The morning Manna will be provided at 6am.
Thanks. Studying In the Crucible with Christ in the SSnet.org series Lesson 8, may
the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart. The Topic today is: "Seeing the
Invisible not digitally”. 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 98 and for the laymen
edition or Standard Edition, on page 64. 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. Why do you not click on this now? https://absg.adventist.org/pdf.php?file=2022:3Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ322_08.pdf ---Moses
is our focus of the lesson today. The Bible says that while in the Wilderness
in the Book of Exodus, the Lord appeared to him in a burning bush in 1450 AD
and he saw the Invisible God. ---He endured the wrath of the Pharaoh.
That Pharaoh was Thutmosis III the illegitimate son of a streetwoman Iset whom
Hatshepsut’s husband, Thutmosis II had while she was still very young, about 18
years old. ---Their marriage was almost destroyed.
But when Thutmosis III was born, here comes Moses to the palace as his mother
promised to do. Hatshepsut, the daughter of Thutmosis I, her father, found
Moses in a basket in the Nile at the age of 6 years old. Too young to be his
mother. She was born in 1536 BC. Moses in 1530 BC. ---Then when Moses killed the Egyptian
while he was a favorite of Hathsepsut in the palace, when he killed him in 1490
BC, Hatshepsut was mainly in control of the throne but due to her mother Ahmose
Thutmosis III was her favorite and he became associated with her near the
throne. ---Thutmosis III married the daughter of
Hatshepsut because he lacked the royal blue blood to be pharaoh. ---He hated Moses because Moses was
favored by Hatshepsut. ---Where is the wrath of the Pharaoh that
Hebrews is talking about? ---Not with Hatshepsut in 1490 BC when
Moses ran for Midian. ---He did not fear Thutmosis III because
Hatshepsut was stronger in the palace at that time. ---During Moses stay in Midian “during
that long period the king of Egypt died” was the death of Hatshepsut. Now
Thutmosis III became the sole ruler of Egypt. ---Hathsepsut built the great temple at
Deir el Behari west of the Temple of Karnak. The Karnak priests favored
Thutmosis III. ---Thutmosis III was in Gaza when he heard
of Hatshepsut’s death and he jumped on a horse and for four days he rode
non-stop to Karnak in a hurry. Scared that Moses may be chosen? ---Hatshepsut died of poisoning of her
skin by lotion that she was using. They found the lotion and analyzed the
contents and found that there was too high a content of a certain metal that
led to skin cancer. ---The wrath of Thutmosis III is
applicable because Thutmosis III went 16 times to Canaan and Syria to maybe
looked for Moses. But not to Midian where Moses was safely. Did he look for
Moses? Was Moses his greatest fear? ---Thutmosis III started to erase the
cartouches (seals) of Hatshepsut from documents and inscriptions. He was trying
to erase her from history. But modern scholars can see that. ---He had a psychological handicap that he
was illegitimate and his opposition maybe was the priests of the Temple of Deir
el Behari? The Karnak priests wrote all his 16 campaigns on the Karnak temple
(the media of those days!). ---Through all this, Moses did not fear.
And the Invisible God Who inspired him to write in 1460 BC the book of Job and
Psalm 90 called him then to go back to Thutmosis III to appear in front of him.
Result? Moses said that he cannot speak well. Moses was well-educated in Egypt
and Egyptian language but… ---Today we can be inspired by Moses not
to fear Thutmosis III and chose to be linked to Jesus because Hebrews 11 also
says that he saw the Christ. ---Let us grab our hardcopy Bibles and
hymnals and instead of been distracted by digital devices committing digital
sins, let us clean our focus on Sabbath by not doing what we do during the
week: flash data, flash data, flash data, flash God-less, flash God-less, flash
atheistic, flash agnostic! Not Moses who saw the Invisible God. Also us today.