And the Spirit & the bride say, come.... Reveaaltion 22:17

And the Spirit & the bride say, come.... Reveaaltion 22:17
And the Spirit & the bride say, come...Revelation 22:17 - May We One Day Bow Down In The DUST At HIS FEET ...... {click on blog TITLE at top to refresh page}---QUESTION: ...when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth? LUKE 18:8

Sunday, May 9, 2021

--Egypt--

And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim. 
Genesis 10:13,14

"As we know from Scripture, before Noah, there are nine generations
back to Adam. 
 
This idea of nine generations may be reflected in the Egyptian Ennead, a group of nine gods, all born by natural pro-creation, from the original founder called Atum. 
 
Q: And who was Atum?
A: He was a creator god, and his name is phonetically very similar to Adam (especially when we consider t and d were interchangeable in ancient Egypt). Evidence for the idea of long reigns of ancient rulers (hundreds of years), are mentioned in a papyrus which places these ‘gods’ and ‘demi-gods’ before the First Dynasty. 
 
This information is recorded in the (heavily damaged) 19th Dynasty
Turin King list
(Royal Canon) which mentions several names of these long-lived rulers. These mythical kings are listed (unfortunately, in the most heavily damaged and reconstructed fragments) in the first two columns of the papyrus, and thereafter the ‘non-mythical’ kings from Dynasties 1-17 are listed in the next ten columns. The gods include Geb, Osiris, Set, Horus, Thoth, and Ma’at, of the names that have survived. 
 
Scripture identifies the territory we call Egypt after Mizraim (Ham’s 3rd son of four) and Ham (Noah’s 3rd son). Egypt in the Psalms (78:51; 105:23, 27; 106:22), is called the ‘Land/ tents of Ham’. And throughout the Hebrew Bible we read “Mizraim” (מצרים) for Egypt. So Egypt is closely associated with Noah’s family through Ham in the Bible.
 
They would have greater than pharaoh status—divine status! 
---We are dealing with the pagan mind, and the Egyptians did indeed
deify their ancestors, Imhotep, the architect of Djoser’s Step Pyramid being the parade example.
Furthermore, Ham and his family would have been seen in terms of ‘creator-gods’, because they were the ones who kick-started civilisation after the Flood. They were the ones who were the first to re-establish agriculture, technology, building—everything needed for society to function. Furthermore, Scripture records their great ages after the Flood (Shem lived another 500 years, Noah lived another 350), which would have meant they outlived many generations after them. This would have conferred divine status upon them in the eyes of the pagan Egyptians.
 
Chapter 175 of the Egyptian Book of the Dead describes a divine complaint made to Thoth by Atum, who states the children of Nut rebelled, caused evil, tumult, strife, and slaughter. 

This is exactly analogous to the situation before the Flood with the pre-Flood world being full of violence (Genesis 6:11). 
The chapter goes on to detail the destruction of all that was made, turned into Nun (the primeval ocean) by a floodwater. 
Only those left on the solar bark (called the Boat of Millions), along with Horus and his father Osiris, sail to the “Island of the Two Flames” where Horus inherits his father’s rule. This is all very evocative of the Genesis Flood and Noah’s family.
 
--Egypt was founded after the Babel event, and certainly not before
the Flood of Noah. Egyptian chronology is over-extended at the beginning period. This is based on Manetho’s interpretation of Egyptian history, which is demonstrably erroneous in a number of places. He tended to have parallel reigns of kings (north and south) listed as consecutive reigns." CMI