At the beginning of this ch. I would like to point out that when the
'Egyptians' afflicted them, the Israilites were building with morter and
bricks. So any evidence of this time would not be in stone, no matter
where they were. Either in Ur or the Nile valley. But in Ur and the
surrounding area most of the building is of mudbrick. Unfortunatly we are
inundated with Hollywoods depiction of the slaves moving huge blocks of
stone around. That is contrary to the Bible story but makes for a good
movie.
Ch1:14, and they made thier lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter and
with brick.
In 2:5 I am puzzled when the daughter of Pharoh comes down to the river
bank to bath. The Nile was filled with Croc's! Why would she want to
bath there? It is interesting to note that the Euphrates did not have
Croc's to my knowledge. A safer river to bath in? Would a mother set her
baby adrift on a river filled with Croc's? I think not! And snce most Archaeologists of the late 19th Century were men, that would never have
occurred to them to wonder about this anomoly. Nor would a princess go
wading near a Croc infested river! And in those days there would have been
many more than today!
Chapters 2:5 to 2:9 tell of the finding of Moses in the bulrushes.
When they deciphered the writings found at Ur, they came across the
same story of a child found in the bullrushes of the river Euphrates. And
by a Royal daughter! How many of these same happenings were there? It must
have confused the Archaeologists as to why there would be two such stories
in such distant area's. But by then they were already committed to Egypt
as the site of the Exodus even though they had not found any similar tale
in Egypt! And if nothing else Egypt would have written that story in stone.
The only source for it was the Bible until Wooley's findings.
Ch.2:11-And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he
went out unto his brethren.
This line reveals the fact that Moses knew what his geneology was. He
was not ignorant of the fact that he was Jewish. Probably because he was circumcised. They would never have let that be forgotten. Hollywood to the contrary.
Ch2:15 This ch. reveals that Moses was not treated as a prince in the
house of Pharoh, as Hollywood would have us believe and the Church. He was
not recorded as being a great builder or equal with the princes of the
court. And when he escapes to Midian how does he get there? There is not
one word to say. Nor do we know where Midian is! How far? What we do know
is that it is a place for sheppards! I repeat; the Euphrates was an area
of sheepherders. It was and still is the largest herds of sheep in the
world.
Ch.2:8 In this section 'God' is going to give Moses a land of milk and Honey
that is already settled by other tribes. If this is the God of creation,
why doesn't he just turn the land Moses is already on into a land of milk
and honey? What did those other people do to deserve losing their land?
But more important than that is a description of this land. It is a land
of 'milk and honey'. Milk from what animal? Cows or goats? Goats are
devistating to any land. Milk from Cows? I have never heard of Israel
being a great pasture land for cows. One or two at a farm maybe? This
implies great herds of dairy cows. Was the land just below Assyria a land
in those days that would have been suitable for herds of great magnitude?
According to Sitchin it was at Ur that the Anunnake engineered the creation
of the bull,(cows). And at the present time we are learning that the Arabian
pennisula was once the breadbasket of Ur, and present science has lately
discovered underground rivers and extinct lakes from Ur to the tip.
Ch.3:12 The mountain that Moses was at was called Horab. It was described
later on as a fiery mountain. The description of his encounter at this
mountain does not jive with the mountains of the Sinai Peninsula. Here he
has a flock of sheep grazing on the lower slopes. Does he make a hard
climb to see this bush? It doesn't appear so. Yet, the area around the
mountains of Sinai have a very rocky section, I believe. And not suitable
today for sheep. Can it have changed that much? However, in the upper area
of Arabia there is a mountain that rises from the plains, that was
also considered to be an extinct volcano. This is not far from the area
of Ur.
Ch.3:1515: And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the
children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the
God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name
for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.
I am bewildered at this sentence. I had always thought that the God that
created the world was the God of all humans. Not just this tribe. That
puts a different slant on the Roman Catholic Religion. In other words it
means that we have been worshipping a God that does not acknowledge any
tribe, clan, family, group or people but that of the Hebrews. I am
bewildered by the fact that people for over 1900 years have not noticed
these words. Because this is NOT the God of creation. Which is why he takes
from one group and gives to another what is not theirs by right. That is
like a father taking the toys of one child and giving them to his favorite.
Does that sit well with you? But I want you to remember at all times; that
this is not something that the Hebrews had any control over. They are not
responsible for what this God is doing with them! And when you move down
to our timeline it is as if they were created for the future for the
instigation of wars and hate. What creator does that! And why? This is
manipulation for a very strange reason. As far as I can make out, the
people of these lands were living fairly well with each other. There is
only one record of war among the tribes during Abrahams time.
