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)

Continue reading “121) Melchizedek Heads The Hebrew Commonwealth Of Nations”

The reality is that we will always blend in with whatever group with which we associate.

“Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ / The Promised Seed with Belial / Satan? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?

for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you. And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.” (II Corinthians 6:14-18)

Interestingly, the phrase “come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord” is not found verbatim elsewhere in scripture. The closest quote is what the LORD said to Abram.

“Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: And I will make of thee a great nation.” (Genesis 12:1-2)

Continue reading “122) Come Out From Among Them And Be Ye Separate”

Archaeological evidence shows a plethora of ancient curses…such beliefs and practices have continued to the present day…sometimes called jinx, hex, or black magic…The aim is to see harm befall the recipient – bad luck may dog them, death may take them, or any number of dire (or annoying) fates may plague them. In antiquity a curse was a powerful phenomenon, the presence of evil forces.

Jacob wins the sibling tug of war for the appointment because he values it so much he risks multiple curses on his life, beginning with the risk of being severely cursed by his own father,

Then Jacob was forced to flee his home and inheritance when he was cursed by his brother.

“And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and…he lighted upon a certain place…And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed; And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth,  and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed. And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep / guard / provide for thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land…

And Jacob vowed a vow, saying,

• If [this] God [of the many gods known to men at that time] will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father’s house in peace;
• then shall the LORD be my God: And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God’s house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.” (Genesis 28)

Jacob is being rational, checking out the faithfulness of the other party before committing to a disaster of being bound to a cruel master. And Jacob was living in highly unreliable and dangerous Wild West times.

And YHVH obliges Jacob by providing proof after proof of his faithfulness to rescue Jacob from curse after curse. Will Jacob prove to be faithful to YHVH?

Continue reading “122) Melchizedeks Are Cursed And Broken: Jacob”

“Now Israel loved [in the sense of marriage, joined identies with] Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his [maturity, wisdom] old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.”

Undoubtedly the sign of his choice of Joseph being his Melchizedekian heir, confirmed by the dreams God had given Joseph. 

And when his brethren saw that their father loved / felt one with him more than all his brethren [i.e. as the LORD God had when he made Jacob his heir over Esau] they hated / repudiated identity with him.” (Genesis 37)

And it was into this exact dangerous and lawless condition that Jacob sent Joseph to check on his erratic older brothers.

“And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them.”

Jacob was acting on his appointment, providing leadership training, especially trust in Almighty God. Jacob had no idea just how much leadership training Joseph would be getting when his brothers human trafficked him into Egypt.

If you’ve ever been assigned leadership responsibility you understand that it’s lonely at the top.

And when they saw him afar off…they conspired against him…Come, and let us sell him…Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.” (Genesis 37:13-28)

The 13th Egyptian dynasty, beginning around 1786 BC, marked the beginning of a chaotic period in Egyptian history. This is consistent with population growth, the expansion of warring nations and even the hybrid giant nations contributing to famine. Just a dry spell would completely wreck the ecology.

As it turned out, Joseph was literally a God-send when he became Prime Minister around 1750 BC., “to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.” (Genesis 50:20).

“And Joseph was thirty years old when he…went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt…in the seven plenteous years…and laid up the food in the cities…..And the famine was over all the face of the earth: and Joseph opened all the storehouses. And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.” (Genesis 41:46-57)

In Manetho’s account the First Dynasty of Egypt (c. 3150 – c. 2900 BCE), i.e. pre-flood, was founded by Menes/Narmer. A recognizable Egyptian culture, including the development of writing, arts, and sciences developed. A sizeable set of stone art objects contain scenes of war and fighting

These images include depictions of gods, giants and what appear to be dinosaurs, consistent with the written documentation in Genesis 6 and Job 40 of the circumstances that brought about destruction by flood.

Early Egyptian records report that the sun god, Ra, recoiled from humanity’s wickedness and killed almost everyone. This is evidence of the cross-cultural knowledge of YHVH, available through written records, revealed in the Torah’s account of Joseph son of Jacob’s involvement with the Egyptian religion.

Notice that the long-lasting dire circumstances of this disaster brought many nations under Egypt’s protection. These people willingly submitted themselves to Pharaoh – wait, no, that’s Joseph’s – rule.

“And the seven years of dearth began to come…in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread…the people cried to Pharaoh for bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to you, do…And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the famine was so sore in all lands.” (Genesis 41:55-57)

“God…hath made me a father / spiritual authority to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house [including his priests], and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.” (Genesis 45:8)

Joseph is unquestionably the next in the series of Melchizedeks. 

“And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar…an Egyptian, bought him…And the LORD / YHVH was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man…And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand. And…he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.…his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me…how then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against [note the singular] God?…And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife…spake unto them, saying, See, he [master of the house] hath brought in an Hebrew to mock us. ” (Genesis 39:1-14)

This concept of a Hebrew mocking the Egyptians becomes significant when we apply the fact that all nationalities were identified by their religion. To some extent this is still true today – Italians are for the most part Catholic, Arabs are Muslim, etc. The Hebrews were identified by their priest / father Abraham who taught them to worship only “the most High God, possessor of heaven and earth.” The other nations’ experience with their lesser gods led them to understand, correctly, that each of their gods had only finite power, so they needed many gods to cover all their bases for food, fertility, and fighting. Joseph’s master acknowledged that Joseph was empowered by his God, and his wife was blame-shifting her disrespect for her husband onto him as disrespecting their gods for doing so.

Joseph was 57 years old at this time and had trained for 27 years as Prime Minister of the world-wide empire. Some time later, at Jacob’s death:

Joseph is publicly confirmed.

“And Jacob called unto his sons…

1. 1. Joseph is fruitful...and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob… 
   2. the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee…The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.” (Genesis 49)

^“And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty…blessed me, And said unto me,

1. I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
2. And now thy two sons, Ephraim / אֶפְרַיִם and Manasseh…are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.

Do you recognize that this was a means of Jacob giving a double portion of his Melechizedekian blessing of fruition to Joseph over his brothers?

1. My children are my greatest blessing in life. I have two children of my own but four grandchildren through them. My fruitful blessing of children was doubled.
2. Generation A grandparent dies. His estate worth 36 million shekels leaves equal portions to each of his Generation B children.
   1. Option 1: Generation B inherits 3 million shekels each including Joseph, each of 12 sons distributes equally to  their 3 Generation C sons.
      • Each Generation C son inherits 1 million shekels each, including Ephraim and Manasseh.
   2. Option 2: Jacob replaces Joseph with Ephraim and Manasseh, now 13 Generation B sons each inherit 2.8 million shekels, including Ephraim and Manasseh, i.e. the equivalent of Joseph having received twice as much as his brothers.

It seems that, in compensation for Jacob taking half the blessing from Joseph to give to Judah, he doubled up Joseph’s share of his wealth. As if Joseph needed it! The Prime Minister of Egypt!

Wait, Joseph didn’t use his wealth and power to indulge himself. He used his resources to take care of others.

“For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required:” (Luke 12:48)

“For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.” (Matthew 13:12)

Ephraim’s descendants fail at their Melchizedekian responsibilities, details in a later post.

“Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people…

But true to his word, God’s covenant never fails.

How shall I give thee up, Ephraim?…I will not execute the fierceness of mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim: for I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee…

They shall walk after the LORD…

As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved. And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.” (Hosea 7:8, 11:8-10, Romans 9:25-26)

Jacob / Israel chose Judah as his Melchizedekian heir.

“Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise… thy father’s children shall bow down before thee [as they had to Joseph]…The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.” (Genesis 49:8-11)

We recognize Judah’s legacy in the name of the Jews. But what on earth did Judah do to inherit the right to rule? We would expect Melchizedek Joseph’s son Ephraim, whom Israel had adopted as his own, to be next in line. Especially in view of the fact that when Judah joined himself and his sons to Canaanite women he appears to be rejecting his identity as a son of Jacob. East of Eden all over again. Judah was far more Cain than Abel.

Six chapters out of a total of 50  – over 1/10th of the entire book of Genesis – devoted to the backstory of Judah’s inheritance of the right to rule.

Due to their sexual and violent nature, these were not put there for use in children’s Sunday School.

Continue reading “124) Melchizedeks Are Converted: Judah”

Jethro? Who is Jethro?

A significant character in biblical history who is typically overlooked.

“And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit YOU / the fourth generation, and bring YOU out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying…YE shall carry up my bones from hence.” (Genesis 15:15,  50:24-26)

And young Moses, filled with vigor and zeal, was up for it.

“When Moses was grown…he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. And…he slew the Egyptian. Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses.

Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian…Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock. And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them [one against many], and watered their flock…And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter.” (Exodus 2)

De ja vu of Jacob watering Laban’s flock! Bear in mind that what is also repeated is that when Moses joined Reuel’s household, Reuel had complete authority over him, just as Laban had over Jacob.

Continue reading “125) Melchizedeks Overcome Curses – Jethro”

In 612 BCE Nineveh was sacked and burned by a coalition of Babylonians, Persians, Medes, and Scythians, among others. The destruction of the palace brought the flaming walls down on the library of Ashurbanipal and, although it was far from the intention, preserved the great library, and the history of the Assyrians, by baking hard and burying the clay tablet books…the destruction of the great Assyrian cities was so complete that, within two generations of the empire’s fall, no one knew where the cities had been. The ruins of Nineveh were covered by the sands and lay buried for the next 2,000 years.

Tiglath Pileser III introduced Aramaic to replace Akkadian as the lingua franca of the empire to regions as near as Israel and as far as Greece. Older documents collected by kings such as Ashurbanipal were translated from Akkadian into Aramaic. This allowed later scholars to translate Akkadian writings and then decode Sumerian cuneiform.

The result was that thousands of years of history and culture were preserved for future generations.

In 605 BCE at a historical turning point in the power dynamics of ancient Near East, the Assyrian Empire and its ally Egypt were crushed at the Battle of Carchemish.

Their destruction is detailed in the Bible.

“The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Gentiles…against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt, which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah…

For this is [prophetically a preview of the ultimate] the day of the LORD God of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries...Behold, I will punish the multitude of No, and Pharaoh, and Egypt, with their gods, and their kings; even Pharaoh, and all them that trust in him: And I will deliver them into the hand of…Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon…

But! fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee” (Jeremiah 46)

We do realize that “my servant” and “Prince of El” are the key identifiers of those who are saved, right? To be specific, the ungodly nation of Israel under wicked leaders are NOT PROMISED SALVATION SIMPLY BECAUSE OF THEIR NATIONALITY!

“Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?” (Romans 6:16)

The whole point in reviewing Assyria’s history is to recognize its use as an instrument of destruction against wicked Israel!

 In modern terms, “Assyria” can be identified with northern Iraq, northeast Syria, and southeast Turkey, with areas of northwest Iran. Can we not recognize current Mesopotamian warfare recycling biblical prophecy?

“The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of ___ …Hear, all…earth…let the LORD God be witness against you…for the sins of the house of Israel…the LORD cometh forth out of his place, and will come down, and tread upon the high places of the earth.

Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil…In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled…

 Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace…and prepare war against him….They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity. The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will…say, Is not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.

Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps.” (Micah 1-3)

“Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel. Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. I have waited for thy salvation, O LORD.” (Genesis 49:16-17)

The clear description of Dan as a sneaky death-dealing saboteur of his brethren is confirmed by the use of as + noun means ‘in the role of’, distinguished from like + noun meaning ‘in the same way as’.

Dan has been a pretender all along.

Dan’s name, not given by Jacob, but by his mother Rachel, means “Elohim hath judged / din me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.” (Genesis 30:1-6) The King James Bible has translated “elohim” as “Almighty God”, but Rachel proved her paganism when, as she fled with Jacob back to the land of Canaan, she stole her father’s gods / elohim, clearly believing THEY empowered her, as she did not relinquish them until forced to by her husband. 

This interpretation is confirmed by the fact that the name Rachel chose – Dan – was known as the place-name / name of its founder of one of Canaan’s giant hybrid tribes.

“And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants…and pursued them unto Dan…the left hand of Damascus.

These geographical details are put there for a reason.

On the left of Damascus is Mount Hermon, where the pre-flood fallen angels set up base camp for invading earth to breed demigod monsters with human women (Genesis 6:1-4)

The ancient city-state of Dan was therefore a Canaanite giant stronghold along with the other giant city-states referenced in Genesis 14 at this early stage of post-flood history.

Upon entering the land of Canaan to finally take possession of the promised inheritance Moses prophesied that

“Dan is a lion’s whelp: he shall [future tense] leap from Bashan.” (Deuteronomy 33:22)

Like Jacob’s prophecy, this too reflected Dan’s inherently evil nature: “Bashan,  which was called the land of giants.” (Deuteronomy 3:12)

Dan is not a son of God. In the last days his tribe is not found in Revelation 7 when “there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.”

Dan’s choice to reject The Hebrew God is detailed in the book of Judges, a quick synopsis here:

“the Amorites [giants] forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley [so impoverished quality of life akin to that of the Appalachian mountain people]… [cocking an eyebrow here] yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed [i.e. in comparison to the Danites failure to win their battles due to their failure to trust in God.]

the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in…came to Laish…and saw…how they dwelt careless, quiet and secure.”

This was outside the boundary inherited by the twelve tribes for the very reason of their peaceableness. The Israelites were instructed to wipe out the evil giant tribes.

“And there went from thence of the family of the Danites…unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah…and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image [golden calves]. And they said unto [the priest]…go with us, and be to us a father and a priest…And they…came unto Laish…and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and burnt the city with fire…set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh [son of Joseph, not a Levite], he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.” (Judges 18)

This exactly replicates the rejection of the Hebrew God during the Exodus.

The captivity of the northern tribes of Israel for this same apostacy occurred when “Tiglathpileser, king of Assyria, took the northern ten tribes captive to Assyria.” (II Kings 15:29), but Dan would likely have been exempt because it wasn’t part of Israel. Since Israel’s prophecies are fulfilled in the “last” days, we can identify the tribe of Dan in our day as the Druze.

Druze is a small Middle Eastern religious sect characterized by an eclectic system of doctrines and by a cohesion and loyalty among its members that have enabled them to maintain for centuries their close-knit identity. The Druze numbered more than 1,000,000 in the early 21st century and live mostly in Lebanon, Syria, and Israel. They call themselves muwaḥḥidūn (“unitarians”).

The Druze religion is believed to have started in Egypt. Its mystery teachings are known only to a privileged few leaders. Despite the small size of their community, the Druze have figured prominently in Middle Eastern history. Druze soldiers have since fought for Israel in every Arab-Israeli war. They are the only Arab group conscripted into the Israel Defense Forces, and they participate in Israel’s border security and diplomatic corps. 

The Druze keep to themselves and even today do not allow conversion to Druze or marriage to non-Druze. An immigrant work colleague of mine, struggling between his desire to marry an American girl and his father’s threat to permanently disown him, asked for my advice, since I was steeped in the culture from my 15 year marriage to a Lebanese immigrant. I could only tell him that being disowned was a better option than the alternative – constant attacks against the wife, but one way or another it was up to him to choose birth family or an American wife, he’d never have both.

The same goes for everyone’s spiritual family. Simply being born into a certain religion doesn’t confer membership in God’s family. “Ye must be born again” by choice, giving up one’s previous identity.