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Discovery Proves Existence of
Another Biblical Figure
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several other officials went to the king asking that
Jeremiah be put to death for undermining the
morale of Jerusalem’s inhabitants, after which
Jeremiah is handed over to them and thrown into
prison.
Many seals and seal impressions such as the one
bearing Jehucal’s name have been found in the harles Swindoll said:
Holy Land, most bearing the names of various “The longer I live, the
government officials. Small pieces of soft clay Cmore I realize the
were typically used to seal documents, much as impact of attitude on life.
wax seals were used in more modern times.
Officials would press their seals into the soft clay, Attitude, to me, is more
Ieaving an impressed lump, which would later important than facts. It is
harden into what is called a bulla. Many critics of more important than the
the Bible, attempting to undermine its detailed past, than education, than
history and record of prophetic fulfiIment, claim money, than circumstances,
that the books of the Old Testament aren’t than failures, than suc-
accurate accounts of real events written at the cesses, than what other
time they happened. Instead, they argue, the people think or say or do. It
books weren't written until centuries later, well is more important than
after the kingdoms of Israel and Judah were appearance, giftedness or
defeated and forcibly exiled from the Holy Land skill.
by the Assyrian and Babylonian empires. It will make or break a
Yet this claim – to which many critics still hold – company, a church, a home.
has been repeatedly disproved by discoveries The remarkable thing is we
such as this bulla. After all, how could a seaI or
impression bearing the name of a biblical figure – have a choice every day
in this case a rather inconsequential government regarding the attitude we
official – have been created centuries before the will embrace for that day.
person was written about in a supposedly We cannot change our past,
invented biblical account? we cannot change the fact
Jehucal is only the latest of literally dozens of that people will act in a
biblical figures whose existence has been proven certain way. We cannot
by archaeology. If you’d like to learn more about change the inevitable. The
how the biblical record has been repeatedly only thing we can do is play
verified by archaeologicaI discoveries, download on the one string that we
our free article series The Bible and Archaeology have, and that is our
at www.ucg.org/booklets attitude.
I am convinced that life is 10
percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to
it. And so it is with you. We
are in charge of our
attitudes.”