Fact or Fiction? Lost Tomb of Jesus

For some 40 years, one of the flashiest opal signets on display at the Israel Museum held no title, had no assigned owner until two weeks ago when Dutch researcher Marjo Korpel identified it as the official seal of Queen Jezebel.

Jezebel was a Phoenician princess that married Israel's King Ahab. The story is told in I Kings about how she moved King Ahab from God to worship Ba'al (Satan). She committed horrific acts against Israel's citizens and the prophets of God. In the end, she was defeated by prophet Elijah (through a showdown of priests) and Jehu, who killed her sons in battle and had her thrown off the window.

Jezebel is synonymous with most Christians as a symbol of evil. The findings are currently going through peer review and if the textual and archaeological research of her seal is true, it gives further evidence to the validity of the Bible and its historical accuracy.

Want to see how the book is utilized in the sermon? See this sermon in the United Church of Christ in Simi Valley, California.