Simon Brown.

Proverbs 8:34-36 Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts. For whoever finds me finds life, and will obtain favor from Yahweh. But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.” Psalm 84: 11 For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly. 12 Yahweh of Armies, blessed is the man who trusts in you. 1 John 5:5 Now who is the one overcoming the world, except the one believing that Jesus is the Son of God?

Tuesday 16 October 2012

HERE WE HAVE ABSOLUTELY ROCK SOLID EVIDENCE OF THE GREAT FLOOD IMPRINTED ON SOLID CLAY

The Flood Tablets.
Flood Tablet. HERE WE HAVE ABSOLUTELY ROCK SOLID EVIDENCE OF THE GREAT FLOOD IMPRINTED ON SOLID CLAY
HERE WE HAVE ABSOLUTELY ROCK SOLID EVIDENCE OF THE GREAT FLOOD IMPRINTED ON SOLID CLAY

Emma Brown at the British Museum

Emma Brown at the British Museum

The Flood Tablets.

Recently I visited the British Museum to take some photos of the actual coins of King Herod for an article that I was writing about entitled - Is there any evidence of Herod the Great the Biblical King? 
After searching the museum for a couple of hours and then being told the coins may not be on show I realised that was why I could not find them also by then my legs felt like they where about to collapse as I was getting tired.

I still refused to give up looking which turned out to pay off eventually and ended up being the wonderful surprise which I would like to share with you now. It was a surprise that nearly caused my eyes to pop out of my head!!! 

So what was I looking at?
I found my self staring through a glass cabinet with my nose squashed to the front of the glass in amazement.
I wasn't looking at what I came here for but instead I had stumbled upon a broken peace of irregular shaped solid clay which looked like Chinese writing engraved on its surface and just next to it was a little sign saying, This is perhaps the most famous of all, the eleventh tablet of the Gilgamesh Epic, which describes how the Gods sent a flood to destroy the world that had became so evil. 

My thoughts were at this point that as far as I had been aware this story was in the Hebrew book of Genesis told by Moses which I just read may have been written and handed down to Moses by Abraham and his sons.

A man named George Smith, who was the first to decipher the Flood Tablet, was so amazed with what he read on this ancient piece of clay that he ran around the British Museum tearing off his clothes screaming with excitement.

I was staring at the same, very famous, very old piece of clay, 6 inches wide and 3.17 cm (1.25 in) depth. 

It was the oldest surviving Babylonian story ever found and preserved and written in Semitic language (part of the greater Afroasiatic language family) that was spoken in ancient Mesopotamia. 
  
We know that thousands of these cuneiform tablets were kept in The Assyrian King Ashurbanipal palace at Nineveh. Much of their lives and activities were preserved on these tablets portraying people, animals and goods, letters, legal texts, including myths and legends, hymns, prayers, rituals, dictionaries, contracts, invoices, business and much more.

How were the tablets made?
The ancient world used clay to preserve the stories of their lives and secrets by pressing wedge-shaped symbols consisting of letters on the surface of the clay. We also know some were engraved.

When were the tablets made?

From my research I find there are different dates. This small part below is from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

History 
Gilgamesh's supposed historical reign is believed to have been approximately 2700 BCE,[2] shortly before the earliest known written stories. The discovery of artifacts associated with Aga and Enmebaragesi of Kish, two other kings named in the stories, has lent credibility to the historical existence of Gilgamesh.[3]
The earliest Sumerian Gilgamesh poems date from as early as the Third dynasty of Ur (2100-2000 BC). One of these poems mentions Gilgamesh's journey to meet the flood hero, as well as a short version of the flood story. The earliest Akkadian versions of the unified epic are dated to ca. 2000-1500 BC. Due to the fragmentary nature of these Old Babylonian versions, it is unclear whether they included an expanded account of the flood myth; although one fragment definitely includes the story of Gilgamesh's journey to meet Utnapishtim. The "standard" Akkadian version included a long version of the flood story and was edited by Sin-liqe-unninni sometime between 1300 and 1000 BC.  
I also just read the Epic of Gilgamesh - written by a Middle Eastern scholar 2,500 years before the birth of Christ - commemorating the life of the ruler of the city of Uruk, from which Iraq gets its name.

I just read that Mesopotamian poets had told versions of the story of the flood and Noah's ark for 2,000 years before this tablet was written for King Ashurbanipal's Library. 

What I also find very interesting is that the Mesopotamians told their versions of the story of Noah's ark and the flood hundreds of years before the first book of the Old Testament was even written. It is now believed by scholars to be the book of Job, the oldest book in the Bible, written around 1500 B.C.

How did the Mesopotamians know about the biblical story of Noah in the book of Genesis, if it wasn't written?

It is clear to me, that traditions and stories of the Great Flood were preserved, on clay known as cuneiform tablets, 
and if the book of Genesis was not written, then the story of Noah's ark and the Great flood could of not been copied from the bible. These cuneiform tablets can only prove one thing, IT HAPPENED. 

What do they say?
There are many of these cuneiform tablets.
They all say a similar story. That God sent a message to Noah warning of the coming flood and his intentions to destroy all life on earth. 
God gives detailed instructions to Noah on how to build a boat then to take all creatures aboard the boat. The doors were closed. A dove was sent out but there was no dry land for it to rest so the dove came back to the boat. A raven, was sent out it found food and did not return. The boat then rested on the mountains. Noah came out of the boat with his family and they began their new lives.

My Conclusion is:

This is not hard to work out at all.

HERE WE HAVE ABSOLUTELY ROCK SOLID EVIDENCE OF THE GREAT FLOOD IMPRINTED ON SOLID CLAY CONFIRMING WITH THE  Biblical story of Noah, in the book of Genesis. 
This is a perfect example of what Jesus meant when he said and he who seeks finds, Matthew 7:8
The evidence of the bible is there if we only look for it we will most certainly find it just as Jesus states. 

The book of Genesis is the TRUE and the original story of what really happened.

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 
And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at his heart. 
And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. 
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. Genesis 6:5 to 8 

From my research I also find something I have not seen written anywhere else. it seems like the book of Enoch and the book of the Giants are all talking about the same thing, the flood
  
The tablet ,the Gilgamesh Epic and Atrahasis.
The Book of Enoch. 
The Book of Giants 
were all found with the dead sea scrolls in Qumran. 
All the above are similar stories with one another and seem to confirm with one another.

In short the book of Enoch and the book of Giants confirm with the many Flood Tablets and say that God created the world. 

A class of 200 angels called the watchers rebelled against God, fell in love with the beautiful woman, the rebelled angels or sons of God taught the woman evil things married them and had children who then became giants and were mighty. The Giants then became very evil, eating and sacrificing humans and having sex with animals. God was upset and hurt that he had created man. 

In fact this is one of the saddest verses in the bible.  And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. Genesis 6:6. The Giants than have dreams that God will destroy the world including them. The Giants get alarmed and send for Enoch the scribe to tell them what the dreams mean. Enoch tells them that God will destroy them and the world for their wickedness and send their fathers the rebelled angels/sons of God into Hades /PITS in chains of darkness until judgment day then they will be thrown in to the lake of fire. Noah the only good person on the earth is told to build a boat to save his family and Gods animals. God then blesses Noah to keep life going.
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; 5 if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others 2 Peter 2:4 to 6. 

* DID YOU KNOW THERE ARE STORIES OF NOAH AND THE GREAT FLOOD documented as history or legend in almost every region on earth. A man named H.S. Bellamy in Moons, Myths and Men believes there are stories of the great flood that were recorded by 500 Flood legends worldwide.
*While I was writing this article I received an email from my good friend Bob who told me that many recorded the flood. 
*Bob Mitchell, Bible teacher states: Every ancient culture around the planet has a legend about the flood. 

I am Simon Brown. 

Thank you for reading this article and I hope you found it enlightening. May God bless those who seek him, in Jesus name I pray. Amen.

It must be noted. 

The Gilgamesh epic, Sumerian tablets have significant likeness, and similar analogous to one another. which corresponds close to the great flood of Noah as told in the book of Genesis. The Bible was not written when the Sumerian tablets were. Yet Gilgamesh confirms the great flood of Noah which is the truth version in the Holy Bible. SB.

Below is the Epic of Gilgamesh From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tablet eleven. Gilgamesh observes that Utnapishtim seems no different from himself, and asks him how he obtained his immortality. Utnapishtim explains that the gods decided to send a great flood. To save Utnapishtim the god Ea told him to build a boat. He gave him precise dimensions, and it was sealed with pitch and bitumen. His entire family went aboard together with his craftsmen and "all the animals of the field". A violent storm then arose which caused the terrified gods to retreat to the heavens. Ishtar lamented the wholesale destruction of humanity, and the other gods wept beside her. The storm lasted six days and nights, after which "all the human beings turned to clay". Utnapishtim weeps when he sees the destruction. His boat lodges on a mountain, and he releases a dove, a swallow, and a raven. When the raven fails to return, he opens the ark and frees its inhabitants. Utnapishtim offers a sacrifice to the gods, who smell the sweet savor and gather around. Ishtar vows that just as she will never forget the brilliant necklace that hangs around her neck, she will always remember this time. When Enlil arrives, angry that there are survivors, she condemns him for instigating the flood. Ea also castigates him for sending a disproportionate punishment. Enlil blesses Utnapishtim and his wife, and rewards them with eternal life. This account matches the flood story that concludes the Epic of Atrahasis Tablet III of the Atrahasis Epic contains the flood story. This is the part that was adapted in the Epic of Gilgamesh, tablet XI. Tablet III of Atrahasis tells how the god Enki warns the hero Atrahasis (“Extremely Wise”) of Shuruppak, speaking through a reed wall (suggestive of an oracle) to dismantle his house (perhaps to provide a construction site) and build a boat to escape the flood planned by the god Enlil to destroy humankind. The boat is to have a roof “like Apsu” (a subterranean, fresh water realm presided over by the god Enki), upper and lower decks, and to be sealed with bitumen. Atrahasis boards the boat with his family and animals and seals the door. The storm and flood begin. Even the gods are afraid. After seven days the flood ends and Atrahasis offers sacrifices to the gods. Enlil is furious with Enki for violating his oath. But Enki denies violating his oath and argues: “I made sure life was preserved.” Enki and Enlil agree on other means for controlling the human population. (see also Gilgamesh flood myth). The Gilgamesh flood myth is a flood myth in the Epic of Gilgamesh. Many scholars believe that the flood myth was added to Tablet XI in the "standard version" of the Gilgamesh Epic by an editor who utilized the flood story from the Epic of Atrahasis.[1] A short reference to the flood myth is also present in the much older Sumerian Gilgamesh poems, from which the later Babylonian versions drew much of their inspiration and subject matter. Gilgamesh flood myth. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



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