mentioned five
times in the entire Bible and only once associated with a place and
that's Tarshish in the Bible let me take tin for a minute and I believe
if we just look at tin I could look at this a thousand ways but I'm only
going to look at tin I believe if we find out where Solomon got his tin
and the Phoenicians got their tin I believe we can track Tarshish and
this is very condensed you won't believe how condensed this is for the
Greeks this unique place where tin came from was a place of rich
resource at the end of the western world beyond Europe one Greek author
actually said that a Greek merchant reached it accidentally when he
sailed out into the Atlantic and got lost and got blown with the wind
and he suddenly found it another Greek writer writes about the king of
Tarshish his name was Aragon Tomias and when the Phoenicians arrived he
made friends with them and says why don't you make a port the maids are
coming in and causing you a lot of hassle you're being pushed out you're
being attacked why don't you come make a colony in Tarshish and so they
settled down he paid for the wool and that went in around their brand
new property now listen the Greeks call Tarshish Tarsesus both words
come from an original word Tarshish that's what the Hebrews called it or
the Greeks later called it Tarsesus and many of the Greek writers talk
about and say I wonder where it is can we find it man why don't those
Phoenicians tell us where Tarshish is or Tarsesus listen I'm only going
to quote from one Greek writer Herodias in the year 450 BC 500 years
after Solomon in his book called the histories and he's known as the
father of all ancient histories he is the key man in writing history and
yet he didn't know where it was listen to what he says and he wrote
about it he says of the extreme tracks of Europe towards the west I'm
helping you to identify something that's going to happen in our day of
the extreme tracks of Europe towards the west I cannot speak with any
certainty he didn't know emptying itself into the northern sea there's a
river that the barbarians talk about whence as the tale goes amber is
procured from that river nor do I know any islands so he didn't have
personal experience but they existed he heard the stories the islands
what are the islands called cassaterides do you know what it means in
the Greek tin islands he calls them the tin islands at the furthest most
part of Europe he said it not me whence tin comes which we use here in
Greece and secondly though I have taken in and I've taken vast pains I
have never been able to get any insurance of an eyewitness that there is
any sea on the farther side of Europe I've heard rumours that there's a
great ocean at the western side of Europe but I can't find an eyewitness
who's ever been there but I do hear an awful lot of rumours several
other Greek writers tell us that these tin islands and they talk about
these tin islands all the time you know why you can't get tin in the
Mediterranean it is as rare as hen's teeth you can't find it so tin
really marks out Tarshish it wasn't in the Mediterranean it wasn't at
Cyprus or Tarsus or Carthage or in Spain you had to go further and so
they went in search of of this tin where does this tin actually come
from they were in search of it everywhere for the Greeks this was one of
the most vital things several Greek writers talk about these tin isles
that there were some distance from the Iberian Peninsula which is Spain
Iberia is Portugal and Spain so some of these Greek writers said it's
not in Spain it's beyond it's some distance out into the sea from Spain
I wish I had a map for you to look at and I'm telling you all of this
and so where are all the sources let me just correct one thing I said I
said there was no tin in Spain there was tin in Spain but let me let me
just go further with us let me tell you everywhere in five in the time
of Solomon down through a thousand year period where were the main
sources of tin within the Mediterranean in Europe let's just look
because we can narrow this down there's about five sources one of them
is Spain okay but then they knew about Spain the second one is Devon and
Cornwall in the south of England it's a massive source of tin and very
very well known the third one is Brittany in France which is just
reaching out to Britain that's another source of tin then there was
another source of tin and it definitely wasn't this one on the German-
Czech border today and there was a large source there the only problem
is they definitely didn't use that it's very very deep the tin was never
used in that generation how do I know the Germans and Czechs didn't use
the tin and trade it in that hour so it can't be Germany or the Czech
Republic sorry Hannah tonight do you know why because in the very same
age in Solomon's day and that entire era in Germany they've actually
found gold and tin brought from somewhere else not from Germany it was
never mined there they actually found shields which they say go back to
1500 BC and it's only been very recently they can test tin where it
comes from only recently they couldn't do that before and they tested
these shields found in Germany gold and tin and they said we can
identify we can find out where the tin came from because they weren't
trading tin and when they tested it just recently they found that tin
and gold both products came from Cornwall in the south of England at
that particular time very little tin was found throughout the
Mediterranean it was a very minor source they had to go further Solomon
had to look further this was the bronze age to make bronze let me give
you an example a Roman soldier would wear 30 kilos of brass to make
brass 90% is copper and 10% is tin so for every 30 kilograms of brass
you have to have three kilos of tin to actually make that brass and
you've got to smelt it and mix it and to know how to actually do that
mixing tin with copper creates brass and so where did this tin come from
that Solomon went and got and the Greeks wanted to know where it came
from and that identifies Tarshish let's start looking here as I close in
June 2019 experts scholars released for the very first time concerning
finding many ingots of tin and these ingots of tin were actually etched
with a cultural stamp from Cyprus and they found it in a shipwreck just
off the coast of Haifa which is Israel it was a Phoenician ship it was
in their design and it was filled with tin where was the tin from it's
just off the coast of Israel now I'm giving you evidence and it's all
recent evidence everyone through history has argued this is from 2019 so
this Phoenician ship off the coast of Israel with all this treasure and
they start testing it to see where this tin comes from do you know where
it came from came from Cornwall and Devon in the south of England they
knew where the tin came from they've also found just in recent times
with the same test there's all brand new testing they found Cornish tin
on the island of Cyprus and the island of Crete all these Phoenician
islands they find British tin there and it didn't come from any of those
islands or areas in fact this Cornish tin in Cyprus and Crete they say
it doesn't go back to 1000 BC but to 2000 BC and that it had to have
been traded or brought in or imported to make bronze for the bronze age
let me give you another bit of evidence off the coast of the south of
England they found off Plymouth they found two anchors Phoenician
anchors off the south coast of Devon remarkable they found another one
off Wales and they say this is about 500 BC these anchors go back to
then there's other shipwrecks of Phoenician ships off the coast of
England in the south actual Phoenician ships not only Phoenician ships
off the coast of Israel with Cornish tin in them but we've now got
Phoenician ships being found this is all pretty new off the coast of
England and in those ships Phoenician ships they say it's about 1000 BC
these ships go back to that are off the Cornish coast do you know that's
the time of Solomon they're about 13 metres long about the three they
have about 300 copper and tin ingots and they're coming from England
then over at Dover on the east coast facing France they found another
one they say it's about 1500 BC and it was sunken in the sea there
there's an ancient record going back to the 6th century by a Greek
writer and it's a description of a man called Hanno the navigator of
Carthage and how he sailed out of the Mediterranean and he sailed down
around Africa he begins to record seeing volcanoes and all manners of
strange animals like gorillas and they believe he at least reached the
Cameroons in Africa he actually said oh it didn't go further I come back
it was too dangerous the Greek writer said that's not true he went all
the way around Africa 500 BC and come up to Arabia there's another one
here who describes something very similar his name is called Himilco in
the 5th century he made a journey he was also from Carthage and he made
a recorded journey using much older trade routes which are Phoenician
trade routes this is the 5th century BC and he records all the nations
he goes to where does he go to on this ancient course that the
Phoenicians always use he went to Spain up the coast west coast of Spain
Iberia where is Hibernia wasn't that carried over to these isles so
where are the silver isles he went to Spain he went to Britain he went
to Ireland he went to France and his journey took four months but you
know what he didn't he wanted to keep the Greeks out so he said there
are so many sea monsters from here all the way through to these lands
you don't want to come here you don't want to stray beyond the straits
of Gibraltar you do not want to do that there are masses this is where
all the myths about sea monsters come from it was the Phoenician wisdom
to say you know we're going to make up all these stories and scare the
living daylights out of the Greeks and the Romans they're never going to
come out of here or at least we can try and hold it back a bit and so
they talk about the Greeks talk about the 10 islands being Cassidaris
which the Phoenicians kept as a closely guarded secret and so it was
almost mythical to the Greeks but the Phoenicians knew it the
Phoenicians trade with it and then we've got all the evidence from all
the way from the south coast oh I missed it I missed the country Spain
France Britain what was the other one Armagh that's what I forgot to
almost missed it Armagh at a place called Navonfort not far from my
hometown when they were archaeologists went in there and started digging
in Navonfort see Armagh is another place of 10 only five places in the
whole Mediterranean and Armagh in the north of Ireland is one of them
it's utterly unique to find 10.

Well there in Navonfort 500 years before Christ or 300 years before
Christ as they're digging they find the skeleton of a Barbary monkey
from Africa in Armagh this is 800 years before or 700 years before
Patrick brings the gospel to Ireland what are monkeys doing in Armagh in
Northern Ireland that was one of the main centres of trade but they seem
to be getting things from an awful long distance away I could start
giving you lots of other evidence that would show that Ireland and
Britain were called the 10 Isles and in fact Ireland was often called
the Copper Isle and there were trades and there's much information and
even the first inhabitants of Ireland way long before the Gaels ever got
here we're told in history the Gaels are the original Irish actually
they're not at all they are very very late comers there was another
people called the Pertani and the Greeks said that this word 10 Pertan
came from the word 10 and they were the first inhabitants and they
spread up and they even went over do you know what the Pertani were
called when they moved over into Scotland the Picts and so you've got
Pictish things in Spain as well as in Scotland and they still haven't
even deciphered the writings of these people we'll go further with this
in a couple of weeks but do you know what I've just told you I'm to put
in the last bit the most exciting bit the prophecy prophecies about the
future you see I've told you who Tarshish is but the prophecy in Ezekiel
38 isn't about Tarshish it's the merchants of Tarshish and her lions her
young lions I'm actually giving you all information like I did with
Magog being Russia to prove that the Bible 2,600 years ago predicted a
time where all these nations would be in place they mention it mentioned
specifically the nations and what's going to happen do you know what the
merchants of Tarshish are about to play their part in speaking against
Russia I believe Britain is Tarshish or maybe it's only part of it maybe
Ireland maybe France maybe Europe do you know where the name Europe
comes from it comes from Europa do you know where she was born do you
know where Tyre Tyre the capital of the Phoenicians and her father was
the king of Cyprus Europa that was her name and there's a whole mythical
story about her and it talks about getting the back of a bull and being
taken out into the sea and raped where do we get the name Europe from
from a princess from Tyre a Phoenician princess I'm just touching on it
but I'm going to expand on this in the next one but I'm showing you that
there was a trade without any shadow of a doubt from Israel to the
British Isles in Solomon's day and before the Bible's very accurate and
I'm sorry ladies this isn't a gospel preaching night but you know why
Ezekiel says God it predicts all these things that you can know God is
real and it says when these things happen all the nations all the
peoples will see that I am God the God who said Israel will go back to
her nation be birthed as a nation again and blossom and then be invaded
by Russia who could predict that 2,600 years ago that Russia would
invade Israel and yet it hasn't happened yet it's never happened it's
going to happen and that when she invades Israel she'll be joined to
Iran and Turkey let's pray here tonight Father we thank you for the word
of God it's infallible it's reliable it's accurate in past history it's
accurate in future prophecy it gives us all the information nor God that
the scientists and historians and archaeologists are only just beginning
to touch on and find and yet we have all of the answers here in this
book we have remarkable answers and my God I pray would you make us in
awe of this Bible its past history that it all weaves together there is
nothing in there by accident every story every little comment every
prophecy every past mention of a man's name like Tarshish all is leading
us to a place where we know what's going to happen just before Jesus
Christ returns again and nor God tonight we stand in awe of you we bow
the knee we humble ourself we love you we love this book called the
Bible and we know that you sent your only begotten son Jesus Christ to
die on the cross that if any man or woman believes in him he shall not
perish but have everlasting life in Jesus mighty name

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