Truth in Mikra

Author: The Hoosac historian

  • An interesting video on Gobekli Tepe and the flood

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    The Hoosac historian

    I know in past blogs we have discussed Gobekli Tepe and how it shows the oldest of human structures popped up around where Noah’s ark landed.This video should be taken with a grain of salt because it is secular and does not explicitly endorse a Biblical perspective on a world flood.If you use some common…

  • And who is Yishmael and his 12 kingdoms?

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    The Hoosac historian

    Sarai the wife of Avram was unable to bear children ,so here in Gen 16:3-15 (Tree of Life) “ 3 So Sarai, Abram’s wife, took her slave-girl Hagar the Egyptian—after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan—and gave her to Abram her husband to be his wife. 4 Then he went to Hagar and she became…

  • Are we to live by law or faith

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    The Hoosac historian

    The basic word in the Torah for commandment is mitzvah מצוה ,but what does mitzvah really mean? What does mitzvah mean? (From Chabad.org) “In common usage, a mitzvah often means “a good deed”—as in “Do a mitzvah and help Mrs. Goldstein with her packages.” This usage is quite old—the Jerusalem Talmud commonly refers to any charitable act…

  • Is Yeshayahu/Isaiah 52-53 about Jesus?

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    The Hoosac historian

    Tree of Life Version (TLV) Isaiah 52 (Tree of Life Version) Ma Navu: The Song of Salvation 52 Awake, awake!Clothe yourself in your strength, Zion!Clothe yourself in beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city,for the uncircumcised and the unclean    will never invade you again.2 Shake off the dust and arise!Be enthroned, Jerusalem.Loose the bonds off your neck,    captive Daughter of Zion.…

  • בראשית B’reishit/Genesis 1 and what is true and what false!

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    The Hoosac historian

    How should Genesis 1 be understood and I will argue that it should be viewed a literally as possible.Let us start with the basics and the Greek word Genesis which means beginings as does the Hebrew word b’reishit mean literally “from the head” but in practical terms also means beginnings as well.Now let us look…

  • What about Halloween??

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    The Hoosac historian

    I guess we will start with “Samhain”(pronounced likely as “sa’win”)and means “end of summer” in a proto Celtic type language. It was a festival marking the end the summer and the begining of the darker part of the year,starting on november 1st but like most ancient calendars the day was sunset to sunset much like…

  • Evidence North Korea may be part of Magog

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    The Hoosac historian

    If you read my recent blog on Magog then you remember I said I thought that North Korea was part of the Magog franchise,here is an article backing that up. https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2023/10/e8fc19211c05-n-korea-appears-to-have-military-links-with-hamas-s-korea.html

  • Ezekiel 38 part II

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    The Hoosac historian

    In the first part we have identified the movers and shakers of a multi nation confederacy led most likely by Russia and Iran with other nation working together.And that they will make war with Israel in a war of great devastation and although it hints at Saudi Arabia and Yemen and England it does not…

  • Ezekiel 38 יחזקאל and current events

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    The Hoosac historian

    This is not an attempt to to prophectic or even thoeological but simply to look into history and see what Y’chezkel or Ezekiel has to offer on current events.Everying thing will be on Ez-38 so I won’t mention Ezekiel 38 again just the verse number.Also these are just possible scenerio’s of what could be going…

  • Please let me know about problems

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    The Hoosac historian

    I found some bugs in my posts in particular inadequate spacing between paragraph’s and some other bugs Feel or please do let me know any frustrations you have because in some cases the posts do not publish as written or intended Thank you ,please always feel free to leave any question in comments.