Good News For Israel's Annual Fall Meeting

Saturday, November 19th 2011 - 7 p.m.
With Dr. Clyde Billington renowned speaker on Biblical Archaeology

Location: Emmaus Free Lutheran Church
8433 Second Ave. S., Bloomington, MN [Click for Map]

Dr. Billington has taught at NWC for 15 years and has also pastored a church for five years. He is currently the Executive Director of the Institute for Biblical Archaeology and the Secretary of the Near East Archaeological Society.

Speaker Topic:
The Importance of the Book of Daniel to Israel, Islam and the Church. He will be clarifying the issues and controversies surrounding the most important Prophecy book in the Bible!

His seminal discovery to date has been The Nazareth Inscription, the Stone is a 24" x 15" marble tablet with a fourteen line Edict of Caesar proscribing capital punishment for tomb-breakers, allegedly acquired by the Frohner Collection in 1878 from Nazareth.

The following translation from the Greek-based Nazareth inscription is by Dr. Clyde E. Billington:

EDICT OF CAESAR

It is my decision [concerning] graves and tombs--whoever has made them for the religious observances of parents, or children, or household members--that these remain undisturbed forever.

But if anyone legally charges that another person has destroyed, or has in any manner extracted those who have been buried, or has moved with wicked intent those who have been buried to other places, committing a crime against them, or has moved sepulcher-sealing stones, against such a person, I order that a judicial tribunal be created, just as [is done] concerning the gods in human religious observances even more so will we be obligatory to treat with honor those who have been entombed. You are absolutely not to allow anyone to move [those who have been entombed]. But if [someone does], I wish that [violator] to suffer capital punishment under the title of tomb-breaker.

--Since its original publication in 1930 by M. Franz Cumont, no scholar has published evidence to disprove its authenticity. Clyde Billington of Northwestern College has dated it to 41 A.D. and interpreted it as evidence of Christians preaching the resurrection of Jesus within a decade of His crucifixion.