Exodus 15:1-21 ~ He has triumphed Gloriously

The Ipuwer Papyrus is  called The Admonitions of Ipuwer In the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, Netherlands. The sole surviving manuscript dates to the later 13th century B.C. (no earlier than the 19th dynasty in the New Kingdom). This was found at the base of the Pyramids and acknowledged by all to be authentic.

Exodus 15:1-21

Then Moses and the people of Israel sang this song to the Lord, saying,

“I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
the horse and his rider ^[chariot] he has thrown into the sea.

² The Lord is my strength and my song,
and he has become my salvation;
this is my God, and I will praise him,
my father's God, and I will exalt him.
³ The Lord is a man of war;
the Lord is his name.

⁴ “Pharaoh's chariots and his host he cast into the sea,
and his chosen officers were sunk in the Red Sea.
⁵ The floods covered them;
they went down into the depths like a stone.
⁶ Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power,
your right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy.

⁷ In the greatness of your majesty you overthrow your adversaries;
you send out your fury; it consumes them like stubble.

The Ipuwer describes the plagues and the slaves left through the Sea and with Egyptian gold. The Pharoah's army died in a freak wave of some really strange weather.

⁸ At the blast of your nostrils the waters piled up;
the floods stood up in a heap;
the deeps congealed in the heart of the sea.
⁹ The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake,
I will divide the spoil, my desire shall have its fill of them.
I will draw my sword; my hand shall destroy them.’
¹⁰ You blew with your wind; the sea covered them;
they sank like lead in the mighty waters.

¹¹ “Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods?
Who is like you, majestic in holiness,
awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?
¹² You stretched out your right hand;
the earth swallowed them.

¹³ “You have led in your steadfast love the people whom you have redeemed;
you have guided them by your strength to your holy abode.

¹⁴ The peoples have heard; they tremble;
pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia.
¹⁵ Now are the chiefs of Edom dismayed;
trembling seizes the leaders of Moab;
all the inhabitants of Canaan have melted away.
¹⁶ Terror and dread fall upon them;
because of the greatness of your arm, they are still as a stone,
till your people, O Lord, pass by,
till the people pass by whom you have purchased.


¹⁷ You will bring them in and plant them on your own mountain,
the place, O Lord, which you have made for your abode,
the sanctuary, O Lord, which your hands have established.

¹⁸ The Lord will reign forever and ever.”

¹⁹ For when the horses of Pharaoh with his chariots and his horsemen went into the sea, the Lord brought back the waters of the sea upon them, but the people of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst of the sea. ²⁰ Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing. ²¹ And Miriam sang to them:

“Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.”

 "The Ten Commandments"  Paramount Pictures released this on October 5, 1956 Directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starred Charlton Heston is well worth the time. We always think of the Movie industry as being profit related, but Mr. DeMille approached this film thinking of it's significance.

Cecil B. DeMile  had a great job and would probably be very grateful each year his work is shown on television. And saddened at the lack of Easter representation of Jesus at Easter. It was enormously well done for 1956, but could use some revamping today. 

Cecil B. deMille was persuaded to cast Charlton Heston as Moses in his movie-epic, The Ten Commandments, based on Heston's purported physical resemblance to Michelangelo's Moses.

Michelangelo's Moses located in a small Church called St. Peter's in Chains, Italy. Visitors can look for the chip on Moses' knee which was, according to one story, the result of Michelangelo's hurling his chisel at the statue. The artist, in awe of the life-like qualities that emerged from the marble as he worked, is said to have thrown the chisel and screamed at the statue, "Perché non parli? (Why don't you talk?)

This is, of course, about Jesus as God.








The Exodus was a tremendous Work of God.
Work for the Children of Israel.
And later, Cecil B. DeMille.

Easter.







Easter never passes when I do not think of Simon of Cyrene. 

Good Friday was a work day for Simon of Cyrene. Simon was working in the fields. Why did he come in from the fields?

A strange phenomenon happened from noon to 3 p.m. — normally the brightest part of the day. Luke tells us that darkness fell “over the whole land” Luke 23:44

The Scriptures point to the Cross. Jesus, like the Children of Egypt, extended beyond just the borders of Israel. Jesus might have had a foreign accent being a child raised in Egypt. But the Plague of Darkness has been seen before.

Exodus 10:21-23 Ninth Plague.

21 Then the Lord said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt.” 22 So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was pitch darkness in all the land of Egypt three days. 23 They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, but all the people of Israel had light where they lived. 

God did not need darkness for 3 days as the Light of Christ was not to depart. Jesus tells us He will not leave nor forsake us. Death was not holding Jesus.


And Simon of Cyrene is sent home from the fields. To encounter God. Proving again Salvation belongs to the Lord. I almost always cry at Easter. We are all Simon of Cyrene.

Would carrying the Cross change the life of Simon?

Cyrene is Simon's home town. Cyrene, Libya is located in northern Africa. Cyrene, a Greek colony, also had a Jewish community where 100,000 Judean Jews had been forced to settle during the reign of Ptolemy Soter (323–285 BC) and was an early center of Christianity.

Coincidence ~ Cyrene becomes an early center of Christianity.

Coincidence ~ Acts 11:20
Some of them, however, men from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to Antioch and began to speak to Greeks also, telling them the good news about the Lord Jesus.


Coincidence ~ Romans 16:13
Greet Rufus, chosen in the Lord, and his mother, who has been a mother to me, too.

Coincidence ~ A burial cave in Kidron Valley discovered in 1941 by E. L. Sukenik, belonging to Cyrenian Jews and dating before AD 70, was found to have an ossuary inscribed twice in Greek "Alexander Son of Simon."

Simon wanted the joy of determining valor, after carrying the Cross of Jesus of God. This would not be coincidence and would be encountering the Man of God who had made "all were healed", the lame Walk. The deaf Hear. The blind See. And the poor have Good News. A Man, a King of Kings, Pilate said was innocent.



Josephus describes it as “the most wretched of deaths.”

Seneca argues that suicide is preferable to the cruel fate of being put on the cross.

Cicero called it “crudelissimum taeterrimumque supplicium” - a most cruel and disgusting punishment and he further suggested that the very word, cross, should be far removed not only from the person of a Roman citizen, but also from his thoughts, his eyes and ears.

omans regarded crucifixion with horror so did the Jews. They made no distinction between tree and cross.

“Anyone who is hung on a tree is under Gods curse.”
Deuteronomy 21:23


The practice of cruxifixion was discontinued by the Emperor Constantine.
+ God Bless Constantine.
Why we call his second empire 'Byzantine' is beyond me. This ought to be called "The Constantine Roman Empire" lasting a thousand years. Constantine witnessed the week long horror of Jesus' brothers' descendants put to death by torture and then crucifixion for refusal to yield Jesus as King of Kings - Savior.

The cross was made of an upright post called, stipes and a horizontal bar called patibulum. Several variations were in existence and crucifixion practices often varied in a given region in accordance with the preferences of the executioners.

If the patibulum was attached two to three feet below the top of the stipes, then the cross was called the “low tau” as compared to the “high tau” where the patibulum was attached to the top of the stipes. Actual trees still in the ground whether dead or alive were also used with the branches serving as the crossbar.

King of the Jews.
An additional block called the suppendaneum was used for the transfixion of the feet in later times. The titulus or small sign, stating the victim’s crime, was usually nailed to the cross above the victim’s head. The final part of the cross was the sedulum a horizontal wooden block serving as a crude seat, and it was attached midway down the stipes. The weight of the entire cross was probably over 300 pounds (136 kg) while that of the patibulum ranged between 75 and 125 pounds(34-57kg) It is highly likely that only the patibulum was carried by the victim and this was placed across the nape of the victim’s neck and balanced on both shoulders.


When we say Jesus carried His Cross. I think the Scriptures meant "He carried His Cross." Until Simon of Cyrene was put into carrying this for The Lord Jesus.








Jesus tells us we must carry our Cross. Jesus tells us we will have troubles. If we are grafted into the Salvation of Jesus.


Ethiopians carry walking crosses. As they walk - they carry Jesus Christ with them in their thoughts.

Some people feel wearing a cross is too showy.

We certainly want public officials to wear a badge or name tag. The Easter season is a good time to display your thanks to Jesus Christ, Lamb of God, Savior!

In You, Father God, and in Your Son Jesus Christ - we place all of our concerns for ourselves, the People we Love and the People You have given us. Amen.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves †