{"product_id":"the-bloodlines-that-never-ended-from-the-twelve-tribes-to-prophecy-9798197253767","title":"The Bloodlines That Never Ended: From the Twelve Tribes to Prophecy","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): B. Churchill\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Biblical Studies - History \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Bible contains one of the most ambitious genealogical records in human history. It begins with three brothers standing outside an ark and ends with twelve names inscribed on the gates of an eternal city. In between, it traces a single bloodline through four thousand years of war, empire, exile, and dispersion - and confirms itself, at every testable point, against the archaeological and historical record of the ancient world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the book that completes that record.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Bloodlines That Never Ended is the third and final volume of The Biblical Bloodlines Series. It opens with the twelve tribes of Israel established in Egypt - seventy people who entered as a family and emerged as a nation - and follows them forward through the Exodus, the conquest of Canaan, the rise and catastrophic fracture of the united kingdom, the Assyrian deportation of the ten northern tribes, the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem, and the long diaspora that scattered the covenant people across the ancient world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe historical section of this book is the most externally confirmed of the three volumes. The Merneptah Stele places Israel in Canaan in 1208 BC. The Assyrian royal annals of Sargon II record the capture of Samaria and the deportation of its population in exact alignment with 2 Kings 17. The Babylonian Chronicle confirms Nebuchadnezzar's campaigns against Jerusalem down to the specific dates. The Cyrus Cylinder confirms the Persian policy that allowed the exiles to return. The Elephantine Papyri confirm Jewish diaspora communities maintaining their covenant identity in Egypt through the Persian period. The external record and the biblical record tell the same story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second half of the book follows the genealogical thread into territory the historical record alone cannot reach. The same names recorded in Genesis 10 - Magog, Meshech, Tubal, Gomer, Togarmah, Persia, Cush, Put - reappear in Ezekiel 38 as the coalition gathering against restored Israel. Daniel's visions trace the succession of world empires from Babylon through Persia through Greece through Rome with a precision that has occupied scholars for centuries. The twelve tribes appear by name in Revelation 7, sealed and enumerated. And in the final vision of the eternal city, twelve gates bear the names of Jacob's twelve sons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe record that began in Genesis ends in Revelation with the same names it started with.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for both believers and curious skeptics, this book requires no prior faith commitment. It requires only a willingness to follow a genealogical record across the full distance it travels - and to reckon honestly with what it means that a record this specific, this consistent, and this confirmed by outside sources exists at all.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891797213335,"sku":"9798197253767","price":1293.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798197253767.webp?v=1781184828","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-bloodlines-that-never-ended-from-the-twelve-tribes-to-prophecy-9798197253767","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}