Pharaohs of the Bible

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Pharaohs we are here for pharaohs of the Bible with Brian Young. He doesn't get to tell a joke though. No, he does. Are you ready?

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That's a great joke Brian. Thank you. Yeah, you bet. Okay, so I'm Terry cameras Ellen. I'm here with creation fellowship Santee we're a group of friends bound by our common agreement that the Creation account as told in Genesis is a true depiction of how God created the universe and all life from nothing in just six days.

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The Exodus, Archaeology, and Why the Timeline Matters

All right. Well, thank you. Yeah, we are going to cover a lot of material here in a short period of time as a matter of fact I won't be able to cover everything that I would like to but we going to be able to cover some of the most important things because As you said, we believe that the earth is young.

And I believe that every area of science whether it be biology geology astronomy or archaeology. All will support that but we often hear things like Jericho is 9 ,000 years old and that doesn't seem to fit in with maybe a 6 ,000 year old earth we see in archaeology things 15 ,000 years old.

How does that fit? Well, it all has to do with the Pharaohs believe it or not that there is a timeline that is corrected and once you do that, everything's going to Line up perfectly and a lot of the contradictions that there are within archaeology having this 15 ,000 and so on those contradictions go away.

And so You know Luke tells us this in the Bible it says if they hear not Moses and the prophets neither will they be persuaded though one would rise from the dead and In other words, if you don't hear Moses if you don't hear Genesis Exodus Leviticus numbers Deuteronomy if you can't hear those things and understand those things.

You're not gonna believe in the resurrection. You're not gonna believe in Matthew Mark Luke or John and so it's a very important thing that we have a good grasp and hold Of what's going on in these first five books of the Bible?

Because there are a lot of people out there trying to discredit creation the Exodus, especially those two things in those books of the Bible and so We're gonna take a look at that today now the other thing I want you to remember before we get started is archaeology is really about only 10 data and 90 interpretation and what I mean by that is it's kind of the same thing in science if I find a fossilized Dinosaur bone that really doesn't tell me much.

It tells me that this thing was once alive and it's now dead. It doesn't tell me how it died what it was eating before it died any of those kind of things. We have to interpret why we are seeing what we see and that's the same thing.

It is with archaeology. So keep that in mind as we go, but when we study Egypt. It's a fascinating place to go and visit. I've been there a couple of times and When we go there you see all these kings and these temples and they would write on their walls telling us about their battles.

About their building projects about all of these kinds of things. They even make statues of themselves and we know who they are because of the cartouches these little Name tags you would basically say on their shoulders.

We see that they would write on their obelisks about their temples and the the things that they would accomplish and do. Their battles as I said before they would write on their tomb walls. They would write on everything all of this information, but the problem was for a long time.

Nobody could read. What was being said because they use this language of hieroglyphs and the hieroglyphic language was unknown.

Until.

Alexander the Great basically in 332 BC he went and he conquered Egypt and so he's going to end the Egyptian dynasties. Well when he did he had the priests and some of his scholars. Make what is called the Rosetta Stone and you can see that pictured there in the upper right and what the Rosetta Stone was Was a key like a key on a map.

But a key for understanding the language what you see here is that there were three different languages on the Rosetta Stone. You had one of them was in the Greek there was actually two Greek and. Well one Greek and then two Egyptian the Egyptian hieroglyphs and the Demotic.

And so all three of these were saying the exact same thing. Therefore you could decipher by understanding what the Greeks said. What the Egyptian language and hieroglyphs were telling us as well. And so this was basically Lost for a long time after Alexander the Great had had this written down.

It was lost all the way up until basically 1822 when it was finally deciphered it was found again in the 1500s. But in 1822, there was a French scholar who for the first time then since Alexander the Great from our knowledge used his skills to decipher this and from 1822 on now we were able to understand and read the hieroglyphs now 1822 is really not that long ago.

And even then it was one man who could understand this. So since then obviously we have more people who can read Egyptian hieroglyphs. But it's still a very small number of scholars who are able to do that.

But by studying this the last hundred years. Or a little over now. Almost 200 years we have been able to get quite a bit of information, but it's still growing all the time. Despite all of this though We have things like Time magazine that said is the Bible fact or fiction and then on the inside of this article.

It said there are parts of the Old Testament where the evidence is contradictory or still absent including slavery in Egypt in the existence of Moses and. So here we see Time magazine. Is the Bible really true?

Because if you can't believe Genesis if you can't believe Moses and the prophets. Neither will you be persuaded though one would rise from the dead. I personally think the devil knows that quite well and that is why he is trying to get you not to believe in creation and not to believe in Exodus or the existence of Moses even so.

To understand what we're going to be looking at here. I want you to see the timeline now typically we see an average of about 3100 BC is where they are telling you the beginning of the Egyptian dynasties took place and As I said, they end when Alexander the Great conquers them in 322 BC now We have the Exodus primarily as being understood by most scholars today about 1445 BC on that timeline.

That's that green arrow that you're seeing so it puts the Exodus taking place at the end of the 18th dynasty. Now the 18th dynasty is when Ramses is ruling all of these kind of things. But I'm going to show you that I think that this is incorrect and there's good reasons that it's incorrect.

I personally believe that it started around 2100 BC as you're gonna see in a moment. But one of the problems with having the Exodus take place in the 18th dynasty is this. The 18th dynasty the capital of Egypt is Luxor not Memphis like the Bible indicates.

Luxor is also 1 ,800 kilometers south of the Delta. That means Moses was going to have to go to the capital city back and forth every time he was talking to Moses 1 ,800 kilometers each time. That just is unrealistic.

Not only that. But the 18th dynasty is the most recorded of all dynasties it would everything was recorded if a Pharaoh Sneezed it was almost written down. There is that much information. We know more about the 18th dynasty than any other and so you would think that out of all the records that we have of The 18th dynasty just somewhere we ought to be able to find some evidence of the Exodus that took place Moses and the Israelites living in Egypt, but nothing there's none of that there and.

So the question is why now it is true that sometimes, you know when bad things happen. They didn't like to record the negative things however, you usually can kind of read between the lines and see what was going on as an example, we see the Lakish tablets when the Assyrians came in and were conquering Israel.

It says they conquered this city. They conquered this city then they went to Lakish and from Lakish they went on to Jerusalem and it says that they locked up Hezekiah like a bird in a cage. That's what the Assyrian records on the Lakish tablets record.

Now the Bible tells us why you know. That he didn't conquer them. He's saying I conquered this guy. I conquered this king and then this king and then this king but with Hezekiah, we only locked him up like a bird in a cage.

Why didn't he conquer them? Well, the Bible tells us that there was a hundred and eighty-five thousand of the Assyrian army. That was wiped out in the middle of the night by an angel of death and they wake up and their armies dead.

And so he goes back home and when later his kid his kids basically kill him in one of the pagan temples. But bottom line is we can see by reading between the lines that the evidence is there. We don't see any of that in the 18th dynasty here as well.

And so That's another problem some other ones that we see Ramses is supposedly the pharaoh and when you watch things like Prince of Egypt things like that. You you see always it's Ramses. That is the one that Moses is going and confronting.

I do not believe that that is true we have been brainwashed because of the media and the children's books and the cartoons in seeing that and Bottom line is Ramses. He lived into his 80s. He ruled 67 years and It says that that's.

He.

Excuse me Exodus was He had to reign less than 40 years because the one who sought to kill Moses had died. Just before Moses came back if you recall what was going on. There is Moses had murdered somebody and so he fled and he was in the desert before he could come back and so for Ramses to rule 67 years.

The timing is not correct there. It doesn't allow Moses to be gone that long and then to come back. Also, the timing makes everything in the Bible seem wrong. Like I said Jericho the the date seems to be off on that.

So there's some kind of problem. A Big problem for me is I've seen Ramses. I've seen his mummy. If you look here is a picture of his mummy.

The.

Bible tells me that Pharaoh and his army were buried in the Red Sea. So how am I able to see Ramses? It doesn't make any sense. Now some people will say if you look in the book of Exodus, it doesn't specifically say that Pharaoh was buried.

However, you go to the book of Psalms and it's talking about it and it says Pharaoh and his army. So you shouldn't be able to see Ramses at all. The other thing is during the 18th dynasty with all these records.

There is no evidence that there were Semitic or Jewish people living in Egypt at all where'd they go and you would think that if this is really happening in the Exodus that there'd be something and that is why Time magazine is saying There's really no evidence that they ever existed.

Why because they are focused laser focused on the 18th dynasty and there is no evidence of the Exodus or Moses or the Israelites being in Egypt during that time. So I agree with Time magazine if the Exodus occurred in 1445 BC during the 18th dynasty.

I believe the Exodus did take place in 1445 BC, but not during the 18th dynasty but rather The end of the 12th dynasty as you were going to see which is still 1445 BC. Now there are some other problems here.

We see some things that I'm gonna skip up tonight, but I'll just kind of leave it up here just to Let you kind of look at it, but I got to save some time. I want you to understand that really the Exodus is not about the Pharaoh's either.

Who it was the Pharaoh is about or the Exodus is about the God of the Exodus that's the point that we're supposed to be taking from this story and When we see the 18th dynasty, there is no destruction or collapse like the Bible would say there was When the army is destroyed.

Avaris, Ramses, and the Case for the 12th Dynasty

So in Exodus chapter 1 verse 11, this is one of the reasons people always say. Well, it's got to be Ramses because look Ramses is mentioned in Scripture. They put slave masters over them to oppress them with forced labor and they built Python and Ramses as store cities for Pharaoh.

So, how can you have the Exodus taking place in the end of the 12th dynasty when Ramses isn't until the 18th dynasty? Well, I think it's because that the word Ramses there isn't really the city of Ramses.

Well, it used to be but prior to that it was called Avarice more than likely and I'm going to show you some pictures of Avarice here coming up, but I believe Avarice There's no question was a place where there were Israelites and it was later.

The name of that city was changed to Ramses and this is something we see a lot in Scripture. It's called an anachronism. Where they when they're writing things down, they're writing things down that had happened years earlier.

And so as they write it down, they're associating the name that that city is called now not what it was called when that destruction took place a couple of examples in Genesis chapter 14 verse 14 and In Judges 18 29, it says that the city was originally called Laish and not Dan until after the conquest which is long after Genesis 14 and so Here we see a name of a town being called something that it wasn't during the time the event took place.

The city of Luz is changed to the name Bethel in Genesis chapter 28. Not until chapter 28, but in Genesis 12 8 and 13 3 it is called Bethel. Long before or you know, it is even called Bethel in Genesis 12.

It's called Luz, but they're not writing Genesis 12 until after Luz had been changed to Bethel. Same kind of thing here with Ramses and I could give you so many examples of this kind of thing happening.

These are all some and this doesn't even scratch the surface. So not unique not crazy to say that Ramses is probably the city of Avarice. But certainly not the city of Ramses there in Exodus now as I said, I believe that it's going to be in the end of the 12th dynasty and It isn't that I'm gonna say 1445 has changed.

I believe the Exodus was in 1445 BC. So we're not adjusting that time frame. We're simply adjusting the time frame of.

The.

Reign of Egypt. Remember I said that it was 3100 BC that is generally accepted for the beginning of Egypt. I believe it was 2100 BC and when you do that, then that makes the first dynasty at 2100. And you move to 1445 BC and now it is the 12th dynasty.

Not the 18th dynasty. That's all it is now you say well. You can't just move things around because you want to and make up whenever the Egyptian, you know country started. Well, I agree. I'm not just making things up here.

There are good reasons for this. Let me explain to you. First of all how we get to this 3100 BC date there was an Egyptian priest by the name of Manetho and He lived around 300 BC and when Alexander the Great came in and whatnot.

When they conquered Egypt, they said we want you to tell us who are all of the the Pharaohs and how long did they reign? Well when you're conquered by somebody you don't just tell them no or I don't know you're gonna write something down and Manetho records all the names of all the Pharaohs and how many years they reigned.

So this is what we get now. Manetho is an interesting guy because do you know that we do not have a single not one Record of Manetho. How do we know what he said then? Well because we have a few people who record what Manetho said.

The problem is not only is the original of Manetho gone and we only have people quoting him. But those who quote him Contradict themselves. In other words one says one thing another says another who's right.

We don't know and So some of the people that are even quoting Manetho are unreliable. We could probably throw them out anyway. And most of the people who quote Manetho say that Manetho Recorded that these dynasties many of them ruled at the same time.

That means you can't say this guy ruled 40 years and the next guy ruled 50 years. So you have 90 years of history if they ruled with some overlapping time this guy ruled 40 years. But this guy ruled 50 years, but 25 of those was within the 40 years of the other guy.

That shortens the time period up now again the most reliable sources say Manetho Said that they ruled contemporary. Now that makes just common sense as well because we know that the Egyptian Nile River there It's about 12 kilometers wide is all for a thousand kilometers in length that means that one Pharaoh ruling by himself is going to have to rule a Thousand kilometers with the horse and chariot that would be very difficult to do and So what we see is it was recorded that there were northern and southern kings that ruled at the same time Among the same dynasty and that like I said just makes logical sense that in itself shortens the time frame of The Egyptian history because like I said normally what they do is they're telling you that This guy ruled 40 years.

This guy ruled 50 years. This guy ruled 100 years. This guy ruled whatever and you add them all up and then you work backwards and it takes you to 3100 BC. Well, if they ruled contemporary you can easily remove 750 to a thousand years of history.

Now there's also something called the TIP or the third intermediate period now the third intermediate period is basically dynasties 21 through 25 and we can read this in secular books, by the way here like Century of Darkness or a test of time and you will see that Many Egyptologists are saying this third intermediate period never existed.

We do not have any evidence of dynasties 21 through 25 that would remove 250 years of history right there.

So.

Bottom line, you can not only remove time from Kings ruling at the same time but also from maybe some of them not even really being there and that those dynasties didn't exist and. Therefore you can say you removed a thousand years of history and the Exodus is now in the end of the 12th dynasty.

It's that simple now with that foundation. I want to just give you some understanding here and you're gonna see why this is so important. First of all, where did the Egyptians come from? When you go to the Egypt, you will see the Bank of Miser and so on.

The reason that is is because the word Egypt in Hebrew even to this day is Mizraim. Well Mizraim was one of the sons of Ham. We see that in Genesis 10 and 6 the sons of Ham are Cush Mizraim. All right.

So Mizraim is clearly the father of the Egyptians. We know that's where they came from and the first king of the first dynasty was probably Menes here Eusebius and others talk about him and identified Menes as Mestrain.

Which is basically the grandson of Noah. So Dynasty 4 then we see this pyramids start being built but no no question we can see that the Egyptians come from Ham and Probably there from Menes, Mestrain being the very first ruler there.

Now, I'm not going to talk about some of the similarities between Pyramids and Ur as well as Egypt and honestly even Mexico and some here in the United States as well. But we won't get into that. The Tower of Babel some people think the Beers Nimrud's could be the Tower of Babel that kind of thing.

Like I said, we will not be getting into that. I do want to touch a little bit though on the fact that the people who built the pyramids were just slaves. We often see this in movies and whatnots are being whipped and and it's just this drudgery.

There's evidence to suggest that's not the case. That these people actually took pride in what they were doing because we see here on this step pyramid. They identify the builders it is written in the stone.

It says the crew. Cheops excites love the crew and the white crown of canoe Khufu Protected and the crew sahur is beloved. So they were taking pride in what they were building now I'm not saying that they didn't use some slaves and whatnot.

But what I am saying is that this was something that they were taking pride in and You know to build something of that magnitude certainly I could see would be something to be proud of.

Anyway.

One of the greatest pyramid builders of all time here. We see Seneferu of the fourth dynasty. I'm not going to get into him much, but he built like the medium pyramid here. We only kind of see the main square part of it.

You have his second pyramid is called the bent pyramid and one of the interesting things about that. We often hear that they they kind of messed up and so things started, you know. They miscalculated and that's why it looks bent at halfway up.

But one of the things that's interesting about it is on the northeast corner. There is an inscription that says the 21st year of Seneferu and then halfway up. It says 22nd year of Seneferu. The reason that's impressive is that would mean that they're laying a two and a half ton block every 20 seconds for 12 hours a day.

To get that done in that amount of time and so. Absolutely remarkable the intelligence and the ability of what they are able to do in such a short period of time. To build that to build such a thing we I don't think could do that even today with our technology.

We would not be able to do to the precision what they have in in that speed. So pretty pretty impressive. So, like I said, the exodus took place around 1445 BC with our corrected timeline and these pyramids now being built.

One of the fascinating things is that it's the time that Abraham comes to Egypt that all of a sudden these pyramids start getting more accurate more mathematically precise and Josephus a Jewish historian around the time of Christ records that Abraham had communicated to the Egyptians Arithmetic and delivered to them the science of astronomy for before Abram came into Egypt.

They were unacquainted with those parts of learning for that science came from the Chaldeans into Egypt. Now by the way, even in archaeology we have found when they have excavated Ur that Ur was a very mathematically Advanced city they had Pythagoras theorem long before Pythagoras.

They had all of these kind of things. They found school books and you know, like plates with all of the math kind of things written down on them. And so it's just speculation, of course, but nonetheless interesting that the time that Abraham enters Egypt is when we see the pyramids improving after The corrected timeline here and so maybe Josephus is on to something here.

Herodotus Recorded that it took three monthly shifts of a hundred thousand workers in each shift 20 years to build the great Khufu Cheops pyramid here 479 feet tall some of the stones in there up to 15 tons a total of 2 .3 million.

Blocks.

That means 12 hours a day for 20 years 26 .3 stones would need to be laid every hour or just under two minutes for each one. That is absolutely amazing. And this is what they have done. So I'm not gonna get any more into the pyramid building.

But I do want to show you this. Here is a cistern and this is in the city of Dothan. Now you might recall Dothan is the city when Joseph went to check on his brothers. He went to find them. They weren't where they were supposed to be.

So he went to Dothan where they were and He was then thrown into a cistern. Well, here's a cistern in Dothan, I don't believe this is the one he was thrown in necessarily. Obviously this one has been restored a little bit.

You can see some of the older rocks there on the bottom. But nonetheless, this is the type of thing that he would have been thrown into.

Joseph, Sesostris I, and the Famine Years

Now.

When is this? Like I said, I believe it's around the 12th dynasty in the beginning. We see Sesostris the first here and This we know this is Sesostris because his cartouche tells us who this is and by the way.

Sometimes you might see different names for some of these Pharaohs and that's because these guys had birth names. Then they had like king names. Sometimes they were given extra names for based on what they were doing.

Almost like what we give nicknames to our kids sometimes. But anyway, they had a number of different names. So Sesostris the first is one of the the ones that's most commonly used. Anyway, Sesostris the first.

He is.

Ruling I believe when Joseph is coming into town and Here's a couple of reasons why we see that he is almost always pictured with a shepherd's staff. Now even the Bible tells us that Egyptians viewed shepherds as detestable.

So why would an Egyptian Pharaoh have a shepherd's staff in his hand? Well, the records tell us it's because he wanted to be viewed as a shepherd of people and so he was very good to the people. He was a good Pharaoh and The people loved him now.

There is evidence to support this as well because when we see statues of Sesostris, he almost always has a nose. What's that mean? Well, you're gonna see a lot of the noses will be broken off on statues.

That's because the Egyptians had this religious belief that When you died your spirit would exit your nose. And by the way, they would take your brains and a lot of your organs out of your nose and whatnot as well but bottom line is that that In the afterlife worked the same way your spirit would exit the nose.

So even in your statues They would break off the nose trapping your spirit inside so that they were not allowed to basically go and enjoy the afterlife. So if you were a Pharaoh that was not liked they would try to deface your face and that's what they would end up doing.

So here are some more pictures of Sesostris the first. The interesting thing about it is his tomb has never been excavated. We know where it's at, but it is.

Underwater and.

Because of that it's very dangerous and it has never been excavated. I would really love to see what else they could find inside Sesostris's tomb and whatnot. But bottom line is we do have statues of him and some other records to saying what it is what he did.

For example, this obelisk here called the pillar of on. Now it's interesting that it's called the pillar of on because if you recall when Joseph came He married a priest of the daughter of on. Something that was a kind of a key figure at the time here with This Pharaoh reigning.

Here's a throne that is from this period of history that Pharaohs used. Maybe Joseph sat on one like that. We also see the chariots at that time looked like this. And so maybe Joseph rode one of those.

But.

It's a possibility that this Joseph is a guy named Mentuhotep now Mentuhotep. There's a couple of different Mentuhoteps too, by the way, but anyway Joseph could have been this Mentuhotep. There's a dark Mentuhotep and a light Mentuhotep.

The dark one is like black. But anyway. This Mentuhotep is interesting because we see that the Bible tells us in Genesis 41 that you shall be over my house Pharaohs talking to Joseph here only in regard to the throne.

Will I be greater than you? Let me tell you something. That's rare. That was not an everyday occurrence. But this is what he's saying. Now, this is what the Egyptian records say of Mentuhotep. When he also held the office of the chief treasurer as did the powerful vizier Mentuhotep under Sesostris the first.

The account which he could give of himself read like the declaration of the king's power.

So.

In other words, whatever Mentuhotep said it was as good as the Pharaoh saying and that is exactly what the Bible says. Happened here with Joseph not only that but he goes on here. The Egyptian records tell us that he appears as the alter ego of the king when he Arrived the great personages bowed down before him at the outer door of the royal palace.

Now this is exactly what the Bible tells us as well is that people would bow down before Joseph as He would go throughout from one place to another. Another interesting connection is the fact that it was during the reign of Sesostris the first that there is a Canal that brings water into town.

This canal in the Fayum is called Bar Yusuf. And when you go and you ask the natives why what does Bar Yusuf means it means? Basically Joseph's Canal. Well, why is it called Joseph's Canal? We don't know.

That's their answer. Can I make a suggestion? Maybe it's called just Joseph's Canal because Joseph was in charge of doing it because Joseph had a dream that said that there was a seven-year famine coming and so to prepare for that famine.

They brought water into the city through this special canal. So is it a coincidence that we have Mentuhotep. That is like second in power to the king that we're building a canal at the same time Into the city or is there a connection here?

Well before we make any decisions, let's look at some other things that are interesting here throughout most of the Middle Kingdom. Which is when the 12th dynasty is at the Egyptian Districts were called gnomes and they had these wealthy Monarchs basically kind of governor type thing that ruled over each one of these gnomes these districts.

Well, what's fascinating is it is at this time? that this changes and the wealth goes to Pharaoh instead of these governor of districts and Why would that be? Could it be that it is that way because of Joseph's famine policy where they had to buy grain?

Why does the power leave the people and go to Pharaoh? At this time in the 12th dynasty. It's a question that needs to be answered. We also see downstream from Bar Youssef that canal there is a tomb of Bani Hassan where there are tombs from the 12th dynasty up in these hills and one of the tombs there and They as I said have hieroglyphs and all of these pictures and things in the tombs one of them has these pictures here and It shows this no mark and people coming in to them bringing gifts.

Now what I want you to see is that these people are bearded first of all Israelites always had beards and the Egyptians did not so these are not Egyptian people also fascinating they do look like Semitic people Jewish people and it's No accident that they have coats of many colors.

Something that we do know that was given to the Israelite culture there as well and so. Another very interesting connection that these people are bringing gifts to them now the other thing is Here is another tomb a tomb of a many and when you go inside there Here is just a sign for his tomb.

He was a provincial governor during the reign of Sesostris the first when Joseph possibly was the prime minister. And so just another kind of lower governor. Here's this tomb. Here is what it says on the walls.

What does it say? It says this no one was unhappy in my days not even Not even in the years of famine for I had tilled all the fields of the Nome of Ma up to its southern and northern Frontiers thus I prolonged the life of its inhabitants and Preserved the food which it produced no hungry man was in it.

I distributed equally to the widow as to the married woman and so here we're seeing a.

Famine and.

Not just that there was a famine but there seemed to be knowledge that there was a famine coming and It says that he prolonged the life of its inhabitants and Preserved the food which it produced. How did they know it was coming?

Well, it seems to be Joseph and his dreams. It sounds like they were preparing for this seven-year famine. Also in the southern Egypt, there's a cliff that has markings of the Nile River here and.