The Reader's Corner: May/June 2009

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Judgment">Righteous Judgment</A></div> <div> <A HREF="id337.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The physical and spiritual blessings of ">The physical and spiritual blessings of submission</A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=380 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> READERS CORNER </div> <bR> <div> History of Ancient Jericho</div> <bR> <div> Jericho was a fortress city on a northeast trade route.  It sat on about six acres with walls that were 21 feet high and about three feet thick.  Around that huge wall was a rampart and a shorter wall of about 12 feet.  The city plus the rampart sat on about nine acres.  Some historical accounts say that there were also smaller houses built on the rampart by poor people who could not afford to live inside the city.  When the children of Israel walked around the city, just a bit of a distance from the walls, they were making a circle around an area of about ten acres and looking up at a massive fortress.</div> <bR> <div> The ruins of Ancient Jericho are about half a mile away from modern-day Jericho. The ancient fortress was a Canaanite city built to Babylonian standards of construction that used clay bricks covered with asphalt.  There were multi-roomed houses around the walls of the city and some had windows built into the wall.  The city had a huge interior public courtyard.  Jericho was also known as the City of Palms because the courtyard was a beautiful place with water wells, palm trees and a profitable merchant trading area.  </div> <bR> <div> According to what was found by archeologists, the homes of Jericho were quite elaborate with plates, basins, jugs, pots, bedding, mats, weaving looms, tables, chairs and bread-making ovens that resemble ovens still in that area today.  There were numerous shops, warehouses and items made from gold, silver, copper and iron.  Prosperity was still evident in the excavations of Jericho even after being sacked and burned by the Israelites.</div> <bR> <div> The temple area of Jericho revealed threefold statues from the Canaanite trinity worship.  There were also niches (recessed display areas) for religious statues like what's seen today in many modern religious buildings all over the world.  The statues and niches indicated to archeologists a more upscale religious system compared with neighboring cities.  </div> <bR> <div> The origin of the Hebrew name “Jericho” is from “Riha” (an Arabian language) and is translated as “moon”. "Riha" in Syriac means "scent and odor."  The Canaanites were the descendants of Canaan, the youngest son of Ham (Gen 10:6:18).  Canaan was the uncle of Nimrod.  The Canaanite religion centered on moon worship, child sacrifice and bestiality.  “El” was the name they gave their god.  (It's also the Hebrew name of the True God.)  Baal was the son of their god “El” and Baal's enemy was called Mot.  Mot and Baal were brothers and Mot was considered to be the favorite son of “El”.  </div> <bR> <div> The Canaanite religion revolved around a battle between the two brothers in a seasonal harvest struggle where Baal was annually vanquished, slain and resurrected.  Anath was the sister-spouse of Baal in this trinity type worship.  Baal was considered the true successor of “El”, rather than, the favored son, Mot.  Baal claimed a throne located in the far northern heavens.  Another one of Baal's titles was “the Lord of Heaven”.  Baal was also considered the god of justice.</div> <bR> <div> So, Jericho was a “moon city” with an “odor/scent” that was so obnoxious to God that all of the men, women, children and even the animals were to be killed.  Only Rahab and her household were spared because of her faith in helping the two spies escape the city.  Her faith recognized the real El from the fake “El” of Canaanite counterfeit religion, “. . .for the Lord your God, He is God in heaven above and in earth beneath”, said Rahab. (Jos 2:11)</div> <bR> <div> A German excavation in 1907-1909 discovered that a section of the north wall did not fall-it was still standing about 8 feet high.  Further excavations by John Garstang, a professor at the University of Liverpool, between 1930-1936, revealed that the collapsed walls were such that the Israelites went into the City via a make-shift stairway straight up from wherever they were standing when the walls fell.  Like a house of cards, the high walls fell onto the ramparts, that fell to the outer walls, that then to the ground “. . .so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him. . .” (Jos 6:20).</div> <bR> <div> According to the evidence from excavations, the walls fell before the city was burned-usually it was the other way around.  A huge supply of grain in storage jars was also found under the ruins and provides additional proof that the Biblical account is true.  Normally, grain would be eaten if a city was under siege for many months or, the grain would be taken as spoils of war; but the instructions from God were to only take silver, gold, brass, and iron for the house of the Lord (Jos 6:4) and all that Rahab had (Jos 6: 23).  Every living thing was killed and all that was in the City was burned with fire.  The instructions to Israel were to remove the heathen from their inheritance in the Land of Canaan but Israel didn't follow through and do so.  Because they neglected to do as told, the Canaanite religion infected them in numerous ways.</div> <bR> <div> For example, other lower deities in the Canaanite religion were Shalim, the god of health and Hothar, the god of arts and crafts.  The name Shalim is related to the Hebrew word shalom, which means peace or prosperity.  The word Hothar is related to the Hebrew word kosher, which means fit and proper.   Even the Hebrew Calendar has roots in the pagan Canaanite religion.  (See the Calendar Articles and series on Judaism)</div> <bR> <div> The Canaanite religion was a total corruption and counterfeit of the Truth of God by Satan the Devil and because the Canaanites were not totally removed from the land as God instructed.  The Israelites adapted many beliefs from the Canaanites into their beliefs.  The Canaanite religion has been like a modern virus in a computer--it has infected so many areas of belief, and so deeply, that when the Lord comes, His solution is that “. . .there shall be no more Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.”  (Zechariah 14:21)  </div> <bR> <div> We've been told as a reminder to come out of Egypt (sin), but how about remembering how Jericho fell and to come out of the Canaanite religion?</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Pat Homan                                                                                          </div> <bR> <div>  </div> <div>  </div> <div>  </div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>