Many nationalities fled Nimrod’s oppression by placing themselves under the rule of Ab-ram / Father [of the Hebrew] nation.
Were else did get 318 trained warriors “born in his own house[hold]” if not from a much larger group of people under his authority?
Based on historical data that the adult population in a typical polity in the Middle Ages could support only one fighting man for every 15 adults maximum, Abram therefore led an immigrant population into Canaan of about 5,000 refugees who won converts to their religion by recounting Melchizedek’s exploits around the fires at night, which were as recent as our own heroic war stories.
- Adam at creation and battling Antichrist Cain for almost 1,000 years
- The pre-flood Melchizedeks who battled the Antichrists, pagan gods and hybrid monsters before the flood, see Section XX for details
- The post-flood Melchizedeks Noah and Shem in their battles with Gilgamesh / Sargon and Canaan’s hybrid giants, Abram under Nimrod at Ur then defeating the giants in Canaan.
“What shall we say then that Abraham our [Jews’] father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?…what saith the scripture?
Abraham believed God…faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousness…when he was in uncircumcision...that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also…” (Romans 4:1-13)
“there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek /non-Jew: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved…faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.” (Romans 10:12-18)
“Now Sarai Abram’s wife bare him no children: and she had an handmaid, an Egyptian…And Hagar bare Abram a son…
and God talked with him, saying…my [Melchizedekian] covenant [of dominion] is with thee, and…thy name / title shall be Abr-ah-am; for a father / authority of many nations have I made thee…I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
And I will establish my [Melchizedekian] covenant between me and thee and thy seed [from many nationalities] after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy [multinational] seed after thee.” (Genesis 16)
Hundreds of years later another oppressive empire drove another massive exodus of refugees into Melchizedek’s welcoming fold.
“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 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 / “Prince of the Most High 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…which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the [spiritual] father / authority of us all” (Romans 4:13,16)
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 details of 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 JUST the children of Jacob, AKA Isra-el.
“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 Melchizedek
- of the children / followers of Isra-el / Prince of the Most High God (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...
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 [not you!]. (Exodus 3, 9:1,13, 10:3)
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 children includes by implication of being defenseless, women as well as youths, 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, such an 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.
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.
“And a mixed multitude went up also with them;” (Exodus 12:37-39)
This use of the term also distinguishes the “children of Isra-el” as being a spiritual, not genetic, definition, confirmed by its use in a later passage.
“They read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people…that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever…when they had heard the law, 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, equating YHVH with the rest of the gods.
Sociologically, the text plainly states that the children of Israel did not become identified as a unique nation until after the Exodus from Egypt and the establishment of the Mosaic – vs Melchizedekian – 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 / nation of Jacob, and / who are also the [spiritual] children / followers of Isra-el [Prince of the Mono- God, Melchizedek];
- if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant,
- then ye shall be…unto me a kingdom of priests / Melchizedeks and an holy nation.” (Exodus 19:5-6)
It wasn’t until after an entire generation of faithless men who had left Egypt died off that God declared:
“O Israel; this day thou art become the people of the LORD thy God.” (Deuteronomy 27:9-10)
For the purpose of leadership in the paths of righteousness, proving faith in action and submission to the Almighty’s will among all the nations of the world.
And how’s that been working out? Israel’s exceptionally close alliance with the exceptionally violent United States has brought the entire world to the brink of the abyss.
