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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.