Exodus Rediscovered: The Wandering Period
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- Israel was sentenced to wander in the desert for 40 years, but do we have any evidence this account is accurate? This documantary provides evidence ther account in the Pentetauch is accruate. Remember this is part 2 of Exodus Resdiscovered. Here is part 1: • Exodus Rediscovered: D...
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Merkabah
AFFILIATION
Michael, Heavenly Host
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
RACE
Angelic Machine
GENDER
Genderless
SPIRIT OF
Law, Order, Control, Death
PANTHEON
Abrahamic
Merkabah is the throne and heavenly chariot of God.
Merkabah is a True Archangel that was created from the many Ophanim, Chayots, Seraphim and Cherubim that were killed by Lucifer and his army during the War in Heaven. Merkabah is, more or less, a weapon to be used against the forces of darkness much like a sword while at the same time being its own sentient being.
Appearance
It is a four wheel vehicle driven by the chayot which are living creatures with four wings and four faces. According to Ezekiel it is a chariot made of many angels driven by the "likeness of man."
The most ambitious crossover since the Avengers
Dude, so many typos in your description! But nice vid.
Even in my other account I can't see your replies. I think Amenemhat III was pharaoh during Joseph. He was known for his agriculture projects and Hor was buried in a shaft beside his burial pyramid. I think Hor was Joseph. He ruled for a couple years at most but maybe even months. He was succeeded by two sons. Their names are very interesting, especially the second I'm not a huge fan of "this word looks like that word," but when the ending of the name is heperew (sp?) I don't think it's as bad as trying to tie the sun to the Son. Also considering this period was right before the Hyksos. I believe the Israelites were a part of the Hyksos but not all of them. I believe the Hebrew Hyksos were based in Tanis. Avaris was the "confederation" capitol.
Thank God for giving us one of the best crossover episodes in apologetic history!
Duude! Where've you been??
Glad you and Dr. Falk crossed paths -- seems to have proven productive for the both of you!
15 minutes in, and as usual, well done.
Thank you
@@InspiringPhilosophy Can you make a video regarding historical evidence of exodus from Egypt
@@muhammadqureshi5082 He already made it
@@muhammadqureshi5082 muslim
@@muhammadqureshi5082 bro watches a Christian channel
Really great video. Normally I'm interested in metaphysical questions like how the trinity works or divine simplicity, but these videos involving logically investigating historical evidence to date and affirm the Biblical records are so interesting even though they're out of my normal sphere of investigation. Great stuff!
The Trinity does not work
@@yashawngray9289 what works?
@@MrDJosh
The only thing that works is -
One God ,who is just one God, and not a 3 in one hydra -with many heads.
@@yashawngray9289 who’s this god?
@@yashawngray9289 what is his name?
Holy crap this video is awesome with all the sources and all the evidence available of the wandering period the Bible claims in Exodus. This video was fascinating from start to finish. Well done Michael! 👏🏼🤙🏼
Thank you
Congratulations! I have been following your work on your channel for a decade now - since you started! - and your videos have gotten better and better. Your research is skilled and you quote the leading figures of today. :) I introduced you to my husband, and he really likes your channel, too, especially since you’ve quoted some of his professors. Keep up the good work!
Historically, the Sinai and Palestine were under firm Egyptian rule during the so called Exodus and even the so called rule of king Solomon.
There is no way hundreds of thousands of WANTED civilians (men, women and children) would wander through the confined and well patrolled Sinai desert unnoticed.
All the borrowed Egyptian words, rituals and customs you mentioned were simply a result of intercultural interaction through trade and travel within one country called Egypt. The Levant was under direct Egyptian rule or through vassals until around 600 BCE.
Acts 7:22-And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds.
They serve at a sanctuary that is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”
Hebrews 8:5
Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a severe hailstorm.
Revelation 11:19
Moses build the Tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant not because of the wisdom he obtained from the Egyptians. It's because God showed him the reality in heaven. And Moses build the ark and the Tabernacle according to that pattern in heaven.
@@carloswater7 no one is saying that they Copied everything from the Egyptians, what this video Is showing is that their were similarities between the Ark and other Furniture built by the Egyptians. Which would prove that the Israelites lived and were among the Egyptians at some time. In Egyptologist Dr Falks Book, The Ark of the Covenant in its Egyptian Context, he explains and gives the context of the Ark of the covenant and other furniture used in Egypt that was used for their Temples and deity’s .
The Ark just served its purpose for a Time, the Book of Jeremiah says that the Ark shall no longer be remembered. Jeremiah 3:16-And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.
The Ark mentioned in Revelation would be the Heavenly one, the book of revelation uses a lot of symbolic language.
@@zedek6658 yes I saw the video, you don't need to summarize it for me. But it also made it look if like the Israelites learned their traditions from the Egyptians.
Of course everything in the Book of Revelation is symbolic, but Just I showed you with the example of the book of Hebrews. There's the reality in heaven and the copy here on Earth. The reality of the Ark of the Covenant in heaven is the Heavenly Jerusalem.
@@carloswater7 well some of the Israelites did serve pagan gods and served idols in Egypt , the Bible even says it. But Joshua tells the people to throw away their idols.
Joshua 24:14-Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the LORD!)
The Israelites weren’t the only people who had Priest’s and Temple and Feast days and animal sacrifices, the whole Middle East had their own similar practices. Some ancient near East festivals were similar to the Israelites feast days. It doesn’t mean they all copied each other, it was just a way of how they served God in those days.
The Heavenly Jerusalem is not the Ark of the covenant from heaven, Revelation 21:2 And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
3 And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
Revelation 21:22 And I saw no temple therein: for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.)
@@zedek6658 You said that the Ark of the Covenant is not the Heavenly Jerusalem. But you yourself showed me verses that it does.
At that time they will call 👉Jerusalem The Throne of the Lord, 👈and all nations will gather in Jerusalem to honor the name of the Lord. No longer will they follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.
Jeremiah 3:17
I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.
Revelation 21:2
The city does not need the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp.
Revelation 21:23
In Jeremiah, instead of the Ark to the Covenant, Jerusalem will be called The Throne of the Lord. But this Jerusalem must be the Heavenly one.
The Heavenly Jerusalem is being called the city at the same time, she is the Temple according to the context.
The combination of Dr. Falk’s knowledge and scholarship with your own knowledge, investigative and production skills make for a potent and devastating alliance. So glad you guys have teamed up to produce such compelling content. I look forward to more of your collabs in the future!
This video is such a blessing. For the majority of my time, I tend to focus on the metaphysical aspect of the Bible (trinity, angels, afterlife, etc), but I’m now interested in your video about the four gospels, especially to challenge the Q source theory.
Loved you work on the last one! It was super rewarding as I had just gone through it in a verse-by-verse series on the life of Moses on my channel.
Thank you for mentioning Richard Hess!!! It’s a shame he is not brought up more often. His OT book is long but so insightful
Thank you for putting this together! Very cohesive work that blew my mand as always!
Glad to help
The parallels between the covenant code and the older sources are quite instructive, not only as to the dating of the sources. For example, the requirement to pay "double" in Ex. 22:4,7,9 apparently doesn't mean "double" or "twofold" but rather means "two" in the ordinal sense: to pay a second time. The first payment is the deposit or the theft, the second payment is the compensation or repayment. This can be seen from the Laws of Hammurabi where the grain banker is required to pay "double" as well in law 120 in the event that there is a loss of grain or if the banker takes from the grain himself or denies the depositor's withdrawal demand. Given the context of a deposit of grain, and the use of grain as a unit of money and as a medium of exchange and investment and payment (silver was not coined at the time, rather, it was weighed), and given the fact that such a grain bank may have losses from perishing and from expenses as well as gains from interest on grain loans, the law's purpose is to uphold the depositor's right to withdraw the deposited quantity of good grain (less fees), rather than to have an accounting for and return of what was left of the original grain or of a share of a grain pool. Given this, payment liability of "two" must mean paying "back" or "again" to the depositor or owner, rather than payment of twice as much value as was stolen or lost or denied. Indeed, this is how L.W. King translated the law in 1899 as paying for "all the corn that he took" as opposed to Saad D Abdulhab's literal translation in 2017 as "the owner of the grains shall double (the amount of) the grains that he took".
The context of Ex. 22:4,7,9 is not really a banking situation, it is more properly a bailment, but the basis for paying twice as much still doesn't work well there either. The thief, if he is caught with the animals he stole alive and in his possession, then he has to give them "back" to the owner or bailee. If goods are stolen from a bailee and the thief is caught he pays "back" to the owner or bailee. If the thief is not caught, then, the bailee's liability must be determined by trial before "god" (i.e. the judges, the authorities), and if the bailee is liable, the bailee is to pay "back" i.e. to pay compensation for, the lost items. There is no payment of twice as much by the liable party. This can also be seen in Lev. 6:2-6 where a bailee escapes liability to pay back the depositor by swearing falsely that he is innocent. If he wants to put things right with the bailor, he has to pay only 20% extra above the principal amount for swearing falsely. So, why would Ex. 22 require double payment for honestly admitting that you stole the bailor's goods, while falsely swearing and then confessing later requires only 120% compensation? Why should theft plus false swearing be cheaper than theft alone?
The law to pay "five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep" (Ex. 22:1) by a thief if the animals are stolen and sold or killed is best read as a restriction on multiple damages, rather than the institution of it. The Covenant Code rule is the payment of money damages, but not multiple damages, even for loss of human life, as a result of wrongful conduct. If the damages cannot be paid, the manslayer is sold to pay for his theft (of the man's life), and must serve six years (Ex. 22:2; 21:2). The Covenant Code restricts multiple damages and restricts the death penalty even for man-slaying. It may be a very ancient code, but it is very sophisticated and civilised, it is not punitive, rather it restrains the punitive urges to make the law kill or over-reach or to take too much from the liable party. The rules are focused on the correct calculation or valuation of money damages, and the transmutation of money damages into time-limited debt service where the judgement debtor cannot pay, and the cancellation or off-setting of money damages to discharge debts and to release debt slaves.
I thought man-slaying of a free Israelite, except in self defense or on accident, was punishable by death? Not by servitude or paying for damages?
@@youngknowledgeseeker In the Covenant Code there are four different provisions for homicide:
1. the provision of striking a man so that he dies after lying in wait, and willfully and by cunning (Ex. 21:12-14)
2. the provision for when two men are fighting and they hit a pregnant woman who may die or whose child may die (Ex. 21:22-25).
3. The provision for the goring ox (Ex. 21:28-32)
4. The rule for striking and killing a man in your house (Ex. 22:2-3)
The first provision appears to deal with what we today call "murder" the intentional killing of a human being. The law for such murder is the death penalty, however, the application of the death penalty is restricted (prohibited) by other rules about evidence and procedure: the procedure requires impossible evidence so that no one is actually to be put to death for murder. The process rule requires refuge for the accused murderer and two eye-witnesses who must directly see the murder, and to these rules others were added to ensure that the law did not take human life, even of the murderer. Like Cain, all human beings are marked by God with his image so that they may not be put to death, even for murder. Taking the substantial and the procedural laws together, the Law of Moses as a whole does not support the death penalty in practice. This is the position of the Jews at the time of the Lord and under Judaism today, and for early Christians, and for Christians today (with some exceptions, unfortunately).
The second three are similar and deal with taking human life either wrongly or negligently, and which I think also applies to intentional and malicious homicide too, given that the death penalty is unavailable for other reasons mentioned above.
The first such case features what we today call transferred intent, when the man fighting another man hits a woman instead, killing her and/or her unborn child. The remedy of "life for life, eye for eye" etc. I think properly refers to payment of financial compensation, measured by the financial or compensation value of what was destroyed or lost. I don't think it is some kind of innovation to read these provisions as referring originally and properly to awards of money damages. The striker must pay damages (Ex. 22:22), and the further provision of "life for life, eye for eye" likewise refers to further damages for further harms, of whatever type. For example, if a man is fighting with another man, and hits the eye of his slave and destroys it, the slave goes free as a financial or economic remedy (Ex. 22:26). In this law, therefore, the fact that they are not putting to death a man for striking a pregnant woman and destroying her unborn child does not prove that unborn children are not entitled to legal protection and are not protected as human beings by the law in the case. The lives of all human beings are recognised and entitled to protection, but by means and with remedies other than taking human life.
The second such case deals with a goring ox where the owner has been warned and fails to keep it properly contained. The owner is liable for the death of the human being caused by his ox, but he is liable to pay damages. This is "life for life."
The third such case deals with the liable or negligent killing of a man accused of theft. If by night, the killing is held innocent or accidental. It is as if the thief or alleged thief is confronted in the night and was being menaced and in the dark was accidentally killed instead. But, by day, the killer is held liable as the thief of the man's life: he must pay, and if he has no money to pay he will be sold to pay for his theft of the man's life. The man accusing the other man of theft is himself held liable for theft. The defence that the man killed was allegedly stealing from the house does not hold up for two reasons: the man's actual guilt of theft is not proven and as he is no longer around to defend himself, it is treated as wrong, and, even if it is correct, the theft was unsuccessful and does not justify taking human life.
In summary, death doesn't necessarily literally mean death, and life for life can refer to financial (or equivalent economic) compensation. The death penalty exists but it is proscribed and put out of reach by other laws. And that is where most people are at, even today, that the murderers and others may not deserve life, and may deserve death, yet for other reasons we don't take human life as a punishment. It is not a new idea, but often when it appears in biblical materials it is not comprehended or identified correctly.
Historically, the Sinai and Palestine were under firm Egyptian rule during the so called Exodus and even the so called rule of king Solomon.
There is no way hundreds of thousands of WANTED civilians (men, women and children) would wander through the confined and well patrolled Sinai desert unnoticed.
All the borrowed Egyptian words, rituals and customs you mentioned were simply a result of intercultural interaction through trade and travel within one country called Egypt. The Levant was under direct Egyptian rule or through vassals until around 600 BCE.
I was in the army we tried not to leave a trace especially if enemies are potentially following you what sort of durable would they not care to leave behind everything was valued and treasured coth pottery ect
We don’t always agree, but we agree more than not. Your videos are top notch and appreciated. Great work! God Bless!
Very interesting video indeed! Love all your content!
Love you channel, since the beginning.
I'm hoping you'll have content on how you do general philosophy. Methodology you can share for others, all sorts of things.
So excited for this!!!!
Fantastic work!
Didn't disappoint!
Beautiful work! Just beautiful! 😍
Michael you are the best philosopher of all times...💪
This is amazing, thank you for your work!
Thank you for the content ! Very informative.
Awesome video IP
Once more, great job.
Fascinating. The work you're doing is incredible.
Haha 🤣 he didn't love your comment heretical jw
Very well done. Thank you and God bless your ministry.
Why are Christians in archaeology starting to erase Christ by saying BCE? It’s BC.
He has Jewish viewers
@@INFINITUMSPIRIT Das Juden shouldn’t erase Christos
@@disguisedcentennial835who is das juden
this is gonna be awesome
Very good documentary. With the previous one on the Exodus, I was trying to find out your take on the Red Sea crossing - Gulf of Suez or Gulf of Aqaba ?
Here is my string of Biblical evidence:
The Bible clearly states in Exodus that the Israelites started trekking soon after midnight on the 15th Abib, and got to the crossing point on the afternoon of the 17th Abib.
Pharaohs spies told him they were entangled in the land between the mountains and the sea sometime on the 17th Abib, and they reached them in their chariots by sunset on that same 17th Abib. That's all impossible for anywhere on the Gulf of Aqaba - it can only have been a Gulf of Suez crossing....
Great video but it would be nice to have a video showing the differences and not just the similarities. Of course I understand the purpose of the video is to show clear evidence or when it was written but some people think these similarities prove plagiarism or lack of authenticity in Israeli history.
Fair criticism.
Historically, the Sinai and Palestine were under firm Egyptian rule during the so called Exodus and even the so called rule of king Solomon.
There is no way hundreds of thousands of WANTED civilians (men, women and children) would wander through the confined and well patrolled Sinai desert unnoticed.
All the borrowed Egyptian words, rituals and customs you mentioned were simply a result of intercultural interaction through trade and travel within one country called Egypt. The Levant was under direct Egyptian rule or through vassals until around 600 BCE.
I'm a Catholic and i thoroughly enjoy IP contents. Nevertheless, I've got a question which occured to me as I watched this video: How come that when similarities with other older religions, are brought up to dismiss Christianity as a " copycat cult" , comparison appear to be faulty or flimsy, unless they serve the purpose to corroborate something which is reported in the Bible? Perhaps I'm making a category's mistake , but it seems a double standard to me
same here
Honestly why don't you write a few commentaries I have greatly enjoyed these videos and as a teacher in the church I would like to have this teaching on writing...just a thought thank you for the good work
can I add to all these praises by saying, can't wait for part 3? well, looks like I just about did. good job, bro. love the content you bring in edifying our God.
Curious: Didn’t God give specific instructions for building the ark and temples? So He requested the designs to be fashioned after Egyptian culture/ sounds a bit odd. Can you clarify? Thanks!
@Claudia GGT much like Paul quoting a greek poet as a starting point with the greeks. Essentially saying 'you think God is like _that_ but actually God is more like *this.* ' Dr Falk's book goes into this in great depth. To be honest, a couple of the middle chapters go into it with a bit more depth than I needed. ;-)
He charged that they be made as the pattern revealed in the mount, the crafters were experts from the mining & smelting works of Egypt which could realize any design as intended... There's no culture fashion likeness to Egyptian unless unintentional.
@@toddeaton3269 Years ago whilst studying all instances of God’s energising spirit in the Tanakh - as opposed to our later understanding of the Spirit - I unavoidably came across with one of John Levison’s many scholarly spirit-related works ‘Filled with the Spirit.’
“For I am full of words;
the spirit within me besieges me.
My heart is indeed like wine that has no vent;
like new wineskins, it is ready to burst.
I must speak, so that I may find relief;
I must open my lips and answer. (Job 32:18-20)
Elihu communicates through dialogue what the narrative of the tent of presence communicates more obliquely: some people have within them a distinctive spirit in fullest measure. Filling is, in other words, an expression both of quality and measure, and in the story of the tent of meeting, as in Elihu's soliloquy, the emphasis lies upon both. Some Israelites are selected to make Aaron's vestments because they are wise of heart or, simply put, skilled. They are filled, in other words, with spirit of wisdom. Yet the spirit with which God filled them is also ample, full to the brim with wisdom, so that they are completely prepared to make Aaron's vestments. The scenario with respect to Bezalel is not at all dissimilar; the wording differs only slightly. What distinguishes Bezalel is that the spirit, as in the cases of Joseph and the artisans before him, exhibits qualities - wisdom, intelligence, and discernment - that mark it as God's. This is the sort of spirit within him that is full to the brim, qualifying him to lead the entire enterprise of the tent of presence.
It may require a measure of historical self-discipline to resist reading the words "filled with (the) spirit of God" as an endowment aimed at equipping Bezalel to construct the tent of meeting. It requires putting aside the influence of misleading bifurcations that arose through the misapplication of Hermann Gunkel's fresh thesis, as well as later Jewish references to filling with the spirit and the language of Pentecost (Acts 2:4). Nonetheless, several pivotal observations suggest that the emphasis of this narrative lies elsewhere. (1) The intimate association of heart and spirit, even with respect to the language of filling, confirms that the spirit is understood as a core human characteristic. They are both the locus of wisdom in this narrative. (2) Artisans, including Bezalel, are selected because they are already skilled, already filled with spirit of wisdom. (3) The language of filling, in a narrative preoccupied with voluntary munificence, is an indication of fullness of skill, expertise at the ready. The verb itself conveys completeness, a presence of wholeness, and fullness. (4) The language of filling is also, in the cases of Bezalel and Oholiab, an indication of the vast range of their skills. Theirs is spirit of God in association, not only with wisdom, as in the case of the artisans, but also with understanding and knowledge, and their hearts are also said to be filled with wisdom. They are competent, therefore, in every craft. (5) Albeit obliquely, the spirit of God within is undramatically associated with the task of teaching; this, ultimately, is how Bezalel and Oholiab are prompted to communicate their wisdom, knowledge, and insight. (6) This brief reference to teaching suggests as well that the artisans acquired wisdom from their leaders rather than unmediated from God, without human intervention. (7) Finally, this language is lavish and speaks of God's generosity linked harmoniously to human generosity. Such moments are preserved only infrequently in Israel's memory, and it is perhaps propitious that leadership at such a grand moment rests in the hands of those who are identified single-mindedly as wise of heart and filled with spirit of God, with wisdom, with insight, with knowledge.”
👏🏻 Great Job!
Exodus 25: 40
'And see to it that you make them according to the pattern which was shown you on the mountain."
Also Exodus 25: 9 &
26: 30
Choice: Join in with historic speculation and theory that Israel was a derivative of the pagan cultures /OR/ accept the Bible that YHVH appeared and communicated to Moses the patterns rituals and especially the 3 main feasts (of Leviticus 23) which manifest or will manifest in the future. Thus we observe: Passover of Ye'shua, Pentecost giving of the Holy Spirit and the awaited Sukkas (God Tabernacles with His own). The religion of Israel, while appearing in a time and culture, was revolutionary NOT evolutionary. I like Michael and his work, but his intellectual/philosophical bent sometimes blinds him to the simplicity of Biblical Truth. 🙏
Good insights.
Mike, how about a vid on the location of Sinai? I've seen compelling info Sinai is in modern Saudi Arabia. Thoughts?
cant wait for part 3
It will be the best one
I enjoyed this video a lot. I was hoping you'd tackle the question of the identity of Mt. Sinai though
We don’t entirely know
@@InspiringPhilosophy That's understandable, it'd be nice to hear your opinion of what the best candidates may be 🙂
@@InspiringPhilosophy have you considered the Jebel-al-Lawz theorie and supposed evidence ? Would be really awesome to have your opinion on that.
Thank you for this really informative video ! Keep it going
Inspiringphilosophy, I really love this video, but how do I get atheist to even consider the arguments? I attempted to show this video to an atheist in reddit who claimed that the Torah was written after the Babylonian exile, but he didn't seem to watch it because he just quoted scholars who gave arguments you already debunked. What should I do?
You can't debate someone who isn't even willing to listen to your points. Best to let them go on their way and hope they mature.
Great video Mike. One question for you, do you believe that the Feasts of YHWH were given to Israel by Him or do you believe they crafted them themselves out of the traditions of the ANE that they would have been familiar with? Thank you for your time. Good job on this video.
Definitely given by YHWH. But in their culture. You can definitely see the difference between Israelite use of cultural symbolism and other pagan nations. The spirit is the spirit of God, using cultural symbols to reveal himself.
Even Jesus uses whatever is around to point to himself.
Like Paul says, i become all things to all people. To Jews, i became as a Jews, to Gentiles who are not under the law, as if i was not under the law. This is from 1 Corinthians 9 i think.
That's true in acts. Paul on first contact with Gentiles doesn't quote Scripture, because they don't know it. He gives the gospel by bringing up their philosophers, since that is what they know
Given by YHWH to Israel but YHWH had the feasts be similar to other cultures. God was giving the Israelites something they were familiar with.
I would like to go to Sinai and look at what's over there but well done on the video
This station appears to be a perfect merging of faith and academics. That is an unusual find. Very impressive, and very helpful. For instance, I've always had a problem with the idea that the exodus had about 2 million people. To me, that is a logistical impossibility, even if you only consider food and water. I just don't think it's doable without hundreds of deaths per day. Maybe thousands when things got particularly rough. But I learned from this station that a "thousand" isn't necessarily 100 x 10, but rather may be construed nonmathematically as a cadre or some group of people that is not mathematically defined. In the military there is a brigade, but that doesn't tell you a number of soldiers. Neither does a battalion or a company. Same with the exodus, I presume. A "thousand" is not 1000. Even if this is wrong, so be it. Now, I can let it go and not fret about it anymore.
Very excited
Ok, but why should festivals, the ark of the convenant, the tabernacle etc which are said to be instructed by God, take after Egyptian counterparts. What is your take on this? Did God institute things which were familiar or taking after and redirecting them to him? What about the whole being set apart thing?
I think it is the sense of familiarity. Just like John and Paul untilized concepts and quotes familiar to Gentiles in their works. After 400 years there, the Isrealites would have been influenced by them either way. And that's why God tells them not to abhor Egyptians, God used the Egyptians' plans of evil to prepare to bless the Isrealites and the whole world. Speaking of which, the Isrealites were not only set apart by God, they were made as a light and example to the Gentiles, hence why so much of chronicles, Kings, and the Law is about international relations :)
The Bible says the Israelites wanted to be like their neighbors. God presented a way that was holy. Those differences would have been glaring, like a protestant walking into a Catholic baptism.
Have you considered covering the Sinai in Arabia? They have staggering evidence. Please go on depth on this thank you.
Muito bom abraços 🌟 ⭐
Very well explained, but my question is sir if everything is inspired from Egyptian culture, then are they inspired from them however bible tells us that God narrate the ark of the covenant architecture. Then why it is not unique then and different from other cultures?
I like your content tons dood, but why use BCE? Its functionally meaningless as far as I can tell
Jesus was born around 5 or 4 BC/BCE so I think it makes sense to just use BCE rather than potentially leading to doubts about the historicity of the Bible because of a dating issue
this confirms Dr. Heiser's lectures.
How so
@@InspiringPhilosophy Heiser explains the Israelites how Egyptian customs such the Ark design and the Tabernacle. Your goes into the specific details about festivals and such. I enjoy both your lectures. They corroborate one another.
Why would God have desighned his ark and tabernacle after Egypts customs im confused please let me know
These rituals were given to Israel by Yahweh but Yahweh fashioned them to be similar to what the Israelites were already familiar with.
Does anyone know of any scholarly sources on the Arabian hypothesis? That is, that the Israelites crossed to the Arabian peninsula from the Sinai. I've only seen popular level stuff with little evidence.
Saudi Arabia has only allowed archeology in the last decade or so. We know nothing about ancient Arabia.
weren't the poles on the shorter sides?
It was a massive multitude wandering and others would have noted it? Maybe it was just a successful slave rebellion that found quick exit and made a back story?
Others noting it doesn't mean that their records would have survived long enough for us to know about them.
Only if you translate "eleph" as thousand, which is undermined by Deut 7:7. The author of Deuteronomy says that God didn't choose the Israelites because of their large numbers, rather that they were the least of all peoples. That would be really weird if a third of the population of Egypt left. Eleph can also be translated as a group of fighting men under a single commander. With that translation, the number of people in the exodus is only 60,000-80,000.
The problem was that the Egyptians never wrote down defeats. You can see this because you rarely find defeats in the records, only victories. But you can tell they did suffer defeats because their front lines keep getting pushed back in said records. So it would be uncharacteristic for Egyptians to write down a successful slave revolt. As for the nations around, there were none in the deserts of Palestine. Not at least until Joshua destroyed and genocided most of them. By that time, they were known as Israel and are written in at least one ancient Egyptian tablet
After part 3, I bet there’ll be a lot of people demanding Judges Rediscovered
Nice
@@InspiringPhilosophy I wanna see a Judges Rediscovered...
Indeed. The way I see it, "Judges" is an alternate Conquest, and probably a lot closer to history. Much to explore.
(17 October 2023, 03:55 a.m. EST)
At 4:48 through 5:05 minutes of this video the narrator claims there are no first millennium BC anachronisms in the texts of the Pentateuch, suggesting the text is of the second millennium BC and Moses' world.
The issue?
The book of Exodus mentions Israel camping at a site called Succoth. Professor James K. Hoffmeier, a Christian Apologist and Egyptologist, like Dr. David A. Falk, has averred that present day Tell el Maskhutah in Wadi Tumilat, Egypt, is Succoth, preserving that word in Arabic.
Excavations at the site reveal it was settled in Hyksos times (the 16th century BC), followed by a 1,000 year abandonment, and its being reoccupied circa 610 BC in the first millennium BC.
If Hoffmeier is right, that Succoth is Maskutah, then it should have evidence of pottery debris circa the 13th century BC, the Ramesside period, but it does'nt, the pottery debris is either Hyksos (16th century BC) or Saite (7th century BC).
If Succoth is Maskhutah, it appears that the Torah, or Pentateuch, was composed no earlier than the 7th century BC. It could be later, perhaps the 6th century BC Exilic Period (cf. 1 Kings 25:27).
He also talked about how weather damage destroys alot of pottery, and how nomads dont leave much behind
@@jessebumann some claim Exodus is 1446 BC, no pottery found of the hundred thousands of Israel, yet pottery of 5000 BC has been found in the Sinai, also of 2300 BC, but no 1446 BC.
Do you kbow if anyone has ever engaged on a good level with the stuff claimed by Ron Wyatt?
Do you mean the late great *Ron "The Fraud Wyatt* LOL you are delusional if you believe anything he posted.
Just starting watching so it may be covered but specifically a Thebes not Memphis centered Egypt.
IP, speak about I Chron. 7:20-24.
Buying "On the Reliability of the Old Testament" is very tempting... But I'm afraid it will be way out of my field of interest; thus it will only make me feel dumb 🥴😂
I highly recommend it
Oh I have it!!!!!!! It's very good.
@@InspiringPhilosophy why take some and discard others we can be bias to our beliefs
@@mustafamajid7794 what do you mean ? Are you a Muslim?
11:31 “one more time”
Thank you for the video; it's good. But why use the cringe BCE instead of the based BC? Are you just meeting secularists where they're at?
17:00
Ah crap They did the Catholic switcheroo a thousand years before they were even a thing.
Almost like if you believe the Hebrews did worship the true God you have to believe it is okay for Catholics to do that as well. Almost like Catholics are the next step of God's people.
@@DANtheMANofSIPA Catholic means Universal in the first century not the RCC.
Moses was called from Mt Horeb in the burning bush which is knows as Mt Sina in Meridian. He was to bring the Israelites out of Egypt and back to this mountain. Meridian is in modern day Saudi Arabia. There seems to be quite alot of evidence around Mt Sinai in Arabia that could very well be physical evidence of the Exodus.
Historically, the Sinai and Palestine were under firm Egyptian rule during the so called Exodus and even the so called rule of king Solomon.
There is no way hundreds of thousands of WANTED civilians (men, women and children) would wander through the confined and well patrolled Sinai desert unnoticed.
All the borrowed Egyptian words, rituals and customs you mentioned were simply a result of intercultural interaction through trade and travel within one country called Egypt. The Levant was under direct Egyptian rule or through vassals until around 600 BCE.
Midian not Meridian.
@@doyouknoworjustbelieve6694 Every single thing you wrote is false.
Egypt never had imperial control over Canaan or the Sinai and their ability to even project hegemonic power over the region had decreased dramatically over the preceding decades such that the Sea People were able to conquer the Mediterranean coastal regions.
>and even the so called rule of king Solomon
Weird how it was an alliance of city-states that fought the invading Assyrians in the 9th century since according to you Egypt controlled all of Canaan at that time.
There were no patrols in the Sinai; Egypt's entire presence outside of their borders was limited to a few small garrisons in isolated villages.
There weren't hundreds of thousands of people in the Exodus.
They were noticed. The Merneptah stele says that Merneptah defeated the wandering tribes of Israel near the end of the 13th century.
>All the borrowed Egyptian words, rituals and customs you mentioned were simply a result of intercultural interaction through trade and travel within one country called Egypt.
None of the Canaanite cultures have anywhere near the same level of Egyptian influence as the Israelites. Also the Egyptian loanwords used in the Torah stopped being used after the 10th century BC.
>The Levant was under direct Egyptian rule or through vassals until around 600 BCE.
The Hittites pushed Egypt out of the Northern Levant after the Battle of Kadesh in 1275 BC and Egyptian garrisons in the Southern Levant were all abandoned or destroyed by the end of the 13th century. Canaan was divided up into various city states from the 13th to 10th centuries, those being: Israel, Judah, the Philistines, Aram-Damascus, Edom, Ammon, and Moab. The entire region was conquered by the Assyrians in the 10th century and they controlled it until the 7th century. The Assyrians even conquered Egypt from 663 - 653 BC. After the collapse of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, the region was inherited by Babylon who controlled it until they were conquered by the Persians.
There actually might be evidence, if what I've heard is true, of a mountain(not the traditionally thought mountain) that could be Sanai with the top blackened, an oasis with 12 wells still existing, markings and alters, a rock that has seemingly split with obvious water erosion below it.
Jabal al-Awz or something? In Saudi Arabia? Forgot the guys name....Joel I think...
@@mcarthuradal8613 Jabal means mountain.Ron Wyatt was one of the first to record the area.
@@mcarthuradal8613 Joel Richardson
The Matchless Moses
The beginning of the evolution of the Hebraic concepts and ideals of a Supreme Creator dates from the departure of the Semites from Egypt under that great leader, teacher, and organizer, Moses. His mother was of the royal family of Egypt; his father was a Semitic liaison officer between the government and the Bedouin captives. Moses thus possessed qualities derived from superior racial sources; his ancestry was so highly blended that it is impossible to classify him in any one racial group. Had he not been of this mixed type, he would never have displayed that unusual versatility and adaptability which enabled him to manage the diversified horde which eventually became associated with those Bedouin Semites who fled from Egypt to the Arabian Desert under his leadership.
Despite the enticements of the culture of the Nile kingdom, Moses elected to cast his lot with the people of his father. At the time this great organizer was formulating his plans for the eventual freeing of his father’s people, the Bedouin captives hardly had a religion worthy of the name; they were virtually without a true concept of God and without hope in the world.
No leader ever undertook to reform and uplift a more forlorn, downcast, dejected, and ignorant group of human beings. But these slaves carried latent possibilities of development in their hereditary strains, and there were a sufficient number of educated leaders who had been coached by Moses in preparation for the day of revolt and the strike for liberty to constitute a corps of efficient organizers. These superior men had been employed as native overseers of their people; they had received some education because of Moses’ influence with the Egyptian rulers.
Moses endeavored to negotiate diplomatically for the freedom of his fellow Semites. He and his brother entered into a compact with the king of Egypt whereby they were granted permission peaceably to leave the valley of the Nile for the Arabian Desert. They were to receive a modest payment of money and goods in token of their long service in Egypt. The Hebrews for their part entered into an agreement to maintain friendly relations with the Pharaohs and not to join in any alliance against Egypt. But the king later saw fit to repudiate this treaty, giving as his reason the excuse that his spies had discovered disloyalty among the Bedouin slaves. He claimed they sought freedom for the purpose of going into the desert to organize the nomads against Egypt.
But Moses was not discouraged; he bided his time, and in less than a year, when the Egyptian military forces were fully occupied in resisting the simultaneous onslaughts of a strong Libyan thrust from the south and a Greek naval invasion from the north, this intrepid organizer led his compatriots out of Egypt in a spectacular night flight. This dash for liberty was carefully planned and skillfully executed. And they were successful, notwithstanding that they were hotly pursued by Pharaoh and a small body of Egyptians, who all fell before the fugitives’ defense, yielding much booty, all of which was augmented by the loot of the advancing host of escaping slaves as they marched on toward their ancestral desert home. Ref. The Urantia Book
One thing I don’t understand is how if the Israelites are meant to be “set apart” from other cultures, yet they end up imitating their neighbors with having similar festivals to “compete” with their neighbors.
They still remained in the world, right??
Much like how Christians are the elect but still go through everyday stuff...huh?!
Both Catholics and protestants baptize but the differences are significant. Pharaoh would masturbate once a year into the Nile to prove his virility and right to rule. This was not imitated by the Israelites.
Historically, the Sinai and Palestine were under firm Egyptian rule during the so called Exodus and even the so called rule of king Solomon.
There is no way hundreds of thousands of WANTED civilians (men, women and children) would wander through the confined and well patrolled Sinai desert unnoticed.
All the borrowed Egyptian words, rituals and customs you mentioned were simply a result of intercultural interaction through trade and travel within one country called Egypt. The Levant was under direct Egyptian rule or through vassals until around 600 BCE.
Well, in order to "compete", you first have to be set apart, right?
YES FINNALY
This is cool and all but master Dilahunty isn't convinced.
Lmao
Remember the 6 D's Dodge, duck, dip, dive, dodge.amd Dilahunty
Why do use BCE instead of BC?
Because Jesus was probably born at around 4 BCE, not 0 BC as most Christians believe. It wouldn't make sense to say that Christ was born 4 years before Christ was born, so it's better to use BCE.
@@AnakinSkywalkerYT BCE means "before common era", what was so common at that era? Please use ACN & AD.
@@gregrobinette8620 Before common era, yes I know? What are you asking? Basically "common" era mean when things began getting more commonly recorded and written down.
So, does this mean Christian festivals dont have pagan roots, but Hebrew festivals do have pagan roots?
I would say, kind of? Although, certain ceremonial things and whatnot weren't "pagan," rather they were customary for the entire culture, so Israel repurposed them in their monotheistic worship. This seems to me kind of like how they repurposed Leviathan creation myths (Ps 74.12-17) in order to bolster their own monotheistic theological agenda. They didn't "steal" the myth from pagans. This mythology was shared by all people within that single culture, which included pagans. Do you see where I'm coming from? This isn't really my area of expertise so I hope I'm not making some error and it makes sense.
Well it depends... the Hebrews built their religion out of cultural elements from that time.
@@taylorj.1628 makes sense a lot to me.
The golden calf was probably a Baal type god, so the Egyptian gods did influence the peoples as a mixed group but the 40 years in the Sina ; a theological significant number ; refined the idolaters descendents into following Moses and God , YHWH. Acts 13:18 says ABOUT a period of 40 years He put up with them in the wilderness.
Edit: Sinai
This is cool and all, but did you find non-egyption non-chariot wheels in the Red Sea to lie about? That would be way better.
Lol
What’s a martial apologist?…
@@primeminister66 that's a bit like asking if I exist. Kind of a wierd concept.
@@vedinthorn Hmmmmm, sounds to me like “Ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of truth…
@@primeminister66 I mean, it's not that you're BAD at trolling, but you're too aggressive at it. To really get someone worked up you need to ease into it a little. I give this attempt a 4/10.
I hold to the idea that the storied from Abraham to Joshua all happen during the New Kingdom. I like Gary Rendsburg interpretation of the origins of Abraham. I am inclined to think the Moses led a type of Israel aristocracy that arrived in yhe highlands of the Holy Land, west of Jordan, but east of the plains. There, the merged with tribal canaanites that were already separating themselves from the lowland Caananites. Those tribes were "adopted" into Israel. I don't think we can know the original sons of Jacob. For example, was Gilead an Israelite family or an adopted Caananite family that didn't survive? Then were they written out of Torah?
To me, Exodus is very New Kingdom Egyptian.
Read Joshua, some cananites because slaves to them because they tricked them into swearing by God not to harm them .
I heard that mount Sinai is actually in Saudi Arabia. Jabal Al-laws. Is that the case?
I am skeptical of that site being the real Sinai. Scholars tend to reject it
@@InspiringPhilosophy have scholars been able to study the site tho? From what I heard the Saudi government doesn’t allow access. Isn’t Saudi Arabia the ancient Median ? Could you do a video on the location ( circumstantial) location of the mountain?
@@alexute maybe but IP is most Skeptical guy I know
@@INFINITUMSPIRIT no he isn't what lmao
I consider myself a Christian. However I must admit my Old Testament knowledge is seriously lacking.
Now forgive me if I’m wrong but doesn’t this video sort of suggest the Old Testement traditions were borrowed from pre-existing Egyptian tradition rather than from God?
correlation isn't causation . one might share similar culture with the Egyptians while doesn't mean it Comes from ancient Egypt
Did moses write exodus?
Wouldn't it be great if we had a very good Christian scholar for every field of the Bible in a particular specialised field related to the Bible and they had their on TH-cam channel dedicated to that specialised discipline but then they would do cross overs with eachother..
This is not proof of Moses at all and archeology points to 3 separate groups combining to make Judaism.
1st the Hyksos were enslaved as a nation, the Habiru I a slave term. Once an entire nation was enslaved they became synonymous with habiru. The habiru that attacked Canaan are descendants of the Hyksos.
2nd the Canaanite polytheistic worshippers of EL / israEL. The seated statues of el, the female figurines and the ugaritic they date from 1500 bc - 800 bc in Israel. This shows that the polytheistic worshipers of El were in canaan before and after the conquest by the Habiru. Even when the name Israel pops up in 1200 the ppl there were still the same ppl till 800 bc. So they are a separate group from the Habiru.
3rd the polytheistic Shasu of ywh. The Shasu of ywh is described and mentioned as a separate group from the Habiru and Israel from 1400 bc - 800 bc.
So that 3 separate groups with different religions. Then around 800 bc - 200 bc they combined. The JEPD text breakdown shows it along with the archeological evidence.
I know the true path of Exodus, and the true mountain of God.
So do I.
Hey. Thank you for the great content. This stuff takes a lot of time and money and I appreciate your work. Also Jeffery Epstein and John McAfee didn't kill themselves
So is this video insinuating that the Israelites got the customs and worship from surrounding cultures and not God himself?
No, they shared common customs, and God worked within a culture
@@InspiringPhilosophy ok I think I got it.
Is it just me or can anyone else see the face of a woman on the front of the cloth of the covering the ark from 5.00 to 5.16 ?
It’s just you
@@InspiringPhilosophy 🤣
If there were millions in the Sinai, it would be fertile land by now.
Historically, the Sinai and Palestine were under firm Egyptian rule during the so called Exodus and even the so called rule of king Solomon.
There is no way hundreds of thousands of WANTED civilians (men, women and children) would wander through the confined and well patrolled Sinai desert unnoticed.
All the borrowed Egyptian words, rituals and customs you mentioned were simply a result of intercultural interaction through trade and travel within one country called Egypt. The Levant was under direct Egyptian rule or through vassals until around 600 BCE.
Every single thing you wrote is false.
Egypt never had imperial control over Canaan or the Sinai and their ability to even project hegemonic power over the region had decreased dramatically over the preceding decades such that the Sea People were able to conquer the Mediterranean coastal regions.
>and even the so called rule of king Solomon
Weird how it was an alliance of city-states that fought the invading Assyrians in the 9th century since according to you Egypt controlled all of Canaan at that time.
There were no patrols in the Sinai; Egypt's entire presence outside of their borders was limited to a few small garrisons in isolated villages.
There weren't hundreds of thousands of people in the Exodus.
They were noticed. The Merneptah stele says that Merneptah defeated the wandering tribes of Israel near the end of the 13th century.
>All the borrowed Egyptian words, rituals and customs you mentioned were simply a result of intercultural interaction through trade and travel within one country called Egypt.
None of the Canaanite cultures have anywhere near the same level of Egyptian influence as the Israelites. Also the Egyptian loanwords used in the Torah stopped being used after the 10th century BC.
>The Levant was under direct Egyptian rule or through vassals until around 600 BCE.
The Hittites pushed Egypt out of the Northern Levant after the Battle of Kadesh in 1275 BC and Egyptian garrisons in the Southern Levant were all abandoned or destroyed by the end of the 13th century. Canaan was divided up into various city states from the 13th to 10th centuries, those being: Israel, Judah, the Philistines, Aram-Damascus, Edom, Ammon, and Moab. The entire region was conquered by the Assyrians in the 10th century and they controlled it until the 7th century. The Assyrians even conquered Egypt from 663 - 653 BC. After the collapse of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, the region was inherited by Babylon who controlled it until they were conquered by the Persians.
@@grantgooch5834
The Bible states that the number was'
" about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
And a mixed multitude went up also with them. ...
." (Exodus xii, 37, 38.) Also, "And Moses said, 'The people, among whom
(Num. xi, 21.)
lf we add women and children to the 600,000 thousand men,. the total number of persons who left Egypt during this single event would be about two millions.
Exodus 12: 37, 38
37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children. 38 Many other people went up with them, and also large droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.
Numbers 11:21-23
21 But Moses said, “Here I am among six hundred thousand men on foot, and you say, ‘I will give them meat to eat for a whole month!’ 22 Would they have enough if flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? Would they have enough if all the fish in the sea were caught for them?”
23 The Lord answered Moses, “Is the Lord’s arm too short? Now you will see whether or not what I say will come true for you.”
@@grantgooch5834
Denying Egyptian direct control over Canaan or through vassals until around 600 BCE is proof of ignorance of the history of that region.
One example of Egyptian dominance over Canaan is the Amarna letters.
@@grantgooch5834
You might also want to research the
Historicity of the Exodus
Historicity of Moses
Historicity of King Solomon
Egyptians describing the invaders who attacked both Egypt and Canaan, and calling them the Pelesets (later called by the Philistines) who eventually settled and intermarried with the Canaanite natives, OR Egyptians describing Hyksos invaders and their expulsion but
FAILING to describe the exodus or any trade or war with the powerful kings David and Solomon are very suspicious..
Also produce for me Egypt’s ruler who drowned during the Exodus.
According to the Bible and how you read it, the Exodus happened between 1400-1200 BCE.
According to Egyptian history, all rulers during that period died in land battles or in their beds and never lost 2 million people of their population.
The real question is: why haven’t we known this information??
You do now
I have books by Joshua Berman and David Falk so the information is out there if you know where to find find it, but they don't have the big self-promotional budgets that quacks like ABR or Patterns of Evidence seem to have access to. Also the minimalist mantra "there is no evidence for the exodus" has been repeated so often that it has become unquestioned dogma. I used to believe it myself until I discovered Berman.
Kitchen is the go to man for most of this info. But people outside of seminary don’t really know about him.
@@mrs.manrique7411 Yes, I have read Kindle's free sample and have ordered the hardcopy.
@@mrs.manrique7411 No, Kitchen is one of the worlds most renown Egyptologists and ancient near easter scholars. He’s professor emeritus at the University of Liverpool, which is the worlds leading school for Egyptology. He’s very well known and respected in the academy.
Do you see information like this fit for the church service setting? I think we’re moving past the preacher era and moving more into an informative age. There’s a need for preaching. Don’t get me wrong. But i think this sort information saves more souls because it gets more believers on fire to spread the gospel. Preaching is for unbelievers. Teaching is for the believer. We need more real world education of the historicity and historical in the church rather than just biblical studies alone.
I'm not going to disagree with you that early Israelite culture has roots, deep similarities, with Egypt, not Assyria or Babylon. However, I would like to warn you against going too narrow in your analyses.
Shape of the Ark of The Covenant:
It's not special nor unique to Egypt, nor of any time period. It is, in its basic form; a riding chair, a palanquin, or in ancient Hebrew, a Merkaba. _(Like Joseph rode in, with the pharaoh.)_ There are dozens, maybe hundreds, of examples of such in Egyptian murals, and even some actual ones, found in Middle & New Kingdom tombs. _(Hatshepsut's in King Tutankhamen's treasury chamber, of his tomb, for example.)_ Neither function nor style is unique, to any one given time period. _(It would not surprise me, to find Old Kingdom depictions of such.)_
Shape of Tabernacle and Egyptian Expeditionary Encampments:
How do you always say? _“Silence of evidence is not lack of evidence, it's lack of knowledge.”_ You made an example of the described encampment of Ramese II in Kadesh _(Qadesh)_ as to where the form of the Tabernacle came from. I find that to be a correlation made, based on silence of evidence. It assumes Ramese II invented that encampment form... and that's not how any military in history ever did things. They are very conservative, and dislike quick changes. There is always an evolution of thought and concept. The description of the Kadesh encampment is nothing more than a single snapshot, in a long evolution up to it. An evolution that may or may not have changed in hundreds of years. Moses, having grown up in a pharaoh's household, would have known and seen this type of encampment, more than plenty enough. And, in and of itself, same as with the Ark of The Covenant, it is thus not limited down to any one narrow time period.
Form of Diplomatic Treaties:
Here too, rarely do things just pop up out of nowhere. There's always a long evolution to that snapshot, that we see. Diplomatic treaties are also not one sided. They are a give and take between two entities, cultures. Especially between two equals, there is a delicate balance of respect that must be achieved. As such, each document's content has to be examined individually, and in context. Yet, there is a clear cultural difference between western fertile crescent and eastern. Western was more formal, more prone to spend time in _“talking story.”_ And as you can see in many of the Amarna letters, they follow a very similar format as the Egyptian - Hittite treaty. Therefore; Yes, you can limit the form of the Covenant down to culturally western fertile crescent. But no, you cannot limit it down to a narrow window of time. That window in time actually stretches all the way from the late Old Kingdom, up to our own Declaration of Independence, and constitution.
I disagree with the alphabet part. Oral records function just fine.
Writing only matters for The tablets
Hate to break it to you, but the numbers 40, 60, 400, 600,000, are symbolic numbers and not meant to be taken literally. Thats why the chronology never adds up.
I already know: th-cam.com/video/uoPbZnRN8xQ/w-d-xo.html
So this seems to imply that the Israelites got all their customs from other people and not from God
Must correct you when the Hebrews returned again to the land of the Hebrews they returned back to Stone Alters like Abel Noah Abraham Isaac Jacob
Don't forget the custom of Israel..
Exodus 20
No idols
Also all Israel building material would be more made of wood than other materials. As Israelites where very concerned about wooden acoustics.
BCE? Don't say that
The real Sinai is in Arabia. Not in upper Egypt, where Egyptians mines were proven to be.
This is going to trigger the two clowns 🤡 again!
who?
@@InspiringPhilosophy probaly The kool Aid guy
@@InspiringPhilosophy You should refuting vidoes of him.
@@seal9390 holy koolaid will seethe when he sees this video.
@@seal9390 I think he’s talking about kip Davis and josh Bowen
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The Holy Ark was created by God's Spirit according to the detailed instructions given to Moses...
Yeah, I am wondering about this. Perhaps that the Egyptian Rituals are the ones twisted into paganism, not the Israelites. After all, the Pyramids were also a witness from God.
Jeremiah 32:20 20 You performed signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, and You do so to this very day, both in Israel and among all mankind. And You have made a name for Yourself, as is the case to this day.
This verse may also suggest that there were rituals commanded by God for the Egyptians to follow, however I am not sure 100%. But due to the similarities of the Egyptian and Israelite rituals, and we know the Israelite rituals and measurements are what God commanded, I would say the Egyptian rituals were paganized.
I understand the move from BC to BCE. But I refuse to say "common era," for this appears to be a secularization of the term. I much prefer: Christs Era and Before Christs Era.
I understand the move, but its REALLY lazy. I am trying to make the Aymara calendar a second nature in my head, but becuz I forget I used ACN (Ante-Christum-Natum) & AD (Anno-Domini), becuz we use Christian calendar. Secularizing that instead of using a different calendar is insane, & what pisses me off the most is the atheist SJW kiddos who call me a "bigot" for using it. I am not even Judeo-Christian but I show respect to cultures I am using 🙏🏽🪶
I think saying the common era for all cultures and mankind beginning with Christ’s birth is as much as a statement as “In the year of our Lord” (A.D.) Either way, it points you to Jesus.
@@jessebumann While I see your point, the move from BC/AD to BCE/CE was a decision to move away from dogmatic vestiges of religion and therefore to secularize history. I fully and wholeheartedly reject such a premise, and secularism is a sin, and the greatest enemy Christ has faced and has yet to bring under his feet as Paul says in 1 Cor 15.