magicians. Pharaoh was little impressed and looked lightly upon the incident and only when the plagues of God nearlyruined Egypt and his own son died, did he let Moses and the Hebrews leave.
51. The Egyptians worshipped the Nile river, the sun, cats and as many as 2000 other strange gods.
"The
Sphinx
is sort of a symbol of
Egypt.
I guess that huge Sphinx in Egypt must be one of the world's largest statues!Egyptians, of course, used to worship it. They used to worship the cat--the cat-god." The Sphinx goddess would tell riddlesto her victims and then strangle them when they could not answer her correctly. "That's where we get the word `sphincter',for muscles that close body openings!"
52. "The Phoenix was a very unusual and supposedly mythological spirit being with the form of a fabulouslybeautiful large scarlet and gold-coloured bird."
"In Egyptian religion, the Phoenix was the soul of Osiris ... God of allnature and the life-giving Nile,
ruler of the spirit world,
lord of resurrection and new life, the best, greatest and most beneficient of all Egyptian gods! His wife became the virgin Isis...who introduces the departed spirits to Osiris in their second life in the spirit would. " [The Phoenix] appears throughout the religions of the Orient ... but is particularlyassociated with Egypt and the Arabs, especially the sun worship of ancient Egypt, whose principal magnificent temple wasat Heliopolis, near Cairo." "The
Phoenix was also symbolic of the eternal spirit
which cannot be destroyed, but, despiteseeming death, shall always rise again. ... It's presence was considered a blessing, but its departure was a warning of impending doom!"
53. "I am convinced ... that many of these ancient mythological characters, events and religions had someoriginal basis in actual facts, spiritual personalities and past battles, struggles and occurrences in the spirit world.
...In the process of time and through lack of specific recording, or the loss of written recording, or the loss of written records,some of these accounts have became considerably contorted, distorted and embellished by word of mouth into some of theodd tales which we have in mythology today."
D. THE INTERLOPERS54. 400 years before the fall of Egypt, the Patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt:
but God waswith him, and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, King of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house. When a famine forced his father Jacob and his brothers tomove to Egypt, Pharaoh gave them the very best land in all of Egypt--the Nile delta, the land of Goshen--for all their flocksand cattle.
55.
And so
"God used the Pharaohs of Egypt to protect and provide for them for over four hundred years
--togive them time to grow in numbers from some seventy souls to nearly seven million, and to learn all the wisdom and skillsof Egypt." "However, the Children of Israel got so numerous there in Egypt that the land was not able to to hold them. TheEgyptians began to get worried about them because they were beginning to outnumber the Egyptians." "Behold, the peopleof the children of Israel are more and mightier than we."So "there arose in Egypt a
Pharaoh that knew not Joseph,
a ruler who was no friend of the Israelites, and he began to persecute them and to oppress them and to lay heavy burdens upon them that they could not bear--they built for Pharaoh the treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses--until they began to cry out to God for help!"
56. "[Egypt] was not the country that God had promised to Abraham.
... That land belonged to the Egyptians.""God hadn't promised them Egypt!--He'd promised them Israel! ... They didn't belong in Egypt." "They weren't about to begin to want to expand of their own free will and accord! They hadn't the faintest notion to want to start hiking acrosshundreds of miles of Sinai couldn't care less about!" "So what did God do? ... He stirred up persecution, pressure, judgement, criticism, and all the rest." He made it so hard for them that they had to leave!
E. MOSES, "LET MY PEOPLE GO!"57. The Egyptians made a law saying, "Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river"--
all the male babieswere to be thrown to the crocodiles in the Nile River! "Moses' mother obeyed the Egyptian laws and cast her newborn soninto the Nile, but in a drifting basket to be found by Pharaoh's daughter and reared ... as Pharaoh's own son!"
58. "When Moses was grown, he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens."
"Moses was areal smart young man, 40 years of age, and really thought he knew how to do the job, but he made a helluva mess out of it."He killed an Egyptian who was beating a Hebrew slave, and had to flee for his life and live for forty years in the wildernesscaring for his father-in-law's sheep. That would seem like a terrible setback to the Cause and the deliverance of the Hebrewslaves from Egypt, but it was necessary that Moses go into exile to learn the lessons that God had to teach him to make him
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