Isaiah 46:9-10
Remember the former things of old;
for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,
declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done,
saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose."
The Exodus is everyone's story. Father God interested in the quality of life. The slaves end up leaving with pay. Gold of the captors. Funding the Temple. 1000 B.C. The Temple is built. 700 B.C. Hezekiah refuses to dismantle the Temple as safety money from the Assyrian Empire - God saves the Temple and Israel.
Why is it any more spectacular to know God sent the Children of Israel out with Egyptian financial sacrifices.
The History Channel did a Documentary on the Exodus and says some of the Plagues we can see from the air took place.
Ipuwer – explains the world has been turned upside-down. A slave who had not a single box now has furniture, a girl who looked at her face in the water now owns a mirror, while the once-rich slave owner is now in rags. This continues until a huge storm of unseen before proportion - Hurricanes and tornadoes - take out the Pharaoh's Army. The women of Egypt will take to boats to look for the Army in the Red Sea. The Plagues are listed one by one.
The Ipuwer Papyrus has been dated no earlier than the Nineteenth Dynasty, around 1250 BC.
Seti II (or Sethos II), was the fifth ruler of the Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt and reigned during 1200 BC. Seti II's reign at Thebes was interrupted by the rise of a rival: King Amenmesse. Amenmesse is possibly a half-brother.
Attested by various documents and papyri - Papyrus Salt 124 - reigns of Amenmesse and Seti II must have partly overlapped with one another and suggests that both rulers were rivals who were fighting each another for the throne of Egypt. Seti ll's Successor is his consort, not a son. Two important papyri date from the reign of Seti II. The first of these is the Tale of Two Brothers, a fabulous story of troubles within a family on the death of their father, which may have been intended in part as political satire on the situation of the two half-brothers. Many crimes were alleged by Amennakhte in a violently worded indictment preserved in papyrus now in the British Museum.
This trouble-maker had then brought a complaint before 'Mose' (i.e., 'Msy'),
who then acted to remove Pra'emhab from his office. Evidently, this 'Mose' must have been a person of the highest importance, perhaps the king Amenmesse himself or a senior ally of the king.
Do we have a discrepancy with the Bible?
No, I don't believe so. The Pharaohs did all the work they could to pull down statues, papyrus and re-do history. We have found Moses in the history of Egypt, I believe. And Moses might have had an additional Egyptian name. Pharoahs record different spellings, even the little known Seti II. The other confusion is Seti II lived, as all Pharoahs do, in fear of being over thrown. Seti II probably saw all of Moses demands as a plot to take his reign from him.
1500 B.C. Thutmose II - might be when Joseph becomes the Vizier of Pharaoh.
The Tax Records today read that Joseph is here during the reign of Thutmose III, the 18th Dynasty. The New Kingdom. This is the Zenith of Egypt. As believers are we surprised, when Joseph spoke with God?
Thutmose III is the Pharaoh with great wisdom who created all the magnificent funding Egypt had. He is the one who creates the glamor of Egypt.
Thutmose III
In the New Kingdom - The Glorious Years of Egypt - Monotheistic God Worship.
Akhenaten is 4 Pharaohs after Thutmose III and the 5th Pharaoh is one God alone, too. They change the Egyptian culture to Monotheistic God of the Sun. Like Joseph. Perhaps they have seen the Power of the God of Gods in the Exodus as part of their childhoods and recent history.
1200 B.C. SETI II - Records in many Papyrus a protagonist challenger. Recorded as Mose.
Seti II and Moses
Troubles are documented and various accusations occur during the short reign of Seti II. Clearly Thebes was going through very troubled times. There are references elsewhere to 'war' occurred during these years and is obscure to what.
Seti II dies suddenly. His Tomb is not finished. His consort, instead of a child, inherits.
The Temple built by Seti II was abandoned in the late Bronze Age collapse (1200 BC). A part of the temple seems to have been used by Midianite nomads, linked to the worship of a bronze serpent discovered in the area.
Numbers 21:8
The LORD said to Moses, "Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live."
The Temple built by Seti II was abandoned in the late Bronze Age collapse (1200 BC). A part of the temple seems to have been used by Midianite nomads, linked to the worship of a bronze serpent discovered in the area.
Numbers 21:8
The LORD said to Moses, "Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live."
1000 B.C. 500 years later the glories end - The New Kingdom is ushered out with Ramses III. The Third Intermediate Period (1000 or 1100 BC) marked the end of the New Kingdom after the collapse of the Egyptian Empire. Ramses III fought an unidentified people and the treasury of Egypt is Gone. The Sea People. This Ramses III is viewed today as a mummy. Ramses III, had red hair, I've seen his mummy on display, and no teeth in old age. This is also today's history available to see after being in the ground for 3,000 years.
This is the time Solomon marries into Egypt. Solomon marries the Pharaoh's Daughter. The Treasury is raided. And Israel is gloriously expanded.
Ramses III
Ramses loses the treasury and fights with an unknown adversary. The Sea People are unidentified but speculated in some history around Canaan. The treasury is Broken. Solomon with his request for Great Wisdom from our God - marries Pharaoh's Daughter and is to spend his life apart from Father God - asking God to speak to him. The stories of the two lives - appear to have commonality.
Now, this is interesting, of course, but how will we relate to this?
Are we part of the 500 years struggle, the cultural struggles? We have seen a lot of cultural changes from our grandparents to our children.
This timeline fits and yet crashes us into David's Reign at 1000 B.C.. In exact parallel to Egypt. And the Temple is Built. And finally, the area around Bethlehem becomes for the First Time - really allotted to the Tribe of Judah.
Genesis 22:18 to Abraham
17 indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies. 18 "In your seed, all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice."
Abraham's sons are covered by the Blessing of Abraham.
"Foreigners go no further."
Thank you. Please be courteous. Now, that is a Joke.
Thank you. Please be courteous. Now, that is a Joke.
Even when the Children of Israel had revisionist History in Jeremiah 23,
God was making plans for the Blessing of Abraham to pull them up again.
And when after they killed God, Jesus said the Temple would be pulled down and we can see the massive stones display Jesus is correct today. God holds up His Promises. 70 A.D.
And unusually there are several intact signs saying "No Foreign Visitors." For good reason. The Temple was entirely covered in thousands of tons of Gold. Billions of dollars.
I Chronicle 29 and
II Kings 10:23
So King Solomon exceeded
all the kings of the earth
in riches and wisdom
This Gold is the unforgotten payment of the 500 years of Jewish Slavery in Egypt. And unparalleled and recorded in Babylonian Chronicles as well - the return of the gold.
Ezra 1:5-10
The list of returned items included 1000 basins of gold, 1000 basins of silver, 29 censers, 30 bowls of gold, 2410 bowls of silver, and other vessels of gold and silver totaling 5,469 in number.
How could the Temple even exist in safety?
The Temple is established. Upheld by the Word of God. Otherwise, Pharaoh and other Empires would have melted the Temple instead of the Biblical witness to the end.
Banks hold treasure and values. Empires rise and fall, quickly. This is enduring even today.
What supported the Temple and the return of the Temple things?
Numbers 23:19
God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?
Hebrews 1:3
The Son is the radiance of God's glory
and the exact representation of his being,
sustaining all things by His Powerful Word.
Jesus declared what is of value to His Father, our God. Our Father.
Father God sees us as His Treasure.
John 6:40
For it is My Father's will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
1 Corinthians 3
16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you?
17 If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, and you are that temple.
Egypt - where Jesus spent his early years. How we live today is still important to God our Father. The Nations all around the world are important to our God.
Abba,
We ask for Your Blessing today. And know the Blessing to ask:
No other generation has seen the Wonders of God, other than the Generation of Jesus Christ, to the extent of the Exodus.
And as we are apt to do and see in
Mark 9
All things are possible for one who believes.
24 Immediately the father of the child cried out and said, “I believe; help my unbelief!”
We need the Blessing of our Father in our daily faith. If the fires of the day look like flaming hail, we pray the comfort of Your God heart. To be held in Your Pinions and held in the Comfort of the Holy Spirit.
If the day sinks to the depths of the ocean, we pray to see the Wonders of God's provision. Knowing ahead in You, Our Father, is secure. The dance and song of rescue.
Cover us in the Name of Jesus. Cover those we Love. Knowing all our cares are covered. To the Nation. And beyond all borders - covering the prayers of the faithful all over this creation You call Good.
Yesterday, today and tomorrow we are Your's in Jesus, Father God. Our Alleluia in being part of the New Covenant covers us each day. Give us this day, the difficulties and the blessings. In Jesus become Blessings because all things are possible. And work together for good for those Loving You and working to Your Good Purpose. Amen in Jesus' Love.
♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †
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