Sir Edward John Poynter – “Israel in Egypt” (1857)
Have you ever though, how could the Children of Israel ever allowed their lives to descend into the status of a slave in a foreign land which they do not belong? Then before this era is over today, we might want to consider how we who are so proud to be living in “the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave” are allowing ourselves to descend so quickly into slavery?
Inherent in our quest, we know that we have access as promised by the G-d of Israel to reclaim the Land of our forefathers; Shomron, Galilee, and Judea and become citizens of a new “Promised Land” that will ascend during the “Messianic Age to Come” as the capital of our Sun’s Solar-Rex system on Planet Earth.
When Joseph, the Vizier of Egypt died, the “Golden Age” of Pharaonic Egypt was over. The era after Joseph was a slow and progressive decline in power and global influence. The wisdom of Joseph’s counsel, the brilliance of his command of social justice and economic enterprise, and his ability to harness the best of the citizens of this ancient land left his legacy for decades afterwards. Yet, a day did come, when a “Pharaoh who knew not Joseph” ascended into the power of the throne of Egypt.
There is one thing about strong rulers; they resent any ruler before them who has an enduring legacy. During this era, the aura of the righteousness of the Patriarch Jacob kept a high level of esteem not only for himself, his son Joseph, and also for all the Children of Israel. The secret of the attachment of the children of Israel to their patriarch Judah was also the secret for their own survival and strength. The family that believes together and prays together is also a family that shines with radiance in the social culture around them.
It was not that the Egyptians hated the Hebrew Israelites, and quickly descended into an era of Hebrewphobia, the reality is that in the beginning the Egyptians were scared of the Beni-Yisra’el (Children of Israel). They saw their strength and their stalwartness. They witnessed how the G-d of Israel blessed them. They also saw how productive they were in growing large families.
Just as the Arabs and Jews today are constantly weighing the power and influence of their peoples over each other by bringing up demographic data on each of their population’s growth, so also it was in the ancient land of Egypt.
Today, the American economy is run in part by the Jewish people. If not them, it is run by the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel. Just consider, remove everyone in the United States that has Jewish bloodlines, or is a descendant of the British, Irish, Scottish, Danes, Swedes, Norwegian, the Fins, the Dutch, Belgi, plus the northern French and German and even the Swiss and transport them to the Land of Israel. What do you have left in America?
If this event were to occur, the economic bastion of American enterprise would soon be gone. This is why the G-d of Israel told Abraham:
Genesis 22:17-18 – “I shall surely bless you and greatly increase your offspring like the stars of the heavens and like the sand on the seashore; and your offspring shall inherit the gate of its enemy. And all nations of the earth shall bless themselves by your offspring, because you have listened to My voice.”
We would witness and significant contraction, in the agricultural, energy, banking, education, health, insurance, telecommunications and electronic media, the entertainment industry, plus the middle to upper level managerial levels of every major corporation in the largest economic power of the world. Without the Jewish acumen and the entrepreneur spirit of the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel, the nation that once ruled upon this continent will be forever changed and may never recover.
This was the same dilemma of the Egyptian ruler and his people. The Hebrew Israelites were becoming too numerous, and they had the appearance and attitude of being strong and invincible. To the Pharaoh, they also could take control of the economy of the nation for was it not one of their own who became the economic genius that made the Nation of Egypt into the imperial power of the then known world?
The Pyramids in Egypt – Painting by Jean Leon Gerome (1824-1904)
Here became the source of Egyptian anti-Semitism and also a reference point of how global anti-Semitism is again on the rise today. To the Egyptian pharaoh and his advisors, the Hebrew-Israelites were “too dangerous to keep and were too important to lose.” What a dilemma!
As they feared, if Beni-Israel stayed, they would take control of Egypt. If they left, the entire social-cultural economy would collapse. So the Pharaoh had to create his own “Final Solution” for the Hebrew-Israelite people.
Unlike Hitler in Germany, where he portrayed the Jews like scum or vermin, using very much the anti-Semitic words of the Roman Catholic monk called Martin Luther, the Pharaoh knew that he had to enslaved the Hebrews in a way that they would willingly concede to their economic and then physical slavery. He wanted them to believe that they were so important to the State of Egypt, that they would willingly allow the state to benefit by their economic prowess.
Like a majority of the Lost Israelite Americans, called WASPS (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants), who once were the agricultural experts of the world, and America was the world’s breadbasket using family owned farms. Then we began to see an alarming transition, when between the years of 1974 and 2002 corporate-owned U.S. farms increased by more than 46 percent. As reported on the Sustainable Table;
Sustainable Table – “The dramatic expansion of industrial agriculture (or factory farming) has made it increasingly difficult for small family farmers in the U.S to stay in business. Instead, the food industry has become dominated by a handful of giant corporations which benefit from government policies that favor large-scale production. Family farmers are being forced out of business at an alarming rate.
According to Farm Aid, every week 330 farmers leave their land. As a result, there are now nearly five million fewer farms in the U.S. than there were in the 1930's. Of the two million remaining farms, only 565,000 are family operations. As established family farms are shut down, they are not being replaced by new farms and young farmers. Very few young people become farmers today, and half of all U.S. farmers are between the ages of 45 and 65, while only 6% of all farmers are under the age of 35.”
The purpose of the elite to buy out America with mega-corporation was no different than in ancient Egypt, but this time in the 1960s-1990s, the American culture of Beni-Israel (sons of Israel) who lived in the United States for almost two hundred years were tempted to sell off their small farms to agrarian corporations and move to the cities to find jobs.
From Time in Memorial; the Pastoral Life of Living in Goshen in Egypt
So also the Pharaoh of Egypt wanted to the Beni-Israel farmers in Egypt to leave their agrarian lifestyle, abandon their farms, their small businesses, and sell off their economic holdings in the fertile delta regions of Goshen in northern Egypt to the mega-corporations controlled by the State of Egypt. The Pharaoh would then tempt them to become a part of the new economic development that would make Egypt the premier nation of the world.
The Pharaoh’s treacherous pathway for his “Hebrew final solution” was to appeal to the Hebrew-Israelite patriotism to build cities in order to preserve the wealth of Egypt as the global economic capital of the world. This would give the Hebrews employment, government housing, ready access to a continuous food source, and most of all, time for relaxation and pleasure. How Americanized was the ancient Egyptian culture!
According to Ramban, known as Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman “Nachmanides” (1194-1270), and a 13th century Spanish and Holy Land mystic and Talmudist, he recognized as one of the leading Torah scholars who lived in Gerona, Spain when he made this great insight into the post-Joseph era of Egypt. According to Ramban, it was the hidden goal of the Pharaoh not to enslave the Hebrew-Israelites, but to actually exterminate them. It was not that he initially hated them, he actually feared them and then fear soon turned to despising them as he slowly turned the “screws” of economic slavery upon children of Israel.
According to the Jewish sages, the Pharaoh actually came to the construction sites where the newly contracted Hebrews were laboring and join them on the site as a symbolic effort how everyone must help Egypt in this time of need. As they watched “their Pharaoh” coming out to support their country, the assimilation into the Egyptian culture was becoming complete.
So like the Pharaoh of old, we witness the former presidents of American like Clinton and Bush touring earthquake devastated Haiti and tsunami devastated Indonesia while enticing millions of American’s to donate millions of dollars, of which it has been reported that most went to corporate trusts under their control.
Let look at a small vignette in our modern world’s entrapment by the Pharaoh’s that rule our world’s economies. In the year following the devastating 7.0 earthquake in Haiti, we witnessed millions of people donating billions of dollars to private charities and non-government organizations (NGO). Some of these were reputable organization who had a long standing record of helping people around the world; such as Oxfam America and UNICEF.
Then there were grew up out of the landscape, numerous celebrity studded telethons enticing million to text in campaign donations by the internet and their own cell-phones. We even witnessed the official, non-official Clinton-Bush Haiti Foundation, who within ten months drew in over $55 million. All claimed to share empathy with the common goal to help the devastated Haiti economy. Yet, CBS News Investigates reported three months after the Haitian quake the following:
CBS News Investigates – “The $14.9 billion donated so far works out to nearly $10,000 for each of the estimated 1.5 million Haitians left homeless and displaced by the disaster. On average, workers there earn just $4 a day.”
Yet the Chronicle of Philanthropy reported that six months after the quake, 75% of the charitable donations raised by NGOs and charities never reached the Haitians. These tactics of the world leaders depict today the same empathy with the crisis and devastations of the common man just like the Pharaoh of Egypt empathized with the children of Israel back then.
Compare these statistics on the distribution of household wealth that were gleaned from the 2006 study by the Helsinki-based World Institute for Development Economics Research (WDHW) of the United Nations University who reported the following:
WDHW – “The study shows the richest 2% of adults in the world own more than half of global household wealth. The most comprehensive study of personal wealth ever undertaken also reports that the richest 1% of adults alone owned 40% of global assets in the year 2000, and that the richest 10% of adults accounted for 85% of the world total. In contrast, the bottom half of the world adult population owned barely 1% of global wealth”
Early on, the Pharaoh of Egypt planned the future genocide of the Beni-Yisrael when he induced them to volunteer as part of their patriotic duty to their country who gave them food to eat and a home to live in a time of a great famine. So he provided to the Beni-Yisra’el great festival of fun, entertainment and games. There at the festivals the Hebrew-Israelites showed their prowess by donning “chains” in the sport as if they were competing in gang-pulling competitions. As the Chumash describes on the Parashah Shemos, “it was an easy next step to enslave them.”
According to the Sages in their teachings on Sotah 11b, we read:
Chumash on Sotah 11b – “The Sages teach that the very location of the cities was calculated to cause suffering and degradation. The land was marshy and the heavy brick walls would sink and crumble, thus forcing the work to be repeated endlessly to little apparent purpose.”
From Sports and Games to Oppression; the Modern Economic Life
As Ramban (Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman) commented; it was the Pharaoh’s plan to bring upon the Hebrew-Israelites slavery in small increments. This is a concept we understand well today, as all the freedoms of Americans have now been taken away and the Constitution of the United States, called the greatest historical document implementing the Torah given from the mount called Sinai ever implemented in now a paper of historical interest only rests abandoned in the National Archives of the United States. As Destination Yisra’el posted on July, 2010, in the blog titled, “The Jewish Torah Roots of the American Constitution by Prof. Paul Eidelberg”
Prof. Paul Eidelberg – “The Republic prescribed by the American Constitution is the longest lasting free government in history. America saved Europe from tyranny three times in the twentieth century and today it is the only solid bastion of freedom against totalitarian Islam. What is not generally known, however, is that the American Constitution was rooted in ethical and political principles whose source is none other than the Torah; the Five Books of Moses.
Protestant social revolutionary reformers, especially the Puritans of New England, saw in the Torah models for modern government. The Puritans adopted or adapted Torah principles and values in organizing their own colonial governments. Many New England divines agreed with Harvard President Samuel Langdon, who said, in his 1775 election sermon:
Harvard President Samuel Langdon – “The Jewish government … if considered merely in a civil view, was a perfect republic.”
Yale President Rev. Ezra Stiles, who conversed with rabbis, apparently agreed with Langdon that the American Constitution was based on the Ten Commandments."
The Egyptian Pharaoh enslaved the Beni-Israel in Egypt in a way that would become a model that would be used 3600 years later in America and Europe. Here was the Pharaoh’s Plot as recorded in the Jewish Chumash:
Jewish Chumash – “The Egyptians were frightened by the growth of Israel. As they said, “The Jews were becoming too numerous, too strong. They might overwhelm the nations – but they were also too useful to be permitted to leave the country.” It was the first instance in history of what has become the familiar pattern of anti-Semitism: The Jews are too dangerous to keep and they are too important to lose.
So Pharaoh proposed a solution. He will harness the Jews by enslaving them so that the state will benefit from their talents without fear that they will desert the country…
The Pharaoh’s treacherous solution to the “Jewish problem” was to deceive the Jews (Hebrew-Israelites) into showing the patriotism by building cities to safeguard the country’s wealth…so he planned to proceed in steps;
- First, Slavery in the form of a labor tax (National Income Tax);
- Then ordering the midwives (gynecological physician abortionists) to secretly kill male babies (Roe vs Wade);
- Then having every Egyptian throw the babies into the Nile River;
- And, finally, sending soldiers to search all Jewish homes for hidden infants.”
In that day, it was selective genocide, for the midwives of Egypt were commanded by government regulations and national decree to kill only the male babies. It was expected that young female Hebrew-Israelites, with the lack of males, would marry into the Egyptian culture and genetically and culturally disappear. It was the delicately laid out plan that would be implemented over several decades. Before Egypt would ever be challenged, the Hebrew-Israelites would become lost like the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel; they would disappear as citizens of the nations of the world, amalgamated and assimilated into the cultural morass of Egypt.
As the Pharaoh tightened the grip of oppression, the style of anti-Semitism began to change. As Hamas and Fatah speak out of one side of their mouths to America and European Lost Israelite dominated cultures and nations, and then speak out of the opposite side of their same mouths to their own Arabic speaking constituencies a different language with a conflicting message.
The Pharaoh spoke to the Egyptian people of the glories of Egypt and that “the Jews’ (children of Israel) power and wealth was not of their own making; it was from Egypt...” He then spoke to the Hebrew-Israelites of what the great benefits they had received historically from Egypt, for saving their forefathers from starvation. Now it was time to join and build the greatness of the Egyptian culture and society. As he spoke to his own Egyptian people, the Pharaoh stated:
Pharaoh of Egypt - “They flourished by taking advantage of our hospitality during and after the famine – so now, we have every right to take back what is truly ours!”
It was Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik, the grandson of the famous Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik, who was called the “Reb Chaim Brisker”, who when pondering upon these insights discovered one of the major foundations of historic anti-Semitism. It was the fact that no longer how long the Jews of the House of Judah lived within “any” land, they would always be considered as outsiders or newcomers.
This was the attitude of the Pharaoh. The Egyptians people were Pharaoh’s people, yet even though the Hebrew-Israelites had lived in Northern Egypt for 210 years, they were still considered as emigrants and newcomers to the land of Egypt. For the first 94 years the aura of Joseph, the Vizier of Egypt was a statesman and remembered as a legendary patriot of Egypt. Yet looming on the geo-political arena was a new breed of anti-Semitism; no matter how long you have lived here, you do not belong here and you never will belong here.
Joseph the Messiah and Savior of Jacob’s Family and the People of Egypt
Yes something had changed in the Middle Eastern geo-political environment. From all appearance a new dynasty of rulers began to rule in Egypt. As the Torah teaches, the new ruler saw the Hebrew-Israelites as “one people” as “one nation” even before they were forged together into one nation at the mount called Sinai, for he called the Hebrew-Israelites in the singular, “it” as though he saw them as one, and not assimilated as one with the Egyptian peoples:
Exodus 1:7-9 – “The Children of Israel were fruitful, teamed, increased, and became strong – very, very much so; and the land became filled with them. A new king arose over Egypt, who did not know of Joseph. He said to his people, “Behold! The people, the Children of Israel, are more numerous and stronger than we. Come let us outsmart it lest it become numerous and it may be that if war will occur, it, too, may join our enemies, and wage war against us and go up from the land.”
As we look at the similarities of the then and now, we can imagine in our minds both the Jews of the Diaspora, still in physical exile from the Land of Israel and the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel that were not of the bloodlines of Judah the fourth son of the Patriarch Jacob and his first wife, Leah. Both of them were in a physical exile, and both of them may or may not be in a spiritual exile.
We begin to ponder a new dimension of life; first the Evangelical Christians in America who are gaining a new reality of their life. From the scholarship laid out in the numerous books written by Yair Davidiy, his vast archives in his blog site, Brit Am and the host of a lively and informative Brit-Am discussion site, to Rabbi Avraham Feld, a respected rabbi in Jerusalem with the Maccabee Foundation and associated with Kol Ha Tor Vision.
There is no doubt that to many of the rabbanim in Israel are aware that Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel are waking up and coming to a new reality. They recognized that the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel are reaching up and beyond seeking a more elevated concept of spiritual reality. These Lost Israelite Christians are yielding to that inward genetic tug with the innate feeling within that somehow; we belong in fellowship with the Jews of the House of Judah.
For these awakening Lost Israelites, this time it is not “replacement theology” but a longing for the restoration to be home with our whole family; Jews and Israelites alike. This was also the same tugging that Ruth that young Moabitess who felt in her neshama soul that she wanted to be a part of the family of Abraham.
Ruth knew that her eighth ancestral great grandfather Lott was the nephew of Abraham. She also knew that with Lot’s incestuous relationship his two daughters, her tribal peoples the Moabite plus also the Ammonites were cursed by the G-d of Israel and the daughters were forbidden to join with the covenanted Hebrew-Israelites for ten generations.
Yet, in her faith, Ruth knew that she was the 11th generation, and informed her mother-in-law Naomi, that she wanted to go home and be a part with her people, the Hebrew-Israelites living in the Land of Israel. She gave this most invocative plea to her Jewish mother-in-law:
Ruth 1:16-17 – “Do not urge me to leave you, to turn back from following you. For where you go, I will go; where you lodge, I will lodge; your people are my people, and your G-d is my G-d; where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus may HaShem do to me, and so may He do more, if anything but death separates me from you.”
By her faith, Ruth became the wife of her father-in-law’s brother, Elimelech, whose name was Boaz. Ruth also at that time became blessed by the G-d of Israel, for by her faith, she became the ancestral great-grandmother of King David from only whose lineage the future messiah of Israel would come. As written by Destination Yisra’el in the article titled, “The Secret Life of King David: Humiliated, Disgraced and Reviled – a Biblical Model of the Future Messiah.”
Quoted from BibleSearchers Reflections – “David was born into the illustrious family of Yishai (Jesse), who served as the head of the Sanhedrin (Supreme Court of Torah law) and was one of the most distinguished leaders of his generation. Yishai was a man of such greatness that the Talmud (Shabbat 55b) observes that,
"Yishai was one of only four righteous individuals who died solely due to the instigation of the serpent"--i.e. only because death was decreed upon the human race when Adam and Eve ate from the Tree of Knowledge at the serpent's instigation, not due to any sin or flaw of his own. David was the youngest in his family, which included seven other illustrious and charismatic brothers.
Yet, when David was born, this prominent family greeted his birth with utter derision and contempt… (Click to Open this Article titled, “Nitzevet, Mother of David - The Bold Voice of Silence”
BibleSearchers Reflections – Have you ever heard this story of King David when he was a young child? Have you wondered why? It is a rare Christian pastor, scholar or writer who brings such dramatic insight into the biblical personalities that we love and respect, especially insights into the life of King David during his youth.
The reason that they do not know these sublime histories, such as what happened in the youth of King David, is that they do not respect the writings of the Jewish sages and histories as found in the Jewish Talmud and the Mishnah. Yet, this is the history of the Jewish people, and if anyone should know their history, it should be them. Not only that, King David was a proto-type of the future Messiah and his life was a dramatic rehearsal of the Messiah who would later come and bring the “Drama of the Ages” to its fullest realization.
The Israelite people arrived on the scene of history out of one of the greatest planetary apocalyptic eras of catastrophes of bolides of fire, great plagues, and global catastrophes. They became a “nation of twelve tribal peoples” at the mount called Sinai and there the Children of Israel were called by G-d; “The Nation of Israel”. Today, we recognize them only by the visible portion as the Jewish people. Three thousand and five hundred years later, the Jews erupted out of the ashes of a holocaust that almost eliminated them from the face of the earth, and created also in one day, a ‘Nation of Israel’…”
So today, the descendants of the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel are returning home, being drawn by the whistle of the Divine calling them back to the roots of their ancestral people’s and to the land of their heritage. Many are coming back humbled, and contrite for the sins of their forefather’s and the desire to repair the breech and enmity that they started with their rebellion three thousand years ago.
As we shall see, the G-d of Israel is wooing all the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel home! The story of Pesach (Passover) is your ancestral story. The story is about oppression and slavery which your forefather’s experienced in Egypt, and today you are experiencing it wherever you live. The more your “spiritual eyes” are awakened, the more you will realize that you are in a physical exile and “This land is no longer your land!”
Your Jewish brothers erupted out of the ashes as “burnt offerings” during the Shoah (Holocaust), so also your life may have to “walk through the valley of the shadow of death yet you will experience no evil, because Hashem will be with you.” (Psalms 23 parts)
As the prophets have spoken, in our future is another Exodus, another planetary apocalyptic era of catastrophes with bolides of fire, great plagues, and global catastrophes. It appears that there will also another Exodus as the Lost Ten Tribes of the House of Israel will soon be going home.
It is time to pay attention to G-d’s details. When He spoke to the Lost Tribes of the House of Israel in prophecy by the Prophet Ezekiel, He said:
Ezekiel 36:22, 24-28 (parts) - “Thus says the Adonai G-d, “I do not do this for your sake, O House of Israel, but for My holy Name’s sake, which you have profaned among the nations wherever you went…
I will take you from among the nations, gather you out of all countries, and bring you into your own land. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols…
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your G-d.”
Before the G-d of Israel brought the Children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, He first brought to them their new messiah and savior.
Coming Next: “The Passover Exodus then and now: Moses, a Messiah for All Israel”
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You might want to Read the entire Series titled: “The Passover Exodus then and now!
Part One: “The Passover Exodus then and now: The Righteous “Chosen Ones” and their Descent into Slavery”
Part Two: “The Passover Exodus then and now: Anti-Semitism and the Pathway from Slavery to Redemption”
Part Three: “The Passover Exodus then and now: Moses, a Messiah for All Israel”
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