Kingdom Come

The Exodus has reverberated through world history”, and is such a significant biblical event, perhaps second only to creation, that it is as vehemently denied by Bible critics as creation itself.

There is no question that belief in the Exodus requires faith in an infinitely omnipotent Creator including the ability to control the triggering, timing and intensity of what could very likely have been a cascade of natural events comprising the plagues on Egypt. 

The Exodus takes up four entire books for a reason. It is the seminal redemption event that drives all the rest of human history. The circumstances proved that

• invoking the name does establish a relationship,
• and that believing in the name does grant access to power over humanly insolvable problems and even death,
• which must be acted upon in faith to achieve salvation.

For the persons who are at the least willing to consider the biblical narrative, the point I would like to drive home in this post is that the Exodus occurred to the international Commonwealth of Nations called the Hebrews, founded by Eber, Abram’s forefather, NOT the  genetic offspring of Jacob AKA Israel, nor the Nation of Israel founded by Moses at Mount Sinai after the Exodus had occurred.

“God called unto him out of the midst of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses…I am the God of

• thy father / Authority / Priest-King Melichizek of the children of Israel / Hebrews (Exodus 2:12-16)
• the God of Abraham “the Hebrew” (Genesis 14:13)
• the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob [from] “the land of the Hebrews” (Genesis 40:15)

I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt…the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me. I will send thee…Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning…And thou shalt say unto him,

The LORD God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me. (Exodus 3, 9:1,13, 10:3)

The Exodus from Egypt under Moses wasn’t unique in the history of the Hebrews – many nationalities left Nimrod’s Empire and placed themselves under Abram. Were else did he get 318 trained warriors “born in his own house” if not from a much larger group of servants? Based on historical data, the adult population in a typical polity in the Middle Ages could support one fighting man for every 15 adults maximum, so Abram led a population of about 5,000 refugees.

In both cases – land of Canaan and Egypt – various ethnicities within an oppressive empire renounced their allegiance to their source of daily bread and joined the Hebrews because they heard about the marvelous exploits God worked on behalf of the people who placed themselves under the authority of his Melchizedeks.

1. Adam at creation and battling Antichrist Cain for almost 1,000 years
2. The pre-flood Melchizedeks who battled the Antichrists, pagan gods and hybrid monsters before the flood, see Section XVI for details
3. The post-flood Melchizedeks Noah and Shem in their battles with Gilgamesh and Canaan’s hybrid giants,  Abram under Nimrod at Ur and battling the giants in Canaan
4. the victories of the small families of Isaac and Jacob in constant conflict with surrounding monstrous nations in Canaan
5. Joseph’s amazing rise to world power in Egypt by the power of his YHVH

were as recent as our own heroic events of World Wars I and II, recounted around the fires at night. The Hebrews’ accounts of their God’s salvation from death in this life and ever after were the source of their identity, while the pagan gods offered nothing after this life but a dreadful permanent existence in the underworld. Even more compelling by the time of Moses were the current eyewitness accounts of Moses surviving unscathed from confrontation after confrontation with Pharoah. God was proving that he would protect the people who served him by obeying his word.

“Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not [rejected association with] Joseph. 

This defines the previous king(s) over Egypt as having positively identified themselves with Joseph, and because of the proof of his priestly / representative status to his superior God having led a revival back to the worship of YHVH. See relevant post for details on Egypt’s king list.

Akhenaton, a successor, is a prime example of a new Pharoah overthrowing, not just the old Pharoah, but his empowering god/gods as well to ensure his gods’ control over the population.

“And he / Pharaoh said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.

When we understand that the biblical “father” is NOT the sperm donor but the “absolute authority” over life and death, exactly like the “papa / Pope”, we understand that Pharaoh is not referring to the genetic children of Israel / Jacob, but to 

• the people / associates 
• of the children / subjects of the Priest-King / Father / authority figure 
• of Isra-el / “Fighter God” – as the next in the Order of Melchizedek” the religious leader given the name / attributes of his God exactly as the Pharaoh was the personification of Egypt’s main god.

The Monotheists, the Hebrews.

“the promise, that he should be the heir of the world / Melchizedek, ruling from Jerusalem, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith…to all the seed…which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the [spiritual] father / authority of us all” (Romans 4:13,16)

This sociological explanation is confirmed from demographics since Pharoah could not possibly be worried about the “souls which came out of Jacob’s loins”, of which there were only 70 by the third generation, and could not make up an army of men by the next, the fourth, generation when they had marching orders from their God to go back to Canaan.  

“The number of the children / worshippers of Israel / Warrior God who journeyed from Egypt was ~600,000 that were fighting men, beside children / defenseless ones.

Note that the word includes (or implies) women as well as children, in following: Genesis 47:12; Exodus 12:37 (E), Exodus 10:10; Exodus 10:24 (J), Numbers 32:16; Numbers 32:17 (J E; in contrast to Numbers 32:26). In terms of proportion of fighting men per extended family of women, children, geriatrics, other infirm, multiplying 600,000 fighting men x 15 we calculate a census of 9 million people.

Demographically, the increase in genetic offspring from 70 members of the genetic children of Jacob from 70 in the second generation in just two generations at the time of the Exodus is impossible.

This can only be explained by a phenomenally successful evangelism campaign during a time of great tribulation.

“And a mixed multitude went up also with them;” (Exodus 12:37-39)

This confirms the definition of “children of Isra-el” as being a spiritual, not genetic, definition.

“they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.” (Nehemiah 13:1-4)

This “mixed” multitude were those who were not whole-hearted with YHVH, at best, wavering between breaking with their old gods to join the new, or simply hangers-on trying to benefit from every source they could draw from including their old gods.

Sociologically, the text plainly states that the children of Israel did not become identified as a unique nation ruled by God until after the Exodus from Egypt and the establishment of the Mosaic Covenant with God on Mount Sinai.

“In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt… Lord called unto [Moses] out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house [genetic lineage] of Jacob, and…the children [subjects] Isra-el  [Fighter God];

1. if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant,
2. then ye shall be…unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.” (Exodus 19:5-6)

It wasn’t until after 40 years wandering in the wilderness during which an entire generation of men who had left Egypt died off due to their faithlessness in Isra-El that God declared:

And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying…O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God.“(Deuteronomy 27:9-10)