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09/05/2026

The 3,000-year-old clay tablet in question is the Imago Mundi (also known as the Babylonian Map of the World). Housed in the British Museum since 1882, it is widely recognized as the oldest surviving map of the known world.

​Research led by British Museum curator and cuneiform expert Dr. Irving Finkel shed light on the tablet's text, connecting its geographic instructions directly to the Mesopotamian flood myth that inspired the biblical story of Noah's Ark.

​The Decoded Text & The Path

​The tablet features a circular aerial map of Mesopotamia surrounded by a ring labeled the "Bitter River" (the ocean boundary of the known world). Beyond the ring are triangular points representing uncharted, mythical lands or distant mountains.

​By matching a missing fragment of the tablet that completed the cuneiform text on the reverse side, researchers were able to read the full journey instructions:

​The Route: The text instructs a traveler to cross beyond the Bitter River to the fourth triangle/region (nagu), traveling a distance of "seven leagues".

​The Landmark: At this location, the traveler is told they will encounter a vessel described as "thick as a parsiktu-vessel".

​The Connection: The term parsiktu refers to a specific large volumetric vessel—a rare word found almost exclusively on another ancient cuneiform tablet describing the gigantic ark built by Utnapishtim (the Mesopotamian prototype of Noah).

​Key Takeaways

​Urartu vs. Ararat: The map places this region at Urartu (an ancient kingdom in the Armenian Highlands of modern-day eastern Turkey). Urartu is the linguistically cognate Hebrew equivalent to Mount Ararat, the mountain where the Genesis narrative states Noah's Ark came to rest.

​Not a Modern Map to a Physical Ship: The Imago Mundi does not prove the existence of a literal, physical wooden ship waiting to be excavated. Rather, it shows that around the 7th to 6th century BCE, ancient Babylonians believed the Great Flood story was a historical event and wrote travel guides detailing where one could theoretically see the remains of the ark silhouetted against the sky.

​Cultural Transmission: The discovery reinforces the deep literary overlap between early Mesopotamian flood epics (such as the Epic of Gilgamesh and Atrahasis) and the biblical Flood account in the Book of Genesis.

09/02/2026

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08/30/2026

Sharing the 24 marks of the Biblical church in groups.
How the True Church Is Known
Mark 1
Christ Personally Organized His Church
Jesus Christ chose, called, and ordained His servants. Divine origin—not human tradition—is the foundation.

“Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you.”
John 15:16
Mark 2
The True Church Bears Christ’s Name
God declared that His people and His house would be called by His name.

“Every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory.”
Ephesians 3:21; Isaiah 43:6–7
Mark 17
By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them
Christ taught that the true church would produce visible, recognizable fruits.

“Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.”
Matthew 7:20

Read all 24 at https://FindTheTrueChurchOfTheBible.today
Nothing was canceled!

08/29/2026

Did God ever say, “I will never again call prophets, apostles, or give revelation”?** Not in the King James Bible.

The Bible is sacred, inspired, and essential. “All scripture is given by inspiration of God” (2 Timothy 3:16). But Paul did not say that God had stopped giving scripture, stopped revealing His will, or that no future prophets and apostles could be called. In fact, when Paul wrote those words, the New Testament as we know it had not yet been gathered into one bound volume.

The idea that the canon must be permanently closed is not a single verse of Scripture. It is a later conclusion. Sola Scriptura was a powerful Reformation response to abuses and corruption, insisting that human religious leaders were not above God’s word. Yet the Bible itself teaches that God reveals His will through prophets: “Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets” (Amos 3:7).

From Genesis forward, the pattern is clear: God establishes His gospel, people drift from it, darkness and confusion follow, and God restores truth through chosen servants.

- Adam received commandments and taught faith, repentance, baptism, and the Holy Ghost (see Genesis 3–4).
- In the days of Noah, widespread wickedness brought a great apostasy from God. Noah, a “preacher of righteousness” (2 Peter 2:5), was called to warn the world. The Flood itself stands as a sobering Biblical witness that entire societies can reject revealed truth.
- After the Flood, people again turned from God. Abraham was called and received covenant promises through revelation.
- Israel repeatedly fell into idolatry and rebellion; God sent judges, prophets, and deliverers.
- Even after Christ established His Church, the New Testament warns that a falling away would come.

Paul plainly taught: “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first” (2 Thessalonians 2:3). He also warned the Ephesian elders that “grievous wolves” would enter and that men would arise “speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them” (Acts 20:29–30). That is not a picture of a church incapable of apostasy. It is a prophecy and warning that apostasy would occur.

Why was that loss so serious? Because Christ’s Church was not meant to rest merely on the wisdom of men. It was “built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone” (Ephesians 2:20). The Lord “gave some, apostles; and some, prophets” to perfect the Saints, unify the faith, and protect believers from being “carried about with every wind of doctrine” (Ephesians 4:11–14).

If apostles and prophets were needed then for unity, revelation, doctrine, and protection from deception, why would we assume they are no longer needed now?

The apostasy was not simply people leaving church buildings. It involved the loss of priesthood authority, revelation, and the living foundation of apostles and prophets. When that foundation was gone, sincere believers still loved Christ, read the Bible, prayed, preached, and sought to do good. God did not abandon them. The churches that arose helped preserve precious truths about Jesus Christ, the Bible, faith, morality, prayer, and Christian discipleship. The Reformers challenged corruption, helped put the Bible into the hands of ordinary people, and prepared hearts for greater light.

The Reformation was not the final restoration of all things—but it was part of the preparation for it.

The Bible foretold a future “restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began” (Acts 3:21). Peter did not describe a cancellation of all things. He described a restoration.

Revelation also speaks of an angel flying “in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth” (Revelation 14:6). The everlasting gospel is not a new gospel. It is the same gospel of Jesus Christ—restored in its fullness, with divine authority, living apostles and prophets, priesthood power, ordinances, and temples.

And consider the Lord’s hand in preparing the world: faithful people were inspired to seek religious freedom in America; a nation was established where religious liberty could grow; printing and communication technology accelerated the spread of the Bible and, eventually, the restored gospel throughout the earth. God prepares the way before He accomplishes His purposes.

This is not a rejection of the Bible. It is a call to believe what the Bible actually teaches: God calls prophets. Christ establishes apostles. Authority matters. Apostasy can happen. Restoration is promised. Revelation continues.

Search the scriptures. Pray. Ask God to help you understand all **24 marks of His gospel in the Bible**.

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“Nothing was canceled, the canon wasn’t closed, the restoration happened. The true angel of Revelation 14:6 came! Temples not canceled.”

Find the True Church of the Bible: 24 biblical characteristics from the King James Version.