“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 [including his enslaved Hebrews], saying, Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river.” (Exodus 1)

Infanticide has been the norm within many cultures throughout history.

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

“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 could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes…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 [doubtless during a religious festival such as is common 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…and he became her son.

And she called his name Moses…Because I drew him out of the water.” (Exodus 2:10)

Let’s not be idiots and think this characterization memorializes a physical action. As a psychiatric provider my job is to identify the unseen psychological drives behind the seen actions. 

The daughter of Pharaoh is publicly broadcasting her defiance of Pharoah’s order to “cast into” by “Drawn Out!”

We’re not told if Pharaoh’s daughter was motivated by allegiance to the previous monotheism the current regime was overthrowing. It’s very likely that she was drawn to identify with the Hebrews because she, too, was abused by the royal family in some way. Not only is domestic violence a woman’s greatest risk for harm and death, she could have been barren from the consequences of all the diseases of **warning! ancient pornography!** hyper sexualized Egypt’s sexually transmitted diseases. Perhaps she was unmarriageable so childless in a society where “marriage was deeply involved in the exercise and manipulation of political power, in the creation and distribution of prestige.”

We can certainly draw the conclusion that after she acted independently of her society’s rules she was “despised and rejected of men”. (Isaiah 53:3)

Can we not recognize / know / honor this Egyptian woman for her contribution in Moses’ development into the greatest biblical leader the world has ever known, acknowledged even by humanists?

Whoa! Wait! What about Jesus Christ?

Straight up – without Moses Jesus Christ has no standing.

“The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me [Moses]” (Deuteronomy 18:15)

What is so Christ-like / prototypically Melchizedekian about Moses?

Continue reading “SECTION XXII: Melchizedeks Rescue From Sin And Death: Moses”

“And YHVH said unto Moses, Come up unto the LORD…Moses alone shall come near the LORD [just like an attorney is the only one who confers with the judge]…And Moses was in the mount forty days and forty nights.” 

And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.”

Continue reading “132) Melchizedeks Give Their Lives For Sinners: Moses”

Like almost all the men in the Order of Melchizedek, Moses is never explicitly called Melchizedek, but he doesn’t need to be. His function as Sacred King / Priest King leader of the Hebrew nation representing God to the whole world defines his position in this order.

There are just too many verses using different words to express various aspects of Melchizedek of the Most High God’s salvation through identification with his Righteousness and Reconciliation that they can’t all be quoted here. Or to convince anyone who is not ready to accept a new idea. It’s like the classic story of three blind men only being able to lay hold of one part of an immense elephant and arguing amongst themselves that the others got the elephant’s features wrong. You’ve got to spend time exploring the entirety of the identity.

Moses is explicitly called the LORD’s priest.

“The LORD reigneth…let the earth be moved…Moses…among his priests…” (Psalm 99:1-6)

Moses was Melchizedek Priest-King over the Hebrew nation. The passages in the New Testament letter to the Hebrews apply as much to Moses as it does to Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Moses functioned as Priest-King before the Levitical priesthood was set up for the nation of Israel.

“the LORD…said…thou shalt be to [Aaron] instead / Representative / of God.” (Exodus 4:14-16)

“And Moses brought Aaron and his sons, and washed them with water. And he put upon him / Aaron the coat, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod upon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the ephod, and bound it unto him therewith. And he put the breastplate upon him: also he put in the breastplate the Urim and the Thummim. And he put the mitre upon his head; also upon the mitre, even upon his forefront, did he put the golden plate, the holy crown; as the LORD commanded Moses. 

And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein, and sanctified them. And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot, to sanctify them. And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.” (Leviticus 8:6-12)

Moses is also explicitly stated to be the king, which is, after all, a given, in an era and culture when all lawgivers, AKA rule-rs, were autocratic kings.

“Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob. And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together…

Continue reading “133) Melchizedeks Declared Identical To God: Moses”

Mensch (Yiddish: מענטש, mentsh, from Middle High German Mensch, from Old High German mennisco; akin to Old English human being, man) means “a person of integrity and honor”.^[1]

According to Leo Rosten, a mensch is “someone to admire and emulate, someone of noble character. The key to being ‘a real mensch’ is nothing less than character, rectitude, dignity, a sense of what is right, responsible, decorous.”^[2] The term is used as a high compliment, implying the rarity and value of that individual’s qualities.

It seems to me that the Yiddish / Jewish word mensch blends the Old English “man” with the Hebrew word for man “ish”, identifying not maleness but “another one like him”, describing a human who is one with the Father.

In the old days, proverbially, a boy would begin his bar mitzvah speech with the words, “Today I am a man.” What does Judaism have to say about being an adult? The answer can be summed up by the Yiddish word mensch, “a decent human being...a caring, ethical human being.”

Continue reading “134) How To Be A Mensch Like Moses”

“said the LORD unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel…Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail…even they shall fall, and never rise up again…I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good… 

• “Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD.” (Amos 9)

At first glance God’s comparison of Israelites to Ethiopians appears to be a repeated statement of rejection. While the Ethiopians’ lineage is not listed in Genesis, it is related in some way with Mizraim/Egypt, who is listed as a son of Cush whose giant offspring including infamous Nimrod, and possibly Phut – whose people were called “men of war” highly suggestive of hybrid breeding.

• Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt?

Now, confusingly, this sounds like God is favorably comparing the Ethiopians with the Israelites.

“Thus saith the LORD…that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee…When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee [as at the Red Sea]…when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned...I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. Since thou wast precious in my sight,..I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.” (Isaiah 43:1-4)

No question about it. God redeemed Israel with nations of high value, including Ethiopia.

And there’s more.

Continue reading “SECTION XXIII: The Law Of Melchizedek Defines Salvation By Grace”

We find all the requisites of a godly society included with the establishment of YHVH’s prototypical nation of Israel under Moses:

• political law and order for safety from danger within and without,
• A national language unifying the mixed multitude that joined the Hebrew exodus from Egypt and steadily amalgamated into Israel, 
• a moral code in an interdependent web of society 
• detailed functions of government leaders
• requirements for citizenship in God’s holy nation.

We can understand this by comparison to the American founders’ Constitution of the United States describing how the government is structured and operates.

Continue reading “134) The Law Of Melchizedek Codifies Freedom And Justice For All”

I think Sunday School is one of the worst experiences we can give our children. The dumbed down and sanitized “stories” become permanently infantilized and lose their impact when the kids grow up into adults.

What images come to your mind when you think of Moses leading 9 million refugees into the wilderness?

As of 2015, it was estimated that over 21 million people in the world were living in refugee situations…a majority are hosted in third world or developing countries, presenting…challenges such as terrorism and insecurity, nationalism, xenophobia and intolerance…the issue of protection of refugees, in the background of continued conflict remains a cause for concern in many countries…

Most refugee camps do not have sufficient food to provide to their populations…caloric intake is further reduced as refugees tend to sell food rations for other non-food goods. Moreover…lack of food variety, fruits, and vegetables causes many refugees to suffer from deficiencies in essential vitamins and minerals, which can lead to a variety of diseases…

more than half of the refugee camps in the world are unable to provide the recommended daily water minimum of 20 liters of water per person per day…with the presence of diseases such as diarrhea and cholera…

The provision of adequate sanitation services is crucial to prevent communicable diseases and epidemics…still 30% of refugee camps do not have adequate waste disposal services or latrines…

Housing in refugee camps is often overcrowded…poorly ventilated…Malaria poses a huge threat…without window screens or solid doors…infecting 200 million every year…increased presence of rodents, which causes an increased incidence of Lassa fever in West African countries.

The acclaimed historians Will and Ariel Durant begin their massive multivolume account of human history with this concept in Volume One, Chapter One, paragraph one of The Story of Civilization.

Continue reading “136) The Nation Of Israel Agrees To Lead The Hebrew Commonwealth”

“And the LORD said unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, which thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves / joined themselves with hyperdimensionals; They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt… 

Put some life into God’s verbatim report! He is outraged and spitting it out! You can best believe Moses was mirroring God’s response when he stormed down the mountain.

And Moses turned, and went down from the mount, And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing…Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount. 

Basically, Moses destroyed the covenant between these people and YHVH before they were completely wiped out under the terms of the covenant.

Continue reading “137) The Levites Turn A Curse Into A Blessing”

Continue reading “138) Who On Earth Is Jes(h)urun?”