Kingdom Come

“Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not [rejected association with] Joseph. And he said unto his people, Behold,

• the people of – not only the genetic descendants but those who joined 
• the children – religiously under the authority of a Priest-King Father figure
• of Isra-el -“Fighter God” – identifying the leader with the name/attribute of his God, like “God of Thunder”, who joined forces, i.e. attributes / name with Jacob when Jacob proved he was worthy of it. Just like the Pharaoh was the personification of Egypt’s main god.
• are more and mightier than we. – In other words, what we would call converts to the Fighter God were leaving Egypt’s state religion in which the Pharaoh was the god. Get it?

Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply. and…when there falleth out any war, they join also [not just to the anti-Egyptian religion of Israel but] unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land…

And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives…When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live…And Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter ye shall save alive.” (Exodus 1)

That should do it! Life with Pharaoh or death to the rebel followers of Fighter God.

What Pharaoh didn’t know was just how much fight some of these Hebes had in them.

Plot twist coming up. Keep in mind that that the Levites are cursed to experience a permanently unsettled lifestyle. (Foreshadowing dark music…with a thrill in the background.)

“And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.

And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river [Moses’ mom probably put him in the river during the optimal time to catch the eye of a powerful maternal ally – during a religious ritual such as those in India]…she saw the ark among the flags…when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said,

• This is one of the Hebrews’ children.
• Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women…And Pharaoh’s daughter said unto her, Go….and he became her son. And she called his name Moses…Because I drew him out of the water.” (Exodus 2:1-10)

“Now these are all the souls that came with Jacob, a Hebrew, into Egypt, which came out of his loins…threescore and six; And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten  (70).” (Genesis 46:5-7, 26-27)

At this time, there is no Israelite Nation. There is a small family of the house of Jacob, from which Joseph is the Hebrew Melchizedek over the whole world.

“By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God…Esteeming the reproach of Christ / Melchizedek greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.” (Hebrews 11:23-27)

“And Joseph said unto his brethren…God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. : “Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them…But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again.” (Genesis 15:13-16)

The fourth generation of immigrants are not easy to uproot. I married an immigrant, and I can assure you that our children – 2nd generation – have a 100% American mentality with just a decorative foreign identity, even though they grew up in a mixed culture through relatives, friends, foods, languages, visits to their father’s country of origin, and were even registered as nationals by their father in his foreign country.

Even the 2nd generation child who also married a 1st generation immigrant from the same country of origin whose children are now also only 2nd generation, and who have also maintained even more international contact through internet access and overseas visits have no desire to face the heavy flow of traffic out of that tumultuous country to fight their way in.

In any case, why would anyone leave a comfortable situation in a 1st world country for a bad one in a war zone?

Only refugees. Like the Jews who streamed out of Europe into Palestine after the Holocaust.