Godmindbody, Part 3, Chapter 2: The Covenants
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Godmindbody: The Bible, Prophecy, Miracles and TMS Healing Explained
By Robert Ensor
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All Bible quotations, unless otherwise stated or referenced, are taken from the online World English Bible, which is in the public domain. It is available at the following link: https://ebible.org/eng-web/index.htm. English language Bibles are translated from Hebrew and Greek manuscripts. I am no linguist, and I don’t know any linguists, so I have had to rely on others’ translations and romanizations of the Hebrew and Greek texts. Occasionally, I have examined the original Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek of the Bible, zeroing in on key words where the received English translation is debatable or misses the full meaning of the original.
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Chapter 2: The Covenants
The earliest prophecy in the Bible is in Genesis, after the serpent tricked Adam and Eve into eating the forbidden fruit. God said to the serpent, ‘I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.’ (Genesis 3:15). This is not only to be taken at face value, as an accurate description of the antagonistic relationship between humanity and snakes, but as a prophecy of the Messiah, a descendant of Eve, whose heel was struck during the Crucifixion and who will smite the head of the serpent, Satan, as well as his minion, the Antichrist, killing them both. The very first prophecy, therefore, was concerned with the Messiah, and had a dual nature comprised of near and distant fulfilments, which set the tone for what was to come. The very fact that all Christians believe in first and second advents of Christ is testament to the doctrine of multiple fulfilments.
Indeed, as we proceed, please bear in mind an insight of the 2nd century theologian Justin Martyr, who wrote that the prophets’ sayings and deeds were concealed by parables and types, so that only those who really wanted to know the truth would learn it by making a dedicated study of Scripture.[i] In biblical theology, a type is a foreshadowing, prefiguring or symbol of a more important later fulfilment, called the antitype. The type often appears in the Old Testament, and the antitype in the New. For example, Yahweh coming in smoke, flame and cloud to give the ten commandments ‘on the third day’ (Exodus 19:11) and Jonah being swallowed by a whale before emerging three days later (Jonah 2) were types that anticipated Jesus’ resurrection on the third day (1 Corinthians 15:4; Matthew 16:21) as the antitype. There may be more than one type before the antitype appears. For instance, there have been numerous kings who have desolated the Temple Mount, which the Antichrist is also prophesied to do. As we have seen, typology (the repetition of similar events, symbols and individuals) extends beyond the Bible, to the lives of individuals and nations. It is an inherent feature of creation.
Another early prophecy in the Bible is the Abrahamic Covenant, in which God unconditionally promised to give Abraham’s ‘offspring’ the territory from the ‘river of Egypt’ to the Euphrates (Genesis 15:18) including the lands of the Canaanites, the Jebusites, the Kenites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites and the Girgashites (Genesis 15:19), that became known as the Promised Land. God also promised that Abraham’s offspring would ‘bless all the nations of the earth’ (Genesis 22:18).[ii] The river of Egypt is generally understood to be the Brook of Egypt, not the Nile. The original Hebrew word zera, translated here as seed or offspring, is singular and can be understood to denote a group of descendants or one descendant.[iii] Abraham’s ‘offspring’ is often taken to mean his descendants, the Jewish people, although Abraham’s descendants technically include many Arabs (via his son Ishmael) and other Gentiles. In Galatians 3:16, Paul pointed out that Jesus was that singular offspring or descendant who would inherit the Promised Land, and wrote: ‘if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring [or, seed] and heirs according to promise’ (Galatians 3:29). This was corroborated by Jesus when he said: ‘your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day’ (John 8:56); Abraham may have ‘seen’ Jesus’ day when God promised land to his offspring. Therefore, if you have Christ’s blood in you, you are God’s child, and Abraham’s descendant. That helps to explain why Gentiles are prophesied to live in the millennial kingdom alongside Jews. Moreover, John the Baptist said to some Pharisees and Sadducees seeking baptism: ‘Don’t think to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father’, for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones. Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.’ (Matthew 3:9–10). This means that Jewish people cannot be complacent about inheriting the Promised Land via genealogy, because entry into God’s kingdom depends (partly) on deeds, and God was able to raise up new children of Abraham (Gentile Christians) by unconventional means. Indeed, Jesus is the stone the builders rejected (Psalm 118:22; Luke 20:17) from whom God raised children of Abraham. The Promised Land is thus better understood as the land promised to Jesus although many Jews will live there, as passages such as Deuteronomy 30:20 and Genesis 28:13–15 make plain, so that both interpretations of ‘offspring’ are in some way correct.
Indeed, God promised Abraham’s grandson Jacob the land he slept upon, and that his offspring would ‘spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south’ (Genesis 28:14). ‘In you and in your offspring, all the families of the earth will be blessed’ (Genesis 28:14) clarified that it was from Jacob’s line that the Messiah would emerge. Jacob was named Israel by God (Genesis 32:28). He had twelve sons by his wives Leah and Rachel (and their servants Bilhah and Zilpah), who became progenitors of the tribes of Israel (Genesis 49): Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Zebulun, Isachar, Dan, Gad, Asher, Naphtali, Joseph and Benjamin. However, Joseph is sometimes not listed as a tribe, because two tribes were named after his sons Ephraim and Manasseh (Genesis 48). Joseph’s brothers were jealous of him and sold him into slavery, but he later became a high official at Pharaoh’s court, not least because of his ability to interpret Pharaoh’s dream (Genesis 41) and thereby prepare Egypt for seven years of famine.
The journey of the Israelites from Egypt to the Promised Land involved the archetype or first instance of many typological characters and episodes found in the Old and New Testaments, including the prophesied tribulation period. In addition to the prophecies actually uttered in Exodus, Deuteronomy and Numbers, the events of the story are themselves prophecies, including an important anticipation of the Second Coming. As such, this book will be referred to numerous times in the text and must be summarised before proceeding to the exegesis of the prophets.
The Israelites, who were driven by famine to live in Egypt under the protection of Joseph, found themselves oppressed by a new Pharaoh, who perceived them as a threat due to their rising numbers (Exodus 1:9). This Pharaoh ordered the slaughter of all male Hebrew children (Exodus 1:16). The infant Moses escaped this fate by being abandoned in a basket floating on the Nile (Exodus 2:5). He was adopted by Pharaoh’s daughter, who gave him his Egyptian name (Exodus 2:5–9). Many years later, Moses killed an Egyptian who was beating a Hebrew slave and fled to Midian, where he married Zipporah (Exodus 2:11). God appeared to Moses as a burning bush at Mount Horeb (Exodus 3), which is believed to be a synonym for Mount Sinai. When Moses asked God’s name, he replied: ‘I AM WHO I AM’ (Exodus 3:14). The name Yahweh effectively means, ‘I am’, ‘I will be’ or ‘I am becoming’ in Hebrew; in other words, God exists, he is the bedrock of all existence and being, and he is that existence itself. More than that, there is an implication in the Hebrew that God is dynamically becoming, creative and active, too.[iv] Yahweh also identified himself as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Exodus 3:16). He ordered Moses to free the Hebrew slaves and bring them into the Promised Land (Exodus 3). Moses and Aaron convinced the Hebrews to follow Moses by miraculously turning the rod into a serpent, as God had instructed Moses (Exodus 4:1–9). The transformation of the rod into a serpent, and back into a staff, represents the overcoming of the devil, the tempting serpent in the Garden of Eden, by the divine authority represented by the rod, the wood of the cross (Moses and Aaron’s staffs were also wooden) and God’s miraculous power.
Moses and his brother Aaron asked Pharaoh to let their people go (5:1–2). When Moses and Aaron asked again, Pharaoh asked them to perform a miracle. Aaron turned his staff into a snake (Exodus 7:10). Pharaoh’s magicians were able to replicate this wonder, but Moses’ snake ate their serpents, symbolising the superiority of Yahweh over the Egyptian ‘gods’. Nonetheless, Pharaoh refused Moses’ request. Yahweh afflicted Egypt with ten plagues, including turning the Nile to blood, plagues of frogs, gnats, flies, a pestilence that killed the livestock of Egypt, boils, hail, locusts and darkness (Exodus 7–11).
Then Moses instructed the Israelites to slaughter a lamb, smear its blood on their doorposts and lintels and told them not to go out from their dwellings until morning (Exodus 12:21–23). This protected their firstborn sons from Yahweh, who killed the firstborns of the Egyptians, including Pharaoh’s son (Exodus 12:29). Finally, Pharaoh relented and ordered the Israelites to depart from Egypt (Exodus 12:31). The purpose of the 10 plagues was to make Pharaoh change his mind, but God hardened the man’s heart (Exodus 14:8) and postponed that decision because he wanted to punish Pharaoh, who blasphemously claimed to be a god, disregarded Yahweh’s initial commands and enslaved his people. Likewise, God’s rationale for the tribulation is to change people’s minds and to punish transgressions.
Yahweh led the Israelites as a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night (Exodus 13:21–22). Then Yahweh changed the mind of Pharaoh and he chased the fleeing Israelites (Exodus 14). Moses parted the Red Sea by Yahweh’s power, allowing the Israelites to cross (Exodus 14:21). The pursuant Egyptians were destroyed when the waters came crashing down on them (Exodus 14:27).
In the wilderness, Yahweh miraculously provided the Israelites manna from heaven to eat (Exodus 16:4), a foreshadowing of Christ, the ‘bread of life’, who also came from heaven (John 6). During the battle against the Amalekites (Exodus 17:8–13), Moses took up his vantage point on a hilltop and raised both hands in supplication to God while Joshua led the Israelites’ forces down below. When Moses’ arms sagged, Amalek prevailed. When he held up his hands, Israel prevailed. In the end, Aaron and Hur gave Moses a stone to sit on and held his arms up, so that Joshua won, in a symbolic prefiguring of Jesus the rejected stone’s[v] victory over sin and death on the cross and his future military victory against the Antichrist; Jesus is the Latinised form of the ancient Jewish name Yeshua, which can be anglicized as Joshua.[vi] After that, judges were appointed for the tribes of Israel (Exodus 18) to help Moses judge the people.
Yahweh called Moses to Mount Sinai, where he appeared to the Israelites in a thick cloud, with many ‘thunders and lightnings’, to the accompaniment of an ‘exceedingly loud trumpet’ (Exodus 19:16). The appearance of Yahweh in a cloud on Sinai is typological of the Second Coming of Jesus with the clouds and the sounding of the trumpet (Matthew 24:30; 1 Thessalonians 4:16). Moses was summoned to the mountaintop, where Yahweh gave him the ten commandments (Exodus 20). He was given further laws and ordinances by Yahweh. Then Israel entered into the initial Mosaic Covenant (Exodus 24:7), later expanded upon and summarised below. Moses was given instructions for the construction of the tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant to house the tablets on which the commandments were inscribed (Exodus 25) by the ‘finger of God’ (Deuteronomy 9:10). Moses was also given instructions for offerings and sacrifices (e.g. Exodus 29).
Moses was on the mountain for forty days receiving orders from Yahweh (Exodus 24:18), prefiguring Jesus’ 40 days fasting in the wilderness (Matthew 4:1–2). In his absence, the Israelites worshipped a golden calf (Exodus 32:7), foreshadowing numerous subsequent episodes of idolatry, all of which were typological of the false worship of the Antichrist and his image (Revelation 13). Yahweh wanted to destroy them and make a nation out of Moses and his descendants, but Moses pleaded for mercy, so the Egyptians would not say that God had delivered the Israelites only to kill them in the mountains (Exodus 32:11–14). For the sake of his name and the Abrahamic Covenant, Yahweh relented. When he saw the golden calf, Moses broke the tablets containing the 10 commandments in his anger (Exodus 32:19). He commanded the Levites to kill three thousand rebellious Israelites (Exodus 32:27–28) and later gave the Israelites further laws and priestly ordinances from Yahweh. The Israelites accepted the covenant a second time on new tablets (Exodus 34:10). The breaking and renewal of the tablets signifies Israel’s breaking of the old covenant, which has occurred historically, and their entry into a new covenant. The Israelites made the ark, the tabernacle, the altar of burnt offering and the priestly garments according to Yahweh’s instructions (Exodus 35–39), and Yahweh’s glory filled the tabernacle (Exodus 40:34), a portable tent including an inner sanctum that contained the Ark of the Covenant. The lamp in the tabernacle was to be supplied with oil, so that it should burn ‘continually’ (Exodus 27:20). The altar of incense in the tabernacle was overlaid with gold (Exodus 30:3), frankincense was part of the concoction burned on that altar (Exodus 30:34) and the oil with which the altar, the Tent of Meeting, the Ark and Aaron the high priest were anointed was made of myrrh (Exodus 30:23), among other ingredients. Thus the three kings gave the baby Jesus gold, frankincense and myrrh (Matthew 2:11), as a symbolic acknowledgement that he is Yahweh and the anointed one. (The word Christ comes from the Greek Christos, translated from the Hebrew Mashiach which means ‘anointed one’[vii]; thus the words Messiah and Christ mean the same thing). A census was held to number those Israelites fit for military service and the princes of each of the twelve tribes, descended from Jacob’s sons, were appointed (Numbers 1). The Tribe of Levi were set apart as the tribe of priests (Numbers 8:14).
The Israelites proceeded towards the Promised Land. The Israelites murmured; God ordered Moses to appoint 70 elders to help him govern the people (Numbers 11:16). Moses’ sister Miriam and Aaron insulted Moses because of his Cushite wife; God punished Miriam with leprosy for seven days in which she was isolated from the camp (Numbers 12), not least because it was important to establish the principle that Gentiles could be brought into union with God, represented symbolically by the marriage of Moses and the Cushite.
The Israelites reached the Desert of Paran near the border of Canaan (Numbers 13:26). At God’s behest, Moses sent 12 spies to scout out Canaan, part of the Promised Land, with a view to conquering it (Numbers 13). The Israelites refused to take the land, because most of the spies exaggerated the Canaanites’ size and strength (Numbers 13:31–33). To punish the Israelites for their disobedience, Yahweh made them spend forty years wandering in the wilderness before they entered the land (Numbers 32:13; Numbers 14:2–23), prefiguring the lengthiness of Israel’s later exiles. The twelve who had seen the Promised Land and gave their reports of it were typological of the 12 apostles who saw the Kingdom of Heaven and bore witness to it. Except, in a reversal, most of the apostles were faithful witnesses.
Some Israelites rebelled against Moses, but the ground opened up and they descended living to Sheol, the Hebrew word for the abode of the dead (Numbers 16:30–31; Sheol will be explained later). When the Israelites complained of thirst, Yahweh commanded Moses to obtain water from a rock by speaking to it, but Moses struck it with his staff instead (Numbers 20:6–11), as he had done with the rock in Exodus 17:6. Moses was punished for this act of disobedience by not being allowed to enter the land (Numbers 20:12). Moses’ striking of the rock anticipated the Jewish people’s rejection of Jesus, the stone who gives living water to those who ask it of him (John 4:10).
The King of Edom refused Moses’ request to pass through his land (Numbers 20:17–18). Aaron died on Mount Hor (Numbers 20). The Israelites tried to circumvent Edom, complained again, and Yahweh sent them a plague of poisonous snakes by way of chastisement (Numbers 21:5–6). Moses pleaded with God to spare his people again. As a remedy, Yahweh had Moses create a brazen serpent suspended on a pole. All who looked at it were cured of their snakebites (Numbers 21:8–9). Jesus later compared himself to the bronze serpent (John 3:14–15).
The Israelites journeyed to Moab. There they defeated the Amorites and Og (Numbers 21:21–35). The King of Moab sent Balaam, a diviner, to curse the Israelites, but Yahweh prevented him from doing so. Balaam ended up foretelling that ‘a star will come out of Jacob’, defeat Israel’s enemies and possess their lands, including Moab and Edom (Numbers 24:17–19). This was an early prophecy of Jesus, the Messiah.
Some Israelites started sleeping with Moabite women and worshipping their idols (Numbers 25). Yahweh ordered Moses to ‘hang them up’ (Numbers 25:4). Phinehas the grandson of Aaron killed one of the idolaters and Yahweh stopped a plague he had sent, for Phinehas had satisfied his anger (Numbers 25:8). A new census was taken, and Yahweh ordered Moses to divide the land among the tribes of Israel (Numbers 26). Yahweh ordered Moses to give authority to Joshua (Numbers 27:18–20). The Jewish feast days, the festal calendar and the associated sacrifices and offerings were introduced by Yahweh (Numbers 28;29). The Israelites defeated and massacred the Midianites (Numbers 31). The land east of the River Jordan was given to the tribes of Reuben, Gad and Manasseh (Numbers 32), tribal allotments were established based on population size (Numbers 33:53–54), and the boundaries of the land were outlined (Numbers 34). Finally, Moses scaled Mount Nebo and died looking at the Promised Land (Deuteronomy 34:1–4), which Joshua went on to partially conquer (Joshua 11), divide into allotments and distribute among the tribes (Joshua 13–21).
The Mosaic Covenant, made during the Israelite’s Exodus, involved the 10 commandments and 603 further laws handed down in the books of Exodus, Deuteronomy, Leviticus and Numbers.[viii] Additions to the covenant were laid out by Moses in the Plain of Moab, shortly before his death and Israel’s entry into the land (Deuteronomy 1:5;29:1). Failure to obey the law invoked the curses of the Mosaic Covenant, which included being dispersed:[ix] ‘Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth.’ (Deuteronomy 28:64). Tragically, this prophecy has been fulfilled on numerous occasions in the history of the Jews. It was fulfilled to some extent during the Assyrian and Babylonian captivities, which saw Israel and Judah deported, respectively, and the Jewish wars with Rome that substantially increased the Jewish diaspora.
But Moses also prophesied that after their period of exile, the Jews would be humbled, and confess their sins, and be regathered to the Promised Land, where they will obey the laws and enjoy a prosperous future. This is a crucial passage not only for Jews, but for the world, so I will reproduce it here: ‘It shall happen, when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations where Yahweh your God has driven you, and return to Yahweh your God and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul, that then Yahweh your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and return and gather you from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you. If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there Yahweh your God will gather you, and from there he will bring you back.’ (Deuteronomy 30:1–4). When they are regathered, they ‘may dwell in the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac and to Jacob, to give them.’ (Deuteronomy 30:20). Though the Jewish people have returned from exile numerous times, most recently beginning in 1948 with the foundation of the State of Israel, this prophecy has yet to be fulfilled; even under King Solomon the boundaries of Israel probably didn’t extend as far as the entire Promised Land, since the latter encompassed the lands of the Amorites and the Hittites, who are believed to have lived in Mesopotamia[x] and Anatolia,[xi] respectively. Though individual Jews have found God, the final restoration of Israel awaits fulfilment following their final collective return to God.[xii] Indeed, Moses foretold, ‘Yahweh your God shall raise up to you a prophet from among you, of your brothers, like me. You shall listen to him. This is according to all that you desired of Yahweh your God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, “Let me not hear again Yahweh my God’s voice, neither let me see this great fire anymore, that I not die.” Yahweh said to me, “They have well said that which they have spoken…It shall happen, that whoever will not listen to my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.”’ (Deuteronomy 18:15–19). This was an early prediction of the Messiah, fulfilled by the First Advent of Jesus, whom most Jews do not recognise as the Messiah.[xiii] Note that people will ‘not die’, but will live forever, because God did not assume his ‘Exodus’ form when he reappeared to them, but instead took the form of Jesus. That’s why God said, ‘“They have well said that which they have spoken”’; there was more wisdom in their words than the Israelites knew.
There were also conditional blessings which depended on the behaviour of Abraham’s progeny. How can there be a condition within an unconditional covenant? Well, the people’s failure to observe the conditions of these historic covenants resulted in the temporary invocation of the covenant curses (e.g. during the Babylonian captivity), but in the end, God will make certain that his people meet the prerequisites[xiv] and God will deliver the land as promised to Abraham’s ‘offspring’.
Then there was the Davidic Covenant, in which God promised King David that ‘Yahweh will build you a house’ (2 Samuel 7:11), that David’s ‘offspring’ would build a house for God, be God’s ‘son’ and receive the eternal throne of a kingdom (2 Samuel 7:12–16). God said to David, ‘your house and your kingdom will be made sure forever before you. Your throne will be established forever.”’ (2 Samuel 7:16). Solomon, David’s biological son and heir, built the First Temple, but the kingdom he ruled – the United Kingdom of Israel – did not last forever; on the contrary, it was split into the northern Kingdom of Israel and the southern Kingdom of Judah after his death, because of his idolatry. The prophecy mainly refers to Jesus, the Son of God, who said he would rebuild the temple in John 2:19. Jesus was a descendant of David through his mother; his stepfather Joseph was also descended from David (Matthew 1; Luke 3). Jesus was thus called ‘the Son of David’, a title of the Messiah, with son here meaning descendant. An eternal kingdom of course entailed an eternal king, hence Jesus had to be God’s Son. Thus the Davidic Covenant agrees with and expands upon Paul’s ‘Christ is Abraham’s offspring’ reading of the Abrahamic Covenant.
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[i] Justin Martyr. Dialogue with Trypho.
[ii] Abraham was willing to kill his son Isaac as a burnt offering when commanded to do so by God. ‘Yahweh’s angel’ (Genesis 22:11) told Abraham it was not necessary to actually kill his son, since he had passed the test by proving that he was willing to go through with the deed, and Isaac was spared. Abraham was prepared to slay his son because God had previously promised to make a great nation of Isaac (Genesis 17), who had not yet had children. Therefore, Abraham believed God would resurrect Isaac afterwards; hence he said to his young men that he and Isaac would come back from the sacrifice (Genesis 22:5). This faith was accounted to him for righteousness (Genesis 15:6). A ram was killed in place of Isaac. A ram is an adult male sheep, foreshadowing the paschal lamb, and Jesus the Lamb. Because Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son, God gave his Son instead – who like Isaac was also Abraham’s ‘offspring’ – as a ‘blessing’ to the nations (Genesis 22:18). Indeed, the preincarnate Christ was present at the scene as the very Angel of the Lord who saved Isaac.
[iii]Nally, J. Seed and offspring – single or plural? Link: https://thirdmill.org/answers/answer.asp/file/50209#:~:text=However%2C%20the%20Hebrew%20word%20zera,a%20later%20%22seed%22%20fulfillment!
[iv]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_that_I_Am#:~:text=%22I%20Am%20that%20I%20Am,I%20am%20the%20Existing%20One%22.
[v] In Mark 12:10, Jesus cited Psalm 118:22: ‘The stone which the builders rejected has become the cornerstone’.
[vi] Justin Martyr. Dialogue with Trypho.
[vii]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messiah#:~:text=The%20literal%20translation%20of%20the,that%20are%20followed%20in%20Judaism.
[viii] The first five books of the Christian Bible are the Hebrew Torah, also known as the Pentateuch, and were written by Moses, as per the tradition. The Tanakh is equivalent to the wider Old Testament. The oldest extant fragments from the Pentateuch are the Ketef Hinnom scrolls containing parts of the Book of Numbers, which date from the late 7th or early 6th century BC.
[ix] Hindson, Ed. LayHaye, Tim. 2011. Exploring Bible Prophecy From Genesis to Revelation PB: Clarifying the Meaning of Every Prophetic Passage. Harvest House.
[xi]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hittites#:~:text=The%20Hittites%20(/%CB%88h%C9%AA,the%20Hurri%2DMitanni%20and%20Assyrians.
[xii] Hindson, Ed. LayHaye, Tim. 2011. Exploring Bible Prophecy From Genesis to Revelation PB: Clarifying the Meaning of Every Prophetic Passage. Harvest House.
[xiii] Ibid.
[xiv] Ibid.
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