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ESCAPE FROM PLANET EGYPT
Prophecy students that have been paying close attention to
the prophetic signs of the times will have long ago noticed how Egypt
continually resurfaces as a “type” and similitude of the world. For
many years, Christian pastors have preached sermons that point out the fact
that, throughout scripture, Egypt symbolizes the world.
As prophecy writer Wilbur Smith put it back in 1957,
"Egypt represents the world and the pull of the world, a magnetism from
which Israel was never fully loosened." 1. Just like the ancient Hebrews
that were delivered from the bondage of slavery, the Scriptures repeatedly instruct
us to come out of “Egypt” so that we may “Passover” to
the promised land.
In this context, Egypt is also a type of sin
and of the world system. The Egyptian handmaiden Hagar was, for example,
the “mother of disbelief” as she bore Ishmael to Abraham, when he
doubted God's promise to give him a son through Sara.
The Egyptian pretender to the throne of the world, the
Pharaoh, was the chief oppressor of God's covenant people in the Old Testament.
The Egyptian priests sought to counterfeit the miracles of God manifested in
Moses at the deliverance of his people.
But do the analogies end here? Or are there even deeper
mysteries and clues to the final days that have been obscured by the ages?
Egypt provides another primary key in unlocking an understanding of our
existence under God, and the times of the end of the age. In fact, my research
shows that the analogies continue far beyond a simple characterization of saved
versus unsaved. They show that Egypt is more specifically the
type of the deception intrinsic to the world during the last days.
To study Egypt is to seek to unravel the history of the
deception of Planet Earth, for the great civilization on the
banks of the Nile is central to understanding how the Devil has deceived the
nations. Most Christians already know that apostate religion, and the so-called
New Age theological precepts, were all derived from Egypt.
The attempted corruption of the Bible through the
infiltration of faulty translations and manuscripts originated in Egypt,
to say nothing of the False Doctrine which has deeply penetrated organized
Christianity. Many readers of Christian Media are aware that we have
proven that extremely popular doctrines (such as the Rapture Cult
doctrine of “Dispensationalism”) have been conclusively demonstrated
to have originated in Old Covenant era Egyptian Gnostic religion (see
the book The Culting of Christianity by the present author). The
fact is, the prophecies of world history and political dominion in the books of
Daniel and Revelation, all take us back to Egypt
as the first kingdom with a throne that dominated the known world.
Egypt is in a class all by herself in the study of
archaeology and ancient civilizations. As we shall soon see, the entire premise
of history is founded on a series of false conclusions based on data related to
early Egyptian historical accounts. These distortions in our modern
understanding of the scholarly accounts of ancient times, have enabled Satan
to obscure the truth about God and his Word - and Egypt is the tool the
Devil has used in his attack on the Word of God.
The foundation of all ancient historical understanding is
based on two seemingly different historical streams of information. The first
is found largely in the Old Testament, and other extra-biblical Jewish
commentaries and writings. These are, obviously, written from the perspective
of the ancient Israelites. The other historical body of information is from the
perspective of the ancient Egyptians. The Egyptian accounts are widely
dispersed through ancient lists of kings and priests, historical monuments,
inscriptions, stelae, tombs, & pyramids. Historical records &
archaeological information from ancient Egypt are extensive and well
documented.
The conflict that has raged from the beginning is the fact
that the two accounts are almost completely contradictory. The parallel
chronological timelines are uneven and chaotic. When there are dates that are
seemingly well established in one history, the parallel account doesn't match
up at all. The conclusion reached by the majority of scholars is that the
evidence is saying that one or the other account must be fictional, or riddled
with errors.
For example, one Egyptian document will speak
of a certain historical account – say, a famous battle with a people
that sound very much like the Israelites; but the Bible says that during that
period, there was peace. Or the Bible will describe a certain
tribal settlement during a very specific time period, while the archaeological
records show no hint of any Israelite occupation in that strata.
Another seeming contradiction is found in Old Testament
prophecy. In both Jeremiah and Ezekiel, we have
prophecies that say that Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon would go to war with
Egypt; yet in the Egyptian accounts, there is apparently no record of such an
incursion. And what of the Exodus account - the foundational event
in the Old Testament?
The Bible says that Egypt was completely and
incontrovertibly decimated through 10 cataclysmic plagues. The
book of Exodus further states that the entire Egyptian army and their
god-king, the Pharaoh, drowned when the supernaturally elevated waIls of the Red
Sea collapsed on the pursuing Egyptians, after the fleeing
Israelites had escaped. Yet the Egyptologists uniformly state that there is no
Egyptian historical record of such a catastrophe. How can this be?
Because of the widespread dissemination of these apparent
historical inconsistencies and discrepancies, the overwhelming majority of
teachers, scientists, linguistics experts, archaeology professors, and scholars
of every discipline believe the Egyptian accounts are accurate; and because
these secular professionals are predisposed to reject the staggering and
often miraculous claims of the Bible (and thereby rid themselves of the
conviction of the Holy Spirit that is seeking to point them to the
truth), these Egyptian historical records have been endorsed and
practically canonized by modern man. Conversely, ”religious”
accounts from the same period (as recorded in the Old Testament), have been
relegated to the trash bin as unscientific and contradictory legend and myth.
The vehicle that has seemingly accomplished this
overwhelming denial of the truth of ancient history as documented in the Bible
has been Egypt. In fact, Egyptology is arguably the largest
single field of specialization in the study of antiquities. The study of the
contradictions alone has baffled students of both historical timelines for
ages. How ironic that the explanation for all of these anomalies was originally
published over 60 years ago; and yet the same scholars who have rejected the
historicity of the Scriptures have rejected the truth of why these seeming
contradictions exist.
Immanuel Velikovsky (1895-1980) was the first
scholar to fully understand and explain the puzzle of ancient history.
Velikovsky determined that the chronological timelines between the two
historical chronologies were shifted by early archaeologists as they
erroneously interpreted what they thought the data was telling them.
In a now obscure series of books named after the first of
numerous volumes entitled Ages In Chaos, Velikovsky convincingly
showed that an error in the Egyptian chronology of about 400 to 700 years has
caused all the confusion. As each chronological event in the two parallel accounts
occurs, the two accounts consistently differ because one of them is always
recounting events that are out of sequence with its parallel by a period of
approximately 400 to 700 years. It is not an accident that such a historical
dislocation has occurred.
To try to grasp the scope & severity of the
miscalculation I’m describing, let's suggest that a great cataclysm
– such as World War III has occurred – and it has destroyed vast
portions of the world. Let’s further suppose that in the far distant
future, historians are trying to reconstruct the history of England and
America. A rough analogy would be if the historians were looking at British
accounts that were dated 1341, and then subsequently came across
partial records that recorded a group of American historical events that
actually occurred in 1941. The American records had no dates and,
because the language had distinct similarities, the scholars theorized that the
American events of 1941 paralleled the British events that
occurred in 1341.
Using this distorted premise of history,
Velikovsky states the following:
"The Churchill of 1341 could not have visited this
country, but must have visited some other land...and met its chief. Another
chief, not Franklin Delano Roosevelt of Washington, would live in history as
cosigner of a charter with Churchill of Britain in 1341. But as American
records would speak of Churchill who crossed the ocean in the early forties of
the twentieth century, British history would also have a Churchill II, six
hundred years after the first one." 2.
Please allow me to elaborate on this scenario. If Churchill
was mentioned by name in the American accounts, but the British accounts simply
mentioned a king, the scholars might have assumed that Churchill was that
king because they've assumed the two chronologies are parallel. Then, when
more records are discovered at a later time, and they clearly document that a
man named Churchill was prominent 600 years later, they would have assumed he
was another Churchill. Furthermore, they probably would have called him Churchill
II instead of reconsidering the original chronology.
Velikovsky's revisionist explanation has not only
demonstrated that many dynasties have been counted twice, but even some ancient
empires have been counted twice, because different accounts use
different linguistic versions of their names.
Velikovsky showed, for example, that the so-called Hittite
Empire never even existed, but was really the neo-Babylonian
empire simply noted under another one of their national names. To further
illustrate this complicated scenario, let us go back to our future analogy.
Archaeologists dig up extensive histories of the Americans
1,000 years in the future, and they find numerous references to the Californians.
Because they don't have anything to show that California was part of America,
they try to place the history of the “nation” of California before
or after the history of America. In other words, instead of counting their
histories concurrently, they instead record them consecutively. So now you have
200 plus years of American history, plus 150 years of California history for a
total of 370 years. This error then forces the scholars to work up all sorts of
scenarios to explain an additional 150 years of history which never actually
expired.
Multiply this error a thousand fold and you can see why the
accounts are so distorted. As scholars continue to study the histories of Egypt
and her neighbors, the error is continually compounded because each historical key
event, dynasty, or empire is effectively doubled because of the
original error. This means the historical accounts would be so convoluted that
the scholars would be compelled to put forth all sorts of exotic explanations
to explain just why various historical names continually show up again 600 or
700 years later (and they do). Each of these historical “doubles”
then is, in effect, considered a descendant of himself.
Another factor is when an archaeological artifact with no
firm dating is discovered, the first thing the experts do is try to synchronize
it with the existing understanding of the Egyptian records, in
order to anchor its place in time.
Immanuel Velikovsky (and others following in
his footsteps) has shown this false chronological sequencing has contaminated
the studies of all ancient nations such as the Babylonians, the Assyrians, and
the Persians, in addition to the Egyptians. Because every ancient historical
chronology is synchronized to the Egyptian timeline (instead of the
accurate Hebrew timeline), our entire perception of ancient history has been
completely distorted; and accordingly, man's "foolish heart was
darkened" 3. A we shall see, This massive deception has profoundly
affected important aspects of the Bible.
Once the two chronologies have been properly re-synchronized
by conforming the Egyptian chronology to the Hebrew
accounts in the Bible, all the various events begin to mirror each other in the
two chronologies.
The characters frequently have different names, but that is
not at all uncommon in ancient societies. The Bible might have one name
for an Egyptian king, while the parallel Egyptian account uses many different
names. For instance, ancient kings were known to have throne names, religious
names, dynastic names, and so forth. There are documented cases of several
Pharaohs with as many as 30 different names. If these names are
stretched end to end consecutively, you can have an entire dynasty of 30 kings
listed when actually there was only one!
The original chronological errors go all the way back to the
time of the pyramids in Egypt; however the dating of the pyramids can actually
help us to accurately re-synchronize the two histories. While there is evidence
that the pyramids were somehow related to the Semitic designed ziggurats of
Mesopotamia (the Tower of Babel was a ziggurat), scholars aren't
sure how the design got imported into Egypt. This is a first rate
clue, because the pyramids show up rather suddenly during the start of the 3rd
Egyptian dynasty.
Another historical revisionist named David Fry has
noted that 3 things had to occur for the pyramid age to begin: They needed a
technical mastermind to design them, there had to be a social need (or possibly
a crisis) that was intense enough to unify the people into a common goal, and
most importantly, the royal family had to have the wealth to finance such an
undertaking.
Egyptian historical accounts provide part of the picture,
but logic and familiarity with the Scriptures will help us to synchronize the
time with the Biblical accounts. The Egyptian histories specify that the first
pyramid was designed by Egypt's first Grand Vizier. A very wise man
named Imhotep, his name appears in the Egyptian archaeological
records on the pedestal of a statue in the court of the step pyramid (the first
pyramid). According to most authorities, this Imhotep came to
power under Pharaoh Zoser, just before a great 7-year famine. 4. The accounts
say that this famine occurred because the Nile failed to rise.
The Egyptian Stele of the Famine further states that
the Pharaoh asked Imhotep how to deal with the looming problem of
the famine. Other historians associate Imhotep with Pathotep, who
was also a Grand Vizier of Egypt during ancient times. They are very likely one
and the same for the second name simply adds the Egyptian god name Path (or
Ptah) to the individual's name.
The interesting thing about Imhotep/Pathotep is that the Egyptian
accounts say he was "a foreigner," who lived to be 110. The famous
Egyptologist James Breasted wrote the following”
"The success of Zoser's efforts was perhaps in part due to
the counsel of the great wise-man, Imhotep, who was one of his chief advisers.
In priestly wisdom...and architecture, this remarkable figure...was never
forgotten." 5.
Egypt’s historical records show that Imhotep
was among the most beloved leaders in all of Egyptian history. He was so
favored by Pharaoh himself that the king gave him the daughter of the high
priest of Heliopolis to be his wife.
According to another of Imhotep's biographers, one of his
greatest political achievements was the inauguration of the first income tax in
Egypt. She writes that this
"...income tax in Egypt was one-fifth of the harvest and
of the increase of cattle, plus several months of labor each year upon great
public works by all able bodied men." 6.
Yet another historian writes that,
"The Egyptians ascribed the invention of the art of
building with stone to Imhotep, Vizier and architect of King Zoser,
who reigned about 50 years before the building of the great pyramid...the
Egyptians described Imhotep as a sort of Leonardo da Vinci of Egypt,
mathematician, scientist, engineer, and architect." 7.
This statement clearly puts Imhotep in the time of
the building of the first pyramid. Although there is a tremendous body of
additional evidence about Imhotep/Pathotep, by now it should be obvious that Imhotep
was, indeed, the son of Jacob described in the Bible as JOSEPH.
The Scriptures say that Joseph came to prominence in
Pharaoh's court by interpreting a startling & vivid prophetic dream of the
king. The prophetic dream forecast a great 7-year famine that was to fall on
Egypt. Joseph & Imhotep both came to power as a result of his counsel to
the Pharaoh amidst a great 7-year famine.
The Egyptian records show Imhotep
created the first income tax and that it was "one-fifth." The book of
Genesis says that income tax came to Egypt because
"...Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that
Pharaoh should have the fifth part...." 8.
The Egyptian inscriptions show that
Imhotep/Pathotep was the first Grand Vizier of Egypt while the Genesis
record says that Pharaoh set Joseph "...over all the land of Egypt"
and said to him "...only in the throne will I be greater than thou."
9.
Imhotep/Pathotep's biographers say he "...was not a
native Egyptian," 10. while the Bible also clearly shows that Joseph was
not an Egyptian, but a Hebrew. The Egyptian documents say that Imhotep/Pathotep
lived to be 110. Genesis says that "...Joseph died, being an
hundred and ten years old...." 11. The Egyptian accounts say that Pharaoh
held Imhotep in such high esteem that he gave him the daughter of the high
priest of Heliopolis as his wife. The Bible says Pharaoh gave Joseph
"Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On." 12. The city of On
was also known as Heliopolis.
There are many, many more compelling reasons to connect the
two. Why have I gone into such detail? Because the conventional historical
chronology put forth by authorities everywhere says that Joseph
could not possibly be Imhotep because they are sure that they lived
about 600 to 700 years apart. But did they?
James Lloyd
To Be Continued
FOOTNOTES
1. Egypt
In Biblical Prophecy, Wilbur M Smith, 1957, page 55
2. Ages
In Chaos, Immanuel Velikovsky, published in 1952, page 21
3. Romans
1:21
4. The
Pyramids, Ahmed Fakhry, page 23, cited by David Fry in Hebrew Sages Of Ancient
Egypt
5. A
History Of Egypt (1937), James Breasted, page 112, cited by David Fry in Hebrew
Sages
6.
Imhotep, Builder In Stone (1965), Maribelle Cormack, page 29
7.
Secrets Of The Great Pyramid, Peter Tompkins, page 375, cited by David Fry In
Hebrew Sages
8.
Genesis 47:26
9.
Genesis 41:41, 40
10.
Hebrew Sages Of Ancient Egypt (1994), David Fry, page 43
11.
Genesis 50:26
12.
Genesis 41:45
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