The Gihon spring represents the 5 fold ministries and gifts of the Body of Christ, His Church. The inscription, so far as it is legible, appears to have run as follows: "Behold the tunnel! The gently flowing stream of Shiloh is the source of this healing. Find out more, Topic List & Subject wise Quran arranged in Index and categories Find out more, Condensed Summary of Main Topics and Theme of each Surah of Quran Find out more, Scientific knowledge in Quran from Universe to the depths of an atom Find out more, 61 Bibles in different languages along with Commentaries & Resources. We need to start seeing the impossible done much more often and much more obviously if people are to really believe and be saved. 2 Chronicles 32:4,30,32 So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water? When you add together all the efforts of the many good men and leaders of life giving churches in this country together the impact is even more significant. Last week I said I could hear the sounds of the South Tunnel diggers. In some ways the group that has been meeting on Monday nights for these last 9 months has been a part of this and in other ways we have been quite separate. On the six inscribed sides of this clay prism, King Sennacherib recorded eight military campaigns undertaken against various peoples who refused to submit to Assyrian domination. Archaeologists have excavated the tunnel under the city of David. The main accounts of Hezekiah's reign are found in 2 Kings 18–20, Isaiah 36–39, and 2 Chronicles 29–32 of the Hebrew Bible. What was significant to me was that the village had a well which was not dry, there was enough water in it to supply all their needs. The tunnel leads from the Gihon Spring to the Pool of Siloam. When Jesus entered His temple in Jerusalem it was sometimes very messy, coins everywhere, tables turned over, people in uproar. . 20, 21). One thing is clear however, it will build on but not be through the existing HT2 or any HT3 structure. 2 Kings 15:6,26 And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? The inscription (called the Siloam Inscription) was found in 1880 and is now in Archaeological Museum, Istanbul, Turkey. Like other physical things spoken about in the Old Testament, it is a shadow or reflection of a spiritual reality. Recent discoveries make it highly probable that the "pool" intended is that of Siloam, or, if not the present Siloam reservoir, a larger one, a little below it, now known as Birket el Hamra (see the 'Quarterly Statement' of the Palestine Exploration Fund for April, 1886, p. 88). The lengthy inscription explains that the tunnel was built from both ends at the same time. Use the above or your favourite translation. . I surrounded him with earthwork in order to molest those who were leaving his citys gate. The leadership team have always been supportive of any Holy Spirit led efforts and have facilitated several themselves, including bringing Steve Williams along to give weekends of teaching on the prophetic to us. The books of Hosea and Micah record that their prophecies were made during Hezekiah’s reign. There is one team working on making the existing tunnel deeper and able to carry the healing waters into the midst of the church. Jerusalem was particularly vulnerable because its only permanent water supply, the Gihon spring, which had sustained the citys existence for thousands of years, was located outside the city walls. It was explored in 1838 by the American biblical scholar Edward Robinson and in 1865 by Charles Warren. The Relief: One of the most exceptional artifacts found among the ruins of Nineveh was a wall relief (covering almost an entire wall) depicting Sennacheribs defeat of the city of Lachish. It is about 23 feet thick and still stands up to 10 feet tall. - And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might. Judah had been reduced by Assyria to a vassal state, as was most of the world, but when Sargon King of Assyria died these suppressed kingdoms rebelled…and were crushed by his son Sennacherib’s armies (Micah 1:8-12). Now skeptics always said that if a king had dug a tunnel under Jerusalem we would be able to find it and that’s exactly what we find a huge tunnel that matches perfectly the biblical description of Hezekiah tunnel. It was Hezekiah who blocked the upper outlet of the Gihon spring and channeled the water down to the west side of the City of David. Himself I made a prisoner in Jerusalem, his royal residence, like a bird in a cage. He enters, however, into no description, but, having referred the reader for details to the "book of the chronicles," notes in the briefest possible way the decease of Hezekiah, and the accession of his son and successor. Hezekiah's Tunnel was excavated using pickaxes, mostly from the Gihon Spring side but also from the side of the Pool of Siloam. Back in King Ahaz and Hezekiah’s time, Jerusalem faced a similar problem. 4:8-13) and draws on the experiences of the people of Israel to warn and admonish the New Testament churches to which he wrote (e.g. And a conduit; rather, the conduit. We are restarting the Monday night meetings at Open Arms Church in the Café area and moving out to the Kidzone this Monday 9th September 2019 at 1915 hours. The foundations of what God does (v.1) in the earth are in these holy mountains of which Zion (vv. Our churches are places of healing but it takes the work of godly men to reveal that.
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