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Pyramids
[Egypt was a massive empire, Israel were nomadic shepherd people.
Against all odds, they were able to thwart the most powerful empire of the day.]
-So I don’t know about you all, but I am excited because today we get to dive into the book of exodus in our pyramids series
-If you didn’t pick up a handout, those are on the back table
-I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that since we’re going through so much bible in so little time It’s going to be crucial for you all to be reading along week by week
-and so I have back there a list of the verses we’re going to be reading week by week
-I also have there some of the information that we talked about two weeks ago with regard to the pyramid method, just in case you didn’t get all of that written down
-and then I went ahead and made up a blank sheet to take notes on.
I’m going to do my best to keep enough copies of those made so that you can grab one each week.
-and you can follow along
-and that can hopefully help you organize your thoughts as we’re studying these passages
-Also I’ve made up an event in the youversion bible app where you can follow along
-so all sorts of resources there to help you get into the word
-So if you have your bible we’re going to be starting in Exodus chapter 1, verse 1
-But before we do, I kind of want to set the stage for what we’re about to read
-so I know it’s been a few weeks since we finished up our little mini-series on Genesis
-But Just to recap, the book of Genesis ends with the story of Joseph delivering his family into egypt, and saving them from the famine
-And we turn the page and the story seemingly continues uninterupted
-If you had a bible that didn’t have any titles or chapters or verses or book titles
-and you finished genesis and read straight through into Exodus
-it would almost seem like the book of genesis is just moving on into the next event.
-And in fact as we’re reading through exodus, it’s not until chapter 12 that we get this very important detail
-You get all the way into chapter 12 and then you read
-So if you’re not paying attention you might miss the fact that almost half a millenia has passed in between Genesis and Exodus.
-And just as a side note this is very important bible-reading tool to keep in your back pocket
-There are lots and lots of places in scripture where you can be reading one verse, and then 4, 5, 600 years passes between one sentence and the next
-and it can almost get disorienting
-so whenever we have these massive time-shifts in the bible
-I always like to think about how much can change in that amount of time
-so to put things into perspective
-430 years ago from today
-william shakespeare wrote his first play
-now imagine for a moment that you were reading a history book
-and in one line it was talking about shakespeare and king henry the 8th in england
-and then in the very next sentence, it starts talking about the covid 19 lockdowns
-So we almost have to stop, reset our brains and realize that we are moving into a completely new era in the bible
-So as we read on in verse 6 we see
-so why did joseph mean nothing to this new king?
-probably because the new king didn’t even know who joseph was
-But unfotunately, the Bible actually never mentions Pharoah by his name, only the title pharoah
-and that is for a very specific reason
-See in ancient egypt, they belived that when a pharoah died he became a god
-that’s why they had mummys and pyramids and all that stuff
-because they worshiped pharoahs who had died
-and if a new pharoh came along, and they didn’t like an old pharoh
-they would scratch out that pharohs name from all of the records
-in a sense they would erase him from history
-as an insult
-and it was very clever, it’s really difficult to be a “god” if nobody even knows that you existed.
-and so what we get in exodus is a very clever thumb in the nose to pharoh
-saying not only are you not a god
-but you’re so insignifigant that we’re not even going to bother to speak your name
-we’re gonna erase you from history
-and it was a very effective insult back in the ancient near east
-but unfortunately for us it make our job very difficult
-because it makes it that much more difficult to try and figure out when all this stuff happened.
-we can get close
-we can take what we know from later on in scripture
-and line that up with historical events where we’re a little more certain about the timeline
-and work our way backwards to get roughly a 300 year span in which these events could have happened
-and from there we can kind of guess which pharoh this might have been
-so this next part, what I’m about to say is my best guess at who I think the pharoah was
Thutmose II
-This is who I think the second pharoahs is
-the one who’s heart was hardened, the one who experienced the plagues
-so here in Exodus 1, we’re talking about either thutmose’s Dad, or Thutmoses Grandfather
-But in Egyptian history
-they record about a 400 year span in which some canannite people were in charge
-so these would have been neighbors to the isrealites
-and they would have friendly to the isrealites
-which lines up almost perfectly with the fact that Joseph was able to have a friendly relationship with the pharoh in Genesis
-And thutmose’s Dad and grandfather
-they were both responsible for overthrowing the cananite rulers and getting pure blooded egyptians back on the throne
-and they were not friendly to the people from canan.
-which again, lines ups almost perfectly with what we read in exodus.
-But here’s where it gets really cool
-Thutmose,
-when they dug up his mummy, they found that him, and all of the other people from his administration were all covered in cysts and pockmarks, like they had experienced some kind of plague
-and none of the other mummies before him or after him have these pockmarks
-and, we find out that thutmose was one of the only pharoahs who didn’t have firstborn son to take over on the throne for him.
-Which was not common at all
-so according the Egyptian’s own history
-something had to have happened to thutmoses first born son to prevent him from coming to the throne .
-after he died his wife became pharoh
-which again, was absoultely not common at all
-And then to put the icing on the cake
-when we look up his wife and what she said
I have restored that which had been ruined.
I have raised up that which had gone to pieces formerly, since the Asiatics were in the midst of Avaris of the Northland, and vagabonds were in the midst of them, overthrowing that which had been made.
They ruled without Re
-That’s one of the main egyptian gods
-and so she’s describing her late husband and what egypt was like during his reign
-and she says the place was in ruins
-there were a group of people, she calls them vagabonds,
and they came from east of egpyt, they didn’t believe in the egyptian gods, and they left the place in ruins
-So the reason I go through all of that
-other than I find it fascinating and I like sharing fascinating things with my friends
-there’s two reasons.
-1 There are a lot of people today who are trying to make the claim that the events in Exodus never happened
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