The morning
Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks. Studying
Genesis in the SSnet.org series Lesson 3, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to
your heart. The Topic today
is: "Saved from Pharaoh but arriving at no water or bitter water" The Opening
Hymn will be 229 "Spirit of the Living God" The Sabbath School
Quarterly, downloadable from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on page 33
and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 24. The SSnet.org
site allows anyone, anywhere to read the lesson in their own language. Choose
your own language to see God speaking also to your heart. ---The reality
of the past event of the Exodus is that Thutmosis III was in his seventies when
he pursued Moses who was 80 years old with the people of Israel moving to the
Red Sea. ---They arrived
early the morning just before sundawn at the Red Sea. ---It was the
year 1450 BC. Midnight, the oldest son of Thutmosis III died. The Angel of the
Lord passed by. ---The death of
the oldest sons in the houses of Egyptians was too much for Thutmosis III. ---Superstitious
Egypt knew that they were cursed by the gods and that the Israelites must
leave. ---The
Israelite team who was working on Thutmosis III's Tomb [they build in advance]
left that night after midnight, tomb unfinished. ---Scholar
Romer said that when the second team came later, after the death of Thutmosis
III, [of course the morning of the Exodus], they did a messy job in haste.
Everything was cursed and they just wanted to get out. It was an Egyptian team
very scared to enter. "The gods were crazy..." No pharaoh in the
sarcophage but his oldest son! X-rays of this mummy in Thutmosis III's tomb at
the Chicago Oriental Institute shows that the body is only 35 years old! It
should be. Bible says that Pharaoh washed away that night and was never found. ---Archaeology
supports the Bible point by point. Chronological analysis of Egyptian pharaohs
indicate exactly like the biblical chronology 1450 BC as the date of the
Exodus. Adventist scholars Horn and Thiele and Waterhouse and Schwantes all
indicated that it was 1446 BC but Adventist scholars William Shea and Richard
Davidson and myself independently of each other arrived all at the same date: 1450
BC. ---Why? 1 Kings
6:1-4 dates the fourth year of Solomon, co-ruling with his father, not 966 BC
(Thiele) but 970 BC (Shea). ---Egyptian
chronology for Thutmosis III death has many options, but Ward indicated that
1450 BC is one of them. Why many options? The star Sirius was observed from
three possible angles: far south, middle or far
north. Each one has a different date, thus different dates for Thutmosis III's
death. One of them calculate 1450 BC. Adventists can choose this one backing
Egyptologists. ---According to
the vizier of Thutmosis III, Haremhab, when the sun came up that morning in
1450 BC, Thutmosis III died and his son Amenhotep II came to the throne. He
wrote it in his tomb describing the death that morning. ---Amenhotep II
was so confused that morning that after placing his older brother [who died at
midnight] in the sarcophage of his father [Thutmosis III who washed away in the
Red Sea], he placed a papyrus piece citing the Book of the Dead on the body of
his brother pleading with the worms not to eat his father. Of course, his
brother will have no propblem, he is mummified! ---Painting in
the tomb showed Romer that the tomb was completed in haste. The paint drops on the floor were not
cleaned up. Some things are skew. The pictures were done with simplicity and with elementary line drawings. ---God helping them
to arrive at the Red Sea, the Israelites run into a dead-end road with the sea
before them and Thutmosis III [Napoleon of Egypt] behind them. ---Thutmosis
III was obstinate with his generals. When the sea opened he wanted to go
through. He did the same at Megiddo as the Annals on Karnak shows during one of his sixteen campaigns. When his
generals advised him not to go through the pass in the middle near Megiddo during
his earlier years campaigning against it, he override their decision by going
first! And he was right. This morning of the Exodus, he probably did the same. He was wrong. ---Egypt in
turmoil. ---Israelites
saved on the other side of the Red Sea. ---But now the
desert. ---Three days
they travelled arriving at bitter and no water places. ---The
Israelites are in a crucible for building their characters. ---Old habits
had to be left behind. The book of Numeri indicated they did not. The golden
calf two years later at Sinai in 1448 BC and their constant murmuring and
nagging against Moses and God using Moses is evidence of their clinging to
their habits preventing character development. ---Just like
the Israelites, we can also suffer from Spiritual Dimentia. Easily forget the
good ways of the Lord towards us. Focussed on the problem facing us terrified
and confused. Murmuring why it should happen to us? ---We get
water, but it is bitter! We come to a water drinking place, but no water! God
provides and yet we murmur? God forbid. ---There are
Christians deep enough in their faith who never murmur despite ups and downs in
their lives. ---I discovered
the key for survival with bitter waters and no water. Pray Romans 13:14
"but let you be clothed with the Lord Jesus Christ" = alla endusasthe
ton kurion Iesoun Christon! This prayer works miracles instantaneously. When
you are clothed with Christ, Satan and his demons cannot find you. You
disappear and they are at loss. ---Turn your
bitter feelings and experiences into overcoming and victorious events of peace
and tranquility.