I read Deuteronomy 27 recently, where Moses told the children of Israel to set up stones after they crossed over Jordan and to write the laws God had given them on the stones.  They were also instructed to erect an altar there on Mount Ebal.  God said to Moses, "You will make an altar of earth for Me and you will sacrifice your burnt offerings and peace offerings of sheep and oxen on it; in every place where I record My name, I will come to you and bless you" Exodus 20:24.  On April 6, 1980, Adam Zertal, Ph.D., Professor of Archeology, University of Haifa, was doing an archeological survey of the lands of Manasseh and discovered a Hebrew altar that dated to 1250 BC.  Using the pottery to date the site, Zertal said, "The pottery fixes a date for the construction of the altar - approximately 1250 BC."  However, the site at Mount Ebal had two occupation levels.  Zertal calls the older occupation "Level II" which he dates 1300 BC and the younger to 1250 BC.  If this site is no older than 1300 BC, then none of it could have been built by Joshua, because the exodus took place in 1400 BC.  However, this is a Hebrew altar built during the time of Deborah the judge, and underneath, we believe, is the actual altar built by Joshua, which should be dated to 1400 BC.  We agree that there are clearly two occupation levels.  The rectangular altar we see today was built about 1250 BC.  The 6.5 feet circular stone structure with burnt kosher bones inside is located beneath the rectangular altar and was built about 1400 BC by Joshua.  We speculate that since Abraham and Isaac lived in the area and built altars, we believe that the site dates back to the time of Abraham and that Joshua built his altar on top of Isaac's, who in turn built his altar on top of Abraham's.  In other words, the site has a long tradition of use as an altar from 2000 BC to 1250 BC.  Adam Zertal said that this archeological site has made a believer out of him.  He has undergone a transformation of faith that is truly remarkable.  After studying the structure for three years with no idea what it was used for, he suddenly realized that it was the site of Joshua's altar.  * Excerpts from this article were taken from: www.Bible.ca/archeology/Bible-archeology-altar-of-joshua.htm.  Joshua chapter 8 describes how Joshua built an altar to the Lord God on Mount Ebal, as Moses commanded he should do after crossing the River Jordan.  This Hebrew altar, dating to the time of Joshua, was discovered in 1980 by Adam Zertal, and the discovery changed his life.  As time progresses, we are finding more and more evidence of Biblical characters and events, which, prior to these discoveries, many discounted as fictional stories told long ago.  Others challenged that the Bible was mythical and written not so long ago, until the Dead Sea Scrolls were found, some of which date as far back as 200 BC.  Fragments were found of every Old Testament Book, except for the Book of Esther.  Do you need more proof that God created heaven and earth and that He gave His Word to the early prophets?  You may never receive what you are looking for.  Jesus said, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but there will be no sign given to it, except for the sign of the prophet Jonas" Matthew 12:39.  "Jonas" refers to the prophet we know as Jonah in the Old Testament.  His "sign" was that he went to a very wicked city by the name of Nineveh and preached a sermon about repentance; otherwise, he said, God would destroy them because of their wickedness.  Jesus also said to (doubting) Thomas, "You have believed because you have seen Me; but blessed are those who have not seen, yet they believe" John 20:29.  The gospel of Jesus Christ, our Savior, has been preached throughout the world for more than 2,000 years.  The apostle Paul said, "Now is the acceptable time, behold, now is the day of salvation" 2 Corinthians 6:2.  The evidence is all around us, the magnificence of earth and the universe display.  If you miss the opportunity to accept Jesus as your Savior, you will pay a devastating penalty throughout eternity - for rejecting the only begotten Son of God, who died for your sins and mine.  Isn't it interesting that Muslims believe that the only sure way to go to heaven is to die for Allah.  Muslims are encouraging their sons to die for Allah, to secure their passage to heaven; but the truth is, God gave His only Son a ransom for our sins, so we can be forgiven and dwell eternally with Him.  At Passover, as the Jews were delivered from Egypt's bondage, God told Moses to have every family slay a lamb and place the blood on their doorposts, so the firstborn of the Jews would be saved from the death angel.  This is a figure of what our Savior's blood did for us.