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Esau-Edom:

This is a subject that few have ventured on, and therefore, probably one of the lesser understood subjects of Israelite history. This is a subject which we all need to get better acquainted with.

We need to take into account some secular history surrounding him in his early days,. Really, secular history is very much compatible with Bible History, regardless of what the anti-christ Jews and their lap-dogs will tell you, if we are to understand them both correctly.

As we study this history, we may find the circumstances and lifestyles of the people living at that time entirely different from what we ever dreamed. Unless we can come to an understanding of the background stage of our investigation,w e will miss much of the story.

THE DEMISE OF EDOM:

To begin with, let us consider about the Phoenicians, and a better than normal article in a book entitled �Early Progress,� by Willis Mason West. Sometimes articles found in smalla r history books are more concise and, therefore, give a better overall view on a subject. Quoting from this book, pp. 55-57:

�The Phoenicans dwelt on a little strip of broken coast shut off from the interrior by the Lebanon Mountains. Long before 1000 B.C., they HAD FAR OUTRUN EGYPT AND BABYLONIA IN TRADE, so that we think of thier country as almost the first land of commerce.

�The Mediterranean was to them all that the Nile was to the Egyptians. Their many harbors invited them seaward, and the �cedar of Lebanon� offered the best of ship timber. At first, half traders, half pirates, their crews crept from island to island, to barter with the natives or to sweep them off for slaves, as chance might best suggest.

�Then, more daringly, they sought wealth farther and farther on the sea, until they passed even the Pillars of Hercules, into the open Atlantic, and we see them exchanging the precious tin of Britain, the yellow amber of the Baltic, and the slaves and ivory of West Africa, for the spices, gold, scented wood, and precious stones of India.

�The ship that Neco sent to circumnavigate Africa was manned by Phoenician sailors; and the chief Phoenician cities, Tyre and Sidon, wee among the most splendid and wealthy in the world. The Hebrew prophet Ezekiel exclaimed:

�O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people...O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty. THY BORDERS ARE IN THE MIDST OF THE SEAS, thy builders have perfected thy beauty. They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees...they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee...have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim (Kittim; Kition in Cyprus). Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sail...blue and purple from the isles of Elishah (North Africa) was that which covered thee...all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise... with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs...� (Ezekiel 27:1‑27) (Ezekiel also names among the articles of exchange, emeralds, coral, ivory, ebony, rubies, wheat, honey, oil, balm, wine, wool, yarn, spices, horses, mules, lambs, and goats).

�And when we think of these adventurous �ships� we must try to remember that they were still only small open boats, driven mainly by oars. Sometimes the boatmen ued also a square sail, but only to run before the wind. (It was many hundreds of years before sailors learned to �tack.�)

�They had no compass. Their only guides, when they were out of sight of land, were the sun and stars. Centuries later, the Greeks still called the North Star the �Phoenicians� Star,� becuase the daring Phoenician mariners had become famous for steering by it.

�THE PHOENICIANS WERE THE FIRST COLONIZERS: They fringed the larger islands and th eshores of th eMediterranean with trading stations, which beame new centers of civilization. Carthage, Utica, Gades, (Cadiz, on the Atlantic), were among their colonis.

�They worked in tin mines in Colchis, in Spain, and finally in Britain, and so made possible the manufacture of bronze on a laqrge scale than before, to replace stone implements. Probably they first introduced brone into many parts of Europe.

�To get things wherewith to trade, the Phoenicians became manufacturers, learnign from Egyptians and Babylonians to work in metals, glass, and textiles. Hammer, loom, potter�s wheel, engraver�s knife, were always busy in tyre, and quantities of their products are found in ancient tombs of Greece and Italy; the earliest European homes of civilizaqtion.

�Especially prised, too, among wealty and ruling classes of allthe world was a rich crimson dye, the long-famous �Tyrian purple� (obtained form the bodies of a shellfish that abounded near Phoenicia), with which Phoenician weavers colored their most costly woolen robes. THE MAIN SERVICE OF THE PHOENICIANS WAS TO SPREAD CIVILIZATION THAT OTHERS HAD CREATED. They were �missionaries of culture.� Especially did they teach th Greeks, who were to teach the rest of Europe.

�ONE MIGHTY INVENTION DOES SEEM DUE CHIEFLY TO THE PHOENICIANS THEMSELVES. When the Egyptians first conquered syria, about 1600 B.C., the Phoenicians were using the cuneiform script...But their commerce made it necessary to keep complicated accounts and to communicate with agents in distant ports.

�This called for a simpler way of writing; and about 1000 B.C., we find them with A TRUE ALPHABET OF TWENTY-TWO LETTERS (for consonant sounds only) probably based upon Egyptians �sound-symbols.� This, it is well said, was �their chief export.� All the alphabets in use in the world to-day are derived from this one.�

Another source which spell out why Phoenicia became an ideal area for a major defenseive seaport in ancient times is examined by the �Cyclop�dia of Universal History,� Vol. I, pp. 238-239, by John Clark Ridpath, LL.D.:

�The western slope of Libanus, dropping down to the Mediterranean, extending along the coast for about one hundred and eighty miles, constituted Phoenicia, one of the smallest, but at the same time most important, countires...Next to the sea the land had no great fertility, being a mere strip of sand; but here was the possiblity of commerce. Her, too, rose the long line of date-palms, which gave the name of Phoenicia; land of puple date.

�In its widest part the country was scarcely twenty miles in breadth, and anon(soon) the mountain spurs came within a mile of the sea. An insignificant belt of sand! But Nature had chosen it as the spot from which should begin the dominion of man over the deeps. Commerce was a necessity of the situation.

�The forests of Lebanon have been proverbial in all ages. The heavy cedars almost overhung the sea. To cut these giants of the wood and floot them down the short swift streams to the coast gave a vent to the energies and profit to the industry of men at a time when Egypt was still fresh in your youth.

�All this would have passed perhaps but for the safe and frequent harbors which indented the shore, holding at perpetual bay the storms of the boisterous sea. These quiet havens of Phoenicia were the birthplace of the navies of the world. Here man first learned to contend successfully with the perils of the open ocean and to make Neptune, as well as amars and Jove, his confderate and friend.

�The fleets of Phoenicia put boldly to sea. When History was still in the dawn the strange crafts of the hardy maratime (sic) people were seen creepign around the shores of the Mediterranean. In the great days of Assyria and Babylon the overland trade form the valley of the Euphrates and still further east was brought to the Phoenician coast to be carried to the distant colonies and growing nations of the West.

�By and by these same fleets became important in discovery and in war. The cities of Phoenicia grew rich. They were arbiters of the deep. Giovernment flourished. The court became first known and then famous as far as the knowledge of man extended by communication in the earth; insomuch that the insignificant strip of territory in which they were situated possessed a greater importance in the destinies of the ancient world thatn did whole kingdoms which were given up to torpor (lethargy) and inaction.�

From the book �Tracing Our White Ancestors,� by Frederick Haberman, pp. 22-23, we get the following concerning the Phoenicians:

�The Phoenicians: Having identified the Aryan race with the Adamic White Caucasian race originating in the mountains of Central Asia, let us now turn to the so-called Phoenicians, who were known to be the leading ioneers, merchants, inventors, and mariners of antiquity, who, coming from north of the Persian Gulf, kept pushing eastward (westward) to the shorew of the Mediterranean, following the setting sun through the Pillars of Hercules, sailled northwestward along the Atlantic seaboard of Europe into Britain, along the coasts of Africa, rounded the Cape of Good Hoe, and even crossed the Atlantic to the shores of South and Central America, as we have record of.

�Let us bear in mind here that it was the Greeks who gve these ancient mariners and colonizers the name of Phoenicians; and they existed for a period of over 1000 years before the Greeks and continued in name until the Christian era, their language, the Punic, being the commercial language of antiquity, as English is today.

�Let us now analyze the word �Phoenician� and �Phoenicia� Professor George Rawlinson, in his �Story of Phoenicia,� tells us that Phoenicia derived its name from the forests of date or Phoenix palms which grew there in great luxuriance.

�So far so good; but whence did the Phoenix palm derive its name? Horapollo says: �A palm branch ws the symbol of the Phoenix.� Yes, but what or who was the Phoenix? Sanchoniathon, the Phoenician writer, states that �Phoenix was the firt Phoenician,� Phoenix, then, was a man. Now, the word Phoenix is the Greek form of the Egyptian term �Pa-Hanok,� the house of Enoch. In Hebrew Enoch also is Hanok.

�THUS THE MYSTERY OF THAT ANCIENT RACE IS SOLVED; THEY WERE THE SONS AND DESCENDANTS OF ENOCH AND OF NOAH AND HIS THREE SONS, WHO AFTER THE FLOOD STARTED THEIR WESTWARD MARCH. Their descendants have kept it up since, settled first north of the Persian Gulf in the bushlands of Mesopotamia, where they found a dusky race in occupation of the land, the Ancient Summerians, and from thence towards the Mediterranean.

�Chambers Encyclopedia� in the article �Phoenicia� gives us the following account of the origin of the Phoenicians, page 436, Vol. 8: �Two accounts have come down to us of the origin of the Phoenicians. According to Herodotus, Strabo, Pliny, and others, they dwelt anciently on the shores of the Persian Gulf, whence they crossed by land to Syria, and settled on the coast of the Mediterranean.

�Herodotus (vii 89) declares this to be their own account of themselves, and Strabo says that there was a similar tradition among th einhabitants of the gulf, who sho showed, in proof of it, Phoenician temples on some of the islands. Justin on the contrary, in his epitome of Trogus Pompelus, declares that they were driven out of their country by an earthquake, and passed to the Mediterranean.��

THE EGYPTIAN, SINUHE:

At this point, we must take into consideration an Egyptian official who llved somewhere during the 12th dynasty (1938-1756 B.C.), for this person plays an important role in understanding the events and conditions during the period of time of our Patriachs.

�Which, again, plays an important part in understanding the story of Esau as we will see later on. Thyis man�s name was Sinuhe, and he was proved to be more than a myth. To verify there was such a person, we will quote from �The Enhcyclopedia Britannica � 1994, volume 10, page 840:2b:

�Sinuhe (fl. 20th century B.C.): Middle Kindom Egyptian official fo the 12th dynasty (1938-1756 B.C.) Who fled Egypt to settle in Syria. His biography yields information about politics and social conditions of the time.

�Sinuhe was an official of the herem maintained for Amenemhet 1 by his queen. While on an expedition to Libya he learned of the king�s assassination (1908 B.C.) And fled either from fright or because of his complicity.

�He intended to travel southward but was blown to the north while crossing the Nile, and he passed into Palestine. After much wandering in Palestine and Lebanon, he was invited to settle with the chieftain of southern Syria, who adopted him and married him to his eldest daughter. In that land Sinhue raised a family and became a veritable patriarh. He defended his father-in-law�s territory and entertained emissaries travelign to and from Egypt.

�The Pharaoh Sesostris 1 invited Sinuhe to return to Egypt, and Sinuhe eagerly accepted. The king forgave, him his real or imagined crimes and welcomed him with rich gifts; thereafter Sinhue remarried in his homeland, while the pharaoh ordered a fine tomb built for him. Sinuhe�s biography survived as a populare epic; internal evidence sugests that it is based on actual events. The story of Sinhue was adapted by a modern Finnish writer, Mike Waltari, for a popular novel, the Egyptian (1949).��

EGYPT�S IRON CURTAIN:

For further deails of Sinuhe�s story, we will quote excerpts from �The Bible As History,� by Wener Keller, pp. 59-60:

�With the campaign of Sesostris III about 1850 B.C., we are right in the middle of the patriarchal period. Meantime Egypt had taken possesion of the whole of Canaan: the country now lay under the suzerainty of the Pharaohs.

�Thanks to the arfhaeologists, we possess a unique document from the epoch, a gem of ancient literature. The author; a certain Sinuhe of Egypt. Scene: Canaan. Time: between 1971 and 1928 B.C., under Pharaoh Sesostris 1. Sinuhe, a nobleman in attendance at court, became involved in a political intrigue. He feared for his life and emigrated to Canaan:

�As I headed north I came to the Princes� Wall, which was built to keep out the Bedouins and crush the Sand ramblers. I hid in a thicket in case th eguard on the wall, who was on patrol at the time, would see me.

�I did not move out of it till the evening. When daylight came...and I had reache the Bitter lake I collapseed. I was parched with thirst, mhy throat was red-hot. I said to myself: This is the taste of death! But as I made another effort and pulled myself onto my feet, I heard the roaring of cattle and some Bedouins came in sight. Their leader, who had been in Egypt, recognized me. He gave me some water and boiled some milk, and I went with him to his tribe. Theywere very kind to me.�

�Sinuhe�s escape had been successful. He had been able to slip unseen past the great barrier wall on the frontier of the kingdom of the Pharaohs which ran exactly along the line which is followed by the Suez Canal today.

�The �Princes� Wall� was even then several hundred years old. A priest mentions it as far back as 2650 B.C.: �The Princes� Walls are being built to prevent the Asiatics forcing their way into Egypt. (Bingo-Hurrians!) �They want water...to give to their cattle.� Later on, the children of Israel were to pass this wall many times: there was no other way into Eghypt. Abraham must have been the first of them to see it when he emigrated to the land of the Nile during a famine.� (Genesis 12;10)

Sinuhe contines his story of how he passed form one area in Retenu (the old name for Canaan and Palestine) to another; how he went to Byblos and continued to Kedme (a desert country east of Damascus) where he spent eighteen months. He was welcomed by the chief of Upper Ratenu named Ammi-Enschi. Sinuhe was assured he would be safe and well treated.

�Ammi-Enschi gave Sinuhe priority over his own family, offering him his eldest daughter for a wife, and land to occupy with his children. There was nothing lacking in the way of honey, oil, fruit, trees, corn, barley, along with sheep and cattle. Ammi-Enschi made Sinuhe chief over his tribe in the choicest allotment of his dominion.

�Sinuhe had at his disposal nothing except the finest of food and drink. As the years passed, Sinuhe�s chidlren grew into hardy men,a nd each became ruler of his own tribe. Siuhe�s house became a station of hopitality for all couriers to and from the royal court of Egypt, giving water to the thirsty, befriending the wanderer and protecting the dispossessed.

�Sinuhe became chief protector against the attacks of the Bedouins upon his neighbors and organized defensive measures to protect their family members from becoming slave, safeguarding pastures, wells, sheep, cattle, and stores. Sinuhe, being a great swordsman and archer, personally killed many of the enemy Bedouins along with making defensive strategies. Continuing quoting from �The Bible As History,� by Werner Keller, p. 61:

�Out of his many experiences among the �Asiatics� (Bingo-Hurrians!) A life-and-death duel, which he describes in detail, seems to have made the deepest impression on Sinuhe. A �Strong man of Retenu� had jeered at him one day in his tent and called him out.

�He was sure he could kill Sinuhe and appropriate his flocks and herds and propeties. But Sinuhe like all Egyptians, was a practiced bowman from his earliest days and killed the �strong man� who was armed with shield, spear, and dagge, by putting an arrow through his throat. The spoils that came to him as a result of this combat made him even richer and more powerful.�

MORE ON EGYPT�S IRON CURTAIN, �PRINCES� WALL�:

For more on Egypt�s �Princes� Wall,� we will quote from pages 71-72 of �The Bible As History,� by Werner Keller:

�In times of famine, Egypt was for Canaanite nomads their place of refuge and often their only salvation. When the ground dried up in their own country, the land of the Pharaohs always afforded green pastures...

�On the other hand the proverbial wealth of Egypt was often a temptation to thieving bands of daring nomads who were not interested in finding pasture but were much more concerned with the bursting granaries and sumptuous palaces. Often they could only be got rid of by force or arms.

�As a protection against these unwlecome invaders and to keep a closer check on the frontier, the erection of the gret �Prinfes� Wall� was begun inthe third millennium B.C. It consisted of a chain of forts, watchtowers, and strong points. It was only udner cover of darkness that the Egyptian Sinuhe with his local knowledge was able to slip through unobserved.

�Six hundred and fifty years later, at th etime of the Exodus from Eghypt, the frotier was also strongly guarded. Moses knew only too well that escape from the country indefiance of Pharaoh�s orders was impossible. The sentries would at once have sounded the alarm and summoned the guards. Any attempt to break through would have been nipped in the bud by sharpshooters and commandos in armored chariots and would have ended in bloodshe. That was the reason why the prophet, knowing the country, chose another, quite unusual route. Moses led the children of Israel southward, as far as the Red Sea, where there was no longer any wall.�

Now back to page 56 of �The Bible As History,� by Werner Keller:

�If we look at a globe of the world, alestine is only a tiny spot onth earth�s surface, a narrow streak. It is possible to drive comfotablhy inm a single day round the borders of the old kingdom of Israel: 150 miles from North to South, 25 miles across at its narrowest point, 9,500 square miles in all, its size was about that of the island of Sicily. Only for a few decades in its turbulent history was it any bigger. Under its renowned kings David andsolomon its territory reached to the arm of the Red Sea at Ezion-Geber in the south, and far beyond Damascus into Syria on the north. The present state of Israel with its 8000 square miles is smaller by a fifth than the old kingdom.

�...Traversed by hills and mountain chains whose summits rose to over 3000 feet, surrounded in the south and east by scrub and desert, in the north by the mountains of Lebanon and Hermon, in the west by a flat coast with no natural harbors, it lay like a...island betsween the great kingdoms on the Nile and the Euphrates, on the frontier between two continents. East of the Nile delta, Africa stops. After a desolate stretch of 100 miles of desert Asia begins, and at its threshold lies Palestine.

�When in the course of its eventful history it was constantly being dragged into the affairs of the wider world, it had its position to think for it. Canaan is the link between Egypt and Asia. The most imortant trade route of the ancient world passs through this country. Merchants and caravans, MIGRATORY TRIBES AND PEOPLES, followed this road, which the armies of the great conquerors were later to make use of. Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Greeks, and Romans, one after another, made the land and its people the plaything of their economic, strategic, and political concerns.

�It was in the interests of trade that the giant on the Nile in the third millennium B.C., was the first great power to stretch out its tentacles toward Canaan.

�We brought 40 ships, laden with cedar trunks, We built ships of cedarwood-one �Pride of Two Lands,� a ship of 150 feet; and of meru wood, two ships 150 feet long. We made the doors of the king�s palce of cedarwood.� That is the substance of the world�s oldest business record from a timber importer about 2700 B.C. The details of this cargo of timber in the reign of Pharaoh Snefru are scrate\ched on a tablet of hard black diorite which is carefully preserved in the museum at Palermo. Dense wood form its cedars and meru, a kind of conifer, was just what the Pharaohs needed for their building schemes.

�Five hundredyears, before Abraham�s day there was a flourishing import and export trade on the Canaanite coast. Egypt exchanged gold and spices from Nubia, copper and turquoise from the mines at Sinai, linen and ivory, for silver from the Taurus, leather goods from Byblos, painted vases from Crete. In the great Phoenician dyeworks well-to-do Egyptians had their robes dyed purpoe. For their society women they bought a wonderful lapis lazuli blue; eyelids dyed blue were all the rage, and stibium, a cosmetic which was highly thought of by the ladies for touching up their eyelashes.

�In the seaports of Ugari (now Ras Shamra) and Tyre there were Egyptian consuls; the coastal fortress of Byblos became an Egyptian colony; monuments were erected to the Pharaohs, and Phenician princes adopted Egyptian names.�

BIBLICAL AND SECULAR HISTORICAL CHRONOLOGY:

There are very serious problems with Biblical and secular historical chronological dating. Most Biblical chronological dating is based upon James Ussher�s work. Most Egyptian historical chronogkical dating is based on a work by Manetho, and we get it second hand. In our opinion, we prefer to use Adam Rutherford�s work in his four books entitled �Pyramidology.� We cite three sones: (1) Rutherford establishes Adam at 5407 B.C., which coincides with the book of �Adam and Eve,� chapter 3 verses 6 and 16 in �The Lost �Books of The Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden.� (2) Rutherford establishes 2623 B.C., for the beginning of the work on the Great Pyramid which is ver near. (3) �Peleg� when �the earth� was �divided,� Genesis 10:25. It was the Great Pyramid which divided the earth. The Great Pyramid was located in the very center of the earth, thus dividing equally the land mass of the world, east and west, and also, north and south.

400 YEAR EGYPTIAN BLACKOUT OF THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL:

Oddly enough, there are no Eghyptian written records of the Israelites ever being in Egypt, free or in bondage (with the exeption of possibly one item). There is almot a total 400 year blackout of this history on Egypt�s part. For this niformation, we will quote �The Bible as History in Pictures,� by Werner Keller, page 58:

�If it seems surprising that this success story is given not even the barest mention in the otherwise meticulously accurate Eghyptian records; at last so far as we possess them, we may put it down to the special circumstances of the period in which Joseph in all probability lived.�

Again, in �The Bible As History,� by Werner Keller, page 86:

�On the debit side, there was not the slightst trace of Israel�s sojourn in �Egypt apart from the bible itself. Historians and professors of theology alike spoke of the �Legend of Joseph.� Egypt was just the kind of country from which one might hope for, and even expect, contemporary documentation about the events recorded in the Bible.�

The one lone record we could find, other than the Bible, giving evidence to Israel�s sojourn in Egypt was in �Arch�ology And The Bible,� by George A. Barton, page 37:

�Merneptah in the fifth year of his reign set up a nhymn of victory on a pillar in a temple erected by his father, Ramses II. This hymn discovered by Petrie in 1896 IS FAMOUS AS THE ONLY WRITING OUTSIDE OF THE BIBLE THAT MENTIONS ISRAEL BY NAME. A part of it sis translated in Part II, p. 331, where its bearing on Exodus is discussed.� (See Fig. 15)

In the back of his book, Barton displays Plate 6, Fig. 15, which is a pictorial representaton of �The �Israel� Inscription Of Merneptah,� the only known Egyptian evidence of Israel�s sojourn among them.

According to �The Bible as History in Pictures,� by Werner Keller, page 130, these are the words of the �Israel-stela�:

�In Egypt there is great rejoicing, Her cities shout for joy...All men speak of Merneptah;s conquest...The princes are prostrate and cry; Peace! The vanquished are laid low...Libya is devastated, the Hittites are pacified. Canaan is conquered and all her wickedness. Askelon is captive, Gezer is fallen, Yenoam is no more, Israel is ravaaged and has no offspring. Palestine is widowed...�

�This monument of Pharaoh Merneptah has often been called the �Israel-stela� since it is so far the only contemorary Egyptian document containing the name of the Israelite people. The relief above the inscription is divided into almost identical scenes. On one side, in the center, the god Amon stands under the inged sun-disk. He is giving Merneptah the sickle-sword with his right hand and holding the sceptre of the gods inh his left. The pharaoh wears the decorative war-helmet, and abovr him hovers the sun-disk with pendant heraldic vipers. With one hand he grasps the sword offered to him by the god Amon, with the other he holds the crock. Behind Merneptahy, on the right of the picture, stands the falcon-headed god Horus, while on the left is Mut, wife of Amon and goddess of Thebes. Horus and Mut both have one hand raised in greeting, in the other hand they hold a notched stick...�

There is more information concering the �Israel Stele� in the book �Dictionary of biblical Archaeology,� by .M. Blaiklock and R. K. Harrison, pages 254-255:

�...The text itself comprised of twenty-eight lines in which the pharaoh boasts of his triumph over the lydians and other foreigners. This monument attracted wide attention because Israel is mentioned in the last section, this being one of the rare references to Israel in ancient nonbiblical documents. Me[r]neptah�s victory over the enemies to the north are described in normative poetic expression for such commemorative hymns, His reference to Israel is as follows: �Israel is laid waste, his seed is not; Hurru is become a widow for Egypt.� THE REFERENCE TO HURRU IS RELATED TO THE HURRIANS, OR THE BIBLICAL HORITES.

�For Bible students the inscription is extremely importatn. First, it is as offical recognition of a people called Israel in extra-biblical documents and inthe earliest mention of Israel known to us in such literature. The words �his seed is not� are a conventional phrase applicable to any defeated or plundered people. It should not, therefore, be applied to the slaying of male children of the Israelites by the Egyptians, as some writers have suggested. Similar expressions are found at least five times referring to other people.

�In contrast with the other enemies, preceded by the determinative for �nation,� the word Israel is designated as a �people.� The fact that such a d eteminative was used preceding the name Israel might indicate that from an Egyptian viewpoint they were considered a people not yet permanently resident in th epolitical (national) sense of the term...�

At this time, it would be appropriate for every White Israelite to thank Yahweh for the fact that there is at lest one monument out of ancient Egypt (though not respectful) which recognizes our heritage!

If we don�t understand the full story of Egypt, and the Phoenicians, we cannot understand the entire story of Jacob-Israel, let alone Esau!

Thus far we have introduced the subject of the Phoenicians. We introduced the subjet of the old �Princes� Wall� in Egypt and the Egyptian story of Sinuhe. We continued with the 400 year blackout of the History of Israel in Egypt, and that there is only one known Egyptian written record of Israel ever being there.

However, wse really need to go back and make come comments concering each. Willis Mason West, in is book �Early Progress,� pages 55-57 makes the statement:

�Long before 1000 B.C., they (the Phoenicians) had far outrun Egypt and Babylon in trade.�

This comment may be misleading. When wwe consider it was the descendants of Shem who originally occupied the Indus Valley, moved on to Egypt and setup a thriving civilizaton there. From Egypt, these Shemites moved on to the area known as Phoenicia. West�s statement may be correct in a sense, but more clarification is needed.

West also comments about the Phoenicians:

�Sometimes the boatmen used also a square sail, but only to run before the wind. (It was many hundreds of years before sailor learned to �tack.�)�

We checked out the art of sailign in the Wold Book Encyclopedia, and we fond that evey maneuver in sailign could be managed with a single sail. There is no way anyone coud row a boat for hundreds of mils by rowing only with oars. We can see where oars wee necessary at particulr times, but not for th elong sailig runs.

Some of the ships in those days were 150 feet long. Not only did the sailors in ancient timesuse th wind, but they also used the water currents to assist in their progress on the way to their destinations. We are pointing this out because we want you to knwo we are not 100% in agreement with all of our quoting from various reference materials.

At the same time, we try to use the best references we can find. Also the assertion in West�s article implying that the Phoenicians �spread civilization that others had created� comes form not understanding who they were. As West speaks of the Phoenicians using ?cuneiform script� in 1600 B.C., and advancing to a true alphabet by 1100 B.C., he is syaing a great deal, but 1100 B.C., is a bit late. Did Moses and the Judges before 1100 B.C., write in cuneiform? We don�t think so! Hecataeus interviewed his Canaanite �Phoenicians� about 610 B.C. Herodotus was thee about 455 B.C. All of these accoutns, including John Clark Ridpath�s article on the Phoenicans, are all late.

Surely there were at least some Israelites in Tyre still in Herodotus� time, but would they have understood who they were, over 200 years after the deportations? Aside from thee people, the Assyrians had ;imported about 18 different races (depending on how you count them) into �Phoenicia� and neighboring Samaria, some of them surely being from regions near the Persian Gulf.

We have also mentioned the discrepancies in the chronologies of the Bible and history. Adam Rutherford, in his four volume work, �Pyramidology, vol. 3, p. 702 makes the following remark concerning chronology (it is a side note attached to a chart of dates from Adam until the Exodus):

�Note on Patriarchal Periods. A careful examination of the most ancient manuscripts and version of Genesis revelas the unreliability fo the Massoretic system of chronolgy, in regard to the earliest imes. Archaeological research has also proved that the Massoretic figures (as appearing in the A.V.) Are completly untenable prior to the time of Abraham. In this Table, the chronology of the period from Adam to Abraham is based on the Septuagint system, which for the epoch subsequent to the Flood, is confirmed by the Samaritan Hebrew text and in agreement with archaeology.�

You are probably wondering what the preceding has to do with Edom. We are trying to establish the background history during Esau�s lifetime to ascertain what things were like during his age. We are sure we�ll find things were entirely different than we ever imagined when we finally get to his story. And is far different that the false Judeo-Christian clergy teaches.

A PLACE CALLED �MARI�

One of the places we should take into consideration is a place called �Mari.� We will quote from�The Thompson Chain-Refeence Bible, 1964� edition, in the �Archaeological Supplement,� page 345, item 4393 (readings of late editions vary slightly):

Mari was an important ancient city on the middle Euphrates which is now known as Tell Hariri. The location is strategic in that it is the halfway city between Carchemish and Babylon.

�Professor Andre Parrot began excavation on the 300-acre mound in 1933, and during his many campaigns uncovered a ealth of material which depicts life as it was lived in Patriarchal times. He uncovered the royal palace of imri-lim, King of Mari, which covered seven acres, and contained more than 250 rooms and courts, in addition to the great audience room, administrative offices, and quarters for visiting officials from othe lands. Two of the rooms were school rooms where youngsters were taught reding, writing and arithmetic in order to train them for life, and especially to become future �scribes.� in the center of the palace was the king�s private chapel, which had three open courts, the innermost of which was 76 feet long, with walls 30 feet high. In this chapel was the statue of Ishtar, th egoddess of fertility. Water flowed through the statue and out of a vase hich she held in her hand. This was the same goddess whom the Hetrews called �Ashtaroth,��the goddess of the Sidonians.� (2 Kings 11:33)

�In the royal archives of the king�s palace the excavators discovered more than 20,000 tablets. Some of these were letters to the king from district officers of the state of Mari. Othes were diplomatic letters from princes and rulers throughout Mesopotamia and Syria. There were letters from Hammurabi, King of Babylon, to whom Mari fell during the 32nd year of zimri-lim�s reign. In the district officials� letters frequent reference was made to the cities of HARAN, NAHOR, SERUG, PELEG, and the �mound of TERAH� places mentioned in the Old Testment. The personal names of REU, TERAH, NAHOR, ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB, JOSEPH BENJAMIN and DAVID are so common in these letters that Dr. Albright has said:

�ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB no longer seem isolated figures, much less reflections of late Israelite history; they now appear as true children of their age, bearing the same names, moving about over the same territory, visiting the same town (especially HARRAN and NAHOR), practicing the same customs as their contemporaries.��

THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS FIND:

Unger�s bible Dictionary expresses the importance of this find on page 695:

�The Mari Letters have helped to date Hammurabi (1728-1626 B.C.), thus settling a very difficutl point in Biblical chronology. In fact, the Mari documents have been a major discovery and have completely revised current knowledge of history, linguistics and historical backgound at a period around 1700 B.C.�

MARI�S GENERAL HISTORY:

From �The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible,� vol. 4, p. 74, we read the following:

�History. The earliet known example of a king claiming to have conqueered Mari is Eannatum of Lagash (2500 B.C.). Around 2350 B.C., Sargon the Great of Akkad made the same claim. During the 3rd dynasty of Ur (2113-2006 B.C.) Mari was ruled by governors (sakkanakku) of the kings of Ur. But 2017 Ishbi-Erra, who hailed form Mari and was an official of the Ibbi-�Sin, ing of Ur (2020-2006), seized control of the city of Isin, when it was cut off from ur by rampaging Amorites. When Ur fell in 2006 B.C., Ishbi-Erra of Isin and Naplanum of Larsa became th eleading powers in Babylon. Yakhdun-Lim, king of Khana (1830-1800 B.C.) Conquered the city of Mari and incorporated it in his realm. But not long thereafter he was defeated by king Shamshi-Adad I of Assyria (1814-1782 B.C.) In 1800 B.C., Yakhdun-Lim lost his life in a palace revolution perhaps instigated by Shamshi-Adad, and his on Zimri-Lim fled to Syria. Four years later Shamshi-Adad installed his son Yasmakh-Adad as vice-king of Mari (1796-1780 B.C.) When Shamshi-Adad died (1782 B.C.), Zimri-Lim secured the assistance of Ibal-pi-El II of Eshnunna (1790-1761 B.C.) And the king of Aleppo to drive Yasmakh-Adad from the throne of Mari. After an independent rule of nineteen years (1779-1761), Zimri-Lim was reduced to the status of a vassal king or governor of the city, when Hammurabi of Babylon conquered Mari in 1761 B.C. As a vassal of Hammurabi Zimri-Lim continued to rule Mari until the Kassites destroyed the city in 1742.B.C.�

A yave probably noticed, many of these names are probably new and strange to you. With the net reference the mention of the Kassites will be used helpign to put some fo the pieces of the puzzle together. We will now quote from �Archaeology And The Bible,� by George A. Barton, pages 109-110:

�The Canaanites. Between 1800 and 1750 B.C., a migration ocurred which greatly disrupted all western Asia. There moved into Babylonia from the east a people called KASSITES. They conquered Babylonia and established a dynasty which reign for 576 years. Coincident with this movement into Babylonia there was a migration across the whole of Asia to the westward, which caused an invasiton of Egypt and the stablishment of the Hyksos dynasties there.

�As pointed out previously, it is possble that this movement, IN SO FAR AS THE LEADERSHIP OF THE INVASION OF EGYPT WAS CONCENED, WAS HITTITE. In any event, however, many Semites were involved in it, as the Semitic names in the Egyptian Delta at this time prove. IT IS CUSTOMARY TO ASSUME THAT IT WAS IN CONNECTON WITH THIS MIGRATION THAT THE CANAANITES CAME INTO PALESTINE.

�This cannot, in the present state of our knowledge, be clearly roved, but such evidence as we have points in this direction. There began at this time a new period of culture at Gezer, which is quite distinguishable from that which had preceded. This indicates the coming of new influences. Moreover, THERE WAS APPARENTLY AN AUGMENTATION OF THE POPULATION OF PALESTINE AT THIS TIME. New cities were formed at Tell el-Hesy and Tel es-Safi, and elsewhere. We thus feel sure that there was an increase of population and, when next our written souces reveal to us the location of the nations, THE CANAANITES WERE DWELLING IN PHOENICIA. The Egyptian scribes of a later time called the entire westernpart of Syria and Palestine �The Canaan.�

�Probably, therefore, the Canaanites ettled along the sea coast. We, therefore, infer that they came into this region at this time. With the ocming of an increased population, the Amorites appear to have been in part subjugated and ABSORBED, and in part forced into narrowe limits. A powerful group of them maintained their integrity in the region afterward occupied by the tribe of Asher and in the valley between the Lebanon and anti-Lebanonmountains, where they afterward formed a kingdom. Another group of them survived to the east of th eJordan, where they maintained a kingdom until overthrown by the Hebrews.�

������������������������ The Shepherd Kings

����� In an article publised by Destiny Magazine, October 1962, entitled �Enoch�s Mission and Shem�s Responsibility� (pages 201-204 in the 1962 yearbook), Howard B. Rand quotes Manetho as saying that the �Hyksos� were �shepherd kings.� Yet, at the same time, his article places the �shepherd kings� with Pharaoh� Cheops of the 4th Dynasty several hundreds of years before.

We are quite surprised that Rand didn�t recognize this discrepancy before he wrote the articl. As the Hyksos were only in Egypt for a little ove a hundred years in the reigns of Kamose at the end of the 17th Dynasty and Amosis at the beginning of the 18th Dynasty, thee is no way the Hyksos could be the same people as the �shepherd kings� at the time of Cheops. Outside of this disparity, the rest of the article is outstanding in bringing many interesting facts into perspective from which we will not quote excerpts:

�During the construction of the Great Pyramid in Egypt, the records indicate that the Egyptian government was in opposition to the idolatrous worship that had been established in the land. Cheops, the Pharaoh ruling at taht time, was accused by the idolatrous worshipers of being very arrogant toward the gods, having shut up their temples and having compelled the riests to labor

�THE SHEPHERD KINGS. Historical fragments set forth the fact that at this time there was a notable stranger in Egypt who remained at the site of the Great Pyramid. The priests whom Herodotus the historian counsulted regarding the earlier history of Egypt described this stranger as a shepherd to whom, rather than to Cheops, the Egyptians attributed the building of the Great Pyramid.

�Cheops apparently furnished the sit, the workmen and the materials. The record refers to this stranger as a keeper of sheep and he is called �Philition� or �Philitis�...

�When the people of Israel left Egypt and were moving through the wilderness, in order to bolster their morale, they were told of a much earlier people who, in like manner, had been led out of Egypt. They were alled Caphtorims who ame out of Caphtor, to whom Moses referred in Deuteronomy 2:23, See also Genesis 10:14.

�This place called Caphtor was the very region in Egypt where today the Great yramid stands. The Lord, through the Prophet Amos, refers to the people as Philistines whom He brought up from Caphtor (Amos 9:7). Theefore, we learn from the historian Herodotus (confirmed in the Scripture) of Philistines (Caphtorims) once living in the neighborhood of the Great Pyramid, who wee the object of Divine favor and who were led out of Egypt before the Israelites left the land.

�These were not the philistines of the time of the judges and David, but a much earlie people who feared and reverenced the true God...Coming to Palestine from the Nile Delta, they were known in Wgypt as �The Shepherd Kings.�

�...after the Deluge, Shem became the first of the shepherd kings who reigned in Egypt. He was held inj higheest honor by the people in that land for having delivered them from the Cushite yoke... Thus, when the idolatrous priests were again in the ascendancy, eveything possible was don to blacken Shem�s memory.

�THE REFORMS OF SHEM. During the reign of the sheherd King Set, or Shem,and his immediate successors, the fomplete overthrow of the Egyptian gods occurred; their temples were demolished and idolatry in any form was forbidden throuout the land...This was mainly the work of Shem, the Shepherd King was also Priest of the Most High God, in his conflict with the gross idolatry of �Egypt. The heathen temples were liteally smashed to pieces...

�Manetho says tht the shepherds were finally prevailed upon to leave Egypt, wheich they did without molestation, and went to Judea where they built the city of Jerusalem. Josephus, the Jewish (Judean) historian, alls these shepherds �our ancestors,� which is definitely the case if Shem was the first and most powerful Shepherd King of Egypt...�

We doubt very much whether the Hyksos were ever really called �shepherd kings.� It appears in the Hyksos we have some shepherd kings who were not shepherd kings, and in the Caphtorims some Philistines who were not Philistines. We can now see the important fact that the pharaoh related to Assenath was a Shemite. Understanding this is to understand the Bible.

Now we will be getting into areas not usually encountered ij the average study of Sripture. Asome of these things may seem strange and quite different than you ever dreamed they might have been. We believe that once we learn something of these seemingly biarre circumstances it will add to our understanding of Yahweh�s Word considerably. As usual these matters are altogether diffeent than we wer ever taught they were.

We have found out thee were two diffeent pharaohs ruling in Egypt at the same time during the Hyksos period, and that the pharaoh at Thebes was subservient to the Hyksos. Then, too, we learned that Joseph was probably sold tothe autoority at Thebes rather than the Hyksos. In additino,we found out that, through Joseph saving the Egyptians from starvation, the sons of Jacob were given Egypt�s very best land. We detemined, also, there were two seven-year famines in Egypt�s history. Further, we learned that Joseph placed a 20% income tax on some of the people where it was legal to do so. In our injvestigation,we discovered it was the paharaoh that gave Joseph his wife; intimating he, the pharaoh, was Shemitic in stock. Then we explored the subject of Shepherd Kings, which we will continue at this time.

Walking step by step through israel�s sojourn in Egypt from Joseph until Joshua:

In this walk, we are going to try to thoroughly comprehend the true nature of the events during this era of time. Yahweh had good reson for placing Israel in Egypt, and we will try to understand the reason for such a stay. It is our opinion that Yahweh placed Israel in Egyt so thatEgypt might fight off many of the enemies Israel would be facing later on; so that they could gain their strength. It is now time to prepare ourselves with more facts concerning these things.

Because the subject of the Shepherd Kings is of such great magnitude in importance we must prioritize our time to delve into it. It may come as a surprise to many, the symbol of the Shepherd Kings is the Sphinx and the first Shepherd King was Adam, and the priesthood was called the Order of Melchizedek. Howard B. Rand, in Destiny Magazine, October, 1962 wrote an article �Enoch�s mission and Shem�s Responsibility� (1962 Destiny yearbook pages 201-204) which we will now quote in part:

�Order Of Melchizeded. When Shem[�s]... followers, came out of Egypt, they founded at Jerusaelm the city destined to become the City of David and also the capital of the Kingdom of Yahweh when Yeashua, who is of the Order of Melchizedek... (we will be using the Tetragrammaton).

�The priestly Order of Melchizedek began with

Adam and the Preafhers of Righteousness from Adam to Noah were of this Order. Noah is recorded as the eighth Preacher of Righteousness in 2 Peter 2:5. The fifth chapter of Genesis begins, �This is the book of the generations of Adam,� AND NO ONE OF THE LINE OF CAIN IS RECORDED THERE. As stated in Primogenesis.

�Noah was was the tenth in generation. The reason he was but the eighth in priestly line was because Enoch was translated before his father died and did not come to the priestly office. (Genesis 5:24) Methuselah, the son of Enoch, took the office directly from his grandfather Jared, the father of Enoch. Methuselah, in turn, outlived his son Lamech, so the office passed directly to his grandson, Noah, the son of Lamech. (Genesis 5:27) Noah, therefore, became the eighth Preacher of Righteousness, though the tenth in generation, because these two, Enoch and Lamech, never succeeded to the priestly office.� (Primogenesis, p. 44)

�In this line of Preachers of Righteousness, Shem, Noah�s son, became the ninth. As stated in Primogenesis: �The Order of Melchizedek, in its earthly representation, began with A�dam as the first Preacher of Righteousness. Noah was the eighth and Shem the ninth...�So also Yeashua glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, today have I begotten thee. As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizeded.� (Hebrews 5:5-6)

�In His ministry, He was a Prophet; in His atonement, He was a Priest. When He returns, He is to be King. Thus, in the order of Melchizedek, He is Prophet, Priest and King.� (Primogenesis, pp. 66-67)

�Order of Master Shepherds. The Bible also records a line of master shepherds beginning with these Preachers of Righteousness, who wore the shepherd�s garb as the insignia of office. From Abraham to John the Baptist, in each generationthee were those who were members of this ancient and honorable Order. Then Yeashua associated Himself with the offie, becoming the Grand Master of the Order of Master Shepherds: �I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.� (John 10:14-15)

�Ninth Preacher of Righteousness. It is fitting, therefore, that Shem, who was the ninth Preacher of Righteousness and also a member of the Order of Master Shepherds, was entrusted with the construction of the Great Pyramid at Gizen in Egypt...Only a building that is pyramidal in shape is completed by placing a capstone in position...

�A Sign and Witness. Many generations after Enoch�s day the Prophet Isaiah was constrained to write: �In that day shall there be an altar to Yahweh in the midst of the Land of Egypt,a nd a pillar at the border thereof to Yahweh. And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto Yahweh of Hosts in the land of Egypt.� (Isaiah 19:19-20) Undoubtedly Isaiah was aware that this was the Pillar of Enoch; that to Enoch its design was committed and on Shem the responsibility its design was committed and on Shem the responsibility was laid to buidl this remarkable structure in the land that had harbored the people of Israel for four hundred years and had later sheltered...Yeashua.�

Along the same line of thought, we will now follow up with another article appearing in Destiny Magazine of October, 1955 (Inside front cover), entitled �Shem The Powerful.� Actually, we will be quoting a quotaton which the article cites from a book �The Worship of the Dead or The Origin and Nature of Pagan Idolatry,� by a Colonel J. Garnier:

�Sphinxes wer the particular form of sculpture associated with the shepherd kings, and were constructed in honor of Set (an Egyptian name given to Shem), while the Great Sphinx seems to be especially associated with the Great Pyramid built by Suphis (another name associated with Shem). As the Tanis Sphinxes (a group of three sphinxes at Tanis, Egypt); are unmistakably the likeness of one particular individual, it seems certain that they represent the features of the first great shepherd king. Set the Powerful (Shem)...

�If, then, these heds are likenesses of the great Sepherd King Set, they reresent the exact features of the antediluvian patriarch Shem, and we behold in them something of the type of primeval man as he first came from the hands of Yahweh...In representing him therefore, as a lion with a human head, there was a certian fitness, and the idea was probably borrowed from the Cherubim, the form which seems to have been generally known...�

Because Howard B. Rand used Ussher�s chronoloy, he believed that Shem was contemporary with Abraham, and that Shem was the one to whom Abraham paid his tithes. We were also under the same illusion untio we took the time to check the Masoretic text against the Septuagint. After making a chart of both chronologies, we found that the Septuagint has Shem dead for about 650 years before Abraham was born.

There is a total disrepancy of 1486 years between the Masoretic and Septuagint texts. We doubt very much whehter Ussher�s chronology (which is based on the Masoretic text) is orrect. If the oldest living atriarch was the faimly priest-king, Abraham, therefore, probably paid his tithes to Nahor #2, his brother, rather than Shem.

Also, it was found in the Masoretic text that Heber was born before Abraham, and died after hi.this highly unlikely as Heber was Abraham�s great, geat, great, great grandfather. Genesis 11:26-27 tells us that Abraham had two brothers, Nahor and Haran. Inasmuch as Nahor #1 (Abraham�s grandfather) died, and Terah became pagan, the priest-king office was probably left to Nahor #2; Haran having died before Abram and Tera left Ur of the Chaldees. (Genesis 11:28) Therefore, we believe it is possible Nahor #2 may have been Abraham�s Melchizedek. By the priet-kingshi skiping the generation of Terah (breaking the lineal order) might explain why Melchizedek was without lineal descent.

It should be becoming quite clear in our studies on this subject that Joseph and his pharaoh (probably Amosis), Joseph�s wife Asenath and her father were all descendants of Shem. We should also be starting to realize that the Great Sphinx, a little up the road from the Great Pyramid of Gizeh, is emblematially a representation of Adam through Nahor #2, (less Enoch, Lamech and Arphaxad who were outlived by their fathers), and Yeashua the Redeemer-Messiah Himself. And, also, that the Great Pyramid of Gizeh is a monument and emblem of Enoch, predicting Adamic-Israel�s future along with some othe amazing data and revelations. Surelyi, Isaiah was correct when he wrote, Isaiah 19:19-20:

�In that day shall there be an altar to Yahweh in the midst of th eland of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to Yahweh. And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto Yahweh of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they (as the Israelites formerly did) shall cry unto Yahweh because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a savior, and a geat one, and he shll deliver them.�

Today we are in the time of oppression spoken of in verse 20. It tells us here that we are to be delivered by a �savior� (singular). We are not going to be delivered by an arm of flesh, but by the Almighty Himself. There have been those courageous men who tried it and failed; it didn�t wirk! But, this is no reason we should neglect being in a strong defensive posture, ready fo any eventuality. Yahweh will reveal to us when it is time to go on the offensive.

We believe that the reason the altar and pillar were placed in Egypt is because our coming deliverance will be very similar tot hat experienced in the Exodus, and that the wicked pharaoh of today, like then, is going to �let our people go,� and it will require the death angel to accomplish it.

We have to put first things first. How are the �tares� going to be rooted up unless they are first identified? The good news is; the enemy, the �Jews,� are quickly being identified, no help from, nor thanks to, the one seedliners. There is one common groudn though, among both the one and the Two Seedliners, along with the patriots; we are all crying because of our present day oppression.

������������������� Is There Biblical Support?

If all we have read from these excerpts of Destiny Magazine, and if Howard B. Rand is somewhere near being correct, there should be some Biblical evidence that there was a lapse of the Shepherd Kings from Nahor #2 until Yeashua the Messiah. Hebrews 7:12 indicates that, at the first coming of Yeashua, there was a change from the priesthood of Aaron back to the priesthood of Melchizedek. Let�s take a look at it:

�For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.�

From this, we believe we can be resonably sure that Rand was correct in his premise there was a lapse of the Melchizedek priesthood during th edays of the Aaronic priesthood, and that the Levitical law was changed to accommodage a return to it. For further study along this line, it might be advisable to study Hebrews chapters 5, 6 & 7 along with Genesis 14:18 and chater 110 of the book of Psalm, especially verse 4.

���������������� Who and What Was Manetho?

Because Destiny Magaine and Rand quote Manetho in their postulations about the Shepherd Kings, we need to learn more about this Egyptian priest. For a brief explanation of this man, we will quote from the �World Scope Encycloedia (1951),� volume 7:

�Manetho...a historian of ancient Egypt, flourished in the reign of Ptolemy Soter, at the beginning of the 3rd century B.C. He was a priest in Lower Egypt and is the author of two important works, one on the history and the other on the religion of his country. Both books have been lost, but fragments have been preserved by later hsitorians, in cluding Eusebius and Josephus. In the Armenian version of Eusebius is a list of the Egyptian dynasties according to Manetho, the dates of which appear to have been derived from genuine documents, including the sacred books of the Egyptian priests.�

For a more detailed account on Manetho, we will use the �Encyclop�dia Britannica,� ninth edition (1894), volume 15, pages 485-486:

�Manetho. Manetho Sebennyta...�beloved by Thoth.� Egyptaind priest and annalist, was a native of Sebennytus...in the Delta. His name was connected by Plutarch with the reign of Ptolemy I, and he is usually stated to have written under Ptolemy II Philadelphus, though the only authority for this is an epistle to that king of the Pseudo-Manetho, author of the FORGED BOOKS OF SOTHIS preserved by Syncellus.

�He was instructed in Greek; so Josephus tells us, and the three books of his Α_wπτ_αά composed in that language opened to foreigners the history of Egypt from the mythical period downwards, as it was preserved in the records of the priests. Undoubtedly the book is now known only by lists of fragments preserved by Josephus in his treatise AGAINST APION, by Eusebius in his CHRONICA, and by Syncellus. Syncellus used the work of Eusebius (also known through Jerome and the Armenian version) and lost PENTABIBLON of Africanus.

�Thus the little that was known of Manetho�s history has reached us through A PROCESS OF TRANSCRIPTION AND RETRANSCRIPTION very unfavorable to the correct transmission of the lists of kings and dynasties, to which Josephus alone adds any considerable narrative excerpt. It seems indeed that our AUTHORITIES THEMSELVES USED VEARYING AND PARTLY CORRUPT RECENSIONS OF THE ORIGINAL TEXT, AND THAT DELIBERATE CORRUPTIONS OF THE MANETHONIC TRADITION WERE NOT WANTING apears from the existence of the �Book of Sothis� cited by Syncellus, WHICH WAS UNDOUBTEDLY A SPURIOUS WORK.

�That Manetho himself made honest use of his egytian sources is generally recognized, since the Egyptian monuments have afforded confirmation of many, though by no means all, of his statementss; but how the corrupt and varying data we now have should be used, or whether the Egyptian tradition can be made the basis of a rational chronology of the oldest historical period is doubtful.�

The above quotation should give you some idea of what to expect in Manetho�s writings. The Egyptian pharaohs were so notoriuos for trying to erase the history of the pharaohs before them; that, undboutedly, Manetho may have had a lot of spurious records from which to work. Whether or not he was biased in his own writings cannot be easily ascertained, but what motive would he have had for changing the record 1000 years after the fact? But, whateer conclusion we arrive at, we must realize there are roblems with the data ascribed to him.

Josephs On Manetho. The Works of Josephus has a good amount of comment concerning this Egptian scribe. In �Against Apion,� 1:12. Josephus starts quoting Manetho. He continues quoting him until �Against Apion,� 1:16, where he says:

�In the first place, that we (Israel) came out of another country into Egypt; and that withal our deliverance out of it was so ancient in time, as to have preceded the suiege of Troy almost a thousand years; but then, as to those things which Manetho adds, NOT FROM THE EGYTIAN REFORDS, but, as he confesses himself, from some stories of an uncertain original, I will disprove them hereafter particularly, and shall demonastrate that they are NO BETTER THAN INCREDUIBLE FABLES.�

Then Josephus goes on to othe subjects and picks up Manetho again in�Against Apion,� 1:26, where he says:

�And now I will turn my discourse to one of their principal writers, whom I have a little before made use of as a witness to our antiquity; I mean Manetho.�

Then Josephus continues with his criticism of Manetho in �Against Apion,� 2:3. If you don�t already have Josephus in your library, you may want to get a copy, if you already have one you can check these passages which we have pointed out for yourself.

Confusion breeds confusion; Two Hyksos groups:

Apparently, what we have in �Against Apion,� 1:14, is utter confusion as the facts do not entirely concur. In this passage Manetho speaks of

�men of ignoble birth ut of the estern parts, and had boldness enough to make an expedition into our country, and with ease subdued it by force...At length they made one of themselves king (pharaoh)...and made both the uper and lower regions pay tribute...he founded...a city...called Avaris...�

Manetho is confusing two different peoples as being Hyksos when he says,

�This whole nation was styled Hyksos, tht is, Shepherd-Kings, for the first syllable Ηγκ, according to the sacred dialect denotes a King, as is Soς, a shepherd...�

Then Howard B. Rand picks up some of this confusin in his articles, quoted herein, published in Destiny Magazine. These Hyksos were definitely not Israelites as Josephus thinks, for when Jacob and company ame to Egypt, they were but seventy souls, Genesis 46:26. These Israelites were not of �ignoble birth:� they didn�t subdue Egypt by force; they didn�t impose tribute on the uppe and lowe regions; they didn�t set over themselves a king; and they didn�t settle at Avaris.

In �Against Apion,� 1:15, a very critical Manetho is supposed to have said:

�When this people or shepherds were gone out of Egypt to Jerusalem...�

Again in �Againt Spion,� 1:26, Josephus speaks of Manetho, saying:

�...he then ascribes certain fabulous stories to this king, as having in a manner forgotten how he had already related that the departure of the shepherds for Jerusalem had been five hundred and eighteen years before...�

It is apparent that this group of Shepherd Kings were not the Israelites of the Exodus, for it was not until the time of David that the city of Jerusalem was secured from the Jebusites, 1 Chronicles 11:4-7. It is our opinion that this group of Shepherd Kings were the Shemites that settled in Egypt at an earlier time and built the Great Pyramid and continued there as the ruling class and as priests. And, that some of the descendants of Shem later left Egyt for Jerusalem, and Nahor #2 was at that location when Abaham arrived there to pay his tithes to Melchizedek (Nahor #2), priest of salem.

It would appear, it is a necessity to separate the early Shepherd Kings of Shem in Egypt from the later Hyksos (a non-Israel group) and the Israelites themselves. You probably can now see why, while we agree with much of the material published in Destiny Magazine about the Shephed Kings. We disagree to some degree with Howard B. Rand and company.

������������������������� The Life of Joseph

While Jacob had twelve sons by two wives and two concubines, Joseph was the firsborn son toJacob by Rachel, his favorite wife. This is the reason Jacob loved Joseph more than any of the others. As you will remember, while in Paddan-aram, Jacob saw and loved Rachel, and made an arrangement to work seven years (to the seventh year) in Laban�s hire for her hand in marriage. (Genesis 29:17-18)

�Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favored. And Jacob loved Rachel and siad, I willserve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.�

There was a law in those days, and later throughout Israel, after a servitude of six years, the servant was to be set free in the seventh. (Exodus 21:2-3) From this, we can see why Jacob served to the seventh year for each of his two wieves. In order to take Rachel to wife, he had to serve Laban a second six years.

�No doubt, this extra six years of waiting for Rachel only increased Jacob�s love for her and, in turn, nurtured the great love for the first son she bore to him. Before Rachel, Laban had given Leah, her elder sister, to Jacob, insisting custom demanded the oldest daughter be married first.

Therefore, jacob worked an additional six years for Rachel. Actually, in Jacobs mind, he worked twelve years to receive Rachel. Can you imagine a man counting down the days on a clendar for six years until the great day for the wsedding and then doing it a second time?

Actually Leban deceived Jacob, the whole story is in Genesis 29:16‑25:

�And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was� beautiful and well favoured. And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me. And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her. And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her. And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid. And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?�

After fourteen years of servitude to Laban for Rachel, how disappointed Jacob must have been when she didn�t conceive as Leah had done. Can you imagine how thrilled Jacob was when, finally after much difficulty, Rachel did finally give birth to Joseph? Can you imagine how overwhelmingly grief-stricken Jacob must have been when Rachel died giving birth to a second son, Benjamin Maybe now we can begin to see Jacob�s motive for making Joseph a coat of many colors. As his grief grew, so did his partiality for Rachel�s children, Genesis 37:3:

�Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children because he WAS the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of MANY colors.�

The partiality caused much antagonism among Joseph�s brothers. Joseph began to be quite unpopular with his brothers after snithing to his father about the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah. The animonsity only grew stronger when Joseph had a dream suggesting that they, along with his father and mother, would one day bow before him.

One day, reaching the age of seventeen, his father sent him to Shechem to dheck on the well-being of his brothers and to report to him any misconduct on their part. In the meantime, they had gone to Dothan where Joseph finally found them. As the brothes saw hi appraching, they plotted to kill the snitcher-dreamer.

But, Reuben, the oldest son of Jacob, persuaded his other brothers that killing him was not the thing to do. Maybe Reuben was already self-onscious of his own shortcoming and didn�t want to add anything more to his charge.

Reuben, therefore, prevailed on his brothers to spare Joseph by casting him into a pit instead of taking his life, thinking to return and rescue him and rejoin him safely to his father. While Reuben was away, his brothes observed a caravan of Arabian merchants, who were transporting sices and aromatic gums of India to the well-known and much-frequented market of Egypt.

At the suggestion of Judah, showing his natural talent of leadership, they decided to sell Joseph as a slave to the approaching Ishmaelites, who later took him into Egypt. The brothers then took the beautiful foat which his father had made for him and dipped it into some goats blood, returning to their father with the story that a wild animal had killed him. Their intention was to punish their father as well as oseph for spying on them.

Arriving in Egypt, the Ishmaelites sold Joseph tot he captain of Pharaoh�s guard, Potiphar. On being placed into Potiphar�as household, Joseph soon showed his suerior upbringing by undertaking every task at hand in a very responsible way.

Joseph proved to be a very trustworthy worker and was given an authoritative position to match his abilities. While in Potiphar�s household, Potiphar�s wife was drawn to Joseph�s manly attractiveness. The Hebrew race has always been eye-catching for their personal beauty, of which Joseph seems to have had more than his ordinary share.

No doubt an attribute of his mother. She thus moved very slyly to seduce him. It became an obsesson for her to throw herself at him daily. One day, Joseph found himself fighting heer unchaste desiress as she literally snatched his garmet from his body as he was hastily leaving he presence. Allusion to this incident is found in the book �Cleopatra�s Needles,� page 18, where it says:

�Another Arab writer, Hasan ibn Ibr�h�m, says theywere i the �temple of the Sun where Zul�kh� tore Joseph�s shirt in pieces� (quoted by Y�k�t), but she is the only woman whom the �Arabs associate with the building.�

Needless to say, Potiphar�s wife turned the tables on Joseph; accusing him to her husband of seducing her, which resulted in Joseph�s imprisonment for several years. While in prison, Yahweh moved upon the master jailer and showed him that Joseph proved himself worthy of a position of trust.

Joseph, in consequence, gained favor with the keeper of the prison to such a degree that most everthing was put under his charge. While there, he became known for interpreting dreams. Joseph not only had the ability to interpret his own dreams, but explained the meanings of the dreams of others.

After a time, Pharaoh�s royal chief of the butlers and chief of the bakers joined joseph in prison where he had charge over them in his ward. While thee one night, each of them had a very disturbing dream, and when Joseph arrived the next morning, he found them very disheartened.

Whereupon, Joseph inquired why they were so down and out. Each of them repled to Joseph they had had a very unsetting dream and had no idea the meaning thereof. Joseph then interpreted each man�s dream accordingly as Yahweh showed him. In three days, the butler was to be returned to his station, but the baker was to be hanged. Upon interpreting the butler�s dream, Joseph requested of him to plead his case before Pharaoh, but being soon restored he remembered not.

After two years, the Pharaoh himself dreamed two very distressing dreams of his own. These two dreams were so troubling and upsetting to him that he called for all his magicins and wise men in all of his domain to go through their hocus-pocus and reveal the meaning of them to him, but they could not. Upon the inability of the magiians to interpret Pharaoh�s dreams, the chief butler remembered Joseph�s skill and advised the pharaoh that Joseph� was still in prison.

The pharaoh was much impressed by the butle�s story and decided to put Joseph to the test concerning his own dreams. Pharaoh immediately called Joseph from his prison cell, whereupon, Josseph bathed, shaved himself and changed his attire. Upon being brought into Pharaoh�s presence, the pharaoh revealed to Joseph his two dreams. Joseph reminded Pharaoh it was not he who woud interpret his dreams, but that Yahweh would give him the answer.

Joseph informed Pharaoh his dreams were a foreboding of an approaching seven years of famine after a period of seven years of plenty. Joseph then, in order to abate the evils of starvation, recommended that Pharaoh choose some discreet and wise man, along with officers, to set in full power and administe reparations for the coming hardship. Pharaoh was so favorably impressed, he recognized Joseph as Yahweh�s man. Joseph was now 30 years old; the same age as Yeashua would be when He started His ministry.

Remembering the history of the disastrous Zoser famine, and recognizing the divine origin of his dreams and the Spirit of Yahweh in Joseph�s interpretations, the pharaoh resolved that Joseph should be second in charge thrughout his land of Egypt.

Pharaoh then gave Joseph a ring on his finger, a chain around his neck and the finest of clothing, along with a chariot. But, the greatest of all gifts Pharaoh preented to joseph during the seven years of abundance was the beautiful Shemitic Asenath, who bore him Manasseh and Ephraim. This seven years of abundance afforded Joseph opportunity to carry out such plans as to secure ample provisions against the seven years of nned. When the famine finally arrived, it found the people prepared. But not so with his father Jacob and brothers in Canaan.

This is a research effort into areas not generally covered by the average type of Bible study. When we really take the time to explore these various things, they are usually quite different than we ever imagined. We have to approach these topics like a detective in order to dig out all the assorted details.

There are two objectives in this study; 1). To set the historical stage so we can better understand the foundation of the subject, and 2). To place Egyptian and Biblical history side by side for comparison. You remember the story about Joseph and how his brothers sold him into slavery because of their jeloussy; and then later they had come to Egypt to buy grain, and how he recognized his brothers, but his brothers didn�t recognize him; how he accused them of being spies; how he kept them under guard for three days; how he relaeased them to return home with the wanted provisions; how each man�s money was placed in his sack, and how he kept Simeon as hostage until they returned again with Benjamin.

When we read the story of Joseph, without knowing that we the White Peoples of the earth are the True Israelites, it is a very poignant and touching story which happened to some remote family who lived back in ancient times. But, once the blinders have been removed from our eyes, that, in fact, we are the true Israelites, it becomes a very enrapturing story of our own herediary family tree. Therefore, our personal interests are increaded a thousand-fold. Don�y you fee sorry for the many White Israelites who do not understand this?

While keeping Simeon as surety, Joseph permitted his brothers to return to their father, for the need was great in Canaan. Jacob hand many flocks along with silver and gold, but his fields gave him no grain, and the cattle had little green pasture.

The threat of starvation was very real and imposing. Joseph had no alternative but to keep one ofthe brothers as hostage, for, if he had not, he may have never had the opportunity to see his family again. While returning to Canaan, the brothers didn�t know that Joseph had understood what they were saying when they discussed in his presence about their selling him into slavery. The brothers spoke in their own language, not knowing Joseph understood, that this whole thing had come upon them because of the wrong they had done to their brother Joseph approximately twenty-three years preciously.

The reason they didn�t recognize Joseph was because he had gown up to be a man, was dressed as an Egyptian prince and was seated on a throne. Joseph was now nearly forty years old. Joseph, upon seeing his brothers for the first time in almost twenty-three years, was curious whether or not the brothers still carried their old hatred for him.

How his heart was moved to tears when he overheard the brother�s conversation lamenting gheir former behavior. However, Joseph resolved to be very sharp and stern with them; not because he didn�t love them,b ut because he needed to see how much they may have changed their attitude from their former selfish, cruel and wicked ways he remembered.

How impressed Joseph must have been when he saw his brothers humbly bowed before him. Surely, at this time, Joseph must have remembered the dream he had had when still a boy of his brother�s sheaves bending down around his sheaf.

In returning to their father in Canaan, how uneasy the brothers must have been leaving Simeon behind and knowing they were being forced to return again with Benjamin, (the second son born by Jacob�s favorite wife, Rachel). They surely must have realized how grieved their father would be over the prospect of possibly of losing the only remaining son born by her.

To further the brother�s anxieties, little did they know until they stopped along the way to eat, rest and feed their donkeys, one of the men�s money had been restored in his sack. Finding the money, the brothers were afraid to return to the very stern ruler they had met in Egypt, and also afraid to face their father over the matter. To complicate the situation, upon arriving home, they vound every man�s money had been returned in their saceks. Arriving at home, being fearful, the brothers had to face their father Jacob with all these things. The brothers spoke of returning again to Egypt and taking Benjamin, but Jacob replied in Genesis 42:36:

�...Me have ye bereaved of my children: Joseph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me.�

Whereupon Reuben replies:

�Here are my own two sons. If I do not return with Benjamin, you may kill them if you wish.�

But Jacob replied to Reuben:

�...My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.�

The food which the brothers had brougnt from Egypt was soon used up, for Jacob had a large family. By this time each of his sons had married and, along with their wives, there were many grandchildren; making a total of sixty-six, not including the servants which waited on them plus the men who cared for the flocks. You can see there was quite a camp around Jacob�s tent. It was not long before the food su0pply they had gotten from Egypt became dangerously low, and Jacob had no alternative but to send the brothers back once again to purchase more.

At this point Judah, the one who years before had urged the brothers to sell Joseph to the Ishmaelites, reminded Jacob it would be of little use in going back to Egypt without Benjamin, for the man who ruled there said that upon their return without him, they would not be able to gain his audience. On this proposal, Jacob chided Judah for even mentioning to the Egyptian ruler they had a younger brother.

The rest of the brothers replied to Jacob, the questions were asked in such a precise way the answers couldn�t be avoided, and how could they have known he woul demand them to bring their younger brother. Benjamin? Judah then told Jacob, if he would allow him to take Benjamin with them, he would bring him home safely, and if he didn�t return him as he said, to let him bear the guilt forever.

Judah then reminded Jacob that ti was imperative that they return to Egypt with Benjamin, or the whole family would die of starvation. In fact, Judah and his brothers told Jacob: if they were permitted to take Benjamin along, they would go, but if they couldn�t take Benjamin, they would not go. Finally, with much misgiving, Jacob agreed to let Benajmin go with the brothers to Egypt to buy more food.

Jacob told the brothers, if they must go, then they must, but while you are going, take the Egyptian ruler some of our choicest fruit; some honey; some spices; some myrrh, some nuts and almonds. While you are at it, take the man double the money for the last food in case he might think we possibly may have stolen it. Then Genesis 43:15 states:

And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.�

And when the ten brothers of Joseph went down to Egypt a second time, Benjamin going in Simeon�s place, they came to the place where Joseph was selling grain to the people; where they stood before their brother and bowed before him. When Joseph saw that Benmamin was with them, as he had required of them the trip before, he called the chief steward over his house to kill the best animal and make ready a banquet.

The brothers were then ushered into Joseph�s house for the meal. Upon arriving at the entrance of Joseph�s house they became very fearful, thinking they were going to be deemed guilty of stealing, and taken into slavery.

But Joseph�s chief steward, the one in charge of his house, treated the brothers very graciously, and when they spoke of the money, he would not receive it from them for he said his records showed they had paid in full for the grain, and he suggested the money must have from the Almighty. The steward then brought them into Joseph�s house where he gave them water to wash their feet. When Joseph arrived about noon, the brothers along with Benjamin, presented the present which Jacob had sent while they bowed to the ground before him.

Joseph, in dealing with his brothers, had no idea of what might have transpired since he was last present at home with them. Had the brothers mistreated Benjamin as they had done to him? How had his father fared in twenty-three yers since then? Were Joseph�s brothers still harboring their hatred toward him? Upon the arrival of Benjamin, there immediately came a natural change in Joseph�s conduct, for Jacob was safe and Benjamin was safe.

At the sign of Benjamin, Joseph�s heart melted. Joseph�s heart was so overwhelmed by the presence of his family he could not longer keep back the tears, in haste he went to his private room and wept. Washing his face he reentered their presence and ordered the servants to set the table for dinner. Joseph was served at a table by himself. The Egyptian officers were seated by themselves and the eleven brothers were served separately by themselves, for Simeon had been released from prison to join his brothers. Joseph himself had arranged the order of the seating of the brothers.

The brothers were astonishingly amazed, fo rthey coul dnot imagine how the Egyptian ruler could know the order of their age from the firstborn to the youngest. To test his brothers, Joseph sent special dishes of delicacies from his table to the others with Benjamin�s portion being five times greater than the rest. Unaffected by this, the brother�s continued banqueting in joy, and Joseph could see there was no jealousy remaining among them.

After the banquet, Joseph commanded his chief steward to fill every man�s sack with grain, as much as they could possibly handle; again placing each man�s money in his sack. Then Joseph instructed that his silver cup be put into the sack of the youngest. In order to determine just how loyal his brothers were to their father, Joseph devised a plan which would reveal to what extent the brothers would go to restore Banjamin to the safety of their father.

In the cool of the morning, the brothers took their leave to return to their fater in Canaan. Before the brothers had gone very far beyond the limits of the city, Joseph instructed his steward to follow and overtake them; inquiring why they had committed an evil against their gracio0us host. The steward inquired why they had taken the silver cup which his master used for drinking and divining.

Upon this accusation, the brothers replied that Yahweh should forbid that they would do such a dastardly thing. The brothes reminded the steward of their honesty in returning th emoney they had found in their sacks after their fisrst trip, and why should they now steal gold or silver from the master�s house?

The brothers were so sure no one of them had taken the cjup, they pronounced death upon the person who might do such a thing, plus all the rest of them would volunteer to become his master�s bondsmen. Whereupon, the steward agreed that with whomsoever the silver cup be found, he shall become his master�s servant, and the rest shall be blameless. To this all the brothers agreed and invited the steward to search their belongings. Then each of the brothers unlashed their sacks to the ground to be opened and searched. There they found each man�s money, for the second time, as they searched from the eldest to the youngest.

Having taken down the sacks from off the asses, and searching through the first ten sacks, they found nly the money; but when they came to Benjamin�s possesion, the brothers were greatly distressed and returned dejected with the steward to Joseph�s house where they again bowed to the ground before Joseph.

Being brought before Joseph, he asked them why they had committed such an evil deed, and didn�t they know he could divine such things? Then Judah spoke up, showing his natural ability to lead and taking upon himself the responsibility for all that had happened. Judah said to Joseph,

�My Master, what is it that we can say to you for we are at a loss for words? How can we clear ourselves for the Almighty has found out our iniquity? For this we must now become your slaves; both that are older and th eyoungest in whose sack the cup was found.�

Joseph replied to Judah, �Only the one that was guilty; the one who had taken the cup; he will be kept as my slave. As for the rest of you, return home to your father.� Joseph was testing the brothes to see whether they were still selfish, and were willing to let Banjamin suffer while they could escape. Would they purchase their own liberty by the surrender of Benjamin.

Then Judah came humbly forward, the very one who had conspired with his brothers to sell Joseph as a slave, and made a frantic plea while falling at Joseph�s feet. Judah said to Joseph,

�Oh my master, let thy lowly servant beg of thee to speak a word in mhy master�s ear; let not thine anger burn against they servant, for thou are as great as Pharaho.�

�Remember,� said Judah to Joseph, �how you asked us if we had a father or brother? And we replied unto you. My master, We have at home a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a young one, and the child�s brother who is dead. And the child is the only one left of his mother, and his father has a special love for him. Remember my master, you said, �bring him down unto me that I may take a look at him? And we we answered you, The lad cannot leave his father, for if he sould lose him as he did our deceased brother, he would surely die of grief. Remember, master, you said to us, Unless your yongest brother come down with you, I will not give you audience. And when we arrived at our home, we related these words of jy master to our father. As our supples ran low, our father told us to go again and buy more food. Then my father reminded me that Rachel had borne him two sons and one was torn in pieces by a wild animal. And then he said, If you also take Benjamin and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. Therefore, if we return to our father and upon seeing the lad is not with us, inasmuch as his entire affectionis bound up in him, he will surely die of grief and all of us shall have brought our father�s sorrow down to his grave. I pledged to my father, I would become surety for the lad; I promised to bear the blame if the boy was not returneed home safely. If our youngest brother does not return with us, it will likely kill our dear old father who grieved so greatly over th eloss of his favorite son. Now, let my youngest brother return home to his father and I will stay in his place as a slave for you. How can I return and face my father lest he be with me? I cannot bear to see wht this would do to him.�

Joseph now recognized what he was longing to know; his brother�s old malice was gone. By seeing Judah willing to suffer so his brother might be spared, Joseph could no longer contain his innermost-conscious emotions.

His spirit was so overwhelmingly exploding within himself, he could not longer hide his identity from them, for his heart longed so for his brothers; he could not restrain from weeping agains with tears of love and joy. Immediately, he sent all of his Eghyptian servants from the room so the brothers were there alone with him when he announced to them, without an interpreter: �I am Joseph; is my father reallhy still alive?�

Startled to hear the Egyptian ruler speak to them ni their own language without an interpreter, for the first time they knew this stern man who had their lives in his hand was their own brother whom they had wronged. Weeping aloug, even though Joseph had dismissed the Egyptians, they and the house of Pharaoh still heard.

Again Joseph said to his brothers:

�Come near to me that I may speak with you. I am Joseph your brother whom ye sold into Egypt. Be not troubled in your heart for all that which you have done; be not angry with yourselves for selling me hither, for Yahweh sent me before you to preserve a posterity (race) in the earth and save our family (tree) alive. It was not you that sent me to this place, but Yahweh; He has made me a father to Pharaoh, an overseer of his house; and ruler throughout Egypt. Two years of the famine are past and there are five years remaining with no earing or harvest. Go now in haste and bring hither my father and all his family with him. Tell him, thus saith thy son Joseph, Yahweh hath made me the master of all Egypt; come down to me and tarry not.�

Joseph then put his arms around Benjamin�s neck, kissed him and wept over him. In turn, Benjamin wept on his neck. Joseph then kissed each of his brothers in turn to show them he had fully forgiven them. Upon this, the brothers began to lose their fear of him and talked with him more freely.

After this, Joseph sent his brothers back to Canaan with all this impelling news, rich gifts and food in abundance. This time the brothers didn�t return leading or riding their asses, but Joseph also sent wagons in which Jacob, his wives and little ones of his family were to ride from Canaan back to Eghypt. Above all, Joseph�s brothers returned hom much happier than they had been for many years. Joseph had given instructions to his brothers to tell their father Jacob:

�There are still five years of very oppressive famine left. Come to Egypt as our father Abraham did, and here will I nourish thee and all your household lest your household and all of your possessions come to poverty. And ye shall tell our father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.�

To all his brothers Joseph gave each man changes of raiment, but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver and five changes of raiment.

������������������ Jacob Goes Down To Egypt

Each day Jacob would look out across the country to see if he could see any sign of the brothers returning from Egypt, for rations were getting low. One day he sighted a caravan of wagons and many burden-bearing animals, but it couldn�t be the brothers for they had no wagons and there were entirely too many asses for it to be them. Jacob said to himself, �Maybe tomorrow.� Somewhat later, Jacob noticed the caravan was coming his way, and he wondered why they were headed in his direction.Finally, as they came ner, he became aware it was the brothers, but why all the array?

Upon arriving, the brothers broke the news to Jacob that Joseph was still alive.

�And told him, saying, Joseph is yet alive, and he is governor over all the land of Egypt. And Jacob�s heart fainted, for he believed them not. And they told him all the words of Joseph, which he had said unto them: and when he saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived: And Israel said, it is enough; Joseph my son is yet alive: I will go and see him before I die.� (Genesis 45:26-28)

Out of a land of Famine into a Land of Plenty: So Joseph�s eleven brothers returned to their home in Canaan, carryign with them the good news to their father that Joseph was still alive. With this joyful message Jacob fainted, but soon after, came to his senses again. Hearing that Joseph was still in the land of the living, Jacob determined to go see him while there was still time. Seeing the wagons that Joseph had sent, Jacob gathered up all the members of his family and possessions, for he had many, and took their journey into Egypt

We can just imagine them going on their sojourn with their wives and children along with their many servants, sheep and cattle, as a very large company. Accordingly, Jacob and all his family memebers numbered threescore and ten souls, and by the express efforts of Joseph were allowed to settle in a district known as Goshen.

Joseph met Pharaoh and told him his father and brethren, flocks, herds and all that they had were coming out of the land of Canaan and arriving in Goshen. Joseph, meeting this large caravan of his people along with all their possessions in Goshen, spied out Jacob, his father; embraced him kissing and weeping a good long while.

There in Goshen, Joseph nourished his father, brethren and all their household with bread, according to their family needs. On the way to Egypt, Jacob stopped at Beersheba, the former home of Isaac and Abraham to make offerings to Yahweh (Genesis 46:1). While there, he was given a night vision that his descendants would become a nation while in Egypt, and Yahweh would cause them to return to Canaan.

Joseph took five of his brothers and presented them before Pharaoh where he asked of their occupation. The brothers informed Pharaoh, they and their forefathers before them had always been shepherds and were come into his land because the pastures in Canaan had failed them because of the famine, and they were in need of an area to graze their cattle.

Afterward, Joseph presented his father to Pharaoh where he told him he was 130 years old, but not nearly as old as his forefathers before him, whereupon he blessed Pharaoh.

It is important to notice this blessing of Pharaoh by Jacob, for it was not permitted by our people to bless someone who is not of our own racial stock. As before stated, this particular Pharaoh must have been of the line of Shem.

The famine was not only in Egypt, but throughout Canaan and adjacent areas. The famine was simply pauperizing Egypt, and the inhabitants found their money exhausted and their cattle and substance completely depleted in order to purchase food from the publ granaries, until at length, they had nothing to give in exchange for food but to sell themselves to Pharaoh as bondsmen. From all this, it appears that both Joseph and the Pharaoh were of th eline of shem while the common Egyptians were of other stock, for under Hebrew Law it would otherwise be illegal to do this.

In the process, Joseph gathered up all the Egyptian�s money along with their land and purchased them as bondsmen and gave all this to the Pharaoh. So did Joseph deal with all the people from other lands that came to buy food, with the exceptino of his own family. So Joseph bought all the land of Egypt, for Pharaoh, and the land became Pharaoh�s. The peop.le too, �Joseph removed to cities from one end of the borders of the land to the other.� (Genesis 47:21)

It also appears the priesthood may have been of theline of Shem, for Joseph made them exempt. We can be sure the priests of On were Shemites. The land which previously belonged to the Egyptians, was not leased back to them as tenants at a rent of one-fifth of the produce (possibly onhe tenth for Pharaoh to operate his government and one tenth for the priesthood).

�������������� Jacob Blesses Josephs Two Son

Jacob lived to the age of almost a hundred and fifty years. Knowing his death was near, he called Joseph and his sons to him to bless them. He said to Joseph,

�When I die, don�t bury me here in this land of Egypt, but return my body to our home land of Canaan, and bury me there in the cave at Hebron, with our fathers, Abraham and Isaac.� (This is a paraphrase, the story can be found in Genesis 48)

Joseph then brought his two sons named Manasseh andE-hraim to his father�s bedside. Jacob�s eyes were beginning to fail him because of his age as his father Isaac�s had done, and it was difficult for him to see the two young lads. Upon their entering, Jacob replied, �Who are these?� (Genesis 48:8)

Joseph said to Jacob, �These are my two sons, whom Yahweh has given me in this land,� Jacob replied, �Bring them to my side,� Jacob replied, �and I shall bless them here before I die.� (Genesis 48:9)

�And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed. And Joseph brought them out from between his knees, and he bowed himself with his face to the earth. And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him. And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn. And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,

The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head. And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head. And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and HIS SEED SHALL BECOME A MULTITUDE OF NATIONS.� (Genesis 48:11‑19)

For those of today who Yahweh has opened their eyes, know America is Ephraim and Great Britain is Manasseh. There is no other nation in all of history which became a MULTITUDE OF NATIONS other than the United States, which is composed of 50 different nations under one commonwealth of nations forming the United States of America.

��������������������������� Death of Joseph

For the death of Joseph, we will quote from �The Popular And Critical Bible Encyclopedia And Scriptural Dictionary,� volume 2, page 985:

�Death of Joseph: Joseph lived an hundred and ten years, kind and gentile in his affection sto the last; for we are told �The children of Machir, the son of Manasseh were brought upon Joseph�s kneea (Genesis 50:23). And so having obtained a promise from his brethren that when the time came, as he assured the it would come, that Yahweh would visit them, and �bring them unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob,� they would carry his bones out of Egypt, Joseph at length �died, and they embalmed him and he was put in a coffin� (Genesis 50:26). This promise was religiously fulfilled. His descendants, after carrying the corpse about with them in their wanderins, at length put in its final resting place in Shechem, in a parcel of ground that Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor, which became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. (Joshua 24:32)

�By his Egyptian (Semitic) wife Asenath, daughter of the high priest of Heliopolis (On; Beth Shemesh, or house of Shem), Joseph had two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim (Genesis 41:50), whom Jacob adopted (Genesis 48:5), and who accordingly took their place among the heads of the twelve tribes of Israel.�

����������������� Apartheid in Egypt For Israel

We are told by many, the people of Egypt were the same white stock of people as the Israelites. THIS IS NOT ENTIRELY TRUE. This is why it was so necessary for the Israelites to settle in an area where the two peoples woldn�t mix. Even the standard Bible commentaries are aware of this. This is from �The Wycliffe Bible Commentary,� page 43, commenting on Genesis 46:31-34:

�Before Joseph presented his family to Pharaoh, he gave them specific directions about how to reply to the ruler�s questions. When asked about their calling, they were to represent themselves as shepherds. Then Pharaoh would likely assign them the land of Goshen as their dwelling place. Goshen would provide excellent grazing for their flocks and herds. They would be together, and therefore well protected FROM MIXING WITH OTHER PEOPLES.

In �The Believer�s Bible Commenatary,� by William MacDonald, page 79, we have further confirmation that this was indeed the reason for the Israelites settling in a place where they could be isolated to themselves:

�It was agreed that they would tell Pharaoh that they were shepherds. Since shepherds were despised by the Egyptians, Pharaoh would let them live in the land of Goshen, far away from the royal palace. There in Goshen they were isolated from social intercourse with the Egyptians, first because of their nationality (Genesis 43:32) and then because of their occupation. God left them in this incubator until they were a strong nation, able to possess the land that He promised to their forefathers.�

The Hyksos had invaded Egypt from Arabia, Syria and Ethiopia and made a bad name for shepherds. The Hyksos were not at all like the former Shepherd Kings that came into Egypt some five hundred years earlier who were Shemites. These Hyksos were a hord of marauders who invaded Egypt and ruled by tyranny.

To separate themselves form the Egyptians, Joseph and his brothers requested the land of Goshen to live in. Wherever the land of Goshen was, it had to be a place the Egyptians were not already occupying in order for the Israelites to be dwellign separately by themselves. The Delta area does not fit this criteria. If the Israelites were to have settled in the Delta area, there would have been all kinds of people moving in and out from time to time. Goshen had to be a place of seclusion and the Faiy�m area fits this very nicely.

We full well realize that some people will take exception to where the Israelites were placed in Faiy�m rather than in the Nile River Delta area. They will make reference to Psalm 78:12, 43 and point out the text of this Psalm is speakingof the Exodus from Egypt taking place at Zoan, and that Zoan was a city in the Delta area. In doing so, they are both right and wrong. Yes, Soan was a city in the Delta area, but there is more to the story.

����������������� The City of Zoan A Misnomer

Zoan (later to be called Tanis) was a city in the Nile River Delta area built seven years after Hebron in Canaan. (Numbers 13:22) Inasmuch as the Hyksos were the ones who built Zoan, this establishes them in Egypt before the time of Abraham at the plain of Mamre in Canaan. (Genesis 13:18) So we can understand what is meant in Psalm 78:12, 43, we will now quote from �Insight On The Scriptures,� volume 2, pages 1238-1239:

�Zoan: An ancient Egyptian city, built seven years after hebron, hence already in existence around the time of Abraham�s entry into Canaan...(Numbers 13:22); Genesis 12:5; 13:18) The bible name Zoan corresponds to the Egyptian name (d�n-t) of a town located in the northeastern part of the Delta region, about 35 miles southwest of Port Said. Better known by its Greek name, Tanis (near present-day San el-Hagar), it was situated on the branch of the Nile called the Tanitic branch.

�As Psalm 78:12, 43, �the field of Zoan� is used parallel to the land of Egypt� in recounting Jehovah�s (Yahweh�s) miraculous acts o behalf of Israel leading up to the Exodus. This has caused some scholars to hold that Moses� meetings with Pharaoh took place at Zoan. Similarly, it has led to the effort to link Zoan (Tanis) with the city of Rameses, as well as with the city of Avaris, referred to by Manetho in his account about the so-called Hyksos kings. Thus, many modern reference works say that Zoan�s name changed to Avaris under the �Hyksos,� then changed to Rameses under the Ramesside dynasty, and finally reverted to Zoan (in the Greek form Tanis). It may be noted, however, that the Bible uses the name Zoan consistently as applying before the Exodus (back to Abraham�s time), at the time of the Exodus, and as late as the eighth, seventh, and sixth centuries B.C.E. (In the time of the prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel).

�If Zoan were the site of Moses� interviews with Pharaoh, this would certainly give some indication as to the starting point of the Exodus route. However, several factors place this view in doubt. For Zoan to refer to such a site, the expression �the field of Zoan� would have to be viewed, not as simply paralleling�the land of Egypt,� but as a much more specific expression, designating the precise location where themiracles occurred. Such a limiting or restrictive sense would not actually fit the case, for the Ten Plagues did not occur in just one part of Egypt (such as a portion of the Delta) but throughout the entire land. This would seem to support the view that �the field of Zoan� is used as a parallel of �the land of Egypt.�

�Those modern scholars who endeavor to present Zoan (or according to their attempted conection, Avaris, or Rameses) as Pharaoh�s residence at the time of the Exdus also face a lack of Biblical support and agreement in several respects. The Bible shows that Moses� first encounter took place at the edge of the Nile River (Exoxus 7:14-15) Zoan (Tanis) is not on the actual river but at the terminus of one of the ancient branches forking off from the main stream. In attempting to locate the city of Rameses at the same place as Zoan, or Tanis, THEY ALSO PASS OVER THE FACT THAT ZOAN WAS ALREADY A CITY IN ABRAHAMS TIME...

�Those scholars would make Zoan (Avaris-Rameses, as they identify it) the Egyptian capital at the time of the Exodus, whereas the bible identifies Rameses as merely a �storage place.� And, in holding that Rameses II was the Pharaoh of theExodus because of the claim that he was the builder of the city of Rameses (or, more accurately, a place called Per-Rameses), they ignore the fact that the building of the Biblical Rameses began 80 years or more before the Exodus (before the birth of Moses {Exodus 1:11; 2:10}), whereas historians credit Ramses II with a rule of only about 66 years...

�The question remains, then, why �the field of Zoan� is apparently used to parallel �the land of Egypt� with regard to Jehovah�s (Yahweh�s) performance of miraculous acts. While a possible connection with Pharaoh�s court cannot be completely discounted. It is also entirely possible that the great age of the city caused the psalmist to use Zoan in such a way, it apparently being one of the earliest cities found in Egypt. Its us, if this was the case, might be similar to the use of �Plymouth Rock� as representing the early colonizing of the United States...

�There is no doubt as to the importance of the city of Zoan (Tanis), particularly with respect to commercial trade and religious structures. There is evidence of much royal building there from the time of the early �dynasties� Egyptian kings onward...the prophet Isaiah, in the divine pronouncement against Egypt, had referred to �the prines of Zoan� and classed them with those of Noph (Memphis), thereby point up also the political importance of Zoan...� (Isaiah 19:1, 11-13)

From this quotation, you can see the phrase �the field of Zoan� is just another way of saying �the land of Egypt.� ( This is much the same as Israel being called by another name: Israel�s other name is �Jeshurun� (Deuteronomy 32:15)) The word �field� in the Hebrew should tip us off, as it means a plowed field which Egypt is for over a thousand miles to the south of Zoan.With this kind of a meaning, it in no way identifies the land of Goshen where the Israelites resided while they were dwelling there.

From this, it is obvious, we must take into account, not the literal language, but the intent of the scribe. Unless we can resolve such matters, thee is no way we can come to a full understanding of Scripture. Not only do we have to adjust for intent, but there is the matter of errors, idioms and parables.

The Dictionary says an idiom is: A speech that is peculiar to itself within the usage of a given language. Inasmuchas we have taken up the matter of intent and parables, let�s deal with the problem of idioms. Here are a couple of modern-day idioms: We might say that we had a good time over the weekend; we went out and painted the town red. We really didn�t take a bucket of red paint along with a paint brush and try to paint the houses and whatever around town. It�s just a modern-day idiomatic saying, we had a good time. Then sometimes, when we know a person that seems to ahve prospered all of their life, we say, they were born with a silver spoon in their mouth. Surely no one ever came from the womb with a silver spoon in their mouth!

Like our English language, the Bible languages of Hebrew-Chaldee and Greek have their own Idioms, parable and intent. The subject we just discussed concerning �the field of Zoan� is a good illustration of why we need to know the intent of the scribe. If you are reading your Bible literally in all cases, you are not getting the total qualified message. Is it any wonder we have so many interretations of Scripture, and so few absolutely clear Scriptural facts?

����������������������� The Term Pharaoh

������������������� Not Used Until 18th Dynasty

As this subtitle suggests, the term or title of �pharaoh� didn�t exist before the 18th Egyptian Dynasty. This, in turn, implies, that because Scripture uses this term, it wa written during or after the 18th dynasty. This is more evidence the Israelite sojour in Egypt was during this time-period. For informaiton on this, we will quote from �The World Book Encyclopedia,� volume 15, page 315:

�PHARAOH: Fair oh, was a title of the later kings of ancient Egypt. The Egyptians did not call their ruler pharaoh until the Eighteenth Dynasty (1570-1300 B.C.) Even then, pharaoh was not one of the king�s most important titles. Writers of the Old Testament almost always used pharaoh as a title for the king of Egypt.

�The word pharaoh comes from two Egyptian words, peraa, Per-aa means great house, and at first these words described the royal palace, not the king...

�In theory, the pharaoh owned all the land and people in Egypt. In reality, his power was limited by strong groups, including the priests and nobles. His actions were governed by rules of conduct which the Egyptians believed the gods had set down.�

As this is quite an important matter into our investigation of Egypt, we will now use a second witness concerning this; the �World Scope Encyclopedia,� volume 9, under �Pharaoh:�

�Pharaoh (fa�ro): A name applied by the Scriptures and many Hebrew writers to the rulers of Egypt. It is used as if it were a proper name, but it is only an official title, as shah is a title of the Persian rulers, khan of the Tartars, and czar of the Russians. The title corresponds to the Ph-Ra found on the monuments of Egypt, which signifies the sun. it is qusite difficult to determine the particular monarch to whom reference is made by the use of this title, but generally the application is to thegyptiand king under whom Joseph flourished, and theline under whom the oppressin of the Israelites and the exodus took place.�

��������������� Pharaohs Depicted As The Sun

In ancient times, rulers were depicted as the sun. If you will remember, in Joseph�s dream, the sun,moon and eleven stars bowed before him, Genesis 37:9-10. In the intepretation of the dream it was undersood, the sun represented his father, the moon his mother, and the eleven stars his brothers. On the Egyptian monuments and various inscriptions, there is much depiction of the sun. It would appear there are two ways to construte this: (1) It might represent the king and vice-regent of a coutnry along with some of the administrative officers, or (2) It might be a form of worshiping the physical heavenly bodies themselves. Maybe, in some cases, it could be both. We must be careful, theefore, not to point afinger every time we see the sun or monuments and delare it as sun worship. If we do this, we msut accuse Joseph and his family of sun worship also. It is one thing to depict the sun, moon and stars as representing ruler0ship, and quite another to enter into the worship of these heavenly bodies. As we get into the study of Egyptian monuments, it would be well to remember this, and apply it accordingly.

��������������������� Israel Becomes A Nation

In Exodus 1:7 we are simply told they �increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceedingly mighty.� The in Exodus 1:12 it contines:

�But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew.�

This is a great passage of Scripture, but there is really more to the story. To expand on this, we will quote form three different commentaries. First, we will uote from �Adam Clarke�s Commentary on the Bible,� abridged by Ralph Earle, pages 90-91:

�The children of Israel were fruitful, Paru, a general term signifying that they were like healthy trees, bringing forth an abundance of fruit (children). And increased.�They increased like fishes� as the original word implies.�Abundantly. Yirbu, �they multiplied�; this is a separate term, and should not have been used as an adverb by our translators. And waxed exceedingly mighty. And they became strong beyond measrue; �superlatively, superlatively,� so that the land (Goshen) was filled with them. This astonishing increase was, under the providence of God (Yahweh), chiefly owing to two causes: (1) The Hebrew women were exceedinly fruitful, suffered very little in parturition (childbirth), and probably often brought forth twins. (2) There appear to have been no premature deaths among them. Thus in about t20 hundred and fifteenyears they were multipllied to upwards of 600,000, independently of old men, women, and children.� (See Numbers 1:3; Exodus 12:37)

Secondly, in order to amplify on this, we will quote from the �Jamieson, Fausset & Brown Commentary On The Whole Bible,� page 53:

�Children of Israel were fruitful: They were living in a land where, according to the testimony of an ancietn author (possibly Aristotle), mothers produced three and four sometimes at birth; and a modern writer declares �the females in Egypt, as well among the human race as among animals, surpassing all others in fruitfulness.� To this natural circumstance must be added the fulfillment of the promise made to Abraham.�

Thirdly, for further commentary on this passabe, we will now quote from �Matthew Poole�s Commentary On The Holy Bible,� volume 1, page 117:

�Here are many words, and very emphatical, to express their incredible multiplication, they waxed exceedingly mighty; which may relate either to their numbers, which greatly added to their strength, or to their constitution, to note that their offspring was strong as well as numerous.

Atheistical wits cavil at this story, and pretend it impossible that out of seventy persons should cmoe above six hundred thousand men within two hundred and fifteen years; wherein they betray no less ignorance than impiety.

For they say nothing of the extraordinary fruitfulness of the {Hebrew} women in Egypt, who oft bring forth four or five children at one birth, as Aristotle notes (Hist. Animal. 7:4), nor of the long lives of themen of that age, nor of the plurality of wives then much in use, nor of the singular blessing of God (Yahweh) upon the Hebrews in giving them conceptins and births without abortion, all which are but very reasonable suppositions, the probability of it may plainly appear this: Suppose there were only two hundred years reckoned, and only fifty prsons who did beget children, and these begin not to beget before they be twenty years old, and then each of them beget only three children.

�Divide this time now into ten times twenty years. In the first time, of 50 came 150. In the second 150 came 450. Of them in the third, came 1,350. Of them in the fourth, 4,050. Of these in the fifth, 12,150. Of these in the sixth, 36,450. Of these in the seventh, 109,350. Of them in the tenth 2,952,450. If it be objected, that we read nothing of their great multiplication till after Joseph�s death, which some say was not above fifty years before their going out of Egypt, it may be easily replied:

1). This is a great mistake, for there were above one hundred and forty years between Joseph�s death and their going out of Egypt, as may appear thus: It is granted tht the Israelites were in Egypt about two hundred and ten or two hundred and fifteen years in all. They came not thither till Joseph was near forty years old, as is evident in comparing Genesis 41:46, with Genesis 45:6. So there rests only seventy years of Joseph�s life, which are the firt part of the time of Israel�s dwelling in Egypt, and there remian one hundred and forty-five years, being the other part of the two hundred and fifteen years.

2). That the Israelites did multiply much before Joseph�s death, though Scripture be silent in it, as it is of many other passages confessedly true, cannot be reasonably doubted. But if there was any defect in the numbers proposed in the first fifty-five years, it might be abundantly compensated in the one hundred and forty-five years succeeding. And so the computation remains good.�

������� Where on Earth Did All The Israelites Go?

In Exodus 12:37, w are told the number of the children of Israel that came out of Egypt were: �about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, besides children.� During the time of David, a decision was made to take a census. The results of that census is given in 2 Samuel 24:9:

�And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people unto the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men that drw the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand men.�

By the time of Abijah (son of Solomon and grandson of David) Judah went to war against Israel. We will not go into the detials of that engagement, but only notice how large the two armies were as found in 2nd Chronicles 13:3:

And Abijah set the battle in array with an army of valiant men of war, even four hundred thousand chosen men: Jeroboam also set the battle in array against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men, being mighty men of valour.�

Here we have a situation, where between Judah and Israel there were 1.2 to 1.3 million men in full battle array. If this was the total number of fighting men as specified by Scripture, what was the total population, including women, children and men too old for war, in all of Israel and Judah? A figure of 3.75 million would be conservative. As you can clearly see, the increase of population in Israel, from the Exodus until the time of David, Solomon, Rehoboam and Abijah, is very noticeable.

To take it a step farther, what would the potential overall population have been of Judah and Israel four hundred years later during the time of Ezra and Nehemiah? We took a rough calculation of this: By dividing 1,300,000 by 600,000 we figured a gain in fighting men over a seven hundred year period of 217%.

This would be a gain of 31% every hundred years. We then took the conservative figure of 3,750,000 and figured an increase of 31% each one hundred years for the next 400 years. On this bsis, we came up with an estimated popultin for all Israel (Israel and Judah) of 11,043,747, which we feel is very conservative.

Theologians of churhianity have two suppositions today as to what happened to Israel. The one theory is that they were absorbed by their captors, never to be found again, thus annulling all of the promises and Covenants of Yahweh, making Him a liar. The other theory is that all the israelites returned to Jude from Babylon after the Babylonian captivity, Ezra 2:64:

�The whole congregatioinh together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore.� (42,360)

We have a questiong: Where are all the other 11,001,386 of both Israel and Judah for this period of time? We have read different postulations trying to prove that all the Israelites returned by pointing out Anna of the tribe of Aser (Asher), Luke 2:36, and saying, �you see there, that proves all the tribes returned after the Babylonian captivity.� With one single Israelite, they try to account for millions.

�������������������������� Knew Not Joseph

In Exodus 1:8, we are told:

�Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.�

Does this mean that there was a pharaoh to arise who didn�t personally know Joseph? Or is it speaking of a pharaoh who didn�t remember the good administration of Joseph over Egypt? One who had forgotten how, through Joseph�s great leadership, he had saved theEgyptians from starvatin; one who was unmindful and ungrateful. For consideration on this, let�s refer to �The Adam Clarke�s Commentary on the Bible,� abridged by Ralph Earle, page 90:

�Which knew not Joseph. The verb yada, which we translate �to know,� often signifies to �acknowledge� or �approve.� See Judges 2:10; Psalm 1:6; 31:7; Hosea 2:8; Amos 3:2. We may therefore understand by the new king�s not knowing Joseph his disapproving of that system of government which Joseph had established, as well as his haughtily refusin to acknowledge the obligations udner which the whole land of Egypt was laid to this eminent prime minister of one of his predecessors.�

For another witness concerning the meanign of this passage let�s consider the observations as found in �Matthew Poole�s Commentary On The Bible,� volume 1, page 117:

�A new king, i.e., another king; one of another disposition, or interest, or family; for the kingdom of Egypt did oft pass from one family to another, as appears from the history of the Dynasties recorded by ancient writers. Which knew not Joseph, or, acknowledged not the vast obligations which Joseph had said upon the kingdom of Egypt, and the king under whom Joseph lived, but upon all his successors in regard of thos vast additions of wealth and power which he had made to tht crown. This phrase notes his ungrteful disowning and ill requiting of Joseph�s favors...�

�The Interpreter�s Bible,� volume 1, page 853 puts it very nicely as follows:

�The new king could not possibly have known Joseph personally. But what is implied is that he launched a new policy with respect to the Israelites. He chose to ignore the past services of Joseph...�

��������������������������� Ye Shall Kill Him

Because the new pharaoh was apprehensive about the rapid increase of the Israelites, he decided to take very drastic measures to reverse this course of events. Exodus 1:11 indicates the pharaoh decided to work the male Israelites excessivly to the point where, when they went home at night, they would be too tired to procreate more children. The pharaoh was more interested in birth control than he was in productivity. IT MAKES ONE WONDER IF THE ENEMY TODAY IS KEEPING WAGES SO LOW, THE MEN HAVE TO WORK AN EXCESSIVE AMOUNT OF HOURS JUST TO BREAK EVEN, THE WOMEN HAVING TO WORK ALSO BECAUSE THE MEN CANNOT MAKE ENOUGH TO TAKE CARE OF THE FAMILY, and THUS, CONTROL OUR WHITE POPULATION.

ON THE OTHER HAND THE ENEMY, THE JEW, IS DIRECTING WELFARE TO THE NONWHITES SO THEY CAN STAY HOME ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT LONG AND PROCREATE VAST NUMBERS OF THEIR OWN RACE, ALONG WITH THE WHITE WOMEN SLUTS AVAILABLE TO THEM. The second course the pharaoh instituted was to kill all the newly-born Israelite male children. The pharaoh was more than willing to leave the Israelite girls as breeding-stock for the Egyptian men though. EVERYTHING THAT IS HAPPENING TODAY WAS OCCURRING BACK THEN; THERE SIMPLY ISNT ANYTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN. Of course, too, we have to take into account who the pharaoh was for this period. As we see it, he was either a half-breed Mongol-Harrian, or married to a Mongol-harrian, and under her influence (Tuthmoses I or Tuthmosis II of the 18th Dynasty). These are the same satanic people Esau had married with.

For more information on this, we will now quote from �The Wycliffe Bible Commentary,� page 53:

�Daughter. Daughters were spared since they could be taken and married to Egyptians, thus losing their national identity...�

Speaking of the Hebrew girls to be left alive, �Matthew Poole�s Commentary On The Holy Bible,� volume 1, page 118 says:

�They reserved them for their lust, or for service, or for the inrease of their people, and the raising of a fairer breed by them.�

For more on this subject, let�s go to �Matthew Henry�s Commentary On The Whole Bible,� volume 1, page 272:

...They took care to keep them poor, by charging them with heavy taxes, which, some think, is included in the burdens with which they afflicted them (IS THIS NOT WHAT THE ENEMY IS DOING TODAY, BY KEEPING TAXES SO HIGH THAT IT IS A BURDEN?)...By this means they took an effectual course to make them slaves.

�The Israelites, it would seem, were a much more industrious laborious people than the Egyptians, and therefore pharaoh took care to find them work, both in building...and in husbandry even all manner of service in the field (Exodus 1:14)...To ruin their health and shorten their days, and so diminish their numbers...to discourage them from marrying, since their children would be born to slavery...To oblige them to desert the Hebrews, and incorporate themselves with the Egyptians.

�Thus he hoped to cut off the name of Israel, that it might be no more in remembrance. And it is to be feared that the oppression they were under had this bad effect upon them, that i brought over many of them to join with the Egyptians in their idolatrous worship...(Joshua 24:14; Ezekiel 20:8)...God had threatened to destroy them for it, even while in the land of Egypt: however they were kept a distinct body, UNMINGLED with the Egyptians...�

Matthew Henry continues to comment on page 273 as follows:

Pharaoh and Herod sufficiently proved themselves agents for that great red dragon, who stood to devour the man-child as soon as it was born. Revelation 12:3-4)�

If we can understand that this persecuting pharaoh and Herod were of the same family line, the enslavement of the Israelites, during this period, starts to make a lot of sense. We can begin to see this was the same old �enmity� of the two seeds of Genesis 3:15 showing itself as it did when Herod killed all the little Banjamites in an attempt to kill the Messiah. For more documentation connecting thispharaoh, Herd and the Dragon of Revelation 12, we will gather a few quotes. First, from �Jamieson, Fausett & Brown Commentary On The While Bible,� page 1561:

�So the dragon, represented by his agent Pharaoh ( a name commong to all the Egptian kings, and meaning, according to some, crocodile, a reptile like the dragon, and made an Egyptian idol), was ready to devour Israel�s males at the birth of the nation. Anti-typically the true Israel, Jesus (Yahshua), when born, was sought for destruction by Herod, who slew all the males in and around Bethlehem.�

�The Wycliffe Bible Commentary,� page 1512:

�There stands before this woman the great enemy of God (Yahweh), the dragon (Revelation 12:4), who hopes to dstroy Christ (yahshua). But on this effort he will fail...I peronally believe, with Weidner, Walter Scott, and many others, that this verse is anticipatory, and point to Israel�s time of tribulation at the end of the ate. It is placed here to emphasize the fact that Satan who hates Christ (Yahshua), and hence His people will especially persecute Israel as the age draws to a close.�

The �International Bible Commentary,� by William MacDonald, page 2369:

�The dragon is ready to devour the child as soon as He is born; fulfilled in the attempt of Herod the Great, vassal of Rome, to destroy the newborn King of the Tribe of Judah, destined to rule all the nations with a rod of iron.�

A word of warning: While the above Bible commentary is quite excellent, it is, in every case, MISAPPLIES TO THE JEWS. In all of our Bible commentaries, we can use less than 5%, and all the rest is 95% pure garbage. It is certinly a shame the people who put these reference books together don�t know the difference between an Israelite and a �Jew.� In many cases, these commentaries are creted by several contributing editors. Occasionally there are a few good Bible students among them who make some outstanding statements. Therefore, ONE MUST BE ABLE TO SEPARATE THE USEFUL MATERIAL FROM THE CORRUPTION. While most of the comments are but refuse, occasionally they will come up with a real gem, which is extraordinarily remarkable and strikingly meaningful. Most commentaries are in particular useful for their historical content.

As you will note, we have been comparing Egyptian history with that of the Bible, but there is a little more that needs to be said about the Hyksos. In a book entitled �A Short History of Ancient Ebypt,� by T.G.H. James, who on page 95 makes a very interesting observation concerning them:

�It seems that the Hyksos TRIED TO BEHAVE LIKE EGYPTIAN RULERS. Their god was Egyptian; they used Egyptian titles and put their names in cartouches; they built Egyptian-style buildins and APPROPRIATED Egyptian statues for their own use; they also appear to have FOSTERED TRADITIONAL EGYPTIAN CULTURE. It is a strange fact that some of the most interesting surviving papyrus texts were written at this time, including a long series of stories dealing with MAGICAL HAPPENINGS in the Old Kingdom, the remarkable Ebers Papyrus which contains a large number of medical recipes and treatments, and the Rhind Mthematical Papyrus which was written down in the thirty-third year of the fourth Hyksos king, Apophis I (Apepi I). The peoples who are conveniently LUMPED TOGEHTER UNDER THE DESIGNATION HYKSOS DO NOT DEMONSTRATE ANY ISTINCTIVE NATIONAL IDENTITY. They were undoubtedly Asiatic in origin, and they maintained TRADE LINKS with Palestine and Syria, exploiting the opportunities offered by their CONTROL OF THE CHANNELS OF COMMUNIATON WITH THE EAST.�

You will have to admit these Hyksos were a strange people. They seem to have some of the same characteristics as the descendants of Cain. Maybe they should have called them Cyksos (like in �Jew�) instead of Hyksos.

At the end of the 17th Egyptian Dynasty, at the time of Kamose, Egypt was divided into three unrelated sections. From these divisions, there were kings at Avaris, Thebes and Kush who negotiated commerce and trade as coequals. At thebes, in the temple of amun, Kamose erected a stele expressing his agreement with this situatino saying in effect:

WE ARE HAPPY WITH OUR BLACK LAND ...THE FLATTEST LANDS ARE PLOWED... CATTLE GRZE IN THE MARSHES...EMMER IS SENT FOR OUR SWINE...SHOULD ANYONE AGGRESS AGAINST US, WE WILL RETALIATE.

Nevertheless, bemoaning the economic restraints imposed upon him by the king of Avaris, the Theban king resolved to end the partition comlaining:

�Why should I bother contemplating my gains while ther is a ruler at Avaris and a Nubian, each one holding a portion of the Black Land and takinghis slice of the country.�

Kamose thus resented not having direct access of trade routes to Palestine and being prevented access to Nubian minerals. Monuments at Buhen exist which suggest his success in regaining control of Wawat. The Karnak stele documents in great detail Kamose�s assault on Avaris and putting the population of Nefrusy under the sword. A force was then dispatched to gain control of the oasis roads of Bahariya where a letter was intercepted from Apophis, king of Avaris, addressed tot he king of Kush indicating that Avaris was already under attack. The city being heavily fortified could not be razed as Nefrusy was, but, nonetheless, its estates and orchards were plundered and stripped. In all this, its chariot-teams, bronze battle-axes, incense, oil, wood from Palestine,a nd precius metals along with stone were all looted. Thus Kamose returned to Thebes in triumph proving his authority had been demonstrated. This campaign would set a pattern of war to come against the Hyksos until driven out of the land. In such an atmosphere Joseph was sold into Egypt.

��������������������������� The New Kingdom

The �New Kingdom� of Egypt started with the 18th Dynasty and a pharaoh by the name of Amosis. As we stated before, there are various spellings for these Egyptian names. The 18th Egyptian Dynasty brought reunification in the reign of this pharaoh Amosis, son of Kamose. Amosis believed that the kings of Thebes were the legitimate successors of the Middle Kingdom whose obligation was to reunite the Black Land all the way from the Mediterranean through the Delta to and including Nubia.

The war which was started by Kamose against Avaris and the occupying Hyksos was continued by Amosis. It was a long drawn-out aggression against Avaris, and the final war was launched late in Amosis� reign. Some say perhaps in his 20th year. But it seems that Memphis, which appeared to be out of Kamose�s control, had finally fallen to Thebes. Apophis and Khemudy, the last king pharaohs of Avaris, witnessed their city being attacked repeatedly by Theban marine-style assault troops as many as five different times.

Each attack was characterized by savage fighting on both sides. After Avaris fell, the Theban army crossed the Sinai to besiege a Palestinian fort called Sharuhen within Hyksos territory which helped them (the Hyksos) to maintain and control the flow of commerce. After three years of siege, the Egyptians were finally victorious, slaughtering many, if not nearly all of the Hyksos. No doubt, the Egyptians also took many of the Hyksos as slaves. Thus, the Theban government regained control over trade between Egypt and Palestine. TheEgyptians der Amosis did not pursue the Hyksos on into Palestine at this time. It was some 61 years later that Thutmosis III advanced into that area.

By defeating the Hyksos, Amosis created a realm over a wide area almost as extensive as that of the Middle Kingdom. At last, the upper and lower Nile were once again united. The war that was started under Kamose was now terminated under Amosis. The main land trade routes to Palestine were now restored.

You may be wondering what we should learn from all of this particular Egyptian history during this time-period. It is simply this: If Joseph had been sold into the Delta area during the Hyksos period, and Jacob and his family were later settled there, they would have been in the middle of a war-zone. This war may have lasted up to 40 or 50 years. Nowhere in the Bible does it indicate such a thing! This should be powerful evidence that neither Joseph nor his family were affiliated with the Hyksos. If anything, Joseph may have been the instrument in Amosis� hands to help drive them out.

If Joseph would have been Grand Vizier to the Hyksos, as many Bible authorities claim, he surely could have gotten word to his family much sooner than he did. Joseph simply had to be locked into an area where he had no communication with Palestine. Have you ever wondered why Joseph didn�t try to get word to his father to inform him where he was? No doubt, he may have tried this many times. If he had been in the Delta area, he could very easily have sent word along the much traveled �Ways of Horus�into Retenu (Palestine) where his father was. On the other hand, if he was sold into the Theban area, it would have been very difficult to get word past the blockade at Avaris then being controlled by the Hyksos.

By dominating Avaris, the Hyksos were able to control traffic both along land routes and also the waterways. It should be evident that Joseph was in a landlocked situation. If he were at Thebes, communication to Palestine would have been cut off for him. Not only di the Hyksos control the Delta area, but they occupied all of Palestine up beyond the Euphrates, even including the territory of the Hurrians. If Joseph were the Grand Vizier of the pharaoh at Avaris, surely he would have had the freedom to go visit his family in Palestine. It is obvious that Joseph had something blocking his way to return, or to even send a message home to his father.

������������������������ Joseph Went to Egypt

�������������������������� By A Different Way

There is evidence that when Joseph as sold to the Ishmaelites, they entered Egypt by a different way than normal. This can be found in �The Lost Books Of The Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden� in the �Testament of Zebulun� 1:28:30:

�And when Reuben came and heard that while he was away Joseph had been sold, he rent his grments,and mourning, said: How shall Ilook on the face of my father Jacob? And he took the money and ran after the merchants, but as he failed to find them he returned grieving. But the merchants had left the borad road and marched through the Troglodytes by a short cut.�

The Biblical account of this event is as follows:

�And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him. And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh. Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams. AND REUBEN HEARD IT, AND HE DELIVERED HIM OUT OF THEIR HANDS; AND SAID, LET US NOT KILL HIM. And REUBEN SAID UNTO THEM, SHED NO BLOOD, BUT CAST HIM INTO THIS PIT THAT IS IN THE WILDERNESS, AND LAY NO HAND UPON HIM; THAT HE MIGHT RID HIM OUT OF THEIR HANDS, TO DELIVER HIM TO HIS FATHER AGAIN (This shows that Reuben did intened to return and take Joseph back to their father Jacob). And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him; And they took him, and cast him into a pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it...Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood? Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh...REUBEN RETURNED UNTO THE PIT (here the Bible confirms that Reuben had been away while the other brothers sold Joseph); and, behold, Joseph was not in the pit; and he rent his clothes. And he returned unto his brethren, and said, THE CHILD IS NOT; AND I, WHITHER SHALL I GO?� (Genesis 37:18‑30)

So if the evidence is correct and it certainly appears that it was from the Biblical account; which does not go into the details on this event; much like the selling of the birthright to Jacob, for the full account is not shown, but is related in another book, the book of Jasher) the Ishmaelites took, Joseph to Egypt by some other route than the usual way. Evidently the �broad road� spoken of in this referecne was the �Way of Horus.� This was the mian route in those days from the Delta to Retenu (Palestine). Therefore, it would only be reasonable to conclude that Joseph was taken someplece in Egypt othe than the Delta. Not only that, but this �short cut� was probably the same road taken when the brothers went to Egypt to buy food and later when Jacob and his family went there, at Joseph�s instructions, to live.

�������������������� Joseph�s Pharaoh, Amosis I

At this juncture, it would be a good idea to reviw the names of the pharaohs of the 18th Egptian Dynasty. These Egyptian pharaohs are in the sequence as follows: � Amosis� � Amenhotep I � Tuthmosis I � Tuthmosis II � Hatshepsut � Tuthmosis III � Amenhotep II � Tuthmosis IV � Amenhotep III � Amenhotep IV (same as Akhenaten) � Tutankhamun � Ay � Horemheb. In addition to these named pharaohs, it would be well to mention that Kamose was the last pharaoh of the 17th dynasty. We are not going to consider the pharaohs from Amosis to Hatshepsut in their sequential order.

Because it is important to know everything we can about the events surrounding Joseph�s life, we really need to take a better look at Joseph�s pharaoh,, Amosis I. As far as can be determined there was no Amosis II. Frank J. Cosentino, in his book �The Boehm Journey To Egypt, Land of Tutankhamun,� uses this dessignation of Amosis I in the following excerpts from his book, we are mentioning this so there will nto be any concusion concerning it. From page 36 we find:

�The glory of liberating Egypt fell to Amosis I (1570-1546 B.C.), the first of theEighteenth Dynasty. His reign ushered in the New Kingdom, a period of unparalleled progress and power which was to last almost five hundred years, from 1567 B.C. to 1080 B.C. This epoh, which also is called theEmpire period, encompasses the Eighteenth through the Twentieth Dynasties.�

From page 37:

�...Unfriendly lords who opposed Amosis or who refused to support the r of liberation were dealt with forcefully and brutally by the king, who often paused in his war with the Hyksos to defeat or punish rival nomes. This is one of the reasons it took so long to expel the Syrians (hyksos, as �Syrians� might be taken as Aram), a period estimated to be more than twenty years. Finally, after years of siege upon Avaris, Delta stronghold of the Hyksos, they were dislodged and began their retreat to lower Palestine.

�Amosis I, now a great hero of Egypt, was in a positin to eliminate the feudal system, and he did. He confiscatd the lands and properties of the lords he defeated and stripped them of their peerage. Thsoe who supported him during the long Hyksos war also turned their estates over to the pharaoh in return form retnetion of their old titles and offices. All of Egypt once again was the personal property of the pharaoh.�

Page 39:

�Amosis I had continued his military campaigns in the north and south, but the greater part of his reign had been devoted to the expulsion of the Hyksos and reorganization of the state. The expansion of the empire was carried forward vigorously by his son, Amenophis I (Amenhotep I, 1546-1526 B.C.), and by th eson�s successor, Thutmosis I, 1526-1508, WHO APPEARED TO COME FROM ANOTHER LINE OF THE ROYAL HOUSE.

�Through the sixteenth centry B.C., the Egyptian armies completed the conquest of Nubia, between the First and second Cataracts and of the country of Kush, between the Second andFourth Cataracts. The armies then turned their attentinos north, to syria and Palestine, where a number of small feudal states existed. Stronger was the kingdom of Kadesh, still ruled by the Hyksos. THE ETHNIC FABRIC OF THESE SMALL STATES INCLUDED SEMITES, HITTITES, MITANNIS, HAPIRU, AND IRANIANS (not today�s Iranians). After many invasions and battles over a period of a half a century, Thutmosis I finally extended the empire into the valleys of the Euphrates, Tigris, and Orontes Rivers...�

From page 107:

�The forces of power in Egypt moved from north to south through its ancient history. Old Kingdom pharaohs (2686-2181 B.C.) Were centered below the Delta near the location of contemporary Cairo. The Middle Kingdom (2040-1674 B.C.) Established its seat of power 250 miles south. Thebes, located 425 mils below Cairo, gained supremacy in the New Kingdom (1567-1080 B.C.) Started by the great pharaoh Amosis I. Thebes remained the capital through the subsequent peiods of decadence and decline...�

Of special importance on page 39 from above, is described the �ethnic fabric� of the small city-states throughout Palestine at this particular time in history. They included Semites, Hittites, Mitannis, Hapiru, and Iranians. We are sure that this is only a partial list, but at the same time, it substantiates the Bible, Genesis 15:19-21, where it includes: Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaims, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashits and Jebusites.

These were a hodgepodge mixed-race group of people. These are the same peoples the Israelites, when entering Canaan, were given the commission to kill every man, woman and child without mercy. These are the same grup of people, when Israel neglected that command,were to become the thorns in their sides and pricks in their eyes, (Numbers 33:55) their descendants who we know today as �Jews.�

The excerpts just quoted give us a better overall picture of what was really goning on in Egypt during the period which Joseph was sold, and when later his father and brothers joined him there. All this fills in a great deal of informaton which cannot be found entirely in the Bible. The second paragrph, quoted on page 37, is especially significant as it substantiates the Scripture where Joseph imposed a 20% income tax on the Egyptians and confiscated all their land and gave it to the pharaoh. (Genesis 34:20-26) All this resulted in more power for the pharaoh to fight against the Hyksos.

In �Mummies Myth and Magic,� by Christine El Mahdy, page 86, we are told:

�The mummy of Amosis...founder of the Eighteenth dynasty and the new Kingdom, shows him to have been uncircumcised. He suffered from arthritis and died while relatively young.�

On page 87, it goes on to indicate that he died in his mid to late twenties. This could account for why he didn�t pursue after the Hyksos into Palestine. Evidently, with the death of this pharaoh the Egyptians laced direction. It also suggests that the pharaoh might have been a teenager when oseph interpreted his dream, and maybe, because of his age, why he decided to put Joseph in charge of his realm.

������������������������������� Amenhotep I

Upon the death of Amosis, his son, Amenhotep I, took the throne. There is not as much information on Amenhotep I as thee is on Amosis. It seems that with Amenhotep I, the Egyptiand expansion was directed toward the south after the victory over the Hyksos. In Bill Manley�s �The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt,� page 61, it says:

�However, during the reign of Amenhotep I (if not before), it beame Egyptian policy to extend the southen boundary further than it had existed during the Middle Kingdom.�

The attractin to the suth was gold. Again in this same book on page 68:

�Theban authorities recognezed that the Nubian gold mines were the foundations on which Egypt could be reconstructed as a formidable commercial power. A policy of conquest directed towards the kingdom of Kush itself emerged when Amenhyotep I founded a fortified Egyptian town at Shaat, beyond the Middle Kingdom border in Mubia; the king was determined �to extend the boundaries of the Black Land,� according to Ahmos-Saibana.�

Again on page 70 we read:

�There is no compelling evidence to suggest that Ahmose (Amosis I) exploited his success at Sharuhen by continuing his campaigns further into Palestine; his son and successor, Amenhotep I, appears not to have campaigned in Palestine at all.�

Maybe the reason it is difficult to find much on Amenhotep I is because he died in his early twenties, according to �Mummies Myth and Magic,� by Christine El Mahdy, page 86. One other thing which should be mentioned about him was he apparently left no male heir.

�������������������������������� Tuthmosis I

Evidently, Tuthmosis I was the first pharaoh after Amosis to expand Egypt�s influence northward bypassing Palestine. For some insight on this, we will quote form �The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt,� by Bill Manley, page 70:

�Within thirty years of Sharuhen, however, Thutmose I (Tuthmosis I) had led Egyptian armies as far as Naharin (which the Egyptians used as a synonym for Mitani {Hurrians}), and erected a stela on the banks of the Euphrates proclaiming the northern boundary of his domain. A list of place names apparently related to this campaign, inscribed on a monumental gate at Karnak, covers the area from Byblos along the coast toward Sumur, and across the mountains of Lebanon to the Orontes. The mention of Byblos is crucial: this major seaport had been the traditional point of contact between Egypt and the Levant. It is possible that Thutmose I (Tuthmosis I) avoided Palestien altogehter and moved his armies to Byblos by the sea, focussing his campaign (which may have been little more than a display of strength) inland on a region crossed by some of the major trade routes of the ancient Near East, linking the Levantine ports to Palestine, Anatolia, the lands of the king of Mittani, and beyond to Assyria.�

The next reference we are going to use is very important as it spells out the relationship of the pharaoh�s family for the next few generations. It is paramount that we understand this interrelation, or we will not completely understand the whole story. You may have to read the following quotation several times to fully comprehend it. it is from �The Boehm Journey To Egypt, Land Of Tutankhamun,� by Frank J. Cosentino, page 40:

�Tutmosis I gave special impetus to the temple building program. He instructed his brilliant architect Ineni to erect massive pylons (towered gateways) at the entrance to the Amun (Amen) temple at Karnak and two giant granite obelisks before they pylons.

�Thutmosis I had four children with his chief queen, only one of which lived beyond childhood, a girl named Hatshepsut. Among other children with lesser queens was a son named Thutmosis II who married his half-sister, Hatshepsut. The two could produce no immediate heirs but Thutmosis II fathered a son,Thutmosis III, with a concubine from his harem. The father, now king, named his son as co-regent. Thutmosis II died soon after and Thutmosis III, still a child, ascended to the throne. Hatshepsut, however, had great ambitions. At first she ruled in the name of the young king; but with guile (?) And skill she gined support from the chief viziers, nobles, comanders, and priests, thrust Thutmosis III into the brackground, and claimed co-regency by right of her birth.�

Let�s investigate Tuthmosis I from another source, as we will now be getting into some of the essential and basic elements of our story. There is a lot more to this Egyptian saga than we may have ever imagined, and we are about to find out some unusual and interesting matters of concern. For this we will quote form �Cleopatra�s Neddles,� by E.A. Wallis budge, pages 91-92:

�The Obelisk Of Thotmes I (Thutmosis I), King of Egypt About 1546 B.C., At Karnak. Thothmes I, the son of Amenhetep I (Amenhotep I) by his Queen Senseneb, began to reign about 1546 B.C., and reigned about 30 years.

On the day of his coronation, i.e., the 21st day of the 3rd month of the season Pert, he sent the copy of a decree to the Egyptian viceroy of Nubia, who dwelt at Elephantine, announcing his coronation and giving a list of titles that he had adopted. Soon after he ascended the throne he made a raid into Nubia; the general of his army was Aahmes, the son of Abana, a warrior who had fought against the Hyksos. The king was present at one engagement, and speared the leader of the enemy, and sailed down-stream with the dead body tied to the bow of his boat.

The authority of Egypt in Nubia at that time seems to have been effective so far as the Island of Tombos, near the head of the third Cataract (boundary differs from Cosentino). Thotmes next devoted himself to consolidating the power of Egypt in Syria, and his victorious troops conquered the shasu, a onfederation of nomad tribes, and took possession of the country of Naharina. He set up a stele at a place called Ni, near the Euphrates, to mark the limit of his kingdom in the north, and this stele was standing in the reign of his grandson, Thothmes III (Tuthmosis III). His raids in Nubia and in Syria brought him in much wealth, and a large portion of it he spent in building and repairing the temples of the great gods of Thebes and Abydos, i.e., Amen-Ra and Osiris.

�...He had two obelisks quarried at Aswan, and built a lighter nearly 00 feet long and 60 feet wide on which to transport them to Thebes, and they were set up under the directon fo the official Anni in front of another pylon; the two pylons which Thothmes (Tuthmosis) built were united by a colonnade..Thothmes I was the first king who set up obelisks in Thebes, and in view of the later religious history of the 18th Dynasty his action seems to show that he was favorably disposed to the doctrines OF THE PRIESTHOOD OF HELIOOPOLIS (Beth-shemish, or house of Shem), and that he wished to link the cult of Ra with that of theTheban god Amen. As Usertsen I had set up a pair of obelisks before the house of Ra at Heliopolis, so Thothmes I set up a pair before a pylon of the temple of Amen.� (Amen, Hebrew for truth)

We don�t know whether or not you understand the significance of what you have just read, but this makes a connection of the god Amen-Ra of Egypt with the Priest of On (Joseph�s in-laws) at Heliopolis (Beth-shemish). If this is ture, the god Amen represents the same deity as that of the Hebrews. We doubt very much whether the writer of this book had any idea that he was making such a onnection. Also, we are sure many of us have been under the impression that an obelisk is a phallic symbol. If what Budge writes on page 19 is correct, it was the Arabs who came up with that idea. In the process of explaining the meaning of �Cleopatra�s Needles� it says in part:

�...they (the Arabs) assigned them to her (Cleopatra), with perhaps an obscene suggestion that they resembled phalli lurking in their minds.�

If it were the Arabs who gave the obelisks the meaning of phalli, that couldn�t have been the meaning to the Egyptians from the beginning. No doubt, obelisks have become known generally for, and adopted as phallic symbols as a secondary meaning at various times in history. On the Internet ther was information on �Phallic Representatons� udner the title �Women And Gender In ancient Egypt,� by The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology which exhibits varius Egyptian phallic figures and amulets, and there are no obelisks among them. It would seem, if an obelisk were a phallic symbol, they would have placed one at the top of the list. In the book �Cleopatra�s Needles,� by E.A. Wallis Budge, page 14 it says:

�...it is probable that many of them were set up as funerary mounments, and were intended to indicate regenration,new life, stability, and perhpas resurrection.�

On page 6 of this same book it explains how obelisks were generally set up in pairs. Very seldom was one placed alone. It would be understandable, if one was placed alone, how one might imagine a phillic meaning, but how can one conceive such a meaning where they are placed in pairs?

������������������������������� Tuthmosis II

There is not a lot of information to pass along on Tuthmosis II except he was the husband of Queen Hatshepsut. Tuthmosis II and his queen were half brother-sister. While Hatshepsut was of royal blood, Tuthmosis II was not. For more details on this, we will quote from �Cleopatra�s Needles,� by E.A. Wallis Budge, page 98:

�Hatshepsut was probably associated with her father, Thotmes I (Tuthmosis I), in the rule of the kingdom during the last few years of his life, and her power became greatly increased when she married her brother, ThothmesII, either before or immediately after her father�s death. Her husband died after a short, ineffective reign, and as her nephew, who later was known as Thothmes III, was then a child, she undertook to administer the kingdom.�

������������������������� Pharaoh Hatshepsut

Because there is more material on hatshepsut than can be presented in the rest of this study, it will be necessary to save it for later. Actually we did cover Hatshepsut somewhat previously, but there is more we should consider. To start with, in a quote from the book �The Boehm Journey To Egypt, Land Of Tutankhamun,� by Frank J. Cosentino, page 120, we read:

�It will be recalled tha Hatshepsut was the first great queen of Egypt. She married Thutmosis II and after his death seized the throne from Thutmosis III, who after Hatshepsut�s demise was to become one of Egypt�s greatest warrior-kings. To secure her name in history and to prove herself equal to all the male pharaohs before her, she embarked on ambitious building programs during her twenty-year rule (1489-1469 B.C.).�

Princess Hatshepsut was the only surviving child of Tuthmosis I and his queen. As there is no word in the ancient Egyptian language for �queen,� the meaning was simply �king�s great wife.� Had Tuthmosis I had a son, he would have been in lie to inherit the throne from his father. With Hatshepsut being a female, and no others contending for the throne, it could pass through her to whomever she might marry. There was a major flaw in this arrangment, as it left an opening for non-royal blood to gain the throne.

In the Eighteenth Egyptiand Dynasty this happened several times. In fact, Tuthmosis Ii, the half-brother who Hatshepsut married, is a case in point. The exact system of choosing a new king is not precisely known, but, in the 18th Dynasty, ti seems that if there was no son to reeive the honor, it was passed on through the oldest female, and in turn to her husband. The difference in the case with Hatshepsut, she took the throne herself after her husband died. It was probably a matter guardianship at first until Tuthmosis III bcame of age, but Hatshepsut evidently decided to remain on the throne, denying Tthmosis III his seat. In the end, this precipitated abitter battle between Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III.

In Egypt, the pharaoh often had many wives, and in some cases, married a half-sister. All this made the process of passing on the throne rather complex. Upon th edeath of Tuthmosis I, his son Tuthmosis II, by a minor wife, was married to his half-sister, Hatshepsut. By marrying Hatshepsut, it established Tuthmosis II�s right to the throne which lasted for twenty-two unexceptional years. When Tuthmosis II died, he left a daughter by Hatshepsut and a son, Tuthmosis III, by a monor wife. Hatshepsut then ruled seven years as regent for the young boy. After this time, Hatshepsut took it upon herself to change her title from �Queen� to �King.�

������������������������������� Tuthmosis III

There has been a queston in the past whether Tuthmosis III was a son of Tuthmosis I or II. The book �Cleopatra�s Needles,� by E.A. Wallis Budge, page 126 says:

�Each has shown that we must hold Thothmes III to be the son of Thothmes II and not Thotmes I.�

For information on Tuthmosis III, we will again quote from �Cleopatra�s Needles,� by E.A. Wallis Budge, pages 125-126:

�The Reign of Thothmes III, 1500-1447 B.C. The parentage of Thothmes III (Tuthmosis III), the greatst of the kings of the 18th Dynasty, and probably the greatest of all the kings of Egypt, has been the subject of animated discussion for many years past, and even now Egyptologists are not agreed about the matter. There is no doubt that he was associated with the great Queen Hatshepsut in the rule of the kingdom, but what was his relationship to her/ Some say that he was her half-brother...�

There was a series on The Learning Channel entitled �Secret of The Pharaohs.� The first the three showings were on the 18th Dynasty of Egypt which we have been considering as being contemporary with the Israelite captivity in Egypt. The second in this series as about the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Recently they have found a buried city near there which they believe was used to house the workers that built it.

The third in the series did not relate to our study. There was also a program on The Learning Chanel entitled �Egypt�s Lost city� which was about Akhenaten�s city known today as Tell el-Amarna. About a year ago, we caught a four-part series entitled �Egyptian Mummies.� Part four of that series was about Tutankhamen.

This is simply amazing as we no more than got a good start on the subject of Egypt and all this information is being addressed on television. Also, we found a book entitled �The Bible Is History,� by Ian Wilson. This 1999 book is simply outstanding and filled with useful and fantastic information. Also, we were advised by a person that there was a good article in the January, 2001 �National Geographic� entitled �Ancient Ashkelon.� As you may see, with all this new information, in addition to our previous research, we have been qite busy.

���� This may come as a surprise to you but it appears that the Hyksos probably were descendants of Cain. If so, we are right back to the subject of Two Seedline, and there is no other subjet in all Scripture more important. The following is what we had to say in a previous study:

�At their height, the Hyksos occupied the land of the Hurrians, Carchemish, Syria, Palestine and much of the northern part of Egypt. By inhabiting the Delta area of Egypt, they were in control of all commerce on the nile. This cut off the remainder of Egypt almost entirely, from commercial trade and the rest of the then known world. The Hyksos could sit in their fortress at Avaris and all the shots up and down the Nile.

����� �These Hyksos were a very strange people, desireing to set up a government like that of the Egyptians. It makes one wonder why they didn�t set up a government like they had wherever they came from, wherever that was. They seem to be a kind of chameleon type of people, adapting themselves to their surroundings. We have a cameleon type of people today living in the United States. Pretending to be of the White Race, and passing themsleves off as such; changing their names to fit the territory.

�Some students believe the Hyksos came from the Caucasus or even Central Asia. At least, as far as the Egyptians were concerned, the Hyksos were an Asiatic people. The Hyksos seem to have been active merchants. They introduced int Egypt a new system of weights and balances. Does this eem to ring a bell of any kind? It kid of makes one wonder who the Hyksos people were. We can, though, be quite sure they were not Egyptian or Israelite.�

We are now going to consider some evidence which powerfully suggests the Hyksos were indeed descendants of Cain. We will start by quoting from the article in �National Geographic,� of January, 2001 entitled �Ashkelon Ancient City of The Sea,� page 78:

�As Canaanite Ashkelon prospered, its army grew strong. Historians have long known that around 1650 B.C., a mysterious group of warriors called the Hyksos invaded the Nile Delta and ruled it for a centry. No one knew where the Hyksos, which means �foreing rulers� in ancient Egypt, came from. Recent excavations at Avaris, the Hyksos capital in Egypt, have produced artifacts identical to those found in Ashkelon, leading Stager to propose that the Hyksos were actually Canaanites and that many came from around Ashkelon.

�Even before the Hyksos conquered the delta, the Egyptians were hving trouble with the Canaanites. Pharaohs of the 12th Dynasty (1938-1755 B.C.) Cursed three kings of Ashkelon in so-called execration tests. Scribes would write the names of the kings onceramic bowls or human figurines, and the pharaoh would smash them to magially destroy their power.�

It was just such an execration was performed by Jeremiah (Jeremiah 19:10-11), where he took a baked clay bottle, smashed it,and pronounced that Judah and Jerusalem will be broken, never to be whole again.� Now the Judeo-Christian clergy of today claim this broken bottle will be put bck together again when they calim the �Jews� regurning to Jerusalem is a fulfillment of Bible prophey. That�s a little off the topic, but we thought we would inject that one in here as long as we are speaking of �execrations.� To follow-up on this last quotatin concerning the Hyksos, we will quote from �The Bible Is History,� by Ian Wilson, page 39:

�As pictorial evidence of how such peoples could and did make tolerated infiltrations, an 8-foot-long tomb painting from this period, found at Beni Hasan, south of Cairo, depicts the arrival at Egypt�s eastern frontier of eight Asiatic men, four women, three children, two donkeys, an ibex and a gazelle. They were apparently part of a group of thirty-seven Hyksos coming to trade in eye make-up. The men�s hair-styles are strongly reminiscent of that of mysterius Ankhu statue. One of the weapons they are carrying is unmistakably a Canaanite duck-bill-shaped axe of the kind that Bietak found in the Tell el-Dab�a graves...�

The following is from �The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible,� volume 3, page 782:

�Kenites: Meaning (metalworkers, smiths). Clan or tribal name of semi-nomadic peoples of South Palestine and Sinai. The ramaic and Arabic etymologies of the root gyn how that it has to dow with metal and metal work (thus the Hebrew word from this root, �lance�). This probably indicates that the Kenites were metal workers, especially since Sinai and wadi �Arabah were rich in highgrade copper ore. W.F. Albright has pointed to the Beni Hassan mural in Egypt (19th century B.C.) As an illustration of such a WONDERING GROUP OF SMITHS. This mural depicts thirty-six men, women and children in characteristic Semitic dress leading, along with other ANIMALS, donkeys laden with MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, weapons and an item which Albright has identiefied as a BELLOWS. He has further noted that Lemech�s three children (Genesis 4:19-22) were responsible for HERDS (Jabal), MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS (Jubal), and METAL WORK (Tubal-Cain, or Tubal, THE SMITH), the three occupatons which seem most evident in the mural.�

We captalized the various marks of Cain in the above quote. If you will remember, Cain and his descendants were to become famous as wanderers and vegabonds (tent dwellers). They were to become famous as workers in metal; they were to become famous as musicians; they were to become somewht involved in cattle. All these traits of Cain can be found in Genesis 4:20-24. These various characteristics have followed Cain (the �Jews�) down to this very day. Neither the National Geographic nor Ian Wilson in his �The Bible Is History� saw the connection with the Hyksos, but W.F. Albright (an accomplished archaeologist and Bible scholar) comprehends the connection very effectively, and is right on the money.

������������������� The Hyksos� Duck-Billed Axe

Being metal workers, the Hyksos developed a very vicious battle weapon called a duck-billed axe. Pharaoh Seqenenre Tao of the 17th Egyptian Dynasty fell victim to such a weapon. In the bokk �Mummies Myth And Magic,� pages 84-85 there is a gruescome looking picture of his mummy. There are fice nasty gashes in his skull. On pages 84-85 there are these comments:

�Seqenenre Tao was a ruler of Upper Egypt, in the south. He rebelled against the foreign Hyksos kings who ruled Egypt from their capital in thedelta. That Seqenenre died a violent death is all too apparent from his mummy. Looking at the damage to his skull, one can imagine the ferocity of the blows he must have endured that resulted in his death...Among the cache of royal mummies found in 181 at Deir elBahri was the damaged and poorly embalmed body of Seqenenre Tao, a ruler in Luxor during the troubled Seventeenth Dynasty. One of his sons, Kamose, is credited with the final expulsion of the foreign Hyksos rulers; another, called Ahmose, founded the Eighteenth Dynasty and ecame the first pharaoh of the New Kingdom.�

Ian Wilson in his �The Bible is History,� page 41 comments:

�As generally agreed by those who have examined his mummy, he died in terrible agony from having been hacked about the head by the very Hyksos, duck-billed type of axe that Bietak and his helpers found in the grave at Tel elDab�a, a type also carried by the seemingly peaceful traders depicted in the Beni Hasan wall-painting.�

Again, Ian Wilson speaks of the duck-billed Hyksos type of axe on page 68:

�It was this same weapon that is believed to have enabled the Hyksos/Canaanites to gain control so easily of Lower Egypt, until the Egyptians developed their own equivalents and turned the tables on them.�

What we like about Ian Wilson�s book is that he equates the Hyksos with the Canaanites. He terms them as �Hyksos/Canaanites.� He makes it clear what he means when he says on page 38:

�...many of the very same texts make clear that these were not any specific ethnic group but instead trouble-making mercenaries of mixed origin.�

Here we have a good example of the description of the Bible passages found in Genesis 15:19-21. Listed among this mixed group are th eKenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perrizzites, Rephaims, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashits and Jebusites. The Kenites among these were the descendants of Cain. Canaanite is a general term for many peoples. All these peoples had mixed until the blood of Cain flowed in all their veins. In Genesis 15:19-21 are listed ten nations and they race-mixed so much that in Deuteronomy 7:1-2 there are only seven. The Kenites, Kenizzites and Rephaims were completely absorbed by the other nations of this group from which the �Jews� are extracted. The Adam Clarke�s Commentary on the Bible,� abridged by Ralph Earle, page 38:

�The Kenites. Here are ten nationsmentioned though afterwards reckoned but seven; see Deuteronomy 7:1; Acts 13:19. Probably some of them which existed in Abram�s time had been BLENDED with others before the time of Moses, so that seven only out of the ten, then remained.�

In the �Peake�s Commentary on the Bible,� page 116 we find this about this mixed group of nations spoken of in Genesis 15:19-21:

�When the Israelites entered Canaan they found there a VERY MIXED population generally designated by the term Amorite or Canaanite.�

The next mention of the descendants of Cain is found in 1 Chronicles 2:55:

�And the FAMILIES OF THE SCRIBES which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.�

The whole 2nd chapter of 1st Chronicles, from verse 3 on, is the lineage of Judah. Thent acked on at thend of the chapter (verse 55) is this group of people who were actually descendants of Cain known as Kenites and having no blood connection at all with Judah. A footnote in �The Complete Word Study King James Bible,� by Spiros Zodhiates, page 1055 says:

�They became incorporated into the tribe of Judah.�

The word Kenite here is #7017 in Strong�s Concordance. Actually the numbers for Cain are both #7014 and #7017. You will notice here in 1st Chronicles 2:55, they are alled, �the families of the sribes.� They were sribes at this time and they were scribes in Yahshua�s time; they are the same people.

At this time we are going to quote from �The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible,� volume 3, pages 783-784. As we quotef rom this same article on the �Kenites� above, this will be the second quote from the same article:

�The early monarchy. During this period a signifiant concentration of Kenites was located in the southern Judean territory. This is clear frm 1 Samuel 15:6 cited above and also from David�s relations with them.�

Again, a third quote from the same article:

�Postexilic referenes. In 1 Chronicles 2:55 the FAMILIES OF THE SCRIBES living at Jabaz are said to be Kenites. Apparently, during the kingdom and exile periods, certain Kenites had given up nomadic smithing and had taken on a more sedentary, but equally honorable PROFESSION OF SCRIBE.�

�Peake�s Commentary on the Bible,� page 114, says about the Kenites:

�The etymology of the name suggest THAT THEY WERE SMITHS OR ARTIFICERS, a theory which is supported by the association with the Wadi �Arabah, where there were copper desposits which had been worked by the Egyptians since the middle of the 3rd millennium.�

Again in the �Peake�s Commentary on the Bible,� page 818, we find more on the name of the Kenites:

�The name CAIN is generally taken by Semitic philologists to mean �smith,� and regarded as the patronymic of the KENITE CLAN OF SMITHS.�

The �Jamieson, Fausset & Brosn Commentary On The Whole Bible� ays on the Kenites, page 293:

�THE FAMILIES OF THE SCRIBES; either civil or ecclesiastical officers of the Kenite origin, WHO ARE HERE CLASSIFIED WITH THE TRIBE OF JUDAH, NOT AS BEING DESCENDED FORM IT, but as dwellers within its territory, in a measure INCORPORATED with its people.�

The �Matthew Pool�s Commentary On The Holy Bible,� has this to say on the Kenites, volume 1, page 779:

�The SCRIBES; either civil, WHO WERE PUBLIC NOTARIES, WHO WROTE AN SIGNED LEGAL INSTRUMENTS; OR ECLESIASTICAL...and are here mentioned not as if they were of the tribe of Judah, but becauwe they dwelt among them, and probably were allied to them by marriages, and so in a manner incorporated with them. Which dwelt, or rather, dwelt; Hebrew, were dwellers. For theother translation, which dwelt, MAY SEEM TO INSINUATE THT THESE WERE DESCENDANTS OF JUDAH, WHICH THEY WERE NOT; but this tranlation ONLY SIGNIFIES COHABITATON WITH THEM, for which cause they are here named with them.�

��������������������� Hyksos Return to Canaan

We do not agree with Ian Wilson when he makes the following comment in his book �The Bible is History,� on page 71:

�Yet if it was not the Egyptians, Kenyon�s favored candidates; the land-hungry Hyksos/Canaanite invaders renturing from their settlement in Egypt; are hardly more plausible. After all, the last thing a group of this kind would do, would be to destroy and abandon a city they had fought for in order to make it a new home. This would be particlarly the case with Jericho, which has one of the best water suppies anywhere in Israel, including a natural spring pumping out water at the rate of 17 3/4 gallons per second.�

After they Hyksos were successfully driven out of Egypt, they apparently returned to Canaan. Evidently, one of the places they returned to was Jericho. We belive we would rather favor the view of Kenyon than Wilson, that it was from the Hyksos returning to their former position at Jericho. From all the evidence we have seen the Hyksos occupied a very wide area at the zenth of their expansion. If you will remember, we stated at the start of this study:

�At their height, the Hyksos occupied the land of the Hurrians, Carchemish, Syria, Palestine and much of the northern part of Egypt.�

At this point, in their retreat, the Hyksos were probably simply returning to an area they had formerly occupied. We would rather believe the Hyksos knew they needed a strong position and that they rebuilt Jericho to defend themselves from the threat of advancing Egyptians. No doubt, they were still there when the Israelites under Joshua�s leadership finally destroyed the city. Future archaeological evidence may force us to change our position on this, but for lack of better evidence, we tend to believe a scenario of the Hyksos retreating to Jericho fits the overall picture quite well.

Pharaoh Amosis did not pursue the Hyksos any great distance after he initially defeated them and drove them out of Egypt;

�After three years of seige, the Egyptians were finally victorious, slaughtering many, if not nearly all of the Hyksos. No doubt, the Egyptians also took many of the Hyksos as slaves. Thus, the Theban government regained control over trade between Egypt and Palestine. The Egyptians under Amosis did not pursue the Hyksos on into Palestine at this time. It ws some 61 years later that Thutmosis III advanced into that area.�

������������� Where Did The Hyksos Come From?

For this we will get back to the article �Ashkelon, Ancient City Of The Sea,� in the �Natonal Geographic,� of January, 2001, page 74:

�The Canaanites, a people who probaboly originated in eastern Syria, had begun migratingdown the Mediterranean coast about seven centuries earlier. �They came by the boatload,� says Stager, �They had masster craftsmen and a clear idea of what they wanted to build; big fortified cities.�

�The Canaanites made Ashkelon a major center of trade, exporting wine and olive oil through the easter Mediterranean. Stager�s team recently found evidence of the cosmoplitan nature of theCannite Ashkelon; part of the 13th century tablet used to teach scribes languges. The tablet had one column of Canaanite words, which would have matched up with two or three adjacent columns containing equivalent words in different languages. Based on complete tablets found in Syria, linguists suspect that one column would have been a Semitic language called Akkadian, another an unrelated tongue, possibly Hurrian or Hittite.�

From the description of Ashkelon aboe, we can clearly see it was a commercial center. One might describe it as the New York of its day. Essential to trade would be the necessity of understanding and conversing in all the various languages with whom one might be doing the trading. No doubt, these Hyksos-Canaanites were related to the people we know today as �Jews.� For another two references on how the Hyksos invaded Egypt and Pharaoh Amosis I finally drove them back out are found an ddescribed in the book �The Boehm Journey To Egypt, Land Of Tutankhamun,� on pages 35-36:

�During the Thirteenth Dynasty a force from the area of Palestine and syria attacked and conuered nothern Egypt. These people, probably Syrians who ruled the eastern Mediterranean, were called Hyksos. It is not know how long the Hyksos ruled northern and middle Egypt. Some historians estimate as long as sixty-six years...from the Fourtheenth through the seventeenth dynasties...There are varied assessments as to the extent of the destruction and exploitation practiced by the conquerers. Building inscriptions show that the foreigners enjoyed being Eytptianized and even adopted thepharaonic style and titles. No doubt conventional progress remaind inhert, but the civilization seems to have held together. In fact, the regime at Thebes in the south retained a large measure of independence as the Hydsos were able to extend their rule only to the point about midway between Memphis and Thebes...

This all seems to fit the Bible account quite well. Not only did all these peoples migrate into Palestine, but Egypt made inroads there also. For this story, we will quote again �Archaeology And The Bible,� by George A. Barton, pp. 108-109:

Egyptians also came to Palestine during this period. �The tale of Sinuhe relates the adventures of a man who fled to Palestine inthe year 1970 B.C., and who reached the land of Kedem, or the East, which apparently lay to the east of the Jordan. It is referred to several times in the Old Testament. (See �Genesis 29:1; Judges 6:3, 33; 7:12; 8:10; Job 1:3) Sinuhe thee enteed the service of an Amorite chieftan, Ammienshi, married his eldest daugher, became ruler of a portion of his land, and lived there for many years. He finally returned to Egypt and wrote an account of his adventures. The region was also called by Sinuhe and other Egytpians Upper Retenu, a name which they also applied to all the higher prts of Syria and Palestine. Retenu is philologically equivalent to Lotan (Genesis 36:20, 22, 29; 1 Chronicles 1:38, 39) and Lot (Genesis 11:27; 12:4) When Sinuhe arrived in Kedem he found other Egyptians already there. Ammienshi was ell acquainted with Egyptians. There was apparently considerable trade with Egypt at this time. Men from Palestine often went here for htis purpose. Such traders are pictured on an Egyptian tomb of this period. Trade with Egypt is also shown to have existed by the discovery of Egyptian scarabs of the time of the Middle Kingdom in the edcavations of

Gezer, Jericho, Taanach, and Megiddo.�

MORE ON THE �PRINCES� WALL�:

We have more confromatkon about the �Princes� Wall� in Egypt. It seems that it amounted to a series of fortresses situated in about the same rea as the Suez Canal is located today. You can find this additional information in the �National Geographic� Magazine for December 1982 entitled �Lost Outpost of the Egyptian Empire,� by Trude Dothan, pp. 739-763, 768-769. Although thsi article gives upoorting evidence to the report given by Werner Kesser in his book �The Bible As History,� both accounts do not oincide in all details. It would be well for you to compare the two stories for there are some differences in the two accounts. Because of this, the following will be a critial review of Trude Dothan�s article in the issue of National Geographic just referred to here. We have no doubt that both articles are referring to the saem thing. Part of the introduction to this National Geographic article reads:

�Artifacts from the late Brone Age outpost attest to the part it played on the highroad to Egypt. In that era, called �the first internationl age,� new contacts blossomed between the Nile and the world beyond. The Egyptian presence on the coast in Moses� time may explain the rout of the Exodus through the Sinai desert.�

We will continue now with short excerpts form the main article:

Eventually we were to uncover not only a cemetery full of archaeological treasures, but also a hidden city, a fortress, and a reservoir; all more than 3,000 years old. And we were to find a clue to a biblical mystery concerning the Exodus: Why, in their flight from Egypt, did Moses take the children of Israel inland to the wilderness instead of pursing a far easier path along the coast?�

A map of Egypt on page 742 has the following comments:

�Known to Egyptans as the Ways of Horus, the coastal artery from the Nile Delta to Canaan was called �the way of the land of the Philistines� in the bible. Six fortresses along the route have been identified.

�The Exodus. Israelits� 13th century B.C., flight from Egypt may have been through southern Sinai to avoid Egyptian coastal strongholds.�

Continuing with excerpts starting with page 760:

�The FORTRESS, constructed partially above the ruins of the palace, was of even more massive construction. Its WALLS, MORE THAN TWO METERS THICK, apparently supported two stories. Corner bastions indicated that this fortress, too, was BUILT IN THE ROYAL EGYPTIAN STYLE, AND IN A MANNER STRIKINGLY LIKE FOTRESSES SHOWN ON THE RELIEF RECORDED BY PHARAOH SETI I ON THE WALLS OF THE AMON TEMPLE AT KARNAK, FAR UP THE NILE.

�This relief, from about 1300 B.C., depicts the ANCIENT ROUTE FROM EGYPT TO CANAAN, A WELL-TRAVELED ROAD KNOWN TO THE EGYPTIANS as the WAYU OF HORUS. There is more than simply a resemblance between our fortress and the details of the map; the relief provides AN ALMOST EXACT BLUEPRINT OF THE KIND OF STRUCTURE WE WERE UNCOVERING...

�My chief assiatant and stratigrapher, archaeologist and Egyptologist Baruch Brandl, had never been satisfied with the geologists� explanation that the huge despression was a natural feature caused by erosion. Baruch felt that its outlines were too regular; there had to be something more to it than tht. Finally we recognized the most important clue. MOST OF THE FORTRESSES DEPICTED ON SETI�S KARNAK RELIEF ARE CONNECTED WITH LARGE WATER RESERVOIRS OF VARYING SHAPES.

�The crater at Deir-el-Balah, we now realize, was actually a reservoir, about 20 by 20 meters, with very steep sides. Thus our ground plan of the fortress and its adjacent pool fit exactly the depiction of Seti�s relief...As the central feature of a roadside fortress, it served many uses besides providing drinkign water. A large voluem of water would have been needed to prepare potter�s clay...

�Two of the fortresses shown along the Ways of Horus are designed at towns �which His Majesty built newly.� Considering the close connections between Egypt and Canaan during the XIX Dynasty, it is POSSIBLE THAT OUR FORTRESS, WITH THE THICK WALLS AND CORNER TOWERS, WAS BUILT DURING THE REIGN OF SETI I, WHO RULED NEW KINGDOM EGYPT AND ITS EMPIRE IN CANAAN FROM ABOUT 13 18 TO 1304 B.C.

�On the basis of the pottery found in the fortress, we believe that it flourished during the reign of Seti�s son, Ramses II (about 1304-1237 B.C.) To whose reign we date the anthropoid burials as well... The Ways of horus holds much interest for scholars.�

The article goes on to quote Exodus 13:17 and explains why it was expedient for Moses to take the way of Sinai rather than the �Ways of Horus.� Now quoting again from page 763:

�But our excavations at Deir el-Balah revelaed the wisdom of this choice for by escaping into the desert, THE ISRAELITES AVOIDED THE POWERFUL FORTRESSES OF THE VERY PHARAOH FROM WHOM THEY HAD FLED...The period in which they lived was one of intensive internatinoal trade and of great ETHNIC CHANGES and political upheaval. It was the TIME OF TH ELAST FLOWERING OF THE EGYPTIAND NEW KINGDOM before its decline to the point where THE BIBLE SCORNED IT AS A �BRUISED REED.�� (II Kings 18:21)

AN IMPORTANT FIND AT NUZI:

As we are looking for evidence which surrounds the story of Esau-Edom, we need to take into account an important archaeological find at Nuze. For this information we will quote from �The Thompson Chain-Reference Bible,� 1964� edition, �Archaeological Supplement,� p. 351, item 4401. Before making this quote, we would like to point out there is evidently a VERY MISTAKEN conclusion at one poin on the part of the writer:

�Nuzi. (Yorghan Tepe), a mound 150 air miles north of Babhdad, was excavated in 1925-31 by a joint expedition of the American School of Oriental Research in Baghdad, Harvard University, and the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Dr. Edward Chiera was the director. The soundings reached virgin soil, yet the level of occupation uncovered was the 15th to 14th centuries B.C., when the city was populated by the Hurrians, who were the long-lost Horites of the Old Testament.

��From the place and from private villas or wealthy homes they recovered about 20,00 (ieces of broken) clay tablets which were written by Hurrian(?) Scribes in the Babylonian cuneiform language, but with the occasional employment of native Hurrian or Horite words. The tablets consisted largely of commercial accounts, contracts, reports, and judicial decisions which revealed the way of life for some leading families of four or five generations. The parallels between the customs and social conditions of these peoples and the patriarchal narratives in Genesis were not only remarkable, but have proved to be one of the external factors supporting the historicity of this section of the Bible.

�The patriarchs came from this generaal section of the country, and had lived at Haran (which was predomantly Hurrian or Horite). They had maintained contact here for generations afterward, and in the absence of laws and customs of their own (for there was, as yet, no Old Testament written), they followed those to which they had been accustomed. Notice some of the paralles:

(1) EXCHANGE OF PROPERTY: All transactions involving the transfer of property were recorded, witnessed, sealed, and proclaimed at the city gate (Genesis 23:10-18)

(2) MARRIAGE CONTRACTS: Included a statement that a handmaid could be presented to the new bride, as was the case with Leah and Rachel (Genesis 29:24, 29), and contained a provision obliging a childless wife to provide here husband with a handmain who would bear children, as Sara gave Hagar to Abraham (Genesis 16:3), and Rachel gave Bilah to Jacob (Genesis 30:3-6).

(3) ADOPTION: Was practiced at Nuzi when a childless couple would adopt a son who would care for them while they lived, bury them when they died, and be heir to their estate. It was specified that if they ever had a son of their own, then the adopted son took second place. Thsi seems to explain Abraham�s adoption of Eliezer as his heir BEFORE the birth of Isaac, and the subsequent change when the Lord (Yahweh) promised that a son of his own would be born to become his heir (Genesis 15:2-4).

(4) BIRTHRIGHT: In Nuzi there was found a contract whered one brother gave his brother �three sheep in exchange for his inheritance share� in a plantation.

All of which sounds like Jacob�s gift to Esau of �bread and a mess of lentils� (Genesis 25:30-34). Also, in Nuzi the �blessing� of a dying father in bequeathing propety to a son was honored in court where there was a witness to corroborate the words of the father (Genesis 27:30-33; 49:8-28).

(5) INHERITANCE: In Nuzi there was a law that implied that property and leadership of the family could pass to a daughter�s hyusband, providiing the father had handed over his household gods to his son-in-law. Thus it was, when Leban overtook Jacob and anxously searched his camp for the household idols, he could not find them for �Rachel had taken the images, and put them in the camel�s furniture, and sat upon them.�� (Genesis 31:30-35)

As we said before, as we started this quotation above, we believe the writer is mistaken when implying that Abraham and his family adpted the customs of the Hurrians. If anything, it was th eother way around. We believe it is also a mistke to conclude that no part of the Old Testament had yet been written at Abraham�s time, for Jude 14 mentions the words of Enoch written in the Book of Enoch (Enoch chapter 2). This also gies us an idea of the peole (Hurrians) that lived in the area among the descendants of Shem.

MORE INFORMATION CONCERING PATIARCHS FOUND AT NUZI:

For this information, we will quote excerpts from �The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible,� vol. 4, pp. 470-471:

�THE IMPORTANCE OF WRITTEN DOCUMENTS. There was a time when it was widely held that the Pentateuch could not have been written by Moses because it was thought that at that time writing had not been invented. While there is now abundant evidence to the contary from various sources, it is of particular interest to note that at Nuzi at this early time written documents were extremely important and a great many of them were produced.

�ADOPTION: Doens of adopton tablets have been found at Nuzi. Israelite law, so detailed on many subjects, contains no regulations for adoption, and the history of the Hebrews in Palestine after the Conqest, as recorded in the Old Testament contains no evidence of such a practice. But, at Nuzi, it was customary, if a man had no children, to adopt someone to carry on his name and inherit his property. This seems to b reflected in the statement of Abraham, before Isac was born,t hat unless the Lord (Yahweh) shoud give him a chjild, Eliezer of Damascus would be his heir. (Genesis 15:2)

�TERAPHIM, OR HOUSEHOLD GODS: The incident of the Teraphim (Genesis 31:17-35) was extremely puzzling before the discovery of the Nuzi documents. When Jacob dtermined to leave his uncle Leban, Rachel stole Laban�s teraphim or household gods. Returning to his home, Laban was greatly excited, not simply because his daughters and his son-in-law had left without notice, nor because of the great amount of property that they had taken with them, which Jacob has amassed during his sojourn in Haran but primarily because of the loss of the household gods.

�Jacob with his great number of flocks and herds, must have a sizable numberr of shepherds, and it would have required considerable force to overcome the resistance that he could offer. Laban pursued Jacob three days, taking with him a sufficient number of supporters to cause Jacob to be terrified at his approach.

Thus the pursit of Jacob was a very expensive proposition for Leban. In the Middle Ages students wondered why Leban would have gone to so much expense and trouble on account of these household gods. It was suggested that the teraphim might have been made of gold. Even if this were the case their intrinsic value would hardly have been enough to pay for Leban�s expedition, since they were very small. This was evident from the fact that Rachel was able to hide them in the saddle-basket on which she was sitting in her tent. Though her father searched the tent most thoroughly, he never suspected their presence.

�The mystery became still greater when it was noticed that Jacob was utterly shocked at the idea that he might have stolen the teraphim. When Laban was unable to find them, Jacob bitterly rebuked him for his suspicion. (Genesis 31:36-42)

�Previous to the discovery of the Nuzi documents, the whole situation was obscure, and it would have been equally so at the time of the Israelite kingdom when, according to the critics, the stroy would have been composed. The tablets from Nuzi show that according to Harrian(?) Custom at that early time, if a man desire to appoint a son-in-law as his principal heir he would turn over to him his household gods. After the man�s death, appearance in court with the household gods would be accepted as proof of such a disposition Rachel was trying to secure all of Leban�s property for her husband, and Jacob was rightfully indignant at being acused of attempting such an underhanded trick.

The whole incident becomes understandable in the light of these facts, and it become clear why Leban, still suspicious,desired that a boundary stone be put up at Mizpah and that Jacob should swear that he would not pass over this boundary in order to do him harm. (Genesis 31:44-53, esp. v. 52)

�The Nuzi tablets make it clear that a great part of Leban�s reason for this was his desire that at his death, the remainder of his property should go to his own sons and not be taken away from them by Jacob. It is good to note that later Jaob demanded that any strange gods in the hands of his people be buried, (Genesis 35:-4) and that at no time did Jacob try to make false use of these teraphim.

�SISTERHOOD: To the modern reader it seems strange that Abraham should have said that Sarah was his sister instad of stating what to Pharaoh was the more important fact; that she was his wife. (Genesis 12:11-20) It is still stranger that he should have repeted this act in the land of Abimelech, (Genesis 20:1-18) and perhps even more so that Isaac should later have followed his example. (Genesis 26:6-16)

It has been suggested that light may be thrown on these perplexing incidents by the discovery at Nuzi, as evidenced by many legal contracts, that a position called �sisterhood� was thee considered to be of even more importance than that of a wife, and that a wife was sometimes elevated by a sepcial act to this superior position. In view of the evidence that this was the custom in the area in which Abraham had spent may years (rather, the custom of the Hebrews themselves), it is not impossible that Abraham and Isaac may have felt that they were giving their wives a more important and secure position by calling them sisters.

Since such a custom was evidently unknown to Pharaoh or to Abimelech and unfortunate situation resulted. Yet, although Pharaoh and Abimelech accused the patriarchs of misrepresentation, there is no evidence in the Scripture of Abraham and Isaac having felt guilty or of God (Yahweh) having condemned them for their words. God (Yahweh) punished Pharaoh and Abimelech for what they had done, but, as far as we know, He did not rebuke Abraham. Therefore, it is not impossible that it was a case of misunderstanding rather than of misrepresentation. The incident is quite understandable from this viewpoint in the light of the Nuzi documents...�

Now we have covered more materials concerning the archaeological finds at Mari and Nuzi. These finds have added much in understanding the accounts of the Patriarchs of Genesis. Fifty to seventy-five years ago, many were tryign to claim the Bible stories were simply myths handed down from generation to generation; that there were never actual persons such as Abraham, Haran, Nahor, Serug, Peleg, Terah. This is a favorate tactic of the Jews, when they are trying their usual antics of deciving new Christians and turning them away from God.

�For THERE ARE MANY UNRULY AND VAIN TALKERS AND DECEIVERS, SPECIALLY THEY OF THE CIRCUMCISION (the Jews): WHOSE MOUTHS MUST BE STOPPED, WHO SUBVERT WHOLE HOUSES, TEACHING THINGS WHICH THEY OUGHT NOT, FOR FILTHY LUCRE�S SAKE. One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, THE CRETIANS (the Jews) ARE ALWAY LIARS, EVIL BEASTS, SLOW BELLIES. THIS WITNESS IS TRUE. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; NOT GIVING HEED TO JEWISH FABLES, AND COMMANDMENTS OF MEN, THAT TURN FROM THE TRUTH.� (Titus 1:10-14)

�Since the discoveries of Mari and Nuzi, we don�t hear much about these �higher critics� anymore. There probably are a few uninformed, preposterous, harebrained impostors still making such arguments, but Mari and Nuzi have shut the mouths of the majority of the so-called �experts.� There was another important archaeological find, discovered in 1974-1976, called Ebla, which we will be investigating shortly. This find also silenced the catcalls of the impudent skeptics. With these discoveries in archaeology, there is no more room for doubt that the Bible is true.

We have also discussed more information concerning the Canaanites. We brought more archaeological testimony that the �Princes� Wall� did exist during the time of the Egyptian Sinuhe. With what we prsented so far, not only can you know, beyond all doubt, that the Patriarfhs existed, but you can understand heretofore ambiguous and problematical passages in Scriptrue.

However, there is no way that some will accept this truth, because they don�t want truth they want to believe what the lying, deceiving, traitorous, Judeo-Christian clergy have told them. They follow exactly the description given of them in the Scriptures; for they would rather believe a lie and deny the Word of God (Yahweh) because it doesn�t fit in with their thought processes, and deny Yeashua because it makes them feel good to believe those lies.

�The prophets (political leaders) prophesy falsely, and the priests (Judeo-Christian clergy) bear rule by their means; AND MY PEOPLE LOVE TO HAVE IT SO: and what will ye do in the end thereof?� (Jeremiah 5:31)

�But there were false prophets (political leaders) also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers (Judeo-Christian clergy) among you, WHO PRIVILY SHALL BRING IN DAMNABLE HERESIES, EVEN DENYING THE LORD THAT BOUGHT THEM, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And MANY SHALL FOLLOW THEIR PERNICIOUS WAYS; BY REASON OF WHOM THE WAY OF TRUTH SHALL BE EVIL SPOKEN OF. And THROUGH COVETOUSNESS SHALL THEY WITH FEIGNED WORDS MAKE MERCHANDISE OF YOU (watch those on TBN and the 700 club to name just two of many, as they make merchandise of their listeners to enrich themselves at the expense of their flocks): whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.� (2 Peter 2:1-3)

We are still trying to set the stage for the subject of Esau-Edom. We simply cannot understand the entire story of Esau, unless we understand his previous and surrounding contemporary history to put all the players in their places. Sorry to say, there are many who will make comments about this subject with a very limited knowledge of what was going on. They think, because they read a copule of verses in the Bible, they are some kind of an authority or Bible student or Bible scholar.

WHAT IN THE WORLD WAS GOING ON?:

Once in a while, when reading various sources of information along a certain subject, someone sometimes has the ability to portray, and sum up, a situation in very few words. Such a summation is made by the book, �6,000 Years Of The Bible,� by G.S. Wegener, p. 34, �1963:

�But although hammurabi�s empire represented an enormous concentrationof power, it did not survive for long. First the Hittites invaded Babylon from the region of the Black Sea, in the far north, and shortly afterwards the Kassites and Hurrians swept across Iran. The Hyksos, operating from Egypt, occupied parts of the country adjoining their own, and after their expulsion from the Nile the pursuing Egyptians themselves invaded Mesopotamian territory. And all the time the Aramaeans, tribes of Semitic Bedouins who came raiding across the border, were a constant threat.

�It was the natural course of Mesopotamian history: a perpetual up and down of fortune, an unending confusion and tangle of peoples and tribes. Conquerors came and went; civilizatons were born and died; cities and empires were built and crasehed again. It was not until 1100 B.C., that another single and all-embacing state arose again in the land of the �Tigris and Euphrates. This was the emire of the �Assyrians.�

It might be well to go back and read this quotation again. If you can comprehend these last two paragraphs, you have mastered a portion of history that otherwise might take a considerable amount of reading and study to understand. We have to understand we cannot nail down any one group of people to one locatin for all time. It ust be remembered that people are portable. In such an environment, as described above were portable. In such an environment,a s desccribed above were Abraham and his kin living; especially among the many tribes of people, like the Hurrians and Kassites, who were sweeping into the country. When the Assyrians came into power, this same book says on the same page:

�Their rulers felt no scuples in their choice of political expedients. They uprooted whole races and transplanted them in alien lands.�

TIME FRAMES:

A person on the mailing list of the �Watchman�s Teaching Letter� who is in the process of wrting a Bible commentary, gave them permission to quote form hjis unfinished manuscript. On page 20 he comments:

�Because of the changes made to the lengths of the Patriarch�s lifetimes, a great latitude must be given with regards to chronology in this section. The Masoretes made changes to the Holy Scriptures sometime after the Crucifixion but before about 300 A.D, Ephrem the Syrian testified to this and accused the Jews of subtracting at least 00 years from the text in order to deny that Yahshua was the Messiah who had come at the appointed time. This appointed time of course was based upon a cabalistic numerology.

�There are, however, great amounts of archeological evidence that can and will be used to bring some light to this somewhat hazy priod. It is hoped that through the use of such materials a greater understanding can be achieved concerning the lives of our Patriarchs.�

If the above is true, then Noah�s flood would extend back to about 2948 B.C., instead of 2348 B.C., as stated in most Bibles according to Ussher. Some Bibles omit the chronology from Noah on back to Adam. Actually, the date given by Adam Rutherford�s �Pyramidology� of 3265 B.C., fits the history of Greece and Egypt much better. Also, the Septuagint and Samaritan texts agree essentially with Rutherford�s figures. This chronology is important because it is the particular time period we are dealing with. You see, it is important to udnerstand the approximate timing of events leading up to Esau. You may wonder what the history of Egypt has to do with Esau-Edom. Before we are through, you will begin to undersand; IT HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH ESAU-EDOM.

HARRIANS & HITTITES BOTH HAD MONGOLIAN FEATURES:

This, in itself, should tell a story, for they must have been interrelated to each other in some way. This wouldexplain much about the story of Esau, for Scripture seems to indicate a Horite (Hurrian) and a Hittite connection with his wives. For more on the depiction of the Hittites we will quote from �Researches Into The Ethnic Origins Of Israel,� by C.F. Parker, B.A., p. 37:

�It must be confessed that they (the Hittites) were not a handsome people. They were short and thick of limb, and the front part of their faces was pushed forward in a curious and somewhat repulsive way. The forehead retreated, the cheekbones were high, the nostrils were large, the upper lip protrusive. They had, in fact, according to the craniologists, the characteristics of a Mongolian race. Like the mongols, moreover, their skins wereyellow and their eyes black. They arranged the hair in the form of a �pigtail� whifh characterises them on their own and the Egyptian monuments quite as much as their snow-shoes with upturned toes. In Syria they doubtless mixed with the Semittic race, and the further south they advanced the more likely they were to become absorrbed into the native population. The Hittites of Southern Judah have Semitic names and probably spoke a Semitic language. Kedesh continued to bear to the last its Semitic title, and among the Hittite names which occur further north there are several wihc isplay a Semitic stamp.� (If one could observe one of Esau�s wives today, she probably would look somewhat like an Albanian Turk)

WHERE DID ALL THESE PEOPLE COME FROM?:

For information on where all these various ethnic groups of people were coming from, we will quote short excerpts from a book entitled �The First Great Civilizations,� by Jacquetta Hawkes. We will be using the information from this book as a critical review, and will be checking information from other sources to verify whether or not the following is correct:

Page 61: �We are concerned with the peoples of a vasst river system over some TWO THOUSAND YEARS OF THEIR HISTORY. Changes in political power between one area and another, FREQUENT FOREIGN INFILTATIONS, the SEIZURE OF SOVEREIGNTY BY INVADERS, even the rise and fall of dynasties, DEEPLY AFFECTED SOCIAL and CULTURAL LIFE. THIS WAS EVEN TRUER FOR MESOPOTAMIA THAN FOR THE MORE SECURE AND ISOLATED EGYPT...it would be impossible to understand the experience and outlook of the population without some knowledge of the often violent political events inwhich their states were involved and which were a matter of life and death to countless families.�

Page 65: �The two written sources (�Sumerian King List� & �Vulture Stele� of Eanatum) taken together have made it possible to reconstruct a considerable part of the dynastic UMMA, LAGASH, URUK and KISH. The KING LIST also assigns one dynasty to MARI, and here again excavatio has confirmed that this SEMITIC CITY AWAY TO THE NORTH ON THE MIDDLE EUPHATES was INDEED AN OUTPOST OF SUMERIAN CULTURAL INFLUENCE IN EARLY DYNASTIC TIMES.�

Page 66: �Another element in a repeating pattern beginning in Early Dynastic times was, as we have seen, fighting the Elamites, a peole who owed much of their culture to Sumer, emulated he and yet were often to be her enemies. Yet another, and one far more important for the future, was the first major penetration of Sumer by Semites, the outcome of one of the most persistent features in all history: THE DRIFT OF TRIBES FROM THE WESTERN DESERTS INTO THE SETTLED LAND OF MESOPOTAMIA.� (About 2700 B.C.)

Pages 71-72: (About 2260 B.C.) �It is said that greatness often misses a generation. Sargon�s grandson, Naram-Sin, the fourth in the dynasty,must have inherited much of his grandfather�s drive an ambition. He came to the throne in abuot 2260 B.C., and was to rule for thirity-seven years...It may also refer to his northern frontiers, for he went up into Zagos to subdue A MOUNTAIN PEOPLE, the Lulubum (neighbours of the Gutians)...

�...The king of Akkad (Shar-kali-sharri�s modest title) claimed a victory over them, but a letter of the time addressed aparently to a provincial governor, gives a very revealing picture of the true condition of the land �You shall plough the fields and look after the cattle. It is no good saying �yes, but there are GUTIANS ABUT and so I cannot plough my field.� Set up patrols of watchmen every half mile and then plough your field. If armed bands advance there will be local mobilization and yuo must then have the cattle driven into the city.� ...According to literary tradition, the luckless Shar-kali-sharri, LAST OF SARGON�S LINE, was murdered in a palace intrigue. Among the four contenders for his throne, one was a Gutian king... The Gutians wwere now ruling over a considerable part of Mesopotamia, including the northern Plain. They adopted the cuneiform script and Akkadian language for their official inscriptions, but these �MOUNTAIN DRAGONS� appear to have remiained essentially barbarous. They are known to have DESTROYED much, including the city of Assur, and to have CREATED NOTHING. No temple, OR palace, no style of art, no valuable innovation of any kind HAS BEEN ATTRIBUTED TO THEM.�

Page 73: �Yet it was NOT to be GIVEN TO LAGASH either to FREE THE NORTH FROM THE GATIANS or to preside over the last flare of Sumerian gretness before the center of powr shifted irrevocably to the north. Within a decade of Gudea�s death his city seems to have been losing ground,a nd a place in history as the liberator of the land from the MOUNTAIN DRAGONS went instead to utuhengal of Uruk. After having seized Ur, THIS KING MARCHED AGAINST THE GUTIANS and gave them battle in the extreme north of Sumer, near the limits of their own territory. His victory must have been complete, for the Gutians were thrown out of Mesopotamia AND NEVER AGAIN PLAYED ANY SIGNIFICANT PART IN HER HISTORY.�

Page 74: (about 2200 B.C.) �The campaigns (by Ur-Nammu) were not altogether aggressive. The lands of the east of the Tigris were suffering A DANGEROUS INFLUX OF FOREINERS. These were the HURRIANS FROM THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS. They had been entering peacefully for A CENTURY AND MORE (there was even an enclave of them in Nippur as early as 2200 B.C.) BUT NOW THEY CAME IN LARGER NUMBERS. It was probably due to the strong military policy of Ur that they did not penetrate the Plain and repeat the success of the Gutians.

�For eighty years the emspire of Ur maintained its inward stability, and its downfall when it came was largely due to attack from without. The Hurrians had been held in check, BUT NOW THE PENDULUM OF INVASION WAS TO SWING BACK to the west; from MOUNTAIN enemies to desert enemies.�

THE AMORITES:

Page 74: (about 2027 B.C.) �The Amorites (Sumerian Martu and Akkadian Amurru) had been drifting into Mesopotamia since the days of Sargon. These nomad Semites can infact be seen as successors to the Akkadians, but they appear to have been less ready to settle and become good citizens...Marauding bands of Amorites were beginning to reduce the empire to chaos.�

Page 81: (about 1595 B.C.) �Yet the fall of the dynasty (Hammurabi) and the subsequent confusion may have opened the way for the seizure of lasting power by the Kassites. For another intrusion of Indo-European history into that of Mesopotamia we have to return to the Hurrians, last seen being held in check by the Third Dynasty of Ur. These people, whose original home was probably in the Armenian mountains, spoke a language that was neither Semitic nor Indo-Europen. The eastern tribes that harried Shamshi-Adad and his son were probably predominantly Hurrian, and Hurrian texts of about this time are known from Mari. After the reign of Ishme-Dagon, Assyrian history sinks into obscure doldrums, and it seems that was DUE TO A GREAT INFLUX OF HURRIANS; who were actually in A MAJORITY IN SOME CITIES and were numerous in Assur itself. A large force of them also swept across northern Mesopotamia, reaching the Syrian coast and influencing the petty state of Palestine.

�Perhaps from the first it was pressure from Indo-European peopls that caused INCURSIONS BY THE HURRIANS, and they may soon have acquired chariot-driving Indo-European leaders. Certainly when, rather before 1500 B.C., Mitanni emerged into history AS A CENTRALIZED HURRIAN STATE, it was dominated by such an Indo-European ruling aristocray. Names of Mitannian kings can be derived from Sanskrit, Sumeriancum-Semitic pantheon had names well known from the Vedic literature of India.�

THE EGYPTIAN CONNECTION:

Pages 81-82: (about 1400-1500 B.C.) �In the fifteenth and fourtenth centuries B.C., Mitanni extended from the Zagros to the mediterranean and the kings of Assyria were no more than her vassals. It was the HOSTILE POLICY of Mitannian kings against Egypt that provoked Thutmose III to march to theEuphrates. LATER THEY MADE FRIENDS WITH THE EGYPTIANS AND THREE GENERATIONS OF PRINCESSES, WITH HUNDREDS OF FOLLOWERS, made the hazardous journey to Thebes, WHERE THEY WERE GIVEN IN MARRRIAGE TO PHARAOH and lived out their days in the royal harem.

�...Yet the Hurrians did not disappear from history. Away to the north in their Armenian homeland they entrenched themselves an built up the kingdom of Urartu. Here something of their culture, and an Urartian language very close to the Hurrian of Mitanni was preserved.�

MOUNTAIN DRAGONS:

If all of the above is true, we have a very interesting situation, for from this, we deduce that the �Gutians� were considered �MOUNTAN DRAGONS.� it also apears that the Hittites, Harrians and Kassites were all Mongolian �MOUNTAIN DRAGON PEOPLE.� We believe we can prove, with the help of the Bible that the Hittites were also �MOUNTAN DRAGONS.� Sometimes it is necessary to use the backdoor approach to bring these things to light. For this we will use Revelation 12:9 where the DRAGON is mentioned:

�And the great DRAGON was cast out, that old serpent, called the devil, and Satan, which deceived the whole world; he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.�

We are told in verse 4 of this same chapter:

�...the DRAGON stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.�

We don�t have to guess who this DRAGON which stood before the woman (Israel, represented in the person of Mary) was. It was none other than Herod the half-Edomite, who in turn was a descendant of thes �DRAGON PEOPLE� spoken of above. In Revelation 12:3 he is called the �RED DRAGON.�

The �red� color is the color of Esau. Esau was born red and he has carried that color right down to today�s communism. Not only did the DRAGON PEOPLE marry with Esau, but they also married with the Egyptian Pharaohs. We are persuaded that the Egyptian Pharaoh who enslaved the Israelites was SERPENT SEED. We are also persuaded that these MOUNTAIN DRAGONS were descendants of Cain.

We can be rather sure about this fact because Revelation 12:9 places the DRAGON, the SERPENT, the DEVIL, and SATAN all in the same category as one type of being or people. If this is true, it accounts for the very cruel treatment that Pharaoh dealt out, and the slaughter of the Israelite children in Egypt just in the same manner as Herod�s, and in the same manner that we have allowed the Jews with their abortion murder mills in the United States.

The DRAGON PEOLE are still doing it to our children today. All of this goes right back to Genesis 3:15 where hatred was pronounced between the children of Satan and the children of Eve. This is a war to the death. This �enmity� will continue until one party or the other is completely destroyed. Every time you see a White woman wheeling a half-breed child down the street or through a store in a stroller, you can know the DRAGON PEOPLE are winning!

But that is because it is Yahweh�s plan to punish His people for disobeying Him. Yahweh says that He will mix Israel with the other races (beast of the field) in the last days (Jeremiah 31:27; Ezekiel 34:8)

Yahweh told Jeremiah that:

�A voice was heard upon the high places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they have perverted their way, and they have forgotten the LORD their God.� (Jeremiah 3:21)

This would make no sense until one realizes that our Israel people are being deceived and led to mix with the othe races; thus disobeying Yahweh. We are told again and again:

�Thus saith the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and bitter weeping; Rahel weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not.� (Jeremiah 31:15)

�Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.� (Matthew 2:17-18)

These verses are exceptonaly true today with over a million babies being murdered every every year by heartless women, because of their unbelief, going to the Jewish baby killers.

MORE BIBLE EVIDENCE:

At this point we wish to present yuo a mistranslated passage found in Hebrews 11:24-26 in the KJV. It reads as follows:

�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 peole of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Esteeming the reproach of CHRIST greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.�

The translators being so used to translating the Greek word #5547 anointed) as �Christ,� overlooked the fact that the children of Israael were also called �anointed.� (1 Samuel 2:35; 1 Chronicles 16:22; Psalm 105:15; Psalm 143:17) The word should not have been �Christ� in verse 26, but �min anointed� or �Israel.� Let�s reread verse 26 as it should have been translated:

�Esteeming the reproach OF THE ANOINTED greater riches than the treasures of Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.�

Ferrar Fenton relates these verses this way:

�By faith Moses, having become great, refused to be called a son of Pharaoh�s daughter; choosing rathe to be reviled WITH THE PEOPLE OF GOD, than to have a temporary enjoyment of sin; esteeming the reproach of the Messiah greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt: for he looked forward to the reward.�

Now, being that we are aware that Moses was saying he would rather suffer with his people Israel than to be a son of Pharaoh�s daughter and enjoy all the riches of Egypt, it makes all the difference in the world in this correctly translated verse.

We know that we have brought you the long way around on this one. What is important ot understand, in this instance,is that the Israelites were Yahweh�s �anointed� and the Egyptians weren�t. If the persecuting pharaoh was of Satanic-dragon seed, this was especially pertinent.

CHECKING JACQUIETTA HAWKES� DOCUMENTAION

For the next part of this story, we are going to quote from �The Bible As History,� by Werner Keller, �1956. Keller gives additional information, that, not only did the Egyptians mix with the Hurrians, as stated by Hawkes, but they also mixed with the Hittites. We will be using excerpts from pages 96-103:

�The multicolored army of mercenaries which the Egyptians controlled, consisting of Negroes, Asiatics, and Nubians, marched on northward through Canaan. The new Pharaohs had learned a lesson from the bitte experience of the past. Never again would their country be taken by a surprise attack (like the Hyksos). Egypt lost no time in creating a buffer state far in advance of its frontier posts. The remainder of the Hyksos empire was crushed, and Palestine became an Eghyptian province. Wht had once been in Canaan and on the Phoenician coast became permanent garrisons, fortified strong points, and Egyptian fortresses in a subjugated land...

�Previously, all who lived outside of the Nine Valley were contemtuously described as �Asiatics,��Sand rambles,��cattle breeders;� peoople not worthy of the attention of a Pharaoh. Now, however, the Egyptians became more affable. They began communications with other countries. Hitherto that had been unthinkable; among the diplomatic correspondence in the archives of the palace of Mari, there was not one single item from the Nile...

�The advances of the Egyptians brought them eventually to Syria, indeed, to the banks of the Euphrates. There, to their astonishment, they came up against people of whose existence they had no idea. The priests searched in vain through the ancient papyrus rolls in the temple archives and studied without result the records of the campaigns of earlier Pharaohs. Nowhee could they find even a hint about these unknown Mitanni...

�Shortly before 1400 B.C., the warlike Mitanni (Hurrian) proposed a peaceful settlement with the Egyptians. The enemy became a friend. The kings of Mitanni turned their attention purposefully to dynastic politics. With greet pomp and lavish gifts THEY SENT THEIR DAUGHTERS DOWN TO THE NILE AND MARRIED THEIR PRINFESSES TOTHE PHAAOHS. In three successive genertions of rulers Indo0Aryan(?) (meaning HURRIAN) AND EGYPTIAN BLOOD WAS MIXED for the first time...

�What was the reason for the unexpected desire for peace on thepart of the warlike Mitanni? The impulse came form the outside. Their kingdmo was suddenly threatened with war on two fronts. A second powerful opponent began to storm the frontiers with his armies from Asia minor in the northwest. Tbhis was a nation about which scholars until this century knew hardly anything, but which plays a considerable part in the Old Testament; the Hittites...Their long hair hung ove their shoulders like af ull-bottomed wig; on top sat a high-dented cap; their short aprons were fastened with a wide belst and their shoes had pointed toes.

�When Subbiluliuma, King of the Hittites, marched southeast with a powerful army about 1370 B.C., the days of the kingdom of Mitanni (Hurrian) were already numbered despsite all their clever dynastic politics. Subbiluliuma crushed the kingdom of the warlike charioteers, compelled it to pay tribute, and then pressed on further to the mountains of the Lebanon in the north of Canaan. Overnight, as it were, Egypt had a new, equally powerfull neighbor in Syria thirsting for victory...

�Using the inviting bed and throne of the Pharaohs as bait; and what attractive bait!, she tried to take the wind out of the sails of her powerful new neighbors by discouraging their wrlike intentions. Hittite warriors had just made an attack on Amqa, the fertile country between Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon.

�Mursilis dictated: �When the Egyptians heard of the attack on Amqa, they were alarmed. To make matters worse, their lord (Tutankhamun) had just died. But the wiidowed Queen of Egypt sent an ambassador to my father and wrote him the following letter: �My husband is dead and I have no son, I am told tht you have many sons. If you send me one of your sons, he could become my husband. I do not wish to take one of my servants and make a husband of him�...�Since my father was so fine a king, he complied with the lady�s request and sent her the son she asked for.�

�Fate prevented the succesful conclusion of this unusual offer of marriage. Both the royal throne and the bed of Anches-en-Amun remained empty, since the candidate was murdered on his way to Egypt.

�Seventy-five years later another offer of marriage on this same Halys-Nile axis had a happy ending, although the prelude to it, which was the din of battle and the clash of weapons, pointed to a different conclusion. Ramesses II, who was called the �Great,� set out with his army for Palestine and Syria. He intended to deal with the hated Hittites once and for all...

�In 1280 B.C., the Hittites and the Gyptians concluded the first nonaggression and mutual defense pact in world history. The good understanding was cemented at top level by the marriage of Ramesses II to a Hittite princess...Then came a (RamessesII) messenger to inform His Majesty, He said: �Behold, even the great Prince of Hatti! (Hittites) His eldest daughter is on her way, and she brings untold tribute of all kinds...They have reached His Majesty�s frontiers. Let the armhy and the dignitaries come to receive her!�...

�A large delegation was dispatched to the north of Palestine to bring back the bride. Yesterday�s enemies became brothers: �So the daughter of the great Prince of Hatti came to Egypt. While the infantry, charioteers, and dignitaries of His Majesty accompanied them, they mingled with the infantry and charoteers from Hatti. The whole popuoace from the country of the Hittites was mixed up with the Egyptians. They ate and drank togethe; they were like blood-brothers...

�The children of a Israel must have been eye witnesses of the ceremonial arrival of the bridal procession in the city of Pi-Ramses-Meri-Amun, which means �The House of Ramses the Beloved of the god Amun.�

There you have it, the Egyptian Pharaohs (just like Esau-Edom) absorbed both Mongolian-Hurrian and Mongolian-Hittite blood along with much of the population of Egypt. Now, for some excerpts from an article in the �National Geographic Magazine� of April, 1991, entitled �Rameses the Great�:

Page 9: �The physical description ofRamesesI: �He was about five feet eight inches in height; one of the taller pharaohs. He had a strong jaw; A BEAKED NOSE, A LONG THINFACE, THT WAS NOT TYPICAL OF EARLIER PHARAOHS. He probably looked MORE LIKE THE PEOPLE OF THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN. Which is not surprising, because he came form the Nile Delta, which had been invaded in the past by PEOPLES FROM THE EAST.�

Ramses undoubtedlhy had Hurrian blood in his veins.Because the Hittite infusion did not happen until Ramses II, he probably didn�t have any Hittite blood, unless the Hittites had mixed with the Hurrians earlier on.

Page 30: A Hittite type metal working complex found at Pi-Ramses: �This is not an Egyptian design,� says Pusch. �It looks just like those the Hittites carried in the Battle of Kadesh. We found brone chisels and hammers next to it. I can draw only one conclusion. Hittite craftsmen were producing Hittite weapons in the capital of Egypt. They were probably working side by side with Egyptians...��

Page 10: Rameses II family: �His principal wife, the lovely Nefetari, quickly produced a son. His second favorite wife, the clever Istnofret, soon delivered another. Within ten years each wife had borne at least five sons and several daughters. His other wives may have accounted for anothe five to ten sons and as many daughters.�

What is so strange about the story of Ramses II is Nefertari died quite young. Following her, two of his sons, who were to succeed him died before his death. Then, at least another ten of his sons died. All of this brings up the question: Was there some kind of battle going on between Nefertari and Istnofret to see which one�s posterity woud be next on the throne? If there was, it wasn�t the first, nor would it be the last such struggle.

There is only one way to establish the truth in the Identity Mesage. We have to consider that eveything we have ever been told in thepast mahy not be correct. As a matter of fact, most of the things we have been taught in the past are 180 degrees from being right. They are just the opposite from what we were told they were. Theefore, it is immensely important to erase everything from the blackboard of our minds and start all over again from the beginning. THIS, MANY ARE UNWILLING TO DO.

We have been trying to set the stage for the story of Esu. When we started this eries, we had no idea that there woud be so many background materials to cover. However, at this time we are going to diverge somewhat from the theme of this study. Ted R. Weiland recently worte a booklet, �Eve, Did She Or Didn�t She?,� and mentioned Mr. Clifton A. Emahiser�s name some 14 times along with several other good Two Seedline teachers. So we thought it was time to tell you his retort; and a copy of Mr. Clifton A. Emahiser�s answer has been sent to Mr. Weiland:

SMITH & GOODSPEED ON JOHN 8:44:

�The devil is the father YOU ARE SPRUNG FROM and you want to cary out your father�s wishes. He was a murderer from the first, and he has nothign to do with truth, for there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks in his true characte, for he is a liar and the father of them.�

You can clearly see, this verse is not speaking in a spiritual sense as most one seedliners wouod have you to believe. If so, how would one murder someone spiritually? It would be absurd to interpret this verse in a spiritual manner. When it is speaking of murder in this verse, it is speaking of Cain murdering Abel. It is not speaking of Cain murdering Abel spiritually, but physically. I am not the only one who understands this verse in such a way. �The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge,� edited by Jerome H. Smith, published by the Thomas Nelson Publishers, page 1203, udnerstands John 8:44 to be speaking of the murder of Abel by Cain, for it makes reference to Genesis 4:8. This is an entire book of cross-references. As far as I know, this book is in no way promoting the Two Seeline doctrine, nor does it have an ax to grind on this subject. Let�s take a look at Genesis 4:8 to which this book makes referene from John 8:44:

�And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.�

For evidence to help rove that John 8:44 is speakingof the �Jews� as being descendants of Cain, and that Smith & Goodspeed has translated this passage correctly, we will check on the word �OF,� like in �Ye are OF your father the devil.� The Strong�s number in the Greek is 1537. The �New Testament Word Study Dictionary,� by Dr. Spiros Zodhiates devotes five pages to interpret the word �OF� as used in the Greek, pages 529-534. Obviously, we cannot quote this entire document hee, but cite only that which is relevant to John 8:44:

#1537: �..Preposition governing the genitive, primarily meaning out of, from, of, as spoken of such objects which were before another...Of the origin or source of anything, i.e., the primary, direct, immediate source...OF ERSONS, OR THE PACE, STOCK, FAMILY, CONDITION, MEANING OUT OF WHICH ONE IS DERIVED OR TO WHICH HE BELONGS...Of the source, i.e., the person or thing out of or from which anything proceeds, is derived, or to which it pertains...�

MORE ON THE WORD �OF� IN JOHN 8:44:

We really need to examine the word �OF� in John 8:44, for it is vey critical in udnerstanding that the �Jews� are the descendants of Cain. The word �OF� is the Greek word #1537 IN THE Strong�s Concordance. Most one seedliners will claim John 8:44 should be taken SPIRITUALLY only, that it is not speaking of a liteal genetic offspring of Satan through Cain. Jeffrey A. Weakley (a one seedliner) in his 1994 boolet �The Satanic Seedline, It Doctrine and History,� page 24, in his attempt to discredit the Two Seeline teching says this of John 8:44 (this is an �argument� and �Answer� debate conducted solely by him in his booklet):

�This does not show that Cain was of that wicked one physically, but rather he was of that wicked one SPIRITUALLY. Let�s look at part of 1 John 3:8: �He that committeth sin is the devil..� when one studies out 1 John 3:8-12 the meaning becomes crystal clear. It must be taling about who we are seving spiritually. If it is talking about physical descendnts, then all of us are physical descendnats of Satan because we all have sinned. �For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God...� (Romans 3:23)...So if we have all sinned and if he that committeth sin is of thedevil, we must conclude that all of us are of the devil...So what is it saying? Are you of the devil by physical descent or are you of the devil because you serve him (or have served him in the past)?�

�ARGUMENT (of the�Two Seedliners): John 8:44 say, �Ye are of your father the devil...this shows that the devil is their physical father�

�ANSWER (by Jeffrey A. Weekley): �Wrong. This once again shows that the devil is their SPIRITUAL father (the one that they serve).��

We must then determine whether John 8:44 is speaking of a spiritual devil or a physical devil. The word �OF� is critical in John 8:44 for determining this. The word in the Greek is #1537. In John 8:44 the Greek form is: έκ which is sometimes έζ. You can check this out in most any of the Greek intelinears. �The New Testament Greek Study Aids,� by Walter Jerry Clark says on page 230 about the Greek word έκ: �out of...with the genitive: by means of, out of.��The Intermediate New Testament Greek,� by Richard A. Young, page 95 says the folliwng aout the Greed word έκ��έκ often converys special extensions �out of� or �from.� For example, theprophet said tht God would call His son out of Egypt.� (Matthew 2:15) From �The Greek to English Interliner,� by �George Ricker Berry, page 31 of his �Greek-English New testament Lexicon,� we have this on έκ: �έκ or before a vowel, έκ, a preposition governing genitive, from, out of.��The Thayer Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament,� page 189 expresses έκ this way: �...out of, as separattion from, something with which there has been close connection...� in other words, the �Pharisees� in John 8:44 had a close genetic connection OUT OF or FROM �the devil.�

There are 32 other places in the New Testamen where this Greek word (#1537) έκ is used in the same sense. Let�s see if these other passages are speaking of physical or spiritual beings: In Matthew 1:3 it speaks of �Phares� and �Zara� being �OF��Thamar.� Does that sound �spiritual�? Again in Matthew 1:5 it says �Boaz� begat Obed �OF� Ruth. Again, does that sound �spiritual?� In Matthew 1:18 it speaks of the �hild� being �OF� the Holy Ghost. Again, does that sound �spiritual?� In Matthew 1:20 it again speaks of the �child� being �OF� the Holy Ghost. �Again, does that sound �spiritual?� In Mark 5:8 the Redeemer commanded an unclean spirit to �come out �OF� the MAN.� Does the �man,� from which the spirit was cast , sound �spiritual?� In luke 2:36 it speaks of one �Phanuel��OF� the trigbe of Asher. Does that sound like a real person or a spirit? In Acts 13:21 it speaks of �a man �OF� the tribe of benjamin.� Again, we are talkiing �spiritually� here? In Romans 1:3 it speaks of Yeashus being �made �OF� the seed of David ACCORDING TO THE FLESH.�

How do the one seedliners calaim this one to be �spiritual� when it states outright, �flesh?� After all, it�s the same word �OF� as used in John 8:44?!?! In Romans 16:10 it speaks of �them which are �OF� Aristobulus� (household).� Can we ask again if this is someone who is a real person or something strangely �spiritual?� In Romans 16:11 it speaks of �them that be �OF� the (household) of Narcissus.� Does the wod �OF� here apply to some real person or do we have to relegate it to something �spiritual?� In 1 Corinthians 11:12, it says �the woman (is) �OF� the man.� I can just imagine some ardent one seedliner explaining to his wife she is not a real person! In Philippians 4:22 it speaks of �they that are �OF� Caesar�s household.� I guess tha we Two Seedliners are not supposed to beliee that Caesar was something spiritual a

In Hebrews 7:5 it speaks of �the sons �OF� Levi...� and �out �OF� the loins of Abraham.� I guess the one seedliners would not have us Two Seedlineers to believe that Levi and Abraham were some kind of �spiritual� mirage! In 1 John 3:8 we are told� He that committeth sin is �OF� the devil.� The devil (Satan) was the original lawbreake, and that is what sin is all about! In 1 John 3:12 it further describes �Cain (who) was �OF� that wicked one.� the one seedliners really do some rhetorial tymnastis with this passage.

Ajeffery A. Weakley said this passage was also �spiritual.� In Revelation 3:9 it states: �I will make them �OF� the shynagogue of Satan.� A synagoge is a worship house of Satan. The �Jews� truly do worship Satan their father and they admit with their own words that they are descended from Cain. I have in my ossession a quotaton from a publication �Liberal Judaism,� published January, 1949 by by Rabbi Dr. Abba Hillel Silver who states in part, speaking of the then new State of Israel:

�...the concept of the WANDERING JEW...For the CURSE OF CAIN, THE CURSE OF BEING AN OUTCAST and a �WANDERER� over theface of the earth has been removed...�

It is only the one seedliners who do not understand that Cain was to be a �vagabond,� a �wander� and having the �CURSE OF CAIN� upon him. Name one other gourp today that fits this category. In Revelation 5:5 it speaks of �the Lion of the tribe �OF� tribe of Judah...�OF� the tribe of Reuben...�OF� the tribe of Gad...�OF� the trie of Asher...�OF� the tribe of Nepthalim..�OF� the tribe of Manasses...�OF� the trige of simeon...�OF� the tribe of Levi...�OF� the tribe of Issachar...�OF� the tribe of Zabulon...�OF� the tribe of Joseph...�OF� the tribe of Benjamin.� If we are to be donsistent, (a word which the one seedliners like to use), if the same Greek word that is used in all thse referenes is physical in nature, so, too, is the word �OF� in John 8:44! Very convenient to throw up the word �spiritual� whenever you want to forge a barrier and not accept the truth which Yeashua spoke:

�Ye are OF your father the devil.�

Yeashua was simply saying to the �Jews� that they were chips off the old block.

Also, I suggest that most people who use the word �spiritual� in this way don�t even know what the word means. The dictionary might lead to the idea of a disembodied soul or a ghost, something mysteious or mystic. The Bible meaning for �spiritual� is: live as opposed to death. How doessuch a description of the word �spiritual� fit John 8:44? It�s obvious, it doesn�t.

ONE SEEDLINERS TEACHIG A DANGEROUS DOCTRINE!:

I now wish to give you a very good example of the �enmity� of the two seeds of Genesis 3:15 from the book �Germany Must Perish,� by the American �Jew,� Theodore N. Kaufman:

Page 11: �For quite patently, to fight once more in democratic defense against Germany with any goal in view save that country�s EXTENCTION constitutes, even though it lose the war, a German victory. To fight, to win, and not this time to end Germanism forever by EXTERMINATING COMPLETELY those peole who spread its doctrine is to herald the outbreak of another German war within a generation.�

Page 15: �And so it is with the people of Germany. They may respond for a while to civilzing forces; they may seemingly adopt the superficial mannerisms and exterior behaviorisms of civilized peoples but all the while there remians ever present within them that war-soul which eventually drives them, as it does the tiger, to kill. And no amount of conditioning, or reasoning, or civilizing; past, present or future, will ever be able to change this basic nature.�

Page 83: �There is IN FINE, no other solution except one: THAT GERMANY MUST PERISH FOREER FROM THIS EARTH! And fortunately, as we shall now come to see, that is no longer impossible of accomplishment.�

Page 86: �Quite naturally, massacre and wholesale extinction must be ruled out...There remains then but one mode of ridding the world forever of Germanis; and that is to stem the source from which issue those war-lusted souls, BY REVENTING THE PEOPLE OF GERMANY FROM EVER AGAIN REPRODUCING THEIR KIND. This modern methods, known to science as Eugenic Sterilization, is at once practical, humane and thorough.�

In Short: This is why the �Jew� today is encouraging every White woman to jump in bed with a Black, Mexican or Mongolian! When one is talking about the �Germans,� one is talking about the same tribe as Yeashua the Redeemer. The Germans are the true Tribe of Judah along with the Irish and Scottish, and the �Jews� are the false tribe of Judah. Maybe now we can know what �Planned Parenthood� is all about (Say you want to continue to go to a �Jewish� doctor?) If you can�t see the natural �enmity� between the �Jews� and Germany, you have to be blind! This �Jewish� hatred is not isolated to Germany alone, but anyone of German blood wherever Germans, Irish and Scots might live. Yes, I am saying that the one seedliners are,like the �Jews,��blind guides.� the two �seeds� of Genesis 3:15 are at war, and it is to the death of one or the other.

MORE ENMITY OF GENESIS 3:15:

At a �Jewish� conference, January 12, 1952, in Budapest a �jew,� Rabbi emanuel Rabinovich, spoke before the Emergency Council of European Rabbis. The following is part of that speech which can be found in William Guy Carr�s book, �Pawns In The Game,� on pages 105-106:

�...I can state with assurance that the last gnertion of white children is now being born. Our Control Commission will in the interest of peace and wiping out inter-racial tensions, forbid the whites to mate with whites. The white women must cohabit with members of the dark races, the white men with black women. Thus the white race will disappear, for mixing the dark with the white means the end of the white man, and our most dangerous enemy will become only a memory. We shall embark upon an era of ten thousand years of peace and plenty, the Pax Judaica, and our race will rule undisputed over the world. Our superior intelligence iwll easily enable us to retain mastery over a world of dark peoples.�

The �Jews� went on to brag:

�...We are about to reach our goal. World War II furthered our plans greatly. We succeeded in having many millions of Christians kill each other and returning other millions in such conditions that they can do us no harm. There remains little to be done to complete our control of the stupid goyim.�

A RACIAL PLAN FOR THE 20TH CENTURY:

The following declaration of intent was given in 1912 by a British top-level Communist theoretician, Israel Cohen, as recorded in the booklet �Who�s Who In The World Zionist Conspiracy,� by James Combs, page 40:

�THE �RACE-MIXING PROGRAM.� We must realize that our party�s most powerful weapon is racial tension...In America we will aim for subtle victory. While inflaming the negro minority against th ewhites, we will endeavor to instill in the whites a guilt complex for their exploitation of the negroes. We will aid the negroes to rise in prominence in every walk of life, in the professions and in the world of sports and entertainment. With this prestige, the negro will be able to intermarry with the whites and begin a rocess which will deliver America to our cause.�

THE EBLA FIND:

Following is information on an archaeological find at a place known as Ebla. We will now quote from �The Thompson Chain-Reference Bible,� the �Archaeoogical �Supplement� in part, pages 1791-1793. As this archaeology supplement is being continually updated by Thompson, your edition may read a little differently than what we are quoting here:

�...The m0st impressive of these mounds is known as TELL MARDIKH, which lies some 30 miles south of modern Aleppo, rises 50 feet above the lain, and covers an area of 140 acres...In the spring of 1964 Dr. Paolo Matthiae, rofessor of Near East archaeology at the University of Rome, obtained a permit TO EXCAVATE TELL MARDIKH with his wife, Gabriela, and an efficient archaeological team of assistants.

�During the first few years they carried out soundings in various parts of the mound. Uncovered were CITY GATES similar to those of SOLOMON AT GEZER and MEGIDDO, and two small CHAPEL-TYPE TEMPLES like the famous temples of SHECHEM, MEGIDDO and HAZOR; all DATING BETWEEN 2000 AND 1600 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST, the period called Middle Bronze I and II.

�In 1968 the archaeologists discovered a ROYAL STATUE which bore a dedicatory inscription to one IBBIT-LIM, �LORD OF THE CITY OF EBLA, TO THE GODDESS ISHTAR.� It soon became clear that they were excavating the remarkable metropolis of the KINGDOM OF EBL, an immense SEMITIC EMPIRE whose center was set on the plains of modern Syria. From occasional references to it in ancient inscriptions; from Ur, Lagash, Nippur, Mari, and Egypt, archaeologists had long suspected the presence of such a civilization in North Syria. MANY PLACES AND EVENTS OF HISTORY WOUD NOW FALL INTO PROPER PLACE.

�In 1973 work was begun in Early Bronze Age Elba, which dated between 2400 and 2225 B.C. Excavators found a tablet indicating the city at this period was divided into two sections; an acropolis (high city) and a lower city. The acropolis contained four building complexes: the palace of the city, the palace of the king, the palace of the servants, and the stables. The lower city was divided into four quarters, each of which had a gate: the gate of the City, the gate of Dagan, the gage of Rasap, and the gate of Sipis.

�In 1975, while excavating in the palace of the city,the chief administrative center, they came upon the ruins of a large three story roual palace building which had FLOURISHED FOUR GENERATONS BEFORE THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM. It contained a spacious audience court (100 to 170 feet, with a portico of carved wooden and STONE COLUMNS ADORNED WITH GOLD AND LAPIS LAZULI), a tower room, and smaller rooms at the entrance of the courtyard. In the tower room were 42 CUNEIFORM BUSINESS TABLETS and a SMALL SCHOOL EXERCISE TABLET.

�During the following year they worked in the two rooms at the entrance of the courtyard. In the first room were about 1,000 business and administrative tablets, which were found �rather spread out and disordered.� The second room was a large library; the authentic royal archives, contianing 15,000 tablets that had been regularly arranged on wooden shelves. When the palace was destroyed by fire, however, the flames devoured the wooden shelves, and the tablets settled on top of one another...

�In a nearby room were another 1,000 tablets, along with WRITING IMPLEMENTS. This they took to be the scribe�s room. In yet another room were 800 tablets, along with beautifully carved wooden figures, seal impressions, and laques of wood, gold, and lapis lazuil. One sheet of gold was found...Professor ettinato found that the major portion of the tablets ere written in SUMERIAN WEDGE-SHAPED CUNEIFORM sript; the WORLD�S OLDEST WRITTEN LANGUAGE. The tablets themselves, however, dated from the MIDDLE OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM B.C. One large tablet was a dictionary giving the Sumerian equivalents of some 3,000 Eblaite words. With the hlep fo this lexicon, Pettinato was able to diciper (sic) many other Eblaite tablets. About 20 pecent of the tablets were written in a northwestern Semitic language which Pettinato called Paleo-Canaanite, or Old Canaanite, although the script used was also cuneiform Sumerian. This he says, was the language spoken in Ebla and is closer in vocabulary and grammar to biblical Hebrew than any other Canaanite dialect, including Ugaritic.

CONTENTS AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE TABLETS:

�The tablets so far unearthed number nearly 20,000 the majority of them large. Those which have been translated; only a fraction fo the total, tell of the ecoomy, administration, education, religion, trade and conquest of a great commercial empire of which all memory had been lost in the historical traditions of the Near East.

�...what they have found already throws a flood of light on so many aspects of research in the field of ancient history and biblical archaeology that in many quarters the Ebla Tablets are now considered more significant for elucidating ancient history and the erly backgrounds of the Bible than any other archaeological discovery ever unearthed.

�With its empire, the city of Ebla, whose population is given in one tablet as 260,000, constituted one of the greatest powers in the Ancient Near East during the third millennium B.C. Its commercial and political influence extended far beyond its own borders; from Sinai in the southwest to Mesopotamia in the east. As a major trade cente, it controlled east-west commercial routes for grain and livestock from the west, cedar timber from Lebanon, and metals and textiles from Anatolia; the home of the Hittites, along with trade in silver and gold and the several other commodities from Cyprus and other Mediterranean countries.

�Ebla was aflourishing Semitic civilization. Her �arts prospered and her craftsmen were renowned for the quality of their metal work, textiles, ceramics and woodworkings. They made cloth of scarlet and gold, weapons of brone and furniture of wood. Their educational system was far advanced. They kept records in their own language on tablets of clay which they stored in archives deep in the cellars of the royal palace.� All this existed more than a thousand years before the brilliant civilization of David and Solomon.

�Ebla had a king and a queen. Like Israel, it anointed its kings and had prophets. The king was in charge of state affairs, and his qaueen was held in equally high regard. The crown prince helped wiht domestic and administrative affairs, while the second son aided his father in foreign affairs. The tablets are quite explicit about the structure of the state and about the royal dynasty. Six kins are listed among which is Ebrum. The resemblance of his name to Eber, the father of the Semites, according to Genesis 10:21, is aastonishing, since it is virtually the same name as the biblical Eber, a direct descendant of Noah and the great-great-great-great-graqndfather of Abraham.

�Other names found in these texts and later used by biblical characters are: Abraham, Esau, Saul, Michael, David, Israel and Ish-ma-il (Ishmael).

�The gods worshipped at Ebla numbered around 500, and included El and Ya. El is a shortened form of Elohim, used later by the Hebrews and in the Ugaritic tablets. Ya is a shortened form of what some think might be Yashweh, or Jehovah, and was used for their supreme god and gods in general. Other principal gods were Dagan, Rasap (Resef), Sipis (Samis), Astar, Adad, Kamis, Milik...

�In recording the trade and treaty dealings of Ebla, the tablets give th enames of hundreds of individual place-names, among which are Urusalim (Jerusalem), Geza, Lachish, Joppa, Ashtaroth, Dor, and Megiddo, as well as cities east of the Jordan. One tablet (No. 1860) mentions the cities of the plain; in the same order as in Genesis 14:2 (Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zebolim, and Bela, or Zoar), as being cities with which Ebla carried on extensive trade. This was the first time these place-names had been found outside the Bible. Dr. David Noel Freedmen had pointed out that this record precedes the great catastrophe involving Lot which many modern scholars have regarded as entirely fictional.

�The texts contain Canaanite stories of the Creation and the Flood and a Canaanite code of law. The creation tablet; a beautifully inscribed ten-lin poem, is closer to the Genesis account than anything else discovered. In essence a part of it reads:

�There was a time when there was no heaven, and Lugal (�the gret one�) formed it out of nothing; there was no earth, and Lugal made it; there was no light, and he made it.�

�The flood story is given in five columns on a small tablet...Ebla is only partiallyexcavatdd, yet a part of the royal palace, two temples, a fortress, three city gates and tablets which now number nearly 20,000 have been exposed...At one time ebla even ruled over and collected tribute from Mari. Reverses came, however, and ancient Ebla was destroyed. Apparently the destrction was incomplete, for Ebla enjoyed something of a second life during the early part of second millennium B.C....Around 1800 B.C., spoken of in the Mari letters as Yamhad. Around 1600 B.C., Naram-Sin, king of Akkad, defeated Ebla in battle and destroyed the city. From this disaster the city of Ebla never recovered, and it remained buried under its own debris until modern excavzators began to resurrect it...�

We find from all of this, the peoples of this time period were far more advanced than we ever imagined. Egypt very definitely affected the life of Esau as he married Bashemath, a granddaughter of Abraham and the Egyptian Hagar. The story of Egypt may be a lengthy, but an interesting one.

Recapping a little, we have found that Hurrians and Hittitess were a Mongolian people. We also discovered that the Egyptian pharaohs took women of these peoples injto their harems, and later pharaohs were form these bloodlines. We found that not only did the pharaohs mix blood, but also there was much mixing by the Ghyptian people themselves. We diverged, for a time, from this theme to the topics of new research on the Two Seedline Doctrine. Also, we covered, to some degree, the archaeological find at Ebla.

Because the subject of Egypt is so long and strung-out time-wise, we are not sure how long it will take to cover it in connection with Esau-Edom. While we are on this subject, there are simply many items we faannot omit, we believe, after we have researched this subject, you will see Egypt in an entirely new light. We believe that you will be so enraptured with it, you will want to continue researching it for yourself, for Egyptian history is like no other chronicles in the world. And if the Egyptians had not destroyed their White Roots with mixed marriages with the other peoples and races they would, most likely, stand as one of the greatest powers on earth, even today.

The part of Egyptian history, we are interested in,a nd how Egyptian history fits in with Biblical histoyr, we will present some evidence of what Egypian and Biblical history IS NOT. It is our responsibility, as a watchman on the wall, whenever someone is exhibiting falsehood along any Biblical subject, to expose the false teaching for what it is. Once you have attained the truth of a matter, it will, then, be your responsibility to judge any writer on the topic for what he (or she) is. We doubt very much, if we were to show this write undenable, irrefutable positive evidence of his error, that he would change his position, but continue his teachings in spite of the relisable testimony to the contrary. But you must be the judge in the end; we certainly don�t need any more confusion as we already have too much.

WHAT EGYPTIAN AND BIBLICAL HISTORY IS NOT:

The book to which we will refer is: �Hebrew Sages of Ancient Egypt (A Revised Discipline In antiquity), by F. David Fry Jr. The reason we believe this man would nto change his positon is because he has written several books and made several cassette tapelecutres on the subject; and therefore, he would be reluctant to change his posture even in the face of overwhelming credible evidence. It�s just too much humble pie to ask a man to eath. F. David Fry�s position is: �Egyptian history is 1000 years younger than historians claim, In chapter 2, pages 5-6, Fry says the following:

�The Birth of Egypt and Her Exaggerated Antiquity...For almost two hundred years, historians have calculated that Egy-t�s history retreats in time far enough to predate the supposed Hebrew myth of Noah�s flood (2350 B.C.). Indeed, historians extend this retreat even beyond the Biblical creation date (4004 B.C., Ussher). To rectify this difference, some theologians reason that populations existed before Adam and Eve, while others are forced to disclaim the Bliblical world-wide flood.

�Over the last hundred years, Egypt�s history ahs been steadily revised downward, from 5000 B.C., (1st Dynasty) to today�s 3000 B.C. Even so, the anomaly still exists unless something gives. The question we must answer here is �Whose history should gie, Egypt�s or the Hebrew�s?��

On pages 13-143, Fry associates the 1st dynasty tom b of Unefes (forth king of Dynasty 1):

�Hebrew history suggests that the designer of the tomb was the celebrated and world famous sage, Abraham...I (Fry) shall go one step further: I (Fry) propose that Abraham is th eonly person in all of history who could be common to the tomb, its design,and the era in which it was built.�

Fry continues on page 19:

�...It is obvious that the traditional time model needs drastic revision. It needs to either push the era of Abraham further back in history or f\pull Egypt�s history drasticaly forward.�

Fry further states on page 20:

�...We must connect Abraham;�s era with the 1st Dynasty...it explicity places Abraham on the Egytian scene a thousand years earlier than where he was commonly been placed...The life and times of that great Hebrew Sage Abraham, occurred during Dynasty 1...and not a thousand years later as traditional history teaches.�

Fry continues on page 28:

�As already established, Abraham did not lvie during Egypt�s Middle Kingdom (Dynasty 12).�

Fry places Joseph as the same person as Imhotep, page 35:

�Since Joseph was Vizier of Egypt and Imhotep was also Vizier, is it possible they might just be the same person?�

On page 38, Fry continues to suggest that Joseph and Imhotep were the same person:

�...Is it possible to establish a medical parallel between this famous healing god Imhotep and Joseph the Hebrew Sage?�

Fry continues on page 39:

�If this is found to be true then we must conclude that Joseph/Ihmotep was the inventor, or at least initiator of Pathology...coupling him (Joseph) to both Imhotep and the Old Kingdom.�

Continuing on page 41, Fry quotes (Peter Tompkinis Secrets of the Great Pyramid,� page 168):

�However, it remains distinctly possible that Path (imhotep) could have been Joseph himself.�

On pages 42-43, Fry says:

�The truth is that chronologists should properly reassign Egypt[s 3rd Dynasty to the days of Joseph...for we are fast arriving at the startling, but verifiable conclusion that Joseph, Imhotep and Pathotep were one and the same man...All three men lived during Dynastis 3 and 4...Once again, the probability increases that Joseph, Imhotep and Pathotep were the same individual.�

On page 51, Fry says:

�Yes, Joseph was Imhotep.�

Fry continues on page 91:

�Moses found in Egyptian records. With Dynasty 5 ruling far up the Nine to the south, and Dynasty 6 ruling adjacent to Goshen, we shoud consider Dynasty 6 as the prime candidate for the place where (when) Moses was born.�

On page 92, Fry makes the following remark:

�That shift will make Egypt one thousand years younger at the time of Moses.�

On page 94, Fry again mentons Moses with the 6th Dynasty:

�...as we will see, the Exodus story is a perfect fit to the end of the 6th Dynasty (the end of the Old Kingdom era).�

Further, Fry remarks on page 95:

�Historians can find no place in Dynasty 18, 19 or even 20 when baby Moses ould have been an adopted heir to Egypt�s throne...Yes, Moses was raised in Egypt during the sixth Dynasty, not the 18th Dynasty.�

In short, Fry places �Abraham with Dynasty #1, Joseph with Dynasty #3, and Moses with Dynasty #6. He could probbly get by with this scenario if it� were not for the fact of some very important archaeologial discoeries in recent times.

THE 18TH EGYPTIAN DYNASTY, or THE NEW KINGDOM:

Because we are going to be dealing with the 18th Egyptian Dynasty, we should get familiar with their names (spelling of these names will vary slightly from one reference book to another). These Egyptian pharaohs are in the sequence as follows: � Amosis � Amenhotep 1 � Tuthmosis I � Tuthmosis II � Hatshepsut � Tuthmosis III � Amenhotep II � Tuthmosis IV � Amenhotep III � Amenhotep IV, (same as Akhenaten) � Tutankhamun � Ay � Horemheb.

ARCHEOLOGY PROVS FRY�S THESIS TOTALLY IN ERROR:

Finds at Jericho prove beyond all doubt that Fry cannot be correct. If you know your Bible story of Jericho, it will be rememberd that after the Israelites destroyed it, Joshua placed a curse on it that it would never again be occupied. With this in mind, let�s read �The Thompson Chain-Reference Bible, Archaeological Supplement,� page 1802 �1990 (As Thompson is continually updating this supplement, your copy may read differerntly than the one we are quoting). We will be only quoting a portion of the article:

�On the outskirts of the old city mound Garstang discovered a cemetery where he opened scores fo graves that yielded quantities of pottery vessels, considerable jewry, and about 170 scarb betles. In these tombs he found pottery, from the Early, Middle, and Late Bronze periods, but only a few sherds of Mycenian ware...The Egyptian scarabs can be dated with certanity since they mention various pharaohs by name and represent each of them from Thutmose III...One scarab bears the name of Queen Hat-shep-sup and Thutmose III, another that of Amenhotep II, who was depicted as an archer, corresponding well with his tomb records in Egypt. The series of dated scarabs end with the two royal seals of Amenhotep III...Nothing else in the tombs suggests late dates.�

For more evidence that this documentation is correct, we will now quote from �Wonders Of The Past,� (in two volumes) edited by Sir J.A. Hammerton, �Jericho and the Biblical Story,� a portion from page 1220 (Notice the slight difference in spelling of the pharaoh�s names):

�Happily again, the evidence frmo the tombs as regards this period is complete an satisfactory...is represented by hundreds of intact specimens; their stratification is undisturbed, and their continuity is attested by the discovery at theappropriate levels of further royal Egyptian scarabs, notably one of Thothmes III, the successor of Queen Hatshepsut, in Tomb 5, and two of Amenhotep III in Tomb 4...and with his reign the deposits in the tombs and city alike come to an abrupt end.�

Bingo!: If you are aware of Egyptiand history, then you understand the above named pharaohs were of the 18th Dynasty, a time-peiod which Fry wholly disallowed. If you want to believe Fry, in spite of this evidence, it�s your choice, but don�t say you were never told. This evidence puts F. David Fry Jr., totally out of the ballpark on his thesis. You will remember, Joshua was only one generation after Moses, and only 40 years after the Exodus. If this doesn�t suggest an Egyptian-Hebrew time comparison, we don�t know what it will to do so. But this is not the only evidence of this time similitude. For further dicumentation, that we are on the right track, we will now quote from �The National Geographic Magazine,� Decembe 1987, a story of the �Oldest Known Shipwreck Reveals Splendors Of The Bronze Age.� this shipwreck, according to National Geographic:

�...represents seven civilizatons that flourished in the eastern Mediterranean area in Late Bronze Age times. Thousands of other items provide an astonishing portrait of an era symbolized by the reign of Egypt�s Tutankhamun and the fall of Troy.�

Tutankhamun is only the second pharaoh past Amenhotep III, whose sarab was found at Jeicho. This shipwreck is closely contemporary with Moses, Joshua and the Exodus. While this shipwreck contained many items of interest, we would like to quote from pages 731-732:

�Tufan saved the best for last. One morning he surfaced with the small plastic box he stored his treasure in and lifted a solid gold scaab (pictured on the same page). As we go with all our finds, we photographed the scarab and I later took the slides back to Texas.

�It had been more than 30 years since I studied hieroglyphics, but with the help of an Egyptian dictionary I translated the end of the inscription on the base of the golden beetle: �Nefertiti.�

�Nefertiti! Is there a more beautiful face from antiquity than that of Pharaoh Akhenaten�s great Queen? Her timeless features have been captured for eternity in the exquisite bust from Tell el-Amarna...

�...Not only was this the first gold scarab ever found of the Exquisite Beauty of the Aten (sun disk) Nefertiti,� as her full name is translated: it also was the first artifact found in Asia Minor or the Aegean that names either the famous Akhenaten or his beautiful wife. (Akhenaten�s son was Tutankhamun).

�...Was the scarab carried by an envoy of Nefertit? We can only guess. The scarab is well worn. Cemal�s map of the wreck site shows that it was foudn near the crap gold suggesting that it may have belonged to the same hoard. If it did, THE SHIP SANK AFTER NEFERTITI�S DEATH, FOR ONE CANNOT IMAGINE HE SCARAB�S BEING DISCARDED DURING HER REIGHN...�

Among other items found at the site of the shipwreck were Cypriot pottery and a wooden folding tablest called a �diptych� spoken of by Homer: �...he sent him to Lycia and gave him baneful signs in a folding wooden tablet,��Iliad,� book VI, line 169, which helps date the contents discoveredd. With this evidence, there is no way F. David Fry, Jr., can be correct with his suppostion. NOW WE CAN KNOW WHAT EGYPTIAN HISTORY IS NOT, and we are indeed dealing with the 18th Egyptian Dynasty for the Exodus. As we continue along, you will start to see how well all of this fits the overall portrayal ofEgyptain history along with events pertaining to the Hebrews of the Bible.

In quoting from �The Thompson Chain-Bible Wonders Of The Past,� and �The National Geographic,� we intentionally left out the dates. We did this because we believe that Garstang may be 120 to 160 years off on his dates. In �The bible And Archaeology,� by J.A. Thompson it states on page 59:

�This state of affairs suggests that the Exodus did not take place till after 1300 B.C.�

On page 60, this same book says:

�Garstang made a case for he fall of Jeicho in 1400 B.C., and an Exodus in about 1440 B.C.�

This discrepancy doesn�t, however, rule out the 18th Dynasty for these events.

A STARTING POINT:

A good place to really start our story of Egypt would be a city called �On.� We are told by most reference books that On represented the heathn worship of the sun god. We hope to set the record straight concerning this city. Originally,On was called �Beth Shemesh� (House of Shem). It was not until the time of Ankhenaten that a temle was built to Aten the sun god. We find the documentaton for this in the book �The Boehm Journey To Egypt, Land Of Tutankhamun,� by Frank J. Cosentino, page 48:

�Akhenaten had to have a circle of royal adherents who converted to his new religion. Friendly foreign princes were not particularly concerned with the change and accepted it as long, as their relationships woth the royal house were maintained. The king steadfastly forged ahead, trying to impose his new philosophies on Egyptiand life. He succeeded in building temples to Aten in Thebes, Gem-Aton in Nubia, Heliopolis, Memphis, Hermopolis, hermothis, and in some smaller fities.�

In the �Halley�s Bible Handbood,� by Henry H. Halley, page 107, it states:

�JOSEPH MADE RULLER OF EGYPT: Joseph married a daughter of the priest of On; and, though he had a heathen wife, and ruled a heathen kingdom, and resided in a center of vile idolatry, he maintained his childhood faith in the God of his fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.�

We are going to have to beg to differ with Halley on Joseph�s wife, for it appears she was of the House of Shem, just as Tamasr was (the mothe of Pharez and Zarah). And, we don�t believe that Joseph�s father-in-law was practicing �vile idolatry,� for he was a priest of �Beth Shemesh.� It is alwo evident that there were, at least, some S�hemites in egypt during Joseph�s time, and Joseph didn�t marry a heathen as implied!

AKHENATEN�S NEW RELIGION: WHEE DID HE GET IT?:

For the answer to this question, we are goig to refer to a book entitled: �barnes General History,� by Joel Dorman Steele and Esther �Baker Steele �1883 & 1889, page 7 (and it is simply amazing what these two writes were able to establish considering the archaeology that had been done up to their time):

Khu-en-Aten (Akhenaten), the heretic king, rejected the Theban gods for the one god (Aten) sun-worship of his foreign mother. He founded a new capital (now Tel-el-Amarna ruins), abut neither captial nor religion long survived him.�

It says here that Akhenaten got his religion from his mother. Much can be determined from the Egyptian statuary of Akhenaten and his mother, Queen Tiye. Akhenaten was so overpoweing in Mongolian features, we don�t even have to guess what bloodline he and his mother were from. Akhenaten�s mother was considered a non-royal commone, wife of Amenhotep III. Therefore, the only conclusin which can be made, is that Akhenaten�s mother was one of the women which were sent to Egypt by the Hurrians in the peace treaty Egypt made with them.�

�The Bible As History,� by Werner Keller, page 98 (pages vary in different editions) states:

�In three successive generatons of rulers Indo-Aryan(?) (Meaning Hurrians) and Egyptian blood was mixed for the first time.�

This being true, Akhenaten and his relation were of the serpent seedline. There are many pictures of Akhenaten in Egyptian books, so you won�t have any trouble identifying him as such. A picture is worth a thousand words. We can trust these portrayals and sculptures, for they were developed in greater detail during the Akhenaten era than at any othe time in Egyptian history. What you see is what you get! You can be very sure, if Akhenaten looked Mongolian, he was indeed Mongolian.

Further information concerning the mixing of the Egyptian pharaohs with the Hurrians is found in the book �The Pyramids And Sphinx,� by Desmond Stewart, page 51:

�Tuthmosis IV�s immediate descendants, products of his marriage to the daughter of the King of Mitanni (Harrian), a powerful new state in northern Syria, were no less arresting. HIS SON BY HIS FOEIGN QUEEN WAS AMENHOTEP III, BUILDER OF COLOSSAL STATES IN WHICH HE AND HIS NONROYAL WIFE, TIYE, are posed as equals (unlike most earlier groups, in which a queen might be a qarter the size of her spouse). One unforgettable late portrait; a bitter comedown from such colossi as still stand on the west bank of the Nile, facing Luxor, shoows Amenhotep III looking like a weary and corpuletn (overweight) chairman of some gian corporation.

�The son of Amenhotep III and Tiye was the greatest eccentric in Egyptian hisory, the heetic who, by changing his name from Amenhotep to Akhenaten,incorporated into his new title the Aten that his grandfather had honored...The outstanding family, with its characteristically oval-shaped faces, large noses, and insubstantial builds, presided over a renaissance of Egyptian powre, a transformation of Ebyptian culture, and ironically, the first intimations (hint) of final decline.�

A further description of Akhenaten�s physical features is given on page 65 as follows:

�...his elongated head, heavy lips, large ears, distended stomach, and wide hips; which were undoubtedly the end-product of generations of royal inbreeding.�

We would rather suggest �out breeding� with other races!

If what we are reading here is true; with the blood mixing of the Egyptian pharaohs with the Hurrians, the pharaoh enslaving the Hebrews may well have been of the Cain-Satanic-Seedline. For more information in regards to this product of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye (the Hurrian), we will again quote from the book �The Pyramids And Sphinx,� by Desmond Stewar, page 64:

�The heir of Amenhotep III and �Queen tiye assumed the throne...under his father�s name, but then bruptly renamed himself Akhenaten. On the new king�s orders the name of th egod Amen Re was deleted from from most monuments. At the same time the pharaoh moved his residence form Thebes to a new, hastily built capital some three hundred miles to the north. The site, a half-moon-shaped plain on the east bank of the Nile, had been visited by Akhenaten�s grandfather Tutmosis IV. The new capital, with its sunlit, open temple to the Aten, was an attempt at Utopia and was given the name Akhetaten, or Horizion-of-the-Aten. (Th site�s modern name, Tel-el-Amarna, comes from the names of two nearby Arab villages...The city was not without an economic base, since all the river-borne transport headed north and east passed by it and could be miled to the disadvantage of rival Thebes.�

NEW RELIGION, NEW CITY:

To understand this part of Akhenaten�s story, we will quote from the book �Wonders Of The Past, (in two volumes) edited by Sir J. A Hammerton, �Teel-el-Amarna: City of Akhnaton and Tutankhamen� pages 1123-1124:

�...A closer examination of the immediate foreground detects a series of long, low mounds, many of which have been, so to speak, disembowelled aned disclose ruins of mud brick walls. To the right there rise two sickly palm trees and a solitary flat-roofed house; the home of the excavators. A modern village or two, with their domed tombs, lie half concealed in the palm plantations.

�THE SITE, SOMEWHAT UNPROMISING AT FIRST GLANCE, HAS PROVED ONE OF THE MOST THRILLING IN THE NEAR EAST; it is the only city of ancieht Egypt yet uncovered. Its life was short, barely a score of years, yet from its remains has been obtained a vivid picture of the life of the Pharaoh�s court, of his nobles and of the poorer classex...whereas the government archives of Tell-el-Amarna throw a flood of light on international relations at one of the most momentous periods in ancient times. But even greater interest attaches to the place from the cause of its foundation. Its existence is due to a great religious revolution, the only one that ever convulsed Egypt, that home of rigid conservatism, during several thousands of years.

�Under Amenhotep III...the priesthood of Ammon (Amen) at Thebes had grown dangeously powerful. On his death hsi widow, Queen Tiyi (Tiye), a remarkable woman of non-royal birth, encouraged her twelve-year-old son, now Amenhotep IV, (later to become known as Akhenaten), to give precedence to the sun god Ra who after being paramount in earlier times had now been ousted by Ammon. The boy king accordingly erected a temple at thebes to Ra, under the form of Aton (or Aten), �the Sun�s Disk,� by which he intended to symbolize the deity behind the sun who gives heat and life to the world. He thus at one sweep superseded the worship of Ammon, and with it that of th ewhole Egyptian pantheon, substituting an ideal monotheism. Finding it impossible to make any headway in the stronghold of Ammon himself he decided, no doubt with his mothe�s suppoort, on the bold plan of changing his capital.�

NEW GOD, NEW NAME:

�So he sailed downstream some 250 miles and founded a new ity on a virgin site �belonging to no god or goddess, no prince or princess, and of which no man could claim ownership.� At the same time, as an outward sign of his complete break with the old polytheism, he changed his name from Amenhotep, �Ammon is at rest,� to �Akhn-aton,��the Aton is satisfied�...Here he erected the temple to the Aton, 250 feet square, with an oblong enclsure half a mile in length. Close by were the palasce buildings, covering a space of 1,500 by 500 feet.�

MOSS NAMED AFTER 18TH DYNASTY PHARAOHS:

The may come as a surprise to many of you, but Moses was named form a pharaoh family of the 18th Dynasty. For a reference of this sort of thing, we will refer to a book �Civilization Before Greece & Rome,� by H.W.E. Saggs, page 105:

�At some periods, when scribes signed documents, they added the names and professions of their fathers after their own names, and from this we learn something about the class to which they belonged. At the end of the third millennium they were mainly sons (or, rarely, daughters) of well-to-do people, such as city governors, temple administrators, army officers, tx officials or priests. We also find references to poor orphan boys being adopted by generous patrons, who, at the height of their kindness, put them to learn the scribal art.�

The following are a list of pharaohs with this name: AMOSIS, TutMOSIS I, TuthMOSIS II, TuthMOSIS III and TuthMOSIS IV. It is now just a matter of finding out which �Mosis� is the pharaoh family which adopted Moses and gave him their name. Exodus 2:10 definitely states that the Pharaoh�s daughter name him:

�And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh�s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.�

Evidently, the meaing �I drew him out of the water� for Moses� name is attrributed only by modern commentators and became a secondary meaning for his name. We made a search, and couldn�t find any Hebrew word combination that would suggest such a meaning. It is obvious, the daughter of the Pharaoh didn�t go to him and say, �look at this Hebrew child I just saved from the river.� If that would have been the meaning of his name, at the time, the pharaoh would have taken Moses to the river and personally drowned him, for the pharaoh had made two different decrees. The first decree was an order to the midwives to kill any male Hebrew children (Exodus 1:16). The seond decree by the pharaoh was to cast the male Hebrew children into the river (Exodus 1:22). Actually the pharaoh�s order was being obeyed in the case of Moses, but the pharaoh didn�t stipulate not to place the Hebrew child in a waterproof basket.

So far, we have established beyond all reasonable doubt, with the aid of archaeological evidence, that Moses and the Exodus must have taken place in the 18th Egyptian Dynasty. It has also been established that the city of On was originally a Shemitic city, and that Joseph didn�t marry out of thekinship. We have also learned of a pharaoh by the name of Akhenaten and the new city he built to his god, Aten. Also, that Akhenaten was of a mixed Egyptian-Hurrian bloodline.

19TH EGYPTIAN DYNASTY EXCLUDED FOR THE EXODUS:

Most biblical scholars place the Edodus at the time of Merenptah, son of Ramses II in the 19th Egyptian Dynasty. If you have a �Halley�s Bible Handbook,� you might check page 116 for his explanation of this period. This has been the popular and traditional placement for the Exodus, yet there are no indications of Egypt edperiencing any momentous changes at that particular time, as the Exodus story might require. The 19th Dynasty went along unbroken: � Ramesses I � Seti I � Ramesses II � Merenptah � Amenmese � Seti II � Tausret. This sequence of pharaohs is taken form �The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt,� by Bill Manley.

The best evidence we have found in our research, to conclude the Israelites were not slaves under the pharaohs of the 19th Dynasty, is found on a limestone fragment pictured in �National Geographic Magazine� of April 1991, page 5, in an article entitled �Ramses the Great (spellings vary.� this relief depicts Ramses holding three prisoners by their hair with his right hand while holding a hatchet in his other hand. National Geographic comments thusly:

�Clutching Nubian, Libyan, and Syrian prisoners by their hair, Ram[e]ses wields an ax to dispatch them. Egyptian reliefs like this limestone fragment form the ancient capital of Memphis, proclaim only victories, never defeats. Such painted propaganda had undeviating purpose: to ensure loyalty and inspire fear.�

Totally missing from this relief is an Israelite. One might argue the Syrian would represent an Israelite; but we know the wars in which Ramses was engaged, and these three represented prisoners of war, not Israelites. It is fairly obvious that Ramses II had an entirely different labor force by this time, rather than the children of Israel. The Syrians here were probably Hurrians.

Bible scholars have also connected Ramses II with the building of Pithom and Rameses (Exodus 1:11). We don�t believe this is a vaslid argument, as there was a land of Rameses mentioned in Joseph�s time. �Halley�s Bible Handbood� says of Rameses II on page 116:

�It is, however, known that Rameses II was a great plagiarist, taking to himself credit for some of the monuments of his predecessors, having his own name carved on their monuments.�

The same Natinoal Geographic Magazine of April 1991, page 17, in an article entitled �Ramses the Great� says of Ramses II:

�He also took credit for many structures built by his predecessors, chisling out their names and substituting his. �He commissioned so much art,� says Rita Freed of boston�s Museum of Fine Arts, �that it became mass production. He seemed more interested in quantity, not quality. There porbably weren�t enough good artists. Whereas his predecessors chiseled a lot of raised relief, he chose sunken relief. It�s easier to do; and harder for your successors to chisel away.�

Now we have learned what Egyptian history is not. We demonstrated with archaeological evidence, how one person�s attempt to shave 1000 years off Egyptian history simply cannot be correct. With the archaeological evidence we have presented, we can now be more positive than ever about the general time period for the Exodus. So, make no mistake, this is not the first attempt to make such a reconciliation, as many a scholar has given it a stab in th epast. If you will check out various references, you will find all kinds of suggestions for contemporary time cfomparisons. THOROUGH BIBLE RESEARCH AND STUDY IS MORE THAN JUST READING A FEW VERSES ONCE IN A WHILE, AND THEN DECLARING ONESELF A BIBLE STUDENT.

THE TRIP BACK TO THEBES:

We have learned how an Egyptian Pharaoh by the alias name of Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV) changed his religion and moved his throne, lock stock and barrel, from Thebes to an area known today as ell-el-Amarna. With a new name, he built a new city for his new religion. But, alll did not go well in the new city. For some reson this new city (named Akhet-aton, �the Brilliance of the Sun�s Disk�) was suddenly abandoned en masse. When this city was abruptly deserted, they left behind unfinished tombs in which no one was ever buried; half finished statues which were never completed; supplies and food that were never used or eaten.

�Wonders Of The Past,� editied by Sir J.A. Hammerton, vol. 2, page 1127 says:

�In cold weather a charcoal fire would be lit in a pottery brazier sunk in the floor; the actual ashes were found in many of these braziers; evidence of the sudden evacuation of the city.�

From the book, �The Murder Of Tutankhamen,� by Bob Brier, Ph.D., pages 98-100, we quote the following excerpts:

�...Ordinary citiesns abandoned Amarna, moving en masse to Thebes, creating an overnight ghost town...in 1912 the German expedition to Amarna, led by Ludwig Borchardt, made a dramatic discovery while clearing debris from the house and studio of a maste sculptor called Tuthmosis. When they entered a locked storeroom in the sculptor�s house, the excavators found exquisite busts and heads of statues that Tuthmosis had not completed when the exodus from the city began. Among these pieces was the famous bust of Nefertiti. That such a work of art should be left behind can only mean that eople did not want to remembe the era they had helped to create...In ancient Egypt, too, there was a geneal denial of ever having been part of Akhenaten�s movement. Even names were changed (before returning to Thebes) to make assimilation possible...The bust of Nefertiti was left behind because no one wanted it.�

It would appear, from all of this, there was evidently such a devastating blow directed toward Amarna that it ws imperative for the residents to evacuate the area immediately and suddenly. People simly do not usually change their religion overnight, such as stated here.

Another good, short article on Tel-el-Amarna is from �Halley�s Bible Handbood,� page 53 which reads:

�The Tel-el-Amarna Tabliets. In 1888 there were found in the ruins of Amarna, halfway between Memphis and Thebes, about four hundred Clay Tablets which had been a part of the royal archives of Amenhotep III and Amenhoteo IV, who reigned about 1400 B.C. These Tablets are now mostly in the Museums of London and Cairo. They are form 2 to 3 inches wide, and 3 to 9 inches long, inscribed on both sides. They contain official correspondence from various kings of Palestine and Syria, written in Babylonian cuneiform script, to these two Pharaohs of Egypt. Like the Stone Tablet of Hammurabi, they constitute one of the most important archaeological discoveries of recent years.�

Because Garstang read some of the evidence at Jericho incorrectly, his dates are about 120 to 160 years too early. May we suggest a dat in the 1300s B.C., for the reigns of Amenthotep II and Amenhotep IV?

MORE ON THE NAME OF MOSES:

We have suggested to you that Moses got his name from the �moses� family of pharaohs of Egypt. Professor Garstang found in Jericho information to concirm this theory in the book �The Story Of Civilization,� part 1, �Our Oriental Heritage,� by Will Durant, page 302, in a footnote we read:

�Moses is an Egyptian rather than a Jewish (Hebrew) name; perhaps it is a shorter form of �Ahmose.� Professor Garstang, of the Marston Expedition of the University of Liverpool, claims to have discovered, in the royal tombs of Jericho, evidence that Moses was rescued (precisely in 1527(?) B.C.) By the then Princess, later the Queen Hatshepsut; that he was brought up by her as a court favoirite and fled from Egypt upon the accession of her enmey, ThutmoseIII.�

We found more concerning this same thing in �Halley�s Bible Handbook,� page 112:

�Thotmes (Tuthmosis) III. (1500(?) B.C.) Queen Hatshepsut, his half sister, was regent the first 20 years of his reign; and, though he despised her, she completely dominated him. After her death he ruled alone for 30 years. He ws the greatest conqueror in Egyptian history. Subdued Ethiopia, and ruled to the Euphrtes, first Great Empire in history. Raided Palestine and Syria 17 times. Built a Navy. Acumulated great wealth. Engged in vast buiding enterprises. Recorded his achievements in detail on walls and monuments. His tomb is at Thebes. His mummy is at Cairo. Thought to have been the Oppressor of Israel. If so, then Famouse Queen Hatshepsut may have been the Pharaoh�s Daughter who rescued and brought up Moses.�

In Bob Brier�s book �The Murder of Tutankhamen,� the following questions are asked on the inroduction page:

�X rays of Tutankamen�s skull suggest a violent death. Was it accident or murder?...Why was the king�s tomb so small and insignificant? Was it intended for someone else?...Several members of Tutankhamen�s family died around the same time; was it coincidence?...Why did Tutankhamen�s widow send desperate messages to the Hittite king requesting marriage to one of his sons? And who murdered the Hittite prince on his journey to Egypt?...Who ordered the removal of Tutankhamen�s name from all monunets and temples, and thus from Egyptian history?...This fascinating, painstakingly researched book is the first to explore in depth the questionable circumstances of Tutankhamen�s demise; and to present a shocking scenario fo betrayal, ambition, and murder. From one of our most renowned Egyptologists, this is an exciting journey into ancient history, and a 3,000-year-old mystery that still compels us today.�

As you can see, there were many strange circumstances surrounding Tutankhamen�s death. We strongly suggest that Tutankhamen was executed by the death angel in the last plague upon Egypt. Because of the idfference of our premise and Bob Brier�s premise, we will be quoting several excerpts from his book to show a dissimilar viewpoint, as our conclusions are quite different from some of his. Therefore, this will be a critical review. We do not criticise his findings or his expertise, but we believe this incident revolves around Bible history rather than a political-religious Egyptian intrigue.

LADY PHARAOH DRESSES AS A MALE, AND RAISES A MALE CHILD DRESSED AS A FEMALE:

For information concerning this, we will quote from �The Pyramids AndSphinx, by Desmond Steward, �1971, pages 52-55:

�Hashepsowe (Hat-shep0-sut) was married to Tuthmosis II, an unimpressive ruler. A court official has left us a terse account of his death: �Having ascended into heaven, he became untied with the gods and his son, having arisen in his place as king of the Two Lands, ruled upon the throne of his begetter, while his sister, the god�s wife Hashepsowe (Hat-shep_sut), governed the country and the Two Lands were under her control; people worked for her, and Egypt owed the head.�

�Although �Egypt was less male-assertive than some later societies (and inheritance through the mother was a normal pattern), we must sense a note of resentment at a female ruler. Part of this resentment may have ben due to primordial associations of the king�s reproductive organs with the fertility of herds and crops. Hashepsowe (Hat-shep-sut) was aware of such feeings, hence her desire to be portrayed as a male, as a kneeling granite statue of a male sphinx. Yet something femine affects the beast�s expression.

�This great woman was more interested in architecture and commerce than foreign conquest. At Deir el-Bahri she created a mortuary temple that compares with the pyramids for spectacular scope and rivals them for its imaginative use of landscape..

�Hashepsowe (Hat-shep-sut) had first conceived the bold idea of driving her bjurrow eastward, straight under the mountain; in this way her sarcophagus and that of her divine father, Tuthmosis, could lie under the fliff itself. She planned to transform the sheer ace of the escarpment into a vast temple, imitating on a far grander scale the mortuary temle built by an Eleventh Dynasty predecessor. But the tunnel collapsed and this part of her scheme had to be abandoned. Hashepsowe�s (Hat-shep-sut�s) ultimate design, an ascending sequence of colonnaded courtyards culminating in a rock-hewn inner shrine, served the same functions as the mortuay temples attached to the pyramids.

�Egyptian inscriptions rarely recorded unharmonious facts; they give no indication of how the queen�s reign may have been terminated by supporters of Tuthmosis III, hashepsowe� (Hat-shep-sut�s) nephew and coregent, now grown to manhood. Whether Hashepsowe (Hat-shep-sut) died of natural causes, was retired, or ws murdered is sill unknown. But some time after the king assumed solitary power he had every artistic reference to Hashepsowe (Hat-shep-sut) that he could uncover destroyed.�

Also on page 55 of this same book is a picture of a granite statue for which there is considerable interest concerning Hatshepsut and it is described thusly:

�Hashepsowe�s (Hat-she0-sut�s) chief minister, Senmut, is portrayed in this block statue with his royal pupil. The queen�s daughter, on his kneews. The two heads emerging from the confines of the massive granite block convey an aura of tender affection between tutor and pupil.�

We believe that, rather than the queen�s daughter, this was Moses, her adopted son dressed up as a girl in order to protect him during his childhood years (but check Exodus 2:10-14). That was probably her story when she saved him from the river. We also belive she was grooming Moses to be the pharaoh following her as her heir. Hatshepsut wsas at the end of apur royal line. She may even ahve been of the House of Shem which would tell us a lot about the reason for saving Moses in the first place (Also Egypt was ruled, at one time, by Shepherd Kings). Tuthmosis III (her adversary) was born of a monor wife and thus not of royal blood. When we can understand the circumstances here, we can start to grasp the situation.

To state the relationship with the other pharaohs at the time, Hatshepsut was the daughter of Tuthmosis I. She married her brother (possibly half brother) Tuthmosis II. She then took the throne as king in stead of Tuthmosis III for which there was much animosity beteen her and him. If Hatshepsut was the Egyptian princess who rescued Moses from the river, then the pesecution of the Israelites must have started under Tuthmosis I or possibly even Hatshepsut�s husband, tuthmosis II. To give another view to help clear up this situation, we will now quote from �The Murder Of Tutankhamen,� by Bob Brier, page 35:

�The only surviving child of Tuthmosis [1] and his queen was Princess Hatshepsut. There is no word for �queen� in ancient Egyptian. The phrase we translate as �queen� is actually �king�s great wife.� Had Hatshepsut been a son, the royal frown would have passed directly to him, but she was a girl and this created a problem.

�It is not always clear how the successor to the throne was chosen. It wasn�t as simple as in England; where the laws of promogeniture decreed that the throne was passed down through the king�s eldest son, with specified contingencies for all possibilities. In Egypt, the pharaoh had several wives and could also marry his sisters, so the lines of succession for his children could be rather complex. Overall, the rule known as the �Heiress Theory� covered most cases: whoever married the eldest most royal daughter became pharaoh.

�When Tuthmosis [1] died, his son Tuthmosis II by a minor wife was maried to his half sister Hatshepsut, the eldest daughter of the pharaoh and his great wife. Marriage to Hatshesut established Tutmosis II�s right to the throne. The couple had a successful, uneventful twenty-year reign. When Tuthmosis II died he left two children, a daughter [really probably the adopted son Moses in disguise] by Hatshepsut, and a young son, Tuthmosis III, by a minor wife. Then, suddenly, one of the most incredible events in Egypt�s long history occurred: Hatshepsut changed her royal title from �Queen� to �King� and had herself portrayed in full male royal regalia, complete with beard. This was unheard of in conservative ancient Egypt. By wearing the false beard and the royal kilt of the pharaoh, Hatshepsut was attemting to stay within the traditional boundaries of Egyptian kingship; se was the king who happened to be a woman...�

It would appear, Hatshepsut was attempting to keep royal blood on the throne. Knowing that Tuthmosis III was not of royal blood, evidently Hatshepsut took the throne herself until such time as Moses would be old enough to do so. Probably once Tuthmosis III did succeed in taking the throne, the persecution of the Israelites resumed after a lull during Hatshepsut�s reign. If all of this is true, Princess Hatshepsut had more motivation for rescuing Moses than just wanting an Israelite adopted son. She seemed to have all the qualities of a woman knowing exactly what she was doing. If Hatshepsut had no compunction dressing as a man, she would have had no reservations in dressing Moses like a girl for a short while.

TIMING:

At this juncture, there is a hodgepodge of dates from different sources to consider. The problem is fitting Moses� life into this time period. Basically, Moses� life is broken down into three forty year periods: (1) For his birth until he fled Egypt after killing an Egyptian. (2) His forty years in Midian and his return to Egypt to face down the pharaoh to let the Israelites have their freedom, and, (3) His 40 years wandering with the Israelites in the wilderness until his death.

This can be verified by Ats 7:23, but doen�t agree with Jasher 71:2; 72:23 & 76:3. The first 80 years is what concerns us, as we must fit it into the period from Hatshepsut until the Amarna period. We checked first with a time-chart in the book �The Pyramid And Sphinx,� by Desmond Stewart, page 54, and the dates are about 60-70 years too long to fit Moses� 80 years in Egypt. We continued to search other books such as �Mummies Myth And Magic,� by Christine El Mahdy; �Historical Atlas of Ancient Egypt,� by Bill Manley; The Boehm Journey To Egypt, Land Of Tutankhamun,� by Frank J. Cosetiono; �The Zondervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible,� in five volumes along with many other books.

Finally, in �the Interpreter�s Dictionary Of The Bible,� in four volumens we found in volume E-J pages 48-49, figures which fit Moses� 80 years in Egypt. This reference places the Haztshepsut period 1486-1468 B.C., and the Amarna period 1775-1300 B.C. If we take a starting point of 1468 B.C., and subtract 40 years, we will come to 1428 B.C. by substracting another 40 years, one will come to 1388 B.C., which is getting close to our objective. No doubt, there are still some further overlappings of time-periods which could be subtracted from these figures. We have to remember, too, these dates are probably generally off by a hundred years or so.

To show that we are on the right track, we will quote form the book �The Bible And Archaeology,� by J.A. Thompson, pages 55-56:

�When Did The Exodus Take Place? It has been widely held that the Exodus took place about 1440 B.C. One reasno for this has been found in 1 Kings 6:1, where we have the statement: �And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightienth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon�s reign over Israel...that he began to build the house of the Lord.�

�We have good reason to belive that Solomon began to reign about the middle of the tenth century BlC., that is, about 950 B.C. It would follow from this that the Exodus took place about 1430 B.C., in the time of the Eighteenth dynasty which ruled Egypt from 1570 to 1310 B.C.�

If all of this is true, this places us within one hundred years of the Amarna period. There is another position which should be taken into account concernign this time-period. We will now quote from this same book, page 62:

�What, then, are we to say of the date implied by the statement in 1 Kings 6:1? A comparison with the Greek Septuagint shows that there was a difference of opinon in the minds of the translators in the time when this text was prepared, say in the period between 300 and 100 B.C. The Septuagint gives a period of four hundred and forty years as the time lapse between the Exodus and Solomon.�

Another important aspect of the Exodus period is mentioned on page 56 of this same book:

�In the first place, if we are to take th ebible narrative seriously (and there is evey reason that we should), we are bound to notice that the icture in the Bible is easiest to interret if we regard the residence of the Pharaoh as being in the region of the delta at the time of the Exodus...�

This is an important observatin, as Akhenaten�s move to his new city placed him much further north in Egyt than before. While not actyually in the Delta area, the Amarna site is much closer than Thebes. No doubt, many of theIsraelite slaves were moved the short distance from the so-called Goshen area to the Amarna site to serve as a labor force. (More on the location of Goshen later) Unearthed at Tell-el-Amana are the living quarters of a workman�s suburb. Pictured is an area for a cottage living room, large water jar along with a food bowl and hearth, sunken brick, recepticles for grain and even bathroom facilities. In viewing these ruins, one can even imagine the Passover lamb being repared over the open charcoal hearth in th ekitchen area.

JOSEPH AND THE HYKSOS

We will be placing Joseph with the hyksos period, but not in the way most so-called authorities cast him. In order to learn something of the Hyksos period, we will quote form �The Bible As History,� by Werner Keller, pages 86-88:

Something incredible and frightful befell the Nile country about 1730 B.C. Suddenly as a bolt from the blue, warrors in chariots drove intot he country like arrows shot from a bow, endless columns of them in clouds of dust. Day and night horses� hooves thundered past the frontier posts, rang through city streets, temple squares and the majestic courts of Pharaoh�s palaces. Even before the Egyptians realized it, it had happened; their country was taken by surprise, overrun and vanquished. The giant of th eNile, who never before in history had seen foreign conquerors, lay bound and prostrate.

�The rule of the victors began with a bloodbath. The Hyksos, Semitic tribes from Canaan and syria, knew no pity. With the fateful year 1730 B.C., the thirteen-hundred-year rule of the dynasties came to an abrupt end. The Middle Kkingdom of the Pharaohs was shattered under the onslaught of these Asian peoples, the �rulers of foreign lands.� That is the meaning of the name Hyksos. The memory of their political disaster remined alive among the Nile people, as a striking descriptino by the �Egyptian historian Manetho testified: �We had a king called Tutimaeus. In hsi reign, it happened. I do not know why �God was displeased with us. Unexprctedly from the regions of the East, came men of UNKNOWN RACE.

�Confident of victory they marched against our land. By force they took it, easily, without a single battle. Having overpoweed our rulers, they burned our cities without compassion, and destrohyed the temples of the gods. All the natives were treated with great cruelty, for they slew some and carried off the wives and children of others into slavery.

�Finally they appointed one of themselves as king. His name was Salitis and he lived in memphis and made Upper and Lower Egypt pay tribute to him, and set up garrisons in places which would be most useful to him...and when he found a city in the province of Sals which suited his purpose (it lay east of the Bubastite branch of the Nile and was called Avaris) he rebuilt it and made it very strong by erecting walls and installign a force of 240,000 men to hold it. Salitis went there evey summer partly to collect his corn and pay his men their wages, and partly to train hsi armed troops and terrify foreigners.�

At their height, the Hyksos occupied th eland of the Hurrians. Carchemish, Syria, Palestine and much of the northern part of Egypt. by inhabiting the delta area of �Egypt, they were in control of all commerce on the Nile. This cut �Egypt off almost entirely from commercial trade and the rest ofthe then know world. The hyksos could sit in their fortress at Avaris and call all the shots up and down the Nile. Thes Hyksos were a very strange people, desiring to set up a government like that of the Egyptians. It makes one wonder why they didn�t set up a goverhment like they had whereve they came frm, wherever that was. They seem to be a kind of chameleon type of peole, adapting themselves to their surroundings. We have a chameleon type of peoople today living in the United States, pretending to be of the White Race, and passing themselves off as such; chanign their names to fit the territory. Some students believe the Hyksos came from the Caucasus or even Central Asia. At lest, as far as the Egyptians were concerned the Hyksos were an Asiatic people. The Hyksos seem to have been active merchants. They introduced into Egypt a new system of weights and balances.. Does this eem to reing a bell of any kind/ It kind of makes one wonder who the Hyksos people were. We can be quite sure they were not Egptian or Israelite, though.

Afte 108 years of domination by th eHyksos, the last phaaraoh of the 17th Dynasty, Kamose, and the first pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty, Amosis, rose up against these intruders, and over a period of about 20 hyears drove them northward out of the Delta area.

JOSEPH IMPOSES A 20% INCOME TAX:

If you are unfamiliar with the income tax which Joseph imposed on certain people, it is found in genesis 47:26. Not only did Joseph impose a 20% income tax, but he used the advantage of the seven years of famine to buy up all the land for the Pharaoh. We will quote from verse 20-26:

�And Joseph brought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine revailed over them; so the land became Pharaoh�s. �And as for the people, he removed them to the cities from ONE end of the borders of Egypt even to the OTHER end thereof. Only the land of the priests bought he not; for the priests had a portion ASSIGNED them of Pharaoh, and did eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them: wherefore they sold not their lands. Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh, LO HERE is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land. And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give THE FIFTH PART unto Pharaoh, and FOUR PARTS shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones. And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh�s servants. And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, THAT Pharaoh should have the FIFTH part; except the land of the priests only, WHICH became not Pharaoh�s.�

We know, that according to Biblical Law, that it is unlawful for Adam/Israelites to charge other Adam/Israelites an income tax. It is also unlawful to take the lands from the Adam/Israelites in the manner just described. It is, therefore, obvious that his income tax and confiscation of land was not directed toward or to be paid by the Israelites living in the land of Goshen, wherever Goshen was located. If we can connect this income tax historically, would it not identify the Joseph period in Egypt? We are sure, when Frank J. Cosentino wrote his book �The Boehm Journey To Egypt, Land of Tutankamun,� he had no idea he was making such an identification, but on page 37 he makes the following statement:

�Amosis I, now a great hero of Egypt, was in a position to eliminate the feudal system, and he did. He confiscated the lands and properties of the lords he defeated and stripped them of their peerage. Those who supported him during the long Hyksos war also turned their estates over to the pharaoh in return for retention of their old titles and offices. All of Egypt once again was the personal property of the pharaoh.�

From this short statement, we can comprehend, not only does this match up with Scripture, but also establishes, with little doubt, that the reign of Amosis I is contemporary with Joseph of the Bible. If what we surmise is true, when Joseph�s brothers sold himto the Ishmaelites (possibly a mistranslation for Midianites), they must have bypassed the Hyksos in the Delta area and entered into Egypt by the backdoor, from sawu on the Red Sea, across the desert to the Nile (Test. Of Zebulun 1:30).

This brings up some questions: Did Abraham and Sarah, when they went to Egypt to escape a famine, come into contact with the Hysos? Were Isac and Rebekah warned not to go to Egypt because the Hyksos were in power there at the time?

No doubt, it was the actions of Joseph that started the weakening of the Hyksos. We have no evidence that Joseph ever warned them of th ecoming famine, and they were totally unprepared fo it. they, too, probably had to go to Amosis and Joseph for something to eat. What better time to start taking advantage of the Hyksos in charging them an income tax and traiding them food for land/ We can be quite sure that Joseph didn�t charge the Israelites an income tax or confiscate their land for Genesis 47:27 says:

�And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and THEY HAD POSSESSIONS THEREIN, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.�

You will notice it doesn�t say anything about charging the Israelites an income tax or taking away their land. Some read this account of Joseph in Genesis 47 and condemn him, but it is a matter of figuring out who he was doing this to. As just quoted form Cosentino, �he (Amosis) confiscated the lands and properties of thelords he defeated and stripped them of their peerage.� It was the Hyksos that Amosis defeated.

Again, we wish to stress there are problems with the dates. Due to Garstang�s misredingof the evidence at Jericho, there is a 120 to 160 year differentiation of time between Eghyptian and Israelite history. We are sure, when all is said and done, there will be a simple explanation for all of this and all the pieces of the puzzle will fit nicely into place.

The problem is expressed in the book �The Bible And Archaeology,� by J.A. Thompson, pages 61-62:

�More recent work carried out by the British archaeologist Dr. Kathleen Kenyon has shown that the all of Jericho fell at various times in its history. The town was burned several times, and the features mentioned by Garstang could have been discovered for a number of the cities of Jericho. MOREOVER, POTTERY FOUND IN THE GRAVES SHOWED THAT THERE WAS OCCUPATON IN THIS AREA RATHER LATER THAN 1400 B.C. THERE WERE, IN FACT, TRCES OF A STILL LATER CITY TO BE FOUND ON TOP OF THE RUINS THAT GARSTANG HAD FOUND. He had observed this but had interpreted these as beloonging to the city of Hiel referred to in 1 Kings 16:34, the net result of Miss Kenyon�s word is that WE CANNOT ACCEPT THE EXCAVATION OF GARSTANG AS PROVING BEYOND ALL DOUBT THAT THE EXODUS TOOK PLACE AS EARLY AS 1440 B.C.�

We have shown, with substantial archaeological evidence that Israel�s stay in Egyhpt surely happened during the 18th Dynasty, or New Kingdom. It was proposed that Moses was anmed after a line of pharaohs, namely the pharaohs whose names ended with �mosis.� We were able to place the contemporary time periods of Joseph, Moses and the Exodus with 18th Dynasty Egyptian history.

WALKING STEP BY STEP THROUGH ISRAEL�S SOJOURN IN EGYPT FROM JOSEPH UNTIL JOSHUA:

Let�s now take a walk with Israel through Egyptian history, starting with Joseph and continuing through time up until and including the time of Joshua. To start with, this will require the proper placing of Joseph into this histoircal narrative. Almost every book reference tries to place Joseph during the Hyksos period claiming that Joseph and the Hyksos would have had much in common. It is probably true that Joseph, when he wa sold by his brothers and taken to Egypt, did go there during the Hyksos era.

If Joseph had been sold to the Hyksos, and his family had later come to Egypt being plcaced in the Delta area, when Pharaoh Amosis finally drove the Hyksos out of the Delta area, he would, in the process, have driven the Israelites out with them. If Joseph would have been a vizier to a Hyksos pharaoh, he would have been considered an enemy to Pharaoh Amosis. That scenario doesn�t fit the picture of this time-period very well.It is more lively that Joseph was taken by his captors to Amosis� area at Thebes and sold there. Werner Keller�s �The Bible As History,� pages 88-90, implies that Joseph was sold to the Hyksos as follows:

�The Biblical story of Joseph and the sojourn of the children of Israel in Egypt belong to this period of turbulent conditons on the Nile under the rule of the foreign Hyksos. It is therefore nto surprising that no contemporary Egyptian information has come down to us. Nevertheless, there is indirect proof of the authenticity of the Joseph story...We know too that the Hyksos rulers were the first to use the ceremonial chariot on public occasions in Egypt. Before their day this had not been the practice on the Ni.e. the eremonial chariot harnessed to throughbred horses was in those ays the Rolls-Royce of the governors. The first chariot belonged to the ruler, the �second chariot� was occupied by his chief minister.�

You have to understand that, while the Hyksos ruled the Delta area, and southern Egypt was subservient to them, Amosis at Thebes was a pharaoh there. In other words, there were two pharaohs rulign Egypt at the same time. And just because the Hyksos brought the chariot to the Delta area is no sign that the Egyptians at Thebes didn�t adopt and cpy the idea of the chariot for themselves very quickly. To understand more abut the hyksos, we will quote from a �Reader�s Digest� book extra., �Great People of the Bible,� pages 30-31. While the article is informative, it also tries to place Joseph with the Hyksos:

�The idea that Joseph, a Hebrew slave, could have become the Pharaoh�s highest official, is not as fanciful as it might sould. Abut the time of his arrival, between 1720 and 1700 B.C., Egypt was invaded by a Syro-Canaanite alliance called the �Hyksos� by the Egyptians. These invaders established their own line of Pharaohs and ruled the country for about 150 years. Hated foreignes themselves, it is likely that the Hyksos might trust someone like Joseph sooner than they would a native Egyptian, and the account of Joseph�s rise to power has an undeniably authentic flavor. Anothe part of the narrative, in which the Pharaoh acquired most of the country�s land during a famine, would be ezasy to understand if Egypt had been under the Hyksos.�

Of course, this last sentence is rdferring to Joseph imposing a 20% income tax on some of the land owners. It is our view that Joseph placed the 20% income tax on the Hyksos as a requirement to get food during the famine. The main point we wanted to bring with this quotation is the fact that Hyksos were a �syro-Canaanite alliance.�

SCRIPTURE ATTESTS JOSEPH NOT SOLD TO THE HYKSOS:

The setting of this can be seen when Joseph�s brothers came to Egypt to buy food. At this time, his brothers didn�t recognize him azs their brother, but as an Egyptian. While the brothers were in egypt, they were invited to dine at a banquet with Joseph. The seating arrangement was quite unusual for the meal. In order tosee the situation clearly, we are going to take the obligation of rendering this passage in a manner to make it understandable, as in most translations it�s not quite clear. The passage under consideration is Genesis 43:32:

�They served Joseph by himself, and his brothers by themselves, and the Egytians attending the banquet ate by themselves, for the Egyptians would not eat bread with the Hebrews, for it was an abomination to the Egyptians.�

If you are wondering why the Egyptians refused to eat with the Hebrews, it was because they considered anyone who herded animals as abhorrent. As the Hyksos were also animal herders, they wouldn�t have taken this attitude. It was the Egyptians at Thebes and on toward the south of Eghypt during the time-period that considered it repugnant to associate with animal herders. We believe this verse of Scripture is evidence that Joseph wasn�t sold as a slave to the Hyksos, but rather to Amsis� realm around Thebes.

Later when Joseph brought his father and brothers to dwell in �Egypt, Joseph advised his brothers that the Egyptians considered shepherds to be an abomination, sayign (Genesis 46:33-34):

�And it shall come to pass, when Pharaoh shall call you, and shall say, What is your occupation? That ye shall say, thy servants� trade hath been about cattle from our youth even until now, both we AND also our fathers that ye may dwell in th eland of Goshen; for every shepherd IS an abomination unto the Egyptians.�

This brings up another questiong: Where in Egypt was the �land of Goshen?� If the Hyksos were controllign the entire Delta area at that time period, the pharaoh at Thebes would have no authority to grant the Hebrews any land in that region, for it was out of his jurisdiction. Is it possible the so-called �land of Goshen� was somewhere else in the land of Egypt other than the Delta area? It will be necessary, therefore, to do some reseach in order to investigate this question.

There are two different Goshens mentioned in the bible, one in Palestine and the other in Egypt. Indeed, there is a lot of speculation where Goshen might have been in Egypt, but not a lot of proof. �The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology� indicats that in the late Hyksos period the Theban princes sent their cattle to pasture in the Hyksos-conttrolled Delta (Found in the Zondedervan Pictorial Encyclopedia of the Bible, vol. 2, page 779). Likely, Joseph and his family were given the so-called �land of Goshen� area before the end of the �late Hyksos period.�

ISRAELITES GIVEN BEST LAND IN EGYPT:

Genesis 47:6 and 11 tell us that the Israelites were to be given the very best land in Egypt. Let�s read these two verses:

�The land of Egypt IS before thee; in the BEST of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell... And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, IN THE BEST OF THE LAND...�

By this time, the pharaoh was aware that Joseph�s prediction of a seven-year famine was a valid prophecy. No doubt, this is what notivated him to be so generous wiht Joseph and his family. If the pharaoh gave Jacob and his sons the very best land in Egypt, it may nhave been in the Faly_m area. For information on this particular area in Egypt, we will quote form Werner Keller�s �The Bible As History,� page 90:

�Joseph was thirty years of age when he �went out over all the land of Egypt.� (Genesis 41:45) the Bible says no more about this, but there is a sot by the Nile which still bears his name. The town of Medinet-el-Faiy_m, lying eighty miles south of Cairo in the middle of the fertile faiy_m, was extolled as the �Venice of Egypt.� In th elush gardens of this huge flourishing oasis grew oranges, mandarins, peaches, olives, pomegranates, and grapes. Faly_m owed these delicious fruits to the artifical canal, over 200 miles long, which conveyed the water of the Nile and turned this district, which would otherwise have been desert, into a paradise. The ancient waterway is not only to shis day called �Bahr Yusuf;��Joseph�s Canal,� by the fellahin, but is known by this name througout Egypt. People say that it was the Joseph of the Bible, Pharaoh�s �Grand Vizier,� as Arab legends would describe him, who planned it.�

TWO FAMOUS 7 YEAR FAMINES IN EGYPTIAN HISTORY:

the famine during the time of Joseph was not the only seven year famine in Egyptian history. For information concerning the previous famine, we will quote from two sources referring to it. Firist, we will quote from �The Bible and Archaeology,� by J.A. thompson, page 46:

�We have a great deal of information about the famines of Egypt. Years of drought and bad harvests are well attested in Pharaoh�s domain. There is even evidence of a seven-year famine. The famous King Zoser (about 2700 B.C.) Once sent a message to the governor of one region down the Nile. Here are his words:

�I am very concerned about the people in the palace. My heart is heavy over the calamitous failure of the Nile floods for the past seven years. There is little fruit; vegetables are in short suply; there is a shortage of food generally.�

The second quote concerning this seven-year famine is from �The Bible As History,� by Werner Keller, page 91:

�In very early times, for example, at the beginning of the third millennium, there is said to have been a seven-year famine according to a rock inscription of the Ptolemies. King Zoser sent the following message to the governer of the great cataracts of the Nile at Elephantine: �I am very much concerned about the people in the palace. My heart is heavy over the calamitous failure of the Nile floods for the past seven years. There is little fruit; vegetables are in short supply; there is a shortage of food generally. Everybody robs his neighbor...Children weep, young folk droop. The aged are depressed, they have no power in their legs, they sin on the ground. The court is at its wit�s end. The storehouses ahve been opened, but everything that was in them has been consumed.��

As you can clearly see, this former famine is very much diffeent from the one Joseph was associated with. Whereas with the famine of Joseph�s time th eEgyptians had plenty to eat, in the amine during the time of Zoser, the people suffered terribly from hnger. Also, thee was no previous warning before the Zoser fmine indicating that it was coming so they could have seven yers to prepare for it as in the case of Joseph. In fact. Egypt, during the famine of Joseph , had more than enough food for itself and was supplying the countries around her. This situation probably strengthened Egypt�s monetary and political position tremendously. F. David Fry, Jr. in his �Hebrew Sages of Ancient Egypt (A Revised Dicipline in Antiquity), in trying to shave a thousand years off of Egyptian during the 18th Dynasty, alludes to an earlier famine in Egypt. As a matter of fact, he refers to Zoser�s famine on page 34 of this same book and highly suggests that it was actuaity the famine of Zoser. But, as you an see, from the forgone evidence presented, Zosser�s seven-year famine doesn[t fit the conditions during Joseph�s time. I will now quote what F.David fry, Jr., has to say on page 34 of his book:

�Then, another famine took place early in Dynasty 3, while Zoser reigned as king. It is recorded on what archaeologists call the �Famine Stela.��A stela (or stele) is an upright stone or pillar engraved with an inscriptino or design, and usually used as a monument or grave markeer. The Famine Stela seems to confirm the biblical report of a seven year famine which occurred at the beginning of Joseph�s service to Pharaoh (I don�t think so);

�The name Zoser does not occur on any monument before the Twelfth Dynasty. On his contemporary monuments he is called Iry-Khet-Neter...Zoser�s name was closely associated with the region South of Aswan known in Greek times as the dodekaschoinos. The names of Zoser and his architect, imhotep, are recorded on the well known �Famine Stela� of the Ptolemaic period, more than 2700 years after Zoser�s death. The stela is carved on a rock on th eisland of Sehel, South of Aswan. According to the insscription, there was a great famine during the reign of Zoser because for seven years the Nile had failed to rise. When Zoser asked Imhotep for advice, he replied that to stop the famine it was necessary to gain the favor of the god Khnum, the god of the First Cataract, the birth place of the Nile. It was only Khnum who could fill the granaries of Egypt. (Ahmed Fakhry, The Pyramids, p. 23)

�Scholars understand this Famine Stela was written hundreds of years after the fact, its story corrupted by religion; nonetheless, they deem its basic details as valid and true...

�Can the seven year famine of King Zoser and his prime minister, Imhotep, possibly be the same as the seven year famine of the Genesis story?... Chances are extremely remote there existed more than one seven year famine, especially since the Nile River is so regular...�

Some of what F. David Fry, Jr., is saying here is true, but with the evidence we have considered Zoser�s famine cannot be the same famine as Joseph�s. With the Jericho arhaeological finds and the shipwreck evidence, the time period for Joseph, Moses and the Exodus must be contemporary with the 18th Egyptian Dyunasty. We simply cannot over-stress how important this archaeological evidence is. Joshua had placed a curse on Jericho that no one was ever to occupy Jericho after the Israelites destroyed it. Therefore, there would only be archaeological evidence found at Jericho up until Joshua�s time, nothing after. So, the finding of scarabs of Queen Hatshepsut, Tutmosis III, and Amenhotep III of the 18th Egyptian Dynasty, it highly suggests that these pharaohs were just previous to Joshua. In other words, if the Exodus took place in the 6th Dynasty, as Fry implies, they would not have found scarabs of these particular pharaohs at Jericho. The article in the National Geographic Magazine of December 1987 entitled the �Oldest Known Shipwreck Rveals Splendors Of The Bronaze Age� disclosed evidence serving as a double witness to corroborate the archaeological finds at Jericho. If we did not make all this clear previously, we hope it will become crystal clear with the following.

We really need to take a look at the curse which Joshua put on Jericho. It is found in Joshua 6:26 and reads:

�And Joshua adjured THEM at that time, saying, Cursed BE the man before Yahweh that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation theeof in his firstborn, and in his youngest SON shall he set up the gates of it.�

We found an outstanding comment on this verse in the �Jamieson, Fausset & Brown Commentary On The Whole Bible,� page 172:

�The Rebuilder of Jericho Cursed. JOSHUA ADJURED THEM AT THAT TIME; i.e., imposed upon his countrymen a solemn oath, binding on themselves as well as their posterity, that they would never rebuild that city. Its dstruction was designed by God (Yahweh) to be a permanet memorial of His abhorrence of idolatry and its attendant vices. CURSED BE THE MAN...THAT RISETH UP AND BUILDETH THIS CITY JERICHO, i.e., makes the daring attempt to build, HE SHALLLAY THE FOUNDATION THEREOF IN HIS FIRST-BORN, AND IN HIS YOUNGEST SON SHALL HE SET UP THE GATES OF IT; shall become childless, the first beginning being marked by the death of his oldest son, and his only surviving child dying at the time of its completion. This curse wa accomplished 550 years after its denunciation. (See 1 Kings 16:34)

There is no doubt that Jericho was an idoltatrous city, if you consider 12 acres a city. A fort might possibly be a better representation of it. An even bette description might be a staging area for making attacks on other places. Actually, archaeologists found that Jericho was used as a place to store food and war implements. No doubt, the Hyksos probably used Jericho as a staging area for its attacks on Egypt. by the Israelites destroying Jericho, they cut off the possibility of some foreing power using it as a jumping off place to attack them. It appears that the destruction of Jericho was a very critical move on Israel�s part to stave off attacks on them in their future. The main thing we should be interested in, for this lesson, is the fact that scarabs were found at Jericho, of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, showing its (18th Dynasty�s) dated existence was before the time of Joshua. The archaeological finds at Jericho set a very definite timeline for Israel being in Egypt.

20% FOOD COLLECTION TO BE USED FOR LEAN YEARS:

Howard Rand in his book �Promogenesis,� page 116 says:

�He (Joseph) also urged him (pharaoh) to appoint officers over the land who would take up the fifth part of the produce of the land in the seven years of plenty.� (This is not the same as in Genesis 47:27 where Joseph imposes a 20% income tax). If we do a little calculation, we can soon see that a 1/5th collection of the produce for the seven years of plenty would not be enough to hold Egypt over the seven years of lean, let alone feeding all the other nations around her. A collection of 1/5th would not even be enough to hold Egypt over in the lean years for a yar and a half. What we are wondering at this point is; Did Joseph have enough time to build a 200 mile long canal to control the waters in the Fay�m area and put it into production before the seven years of plenty? It�s the one area in Egypt that could have accounted for the trmendous yields recorded in the Bible during those years. The only thing which could account for ample production during the years of plenty would be; if the crops were almost twice the normal yield, or an increase of land was put into production. The only way a 1//5th produce collection would fit in this story is if there was a government project to increase land use. In which case 100% of this produce would have been put into storage. Faiy�m anyone?

LET�S GO A STEP FURTHER:

There is another consideration we should take into account concerning the story of Joseph as it is recorded in the Bible. Sometimes little details are hidden just under the surface ujntil we take the time to really analyze them. Joseph�s marriage to Asenath is one of these hidden cases. Let�s rad the account in Genesis 41:45:

�And Pharaoh called Joseph�s name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gve him to wife Asenath the daughter of Potipherh piest of On. And Joseph went out ove ALL the land of Egypt.�

DID YOU NOTICE WHAT WE JUST READ ABOUT THE HARAOH GIVING JOSEPH HIS WIFE? Thee is only one way that he would have had the authority to do such a thing. That is if the pharaoh was of the House of Shem himself. At that time period evidently the pharaohs were Shemites. Bviously, the lower class of the Egypttians were not though, only the ruing class. If this is true, it puts our story in an entirely different light! Also, if this is true, we can be sure Joseph wasn�t sold by the Ishmaelites to the Hyksos, but to Amosis� area at Theves. Also, if this is true, it brings up a whole host of questions! Not only that, but it will clear up a lot of unusual situations.

LET�S TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT JOSEPH�S 20% INCOME TAX AND LAND CONFISCATION:

Under, Shemitic-Hebrew Law, it is not permitted to charge usury, income tax or to confiscate one�s brother�s land. But to non-Semitic-Hebrew peoples, it is permitted. We cannot go into the details of this in this short study, but only observe it from Joseph�s perspective. If all this is correct, Joseph had every right to take the Egyptian�s land and money from them and give it to the Shemiti pharaoh.

Also, it explains why the priesthood, being Shemitic, was not taxed. Maybe by this time the priesthood was not all it should have been, but if they were racial brothes, it would exlcude them from the tax and land confiscation.

As you can start to see, this Joseph story is beginning to make a lot more sense. This should also make us aware why it was such a disaster when the pharaohs started to take the Hurrins and the hittites as wives in the 18th and 19th Dynasties.

It will also explain why a racial war developed between the Shemitic pure line pharaohs and the pharaohs mixed with Hurrian blood. As a result of the seven yer of famine, Egypt was brought totally under Shemite control. Being under Shemitic control, the Israelites would naturally be exempt from any income tax. All this would change when non-Shemitic pharaohs later came to power.

It would appear, with the marriage of Joseph to Asenath, there was a close family relationship between Joseph and the pharaoh. Howard B. Rand in his book �Primogenesis,� page 117 seems to agree with this when he says:

�The priestly caste to which Joseph�s father-in-law, the Priest of On, belonged undoubtedly of the line of Shem. Apparently Shem�s descendants were established in the office of the spriesthood in Egypt at the time of the building of the Great Pyramid. Thus, the purity of the racail stock of the appointed seed was preserved in the birth of these boys to Joseph and Asenath.�

If what Rand is saying concerning the House of Shem going back to the building of the Great Pyramid is correct, it can�t be referring to the Hyksos, for their rule in the Delta rea lasted only just a little over a hundred years.

While Dr. William J. Hale in his book �Chemivision� believes the Hyksos were the people Joseph was associated with nevertheless, he has som interesting remarks on pages 15 & 16 as follows:

�Joseph found favor in the saight of the Royal House of the Eighteenth Dynasty and was soon appointed as administrator in charge of granaries. To Joseph to wife was given Asenath; daughter of Potipherah, priest of On...In the course of a rising surge of Egyptians from the upper (southern) Nile it was not long before the Hyksos were totally expelled from Egypt, possibly around 1583 B.C.�

MORE EVIDENCE JOSEPH COULDN�T HAVE CHARGED HIS KIN A 20% INCOME TAX:

For verification on this, we will quote from �Adam�s Tree,� by Della Stanley, page 44:

�...He (Joseph) returned and took Simeon and had him bound before their eyes. Then he commanded their sacks to be filled with corn, and to restore every man�s money into his sack. And he sent them on their way home. Joseph knew the purpose for his being in Egypt, AND HE COULD NOT TAKE MONEY FROM HIS BROTHERS. Theree could be no price paid in money for the salvation of his family. Also he wanted these brothers to learn a lesson that they would never forget.

�On the road home, the sons of Jacob stopped to rest and to eat,and one found hjis money in his sack. When they arrived home, the others found their money restored also, and they were sorely disturbed. They told their father all that had hapened; that Simeon was forced to stay in Egypt as security and that the ruler demanded they retrn with Benjamin, else they would neve see Simeon agani.�

TWO GROUPS IDENTIFIED AS �SHEPHERD KINGS�:

In an article publised by Destiny Magazine, October 1962, entitled �Enoch�s Mission and Shem�s Responsibility� (pages 201-204 in the 1962 yearbook), Howard B. Rand quotes Manetho as saying that the �Hyksos� were �shepherd kings.� Yet, at the same time, his article places the �shepherd kings� with Pharaoh� Cheops of the 4th Dynasty several hundreds of years before.

We are quite surprised that Rand didn�t recognize this discrepancy before he wrote the articl. As the Hyksos were only in Egypt for a little ove a hundred years in the reigns of Kamose at the end of the 17th Dynasty and Amosis at the beginning of the 18th Dynasty, thee is no way the Hyksos could be the same people as the �shepherd kings� at the time of Cheops. Outside of this disparity, the rest of the article is outstanding in bringing many interesting facts into perspective from which we will not quote excerpts:

�During the construction of the Great Pyramid in Egypt, the records indicate that the Egyptian government was in opposition to the idolatrous worship that had been established in the land. Cheops, the Pharaoh ruling at taht time, was accused by the idolatrous worshipers of being very arrogant toward the gods, having shut up their temples and having compelled the riests to labor

�THE SHEPHERD KINGS. Historical fragments set forth the fact that at this time there was a notable stranger in Egypt who remained at the site of the Great Pyramid. The priests whom Herodotus the historian counsulted regarding the earlier history of Egypt described this stranger as a shepherd to whom, rather than to Cheops, the Egyptians attributed the building of the Great Pyramid.

�Cheops apparently furnished the sit, the workmen and the materials. The record refers to this stranger as a keeper of sheep and he is called �Philition� or �Philitis�...

�When the people of Israel left Egypt and were moving through the wilderness, in order to bolster their morale, they were told of a much earlier people who, in like manner, had been led out of Egypt. They were alled Caphtorims who ame out of Caphtor, to whom Moses referred in Deuteronomy 2:23, See also Genesis 10:14.

�This place called Caphtor was the very region in Egypt where today the Great yramid stands. The Lord, through the Prophet Amos, refers to the people as Philistines whom He brought up from Caphtor (Amos 9:7). Theefore, we learn from the historian Herodotus (confirmed in the Scripture) of Philistines (Caphtorims) once living in the neighborhood of the Great Pyramid, who wee the object of Divine favor and who were led out of Egypt before the Israelites left the land.

�These were not the philistines of the time of the judges and David, but a much earlie people who feared and reverenced the true God...Coming to Palestine from the Nile Delta, they were known in Wgypt as �The Shepherd Kings.�

�...after the Deluge, Shem became the first of the shepherd kings who reigned in Egypt. He was held inj higheest honor by the people in that land for having delivered them from the Cushite yoke... Thus, when the idolatrous priests were again in the ascendancy, eveything possible was don to blacken Shem�s memory.

�THE REFORMS OF SHEM. During the reign of the sheherd King Set, or Shem,and his immediate successors, the fomplete overthrow of the Egyptian gods occurred; their temples were demolished and idolatry in any form was forbidden throuout the land...This was mainly the work of Shem, the Shepherd King was also Priest of the Most High God, in his conflict with the gross idolatry of �Egypt. The heathen temples were liteally smashed to pieces...

�Manetho says tht the shepherds were finally prevailed upon to leave Egypt, wheich they did without molestation, and went to Judea where they built the city of Jerusalem. Josephus, the Jewish (Judean) historian, alls these shepherds �our ancestors,� which is definitely the case if Shem was the first and most powerful Shepherd King of Egypt...�

We doubt very much whether the Hyksos were ever really called �shepherd kings.� It appears in the Hyksos we have some shepherd kings who were not shepherd kings, and in the Caphtorims some Philistines who were not Philistines. We can now see the important fact that the pharaoh related to Assenath was a Shemite. Understanding this is to understand the Bible.

Now we will be getting into areas not usually encountered ij the average study of Sripture. Asome of these things may seem strange and quite different than you ever dreamed they might have been. We believe that once we learn something of these seemingly biarre circumstances it will add to our understanding of Yahweh�s Word considerably. As usual these matters are altogether diffeent than we wer ever taught they were.

We have found out thee were two diffeent pharaohs ruling in Egypt at the same time during the Hyksos period, and that the pharaoh at Thebes was subservient to the Hyksos. Then, too, we learned that Joseph was probably sold tothe autoority at Thebes rather than the Hyksos. In additino,we found out that, through Joseph saving the Egyptians from starvation, the sons of Jacob were given Egypt�s very best land. We detemined, also, there were two seven-year famines in Egypt�s history. Further, we learned that Joseph placed a 20% income tax on some of the people where it was legal to do so. In our injvestigation,we discovered it was the paharaoh that gave Joseph his wife; intimating he, the pharaoh, was Shemitic in stock. Then we explored the subject of Shepherd Kings, which we will continue at this time.

WALKING STEP BY STEP THROUGH ISRAEL�S SOJOURN IN EGYPT FROM JOSEPH UNTIL JOSHUA:

In this walk, we are going to try to thoroughly comprehend the true nature of the events during this era of time. Yahweh had good reson for placing Israel in Egypt, and we will try to understand the reason for such a stay. It is our opinion that Yahweh placed Israel in Egyt so thatEgypt might fight off many of the enemies Israel would be facing later on; so that they could gain their strength. It is now time to prepare ourselves with more facts concerning these things.

SHEPHERD KINGS;

Because the subject of the Shepherd Kings is of such great magnitude in importance we must prioritize our time to delve into it. It may come as a surprise to many, the symbol of the Shepherd Kings is the Sphinx and the first Shepherd King was Adam, and the priesthood was called the Order of Melchizedek. Howard B. Rand, in Destiny Magazine, October, 1962 wrote an article �Enoch�s mission and Shem�s Responsibility� (1962 Destiny yearbook pages 201-204) which we will now quote in part:

�Order Of Melchizeded. When Shem[�s]... followers, came out of Egypt, they founded at Jerusaelm the city destined to become the City of David and also the capital of the Kingdom of Yahweh when Yeashua, who is of the Order of Melchizedek...(we will be using the Tetragrammaton).

�The priestly Order of Melchizedek began with

Adam and the Preafhers of Righteousness from Adam to Noah were of this Order. Noah is recorded as the eighth Preacher of Righteousness in 2 Peter 2:5. The fifth chapter of Genesis begins, �This is the book of the generations of Adam, AND NO ONE OF THE LINE OF CAIN IS RECORDED THERE. As stated in Primogenesis.

�Noah was was the tenth in generation. The reason he was but the eighth in priestly line was because Enoch was translated before his father died and did not come to the priestly office. (Genesis 5:24) Methuselah, the son of Enoch, took the office directly from his grandfather Jared, the father of Enoch. Methuselah, in turn, outlived his son Lamech, so the office passed directly to his grandson, Noah, the son of Lamech. (Genesis 5:27) Noah, therefore, became the eighth Preacher of Righteousness, though the tenth in generation, because these two, Enoch and Lamech, never succeeded to the priestly office.� (Primogenesis, p. 44)

�In this line of Preachers of Righteousness, Shem, Noah�s son, became the ninth. As stated in Primogenesis: �The Order of Melchizedek, in its earthly representation, began with A�dam as the first Preacher of Righteousness. Noah was the eighth and Shem the ninth...�So also Yeashua glorified not himself to be made an high priest; but he that said unto him, Thou art my Son, today have I begotten thee. As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizeded.� (Hebrews 5:5-6)

�In His ministry, He was a Prophet; in His atonement, He was a Priest. When He returns, He is to be King. Thus, in the order of Melchizedek, He is Prophet, Priest and King.� (Primogenesis, pp. 66-67)

�Order of Master Shepherds. The Bible also records a line of master shepherds beginning with these Preachers of Righteousness, who wore the shepherd�s garb as the insignia of office. From Abraham to John the Baptist, in each generationthee were those who were members of this ancient and honorable Order. Then Yeashua associated Himself with the offie, becoming the Grand Master of the Order of Master Shepherds: �I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine. As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep.� (John 10:14-15)

�Ninth Preacher of Righteousness. It is fitting, therefore, that Shem, who was the ninth Preacher of Righteousness and also a member of the Order of Master Shepherds, was entrusted with the construction of the Great Pyramid at Gizen in Egypt...Only a building that is pyramidal in shape is completed by placing a capstone in position...

�A Sign and Witness. Many generations after Enoch�s day the Prophet Isaiah was constrained to write: �In that day shall there be an altar to Yahweh in the midst of the Land of Egypt,a nd a pillar at the border thereof to Yahweh. And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto Yahweh of Hosts in the land of Egypt.� (Isaiah 19:19-20) Undoubtedly Isaiah was aware that this was the Pillar of Enoch; that to Enoch its design was committed and on Shem the responsibility its design was committed and on Shem the responsibility was laid to buidl this remarkable structure in the land that had harbored the people of Israel for four hundred years and had later sheltered...Yeashua.�

Along the same line of thought, we will now follow up with another article appearing in Destiny Magazine of October, 1955 (Inside front cover), entitled �Shem The Powerful.� Actually, we will be quoting a quotaton which the article cites from a book �The Worship of the Dead or The Origin and Nature of Pagan Idolatry,� by a Colonel J. Garnier:

�Sphinxes wee the particular form of sculpture associated with the shepherd kings, and were constructed in honor of Set (an Egyptian name given to Shem), while the Great Sphinx seems to be especially associated with the Great Pyramid built by Suphis (another name associated with Shem). As the Tanis Sphinxes (a group of three sphinxes at Tanis, Egypt); are unmistakably the likeness of one particular individual, it seems certain that they represent the features of the first great shepherd king. Set the Powerful (Shem)...

�If, then, these heds are likenesses of the great Sepherd King Set, they reresent the exact features of the antediluvian patriarch Shem, and we behold in them something of the type of primeval man as he first came from the hands of Yahweh...In representing him therefore, as a lion with a human head, there was a certian fitness, and the idea was probably borrowed from the Cherubim, the form which seems to have been generally known...�

Because Howard B. Rand used Ussher�s chronoloy, he believed that Shem was contemporary with Abraham, and that Shem was the one to whom Abraham paid his tithes. We were also under the same illusion untio we took the time to check the Masoretic text against the Septuagint. After making a chart of both chronologies, we found that the Septuagint has Shem dead for about 650 years before Abraham was born. There is a total disrepancy of 1486 years between the Masoretic and Septuagint texts. We doubt very much whehter Ussher�s chronology (which is based on the Masoretic text) is orrect. If the oldest living atriarch was the faimly priest-king, Abraham, therefore, probably paid his tithes to Nahor #2, his brother, rather than Shem. Also, it was found in the Masoretic text that Heber was born before Abraham, and died after hi.this highly unlikely as Heber was Abraham�s great, geat, great, great grandfather. Genesis 11:26-27 tells us that Abraham had two brothers, Nahor and Haran. Inasmuch as Nahor #1 (Abraham�s grandfather) died, and Terah became pagan, the priest-king office was probably left to Nahor #2; Haran having died before Abram and Tera left Ur of the Chaldees. (Genesis 11:28) Therefore, we believe it is possible Nahor #2 may have been Abraham�s Melchizedek. By the priet-kingshi skiping the generation of Terah (breaking the lineal order) might explain why Melchizedek was without lineal descent.

It should be becoming quite clear in our studies on this subject that Joseph and his pharaoh (probably Amosis), Joseph�s wife Asenath and her father were all descendants of Shem. We should also be starting to realize that th eGreat Sphinx, a little up the road from the Great Pyramid of Gizeh, is emblematially a representation of Adam through Nahor #2, (less Enoch, Lamech and Arphaxad who were outlived by their fathers), and Yeashua the Redeemer-Messiah Himself. And, also, that the Great Pyramid of Gizeh is a monument and emblem of Enoch, predicting Adamic-Israel�s future along with some othe amazing data and revelations. Surelyi, Isaiah was correct when he wrote, Isaiah 19:19-20:

�In that day shall there be an altar to Yahweh in the midst of th eland of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to Yahweh. And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto Yahweh of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they (as the Israelites formerly did) shall cry unto Yahweh because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a savior, and a geat one, and he shll deliver them.�

Today we are in the time of oppression spoken of in verse 20. It tells us here that we are to be delivered by a �savior� (singular). We are not going to be delivered by an arm of flesh, but by the Almighty Himself. There have been those courageous men who tried it and failed; it didn�t wirk! But, this is no reason we should neglect being in a strong defensive posture, ready fo any eventuality. Yahweh will reveal to us when it is time to go on the offensive. We believe that the reason the altar and pillar were placed in Egypt is because our coming deliverance will be very similar tot hat experienced in the Exodus, and that the wicked pharaoh of today, like then, is going to �let our people go,� and it will require the death angel to accomplish it. We have to put first things first. How are the �tares� going to be rooted up unless they are first identified? The good nes is; the enemy, the �Jews,� are quickly being identified, no help from, nor thanks to, the one seedliners. There is one common groudn though, among both the one and the Two Seedliners, along with the patriots; we are all crying because of our present day opression.

IS THERE BIBLICAL SUPPORT?:

If all we have read from these excerpts of Destiny Magazine, and if Howard B. Rand is somewhere near being correct, there should be some Biblical evidence that there was a lapse of the Shepherd Kings from Nahor #2 until Yeashua the Messiah. Hebrews 7:12 indicates that, at the first coming of Yeashua, there was a change from the priesthood of Aaron back to the priesthood of Melchizedek. Let�s take a look at it:

�For the priesthood being changed, there is made of necessity a change also of the law.�

From this, we believe we can be resonably sure that Rand was correct in his premise there was a lapse of the Melchizedek priesthood during th edays of the Aaronic priesthood, and that the Levitical law was changed to accommodage a return to it. For further study along this line, it might be advisable to study Hebrews chapters 5, 6 & 7 along with Genesis 14:18 and chater 110 of the book of Psalm, especially verse 4.

WHO AND WHAT WAS MANETHO?:

Because Destiny Magaine and Rand quote Manetho in their postulations about the Shepherd Kings, we need to learn more about this Egyptian priest. For a brief explanation of this man, we will quote from the �World Scope Encycloedia (1951),� volume 7:

�Manetho...a historian of ancient Egypt, flourished in the reign of Ptolemy Soter, at the beginning of the 3rd century B.C. He was a priest in Lower Egypt and is the author of two important works, one on the history and the other on the religion of his country. Both books have been lost, but fragments have been preserved by later hsitorians, in cluding Eusebius and Josephus. In the Armenian version of Eusebius is a list of the Egyptian dynasties according to Manetho, the dates of which appear to have been derived from genuine documents, including the sacred books of the Egyptian priests.�

For a more detailed account on Manetho, we will use the �Encyclop�dia Britannica,� ninth edition (1894), volume 15, pages 485-486:

�Manetho. Manetho Sebennyta...�beloved by Thoth.� Egyptaind priest and annalist, was a native of Sebennytus...in the Delta. His name was connected by Plutarch with the reign of Ptolemy I, and he is usually stated to have written under Ptolemy II Philadelphus, though the only authority for this is an epistle to that king of the Pseudo-Manetho, author of the FORGED BOOKS OF SOTHIS preserved by Syncellus. He was instructed in Greek; so Josephus tells us, and the three books of his Α_wπτ_αά composed in that language opened to foreigners the history of Egypt from the mythical period downwards, as it was preserved in the records of the priests. Undoubtedly the book is now known only by lists of fragments preserved by Josephus in his treatise AGAINST APION, by Eusebius in his CHRONICA, and by Syncellus. Syncellus used the work of Eusebius (also known through Jerome and the Armenian version) and lost PENTABIBLON of Africanus. Thus the little that wse know of Manetho�s history has reached us through A PROCESS OF TRANSCRIPTION AND RETRANSCRIPTION very unfavorable to the correct transmission of the lists of kings and dynasties, to which Josephus alone adds any considerable narrative excerpt. It seems indeed that our AUTHORITIES THEMSELVES USED VEARYING AND PARTLY CORRUPT RECENSIONS OF THE ORIGINAL TEXT, AND THAT DELIBERATE CORRUPTIONS OF THE MANETHONIC TRADITION WERE NOT WANTING apears from the existence of the �Book of Sothis� cited by Syncellus, WHICH WAS UNDOUBTEDLY A SURIOUS WORK. That Manetho himself made honest use of his egytian sources is generally recognized, since the Egyptian monuments have afforded confirmation of many, though by no means all, of his statementss; but how the corrpt and varying data we now have should be used, or whether the Egyptian tradition can be made the basis of a rational chronology of the oldest historical period is doubtful.�

The above quotation should give you some idea of what to expect in Manetho�s writings. The Egyptian pharaohs were so notoriuos for trying to erase the history of the pharaohs before them; that, undboutedly, Manetho may have had a lot of spurious records from which to work. Whether or not he was biased in his own writings cannot be easily ascertained, but what motive would he have had for changing the record 1000 years after the fact? But, whatver conclusion we arrive at, we must realize there are roblems with the data ascribed to him.

Josephs On Manetho. The Works of Josephus has a good amount of comment concerning this Egptian scribe. In �Against Apion,� 1:12. Josephus starts quoting Manetho. He continues quoting him until �Against Apion,� 1:16, where he says:

�In the first place, that we (Israel) came out of another country into Egypt; and that withal our deliverance out of it was so ancient in time, as to have preceded the suiege of Troy almost a thousand years; but then, as to those things which Manetho adds, NOT FROM THE EGYTIAN REFORDS, but, as he confesses himself, from some stories of an uncertain original, I will disprove them hereafter particularly, and shall demonastrate that they are NO BETTER THAN INCREDUIBLE FABLES.�

Then Josephus goes on to othe subjects and picks up Manetho again in�Against Apion,� 1:26, where he says:

�And now I will turn my discourse to one of their principal writers, whom I have a little before made use of as a witness to our antiquity; I mean Manetho.�

Then Josephus continues with his criticism of Manetho in �Against Apion,� 2:3. If you don�t already have Josephus in yuor library, you may want to get a copy f you already have you can check these passages which we have pointed out for yourself.

CONFUSION BREEDS CONFUSION; TWO HYKSOS GROUPS:

Apparently, what we have in �Againt Apion,� 1:14, is utter confusion as the facts do not entirely concur. In this passage Manetho speaks of

�men of ignoble birth ut of the estern parts, and had boldness enough to make an expedition into our country, and with ease subdued it by force...At length they made one of themselves king (pharaoh) ...and made both the uper and lower regions pay tribute...he founded...a city...called Avaris...�

Manetho is confusing two different peoples as being Hyksos when he says,

�This whole nation was styled Hyksos, tht is, Shepherd-Kings, for the first syllable Ηγκ, according to the sacred dialect denotes a King, as is Soς, a shepherd...�

Then Howard B. Rand picks up some of this confusin in his articles, quoted herein, published in Destiny Magazine. These Hyksos were definitely not Israelites as Josephus thinks, for when Jacob and company ame to Egypt, they were but seventy souls, Genesis 46:26. These Israelites were not of �ignoble birth:� they didn�t subdue Egypt by force; they didn�t impose tribute on the uppe and lowe regions; they didn�t set over themselves a king; and they didn�t settle at Avaris.

In �Against Apion,� 1:15, a very critical Manetho is supposed to have said:

�When this peopoe or shepherds were gone out of Eypt to Jerusalem...�

Again in �Againt Spion,� 1:26, Josephus speaks of Manetho, saying:

�...he then ascribes certain fabulous stories to this king, as having in a manner forgotten how he had already related that the departure of the shepherds for Jerusalem had been five hundred and eighteen years before...�

It is apparent that this group of Shepherd Kings were not the Israelites of the Exodus, for it was not until the time of David that the city of Jerusalem was secured from the Jebusites, 1 Chronicles 11:4-7. It is our opinion that this group of Shepherd Kings were the Shemites that settled i Egypt at an eariler time and built the Great Pyramid and continued there as the ruling class and as priests. And, that some of the descendants of Shem later left Egyt for Jerusalem, and Nahor #2 was at that location when Abaham arrived there to pay his tithes to Melchizedek (Nahor #2), priest of salem.

It would appear, it is a necessity to separate the early Shepherd Kings of Shem in Egypt from the later Hyksos (a non-Israel group) and the Israelites themselves. You probably can now see why, while we agree with much of the material published in Destiny Magazine about the Shephed Kings. We disagree to some degree with Howard B. Rand and company.

THE LIFE OF JOSEPH:

While Jacov had twelve sons by two wives and two concubines, Joseph was the firsborn son toJacob by Rachel, his favorite wife. This is the reason Jacob loved Joseph more than any of the others. As you will remember, while in Paddan-aram, Jacob saw and loved Rachel, and made an arrangement to work seven years (to the seventh year) in Laban�s hire for her hand in marriage. (Genesis 29:17-18)

�Leah WAS tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favored. And Jacob loved Rachel and siad, I willserve thee seven years for Rachel thy yonger daughter.�

There was a law in those days, and later throughout Israel, after a servitude of six years, the servant was to be set free in the seventh. (Exodus 21:2-3) From this, we can see why Jacob served to the seventh year for each of his two wieves. In order to take Rachel to wife, he had to serve Laban a second six years. No doub,this extra six years of saiting for Rachel only increased Jacob�s love for her and, in turn, nurtured the great love for the first son she bore to him. Before Rachel, Laban had given Leah, her elder sister, to Jacob, insisting custom demanded the oldest daughter be married first. Therefore, jacob worked an additional six years for Rachel. Actually, in Jacobs mind, he worked twelve years to receive Rachel. Can you imagine a man counting down the days on a clendar for six years until the great day for the wsedding and then doing it a second time?

Actually Leban deceived Jacob, the whole story is in Genesis 29:16‑25:

�And Laban had two daughters: the name of the elder was Leah, and the name of the younger was Rachel. Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was� beautiful and well favoured. And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter. And Laban said, It is better that I give her to thee, than that I should give her to another man: abide with me. And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her. And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her. And Laban gathered together all the men of the place, and made a feast. And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her. And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid. And it came to pass, that in the morning, behold, it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What is this thou hast done unto me? did not I serve with thee for Rachel? wherefore then hast thou beguiled me?�

After fourteen years of servitude to Laban for Rachel, how disappointed Jacob must have been when she didn�t conceive as Leah had done. Can you imagine how thrilled Jacob was when, finally after much difficulty, Rachel did finally give birth to Joseph? Can you imagine how overwhelmingly grief-stricken Jacob must have been when Rachel died giving birth to a second son, Benjamin Maybe now we can begin to see Jacob�s motive for making Joseph a coat of many colors. As his grief grew, so did his partiality for Rachel�s children, Genesis 37:3:

�Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children because he WAS the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of MANY colors.�

The partiality caused much antagonism among Joseph�s brothers. Joseph began to be quite unpopular with his brothers after snithing to his father about the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah. The animonsity only grew stronger when Joseph had a dream suggesting that they, along with his father and mother, would one day bow before him. One day, reaching the age of seventeen, his father sent him to Shechem to dheck on the well-being of his brothes and to report to him any misonduct on their part. In the meantime, they had gone to Dothan where Joseph finally found them. As the brothes saw hi appraching, they plotted to kill the snitcher-dreamer.

But, Reuben, the oldest son of Jacob, persuaded his other brothers that killing him was not the thing to do. Maybe Reuben was already self-onscious of his own shortcoming and didn�t want to add anything more to his charge. Reuben, therefore, revailed on his brothers to spare Joseph by casting him into a pit instead of taking his life, thinking to return and rescue him and rejoin him safely to his father. While Reuben was away, his brothes observed a caravan of Arabian merchants, who were transporting sices and aromatic gums of India to the well-known and much-frequented market of Egypt. At the suggeston of Judah, showing his natural talent of leadership, they decided to sell Joseph as a slave to the approaching Ishmaelites, who later took him into Egypt. The brothers then took the beautiful foat which his father had made for him and dipped it into some goats blood, returning to their father with the story that a wild animal had killed him. Their intention was to punish their father as well as oseph for spying on them.

Arriving in Egypt, the Ishmaelites sold Joseph tot he captain of Pharaoh�s guard, Potiphar. On being placed into Potiphar�as household, Joseph soon showed his suerior upbringing by undertaking every task at hand in a very responsible way. Joseph proved to be a very trustworthy worker and was given an authoritative position to match his abilities. While in Potiphar�s household, Potiphar�s wife was drawn to Joseph�s manly attractiveness. The Hebrew race has always been eye-catching for their personal beauty, of which Joseph seems to have had more than his ordinary share. No doubt an attribute of his mother. She thus moved very slyly to seduce him. It became an obsesson for her to throw herself at him daily. One day, Joseph found himself fighting heer unchaste desiress as she literally snatched his garmet from his body as he was hastily leaving he presence. Allusion to this incident is found in the book �Cleopatra�s Needles,� page 18, where it says:

�Another Arab writer, Hasan ibn Ibr�h�m, says theywere i the �temple of the Sun where Zul�kh� tore Joseph�s shirt in pieces� (quoted by Y�k�t), but she is the only woman whom the �Arabs associate with the building.�

Needless to say, Potiphar�s wife turned the tables on Joseph; accusing him to her husband of seducing her, which resulted in Joseph�s imprisonment for several years. While in prison, Yahweh moved upon the master jailer and showed him that Joseph proved himself worthy of a position of trust. Joseph, in consequence, gained favor with the keeper of the prison to such a degree that most everthing was put under his charge. While there, he became known for interpreting dreams. Joseph not only had the ability to interpret his own dreams, but explained the meanings of the dreams of others.

After a time, Pharaoh�s royal chief of the butlers and chief of the bakers joined joseph in prison where he had charge over them in his ward. While thee one night, each of them had a very disturbing dream, and when Joseph arrived the next morning, he found them very disheartened. Whereupon, Joseph inquired why they were so down and out. Each of them repled to Joseph they had had a very unsetting dream and had no idea the meaning thereof. Joseph then interpreted each man�s dream accordingly as Yahweh showed him. In three days, the butler was to be returned to his station, but the baker was to be hanged. Upon interpreting the butler�s dream, Joseph requested of him to plead his case before Pharaoh, but being soon restored he remembered not.

After two years, the Pharaoh himself dreamed two very distressing dreams of his own. These two dreams were so troubling and upsetting to him that he called for all his magicins and wise men in all of his domain to go through their hocus-pocus and reveal the mening of them to him, but they could not. Upon the inability of the magiians to interpret Pharaoh�s dreams, the chief butler remembered Joseph�s skill and advised the pharaoh that Joseph� was still in prison.

The pharaoh was much impressed by the butle�s story and decided to put Joseph to the test concerning his own dreams. Pharaoh immediately called Joseph from his prison cell, whereupon, Josseph bathed, shaved himself and changed his attire. Upon being brought into Pharaoh�s presence, the pharaoh revealed to Joseph his two dreams. Joseph reminded Pharaoh it was not he who woud interpret his dreams, but that Yahweh would give him the answer. Joseph informed Pharaoh his dreams were a foreboding of an approaching seven years of famine after a period of seven years of plenty. Joseph then, in order to abate the evils of starvation, recommended that Pharaoh choose some discreet and wise man, along with officers, to set in full power and administe reparations for the coming hardship. Pharaoh was so favorably impressed, he recognized Joseph as Yahweh�s man. Joseph was now 30 years old; the same age as Yeashua would be when He started His ministry.

Remembering the history of the disastrous Zoser famine, and recognizing the divine origin of his dreams and the Spirit of Yahweh in Joseph�s interpretations, the pharaoh resolved that Joseph should be second in charge thrughout his land of Egypt. Pharaoh then gave Joseph a ring on his finger, a chain around his neck and the finest of clothing, along with a chariot. But, the greatest of all gifts Pharaoh preented to joseph during the seven years of abundance was the beautiful Shemitic Asenath, who bore him Manasseh and Ephraim. This seven years of abundance afforded Joseph opportunity to carry out such plans as to secure ample provisions against the seven years of nned. When the famine finally arrived, it found the people prepared. But not so with his father Jacob and brothers in Canaan.

JOSEPH�S BROTHERS COME TO EGYPT:

Among the many people arriving in Egypt, begging to buy sustenance, appeared ten brothers, sons of Jacob. It was out of necessity that they apeared before Joseph to purchase the indispensable corn. Humbled by the famine, the ten brothers arrived in Egypt hungry, tired and forlorn. Joseph, being able to intepret his own dreams, was not at all surprised to see them. Because ithad been several years, though, his brothes didn�t recognize him. Accordingly, Joseph pretended not to know his brothers and acused them of being spies, threatening them with imprisonment. Joseph immediately took advantage of the situation to subtly inquire about the welfare of his father and Benjamin, his full-blooded brother. Upon being thusly accused, the brothers volunteered the status of their father and Benjamin, even declaring one brother (Joseph) to be missing.

After three days under guard, Joseph gave them leave on the condition that he would keep one of them until they returned with their younger brother to prove their truthfulness. It was the, and not before, that the brothers said to one another: We are truly guilty foncerning our brothere, inasmuch as we witnessed his anguish and distress and had no symathy; therefore, is retribution come. The, Reuben reminded them it was he who had advised them not to commit evil against the child. Whereupon, after weeping bitterly, Joseh had Simeon bound and commanded the brother�s sacks to be filled with corn and provision, returning each man his money.

THE LIFE OF JOSEPH:

When we read the story of Joseph, without knowing that we the White Peoples of the earth are the true Israelites, it is a very poignant and touching story which happened to some remote family who lived back in ancient times. But, once Yahweh has lifted the blinders and removed them from our eyes, that, in fact,we are the true Israelites, it becommes a very enrapturing story of our own hereditary family tree. Theefore, our pesonal interests are increased a thousand-fold. Don�t you feel sorry for the many White Israelites who do not understnad this?

While keeping Simeon as surety, Joseph peermitted his brothers to return to their father, for the need was great inj Canaan. Jacob had many flocks along with silver and gold, but his fields gave him no grain, and the cattle had little green pasture. The threat of starvation was very real and imposing. Joseph had no alternative but to keep one of the brothers as hostage, for, if he had not, he may have never had the opportunity to see his family again.

While returnning to Canaan, the brothers didn�t know that Joseph had understood what they were saying when they discussed in his presence about their sellign him into slavery. The brothers spoke in their own language, not knowing Joseph understood, that this whole thing had come upon them because of the wrong they had done to their brother Joseph approximately twenty-three years previously. The reason they didn�t recognize Joseph was because he grown up to be a man, was dressed as Egyptian prine and was seated on a throne.

Joseph was now nearly forty years old. Joseph, uon seeinghis brothes for the first time in almost twenty-three years, was curious whethe or not the bothers still carried their old hatred for him. How his heart was moved to tears when he overherd the brothe�s conversation lamenting their former behaior. However, Joseph resolved to be very sharp and stern with them; not because he didn/t love them, but because he needed to see how much they may have changed their attitude from their forme selfish, cruel and wicked ways he rememered.

How imressed Joseph must have been when he saw his brothes humbly bowed before him. Surely, at this time, Joseph must have remembered the dream he had had when still a boy of his brother�s sheaves bending down around his sheaf. In returning to their father in Canaan, how uneasy the brothes must have been leaving Simeon behind and knowing they were being forced to return again with Benjamin, (the seoncd son born by Jacob�s favorite wife, Rachel). They surely must have realized how grieved their father would be over the prospect of possibly losing the only remaining son born by her.

To further the brother�s anxieties, little did they know until they stopped along the way to eat, rest and feed their donkeys, one of the men�s money had been restored in hsi sack. Finding the money, the brothes were afraid to return tot he v ery stern ruler they had met in Egypt, and also afraid to fae their father over the matter. To complicate the situation, upon arrivig home, they found every man�s money had been returned in their sacks. Arriving at home, being fearful, the brothes had to face their fathe Jacob withall these things. The brothes spoke of returning again to Egypt and taking Benjamin, but Jacob replied, Gnesesis 42:36:

�.Me have ye bereaved OF MY CHILDREN: Joseph IS not, and Simeon IS not, and ye will take Benjamin AWAY: all these things are agains me.�

Whereupon Reuben replied:

�Here are my own two sons. If I do not return with Benjamin, you may kill them if you wish.�

But Jacob replied to Reuben, Genesis 42:38:

�...My son shall not go down with you; for his bothe is dead, and he is left alone: if misfhief befall him by the way in which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.�

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