SENSATIONAL DISCOVERY IN EGYPT:
THE MUMMY OF THE PHARAOH CONTEMPORARY OF MOSES WAS FOUND!
IS THE BIBLE NOT TELLING THE TRUTH?
In 1997,
archaeologists discover in Egypt the mummified remains of the Pharaoh who would
have lived in the time of Moses!
Following this sensational
discovery, President Mubarak suggests quickly that it might challenge the
Bible's version of the Exodus!
Indeed, in the
Bible it is written that Pharaoh and all his army have drowned in the middle of
the Red Sea.
So it does not
fit with a death at an old age in “his bed” and it would have been impossible
to find his mummy!
This new discovery is certainly a
new challenge launched by detractors of the Bible to the increasingly limited
number of people who still believe in the literal truth
of the stories written in it.
Indeed even today’s Christians and
Jews are more and more numerous to consider that the Bible should not be taken
literally and that it is rather a book that must however be read with a
critical eye by adapting it to our time. Some of its stories are often far from
historical truth.
It must also be recognized that, on
the contrary, so-called fundamentalists reject any questioning of the Bible and
blindly cling to its text more by dogma than by conviction. Many examples of
this kind are Talmudic schools that recite by heart but without heart the texts
of the "Tanach".
The duty of the lovers of the truth
definitely should flee these two tendencies. A true believer must indeed be
able to crosscheck everything and all his belief must be based on a
well-founded conviction and not on a priori.
The
Pharaohs at the time of the exodus.
If we return to the subject of this
article, and if we are ready to listen carefully to the ideas emitted by
President Mubarak of Egypt and to compare them with the biblical writings, we
will be able to increase significantly our knowledge.
But above all, we must remember that
the Lord who is at the origin of the loves Egypt and its people in a way
equivalent to the love He has for Israel and also for Assyria that most of us often
ignore its identity and existence today. But let's read how He expresses this
love:
"Thus Jehoiah
will strike the Egyptians, he will strike, but HE will heal, and they will
convert to Jehovah. He will let himself bend and heal them.
In that day,
there will be a road from Egypt to Assyria, and the Egyptians with the
Assyrians will worship Yahweh.
In that day,
Israel will be a third, with Egypt and Assyria, to be a blessing for all the
earth, which Jehovah of hosts will bless, saying:
Bless be Egypt, my people, Assyria work with my hands, and Israel,
my inheritance!” (Isaiah 19:
22-24)
In an attempt to eventually find the
pharaohs who existed in the time of Moses and the exodus and to restore order
in their successive lives, we will try to see in the Bible the key events
associated with their history. We advise you to pay particular attention to the
order of magnitude of the ages and the generations of each of the people in this
story.
The table at the end of this article has been drawn up to try to help the understanding of the successive
generations that have existed from the birth of Moses to the exodus.
First, in the book of Exodus,
chapter 1, it is written that a new pharaoh, also called king of Egypt, comes
to power. This new Pharaoh has the peculiarity of not having known Joseph. He
came to power a long time after Joseph's death.
It should also be noted that the
entire generation of Joseph's brothers passed away.
It was during his reign that Moses
was born and saved by the daughter of this same Pharaoh. When Moses became a
teenager, he was raised by Pharaoh's daughter in his court and was therefore
considered as his grandson. Two generations will separate them.
Moses, once an adult, at the age of
30 or 40, knowing his Hebrew origin, kills an Egyptian and runs the risk of
being executed by his adoptive grandfather. He fled to the desert and arrived
in the land of Midian.
A long time later, when Moses is 80,
his adoptive grandfather, the Pharaoh certainly dies very old, probably more
than 120 years old.
The Pharaoh who succeeds him is not
a firstborn since he will survive the plague of the firstborns. This Pharaoh is
of the generation preceding that of Moses, that is, of his adoptive mother, the
daughter of the deceased Pharaoh.
As Exodus 4:23 tells us, this
Pharaoh has a first born son who will perish during the night following
Passover. He will therefore survive him, but must already be more than a
hundred years old at the time of the events related to the first Passover,
since he is of a generation before that of Moses, himself 80 years old.
At the time of the Passover, it is
not surprising that Pharaoh's first-born son reigned over Egypt in the manner
of a regent, also bearing the title of Pharaoh. A similar situation has existed
in our time, when for example King Baudouin of
Belgium ruled while his father, Leopold III still lived and also bore the title
of king.
This firstborn son of Pharaoh, also
bearing the title of Pharaoh met Moses just before the Passover night. This
Pharaoh says prophetically to Moses without however realizing the significance
of his words that he will not see his face again and this will prove true
since, like all the firstborns, he will die during the Passover night according
to Exodus 10:29 and Exodus 11: 5. This Pharaoh is of the generation of Moses
and could be between 50 and 80 years old. He must have been mummified but he is
not an old man like the mummy of the pharaoh being the subject of the discovery
we were talking about at the beginning of this article.
It is therefore possible that the
father of this first born Pharaoh, already too old to fight with an army, had
his second son ascended his throne as a new Pharaoh to succeed his first born
son who had just died.
This second son of the old Pharaoh will
be sent to chase the Hebrews who just reached the Red Sea.
If so, the reign of this young Pharaoh will be only a few days since he will
perish by drowning in the Red Sea with all his army according to the writings
of the Bible confirmed by Psalm 106 verses 10-11 and Psalm 136, verse 15.
So after the crossing of the Red Sea, only Pharaoh, the father of those two
sons who died prematurely will stay alive and will pass away at a probably
advanced age that should correspond to the mummy recently discovered by
archaeologists.
This old Pharaoh will end his reign
in the bitterness of seeing his country completely ruined as a result of the
many wounds that had struck him and Egypt.
This is how the sensational
discovery of the mummy of one of the pharaohs who lived in the time of Moses
and the questioning of biblical narratives intelligently suggested by President
Mubarak of Egypt can help us better understand on the one hand the mystery
surrounding the death during Passover of this first-born Pharaoh that Moses was
never to see again and the drowning of that other Pharaoh still in the prime of
life who pursued the Hebrews across the Red Sea .
