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Escape From Planet Egypt

Part IX

The central theme of the present work is the effort to re-synchronize secular history with the Scriptural record. In this regard, we've linked the Egyptian monuments dealing with the first Prime Minister of Egypt, a heroic figure named Imhotep, to the account of Joseph in the book of Genesis.

Four centuries later, when the Passover-Exodus events occurred in the time of Moses, we've tied the Egyptian Ipuwer Papyrus (describing Tribulational times in Egypt), to the data found in the Biblical Exodus account.

We then moved to secular historical data related to the foreign Hyksos Dynasty, which seized the throne of the Pharaohs at the time the Scriptures tell us the Amalekites were moving in to Egypt – thus synchronizing the arrival of the descendants of Amalek from Arabia to the overthrow of the native Pharaohs, immediately after Moses led the children of Israel through  the Red Sea. The route wherein Israel encountered Amalek, and the Amalekite identity as the ancient Arabians, confirmed the location of Mount Sinai to be across the Southern tip of the Red Sea in Arabia – which the New Testament has stated all along.

"For this…is mount Sinai in Arabia…" (Galatians 4:25).

Unfortunately, tourism elements enriching themselves through the claim the Exodus occurred in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, continue to oppose the truth of the Scriptural account.

Examining Egyptian inscriptions which detail the long desired overthrow of the Hyksos, a native Egyptian figure named Ahmose tells of how the  Egyptians were part of a coalition, where they allied themselves with an unnamed foreign power, and this unidentified party captured "Avaris" (previously identified as Auaris) – the Hyksos capital.

"One besieged the city of Avaris…One fought on the water in the canal of Avaris" (Ancient Records of Egypt, JH Breasted, Vol II, Sections 7-13, 1906).

This is a classic example as to why this material is so important, for the Scriptures tells us that it was King Saul of Israel, who finally took the  Amalekite stronghold – where he captured the Hyksos king Agag.   

Further, it was the research fielded by Immanuel Velikovsky, which showed the "canal" of the Egyptian inscription (where the king of the Amu/Hyksos was taken), is said to be a "valley" in the Scriptures.

"And Saul came to a city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley. And Saul smote the Amalekites…And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive" (I Samuel 15:5, 7,8).

This crucial event synchronizes the resumption of the native Egyptian dynasties after the Hyksos expulsion, with the transition from the time of the Judges, to the installation of the kings of Israel. It also shows that even though the Israelites and the Egyptians were opponents during the Exodus, Israel's pivotal role in rescuing the Egyptians from the Amalekites set the stage for the friendship between the two nations, which emerged during the prosperity that followed.

The Egyptian kings list (compiled by the ancient historian Manetho), tells us the Hyksos was the 17^th dynasty of Egypt.

As Egypt recovered from centuries of occupation, Saul was succeeded by David, who established military superiority for Israel throughout the ancient near East.

During the succeeding 18th dynasty in Egypt, we see another interesting corollary between the two nations of Egypt and Israel. In the book of Judges, we learn of a powerful female Judge named Deborah, who was a prophetess closely associated with Barak's great victory over a king of Canaan, and his iron chariots at the River Kishon (detailed in Part VI of the present work).

How ironic that it is some years after this episode involving a powerful female leader, that we see a similar episode in Egypt. Some years after the period of the Judges in Canaan/Israel, the records tell us the Kingdom of Egypt was enjoying a rare period when national politics were relatively stable. At that time, the nation was ruled by a capable, and independent woman. Her name was Queen Hatshepsut, and she was the daughter of Pharaoh Thutmose I. Also known as Makere, this queen left inscriptions, bas-reliefs, and many statues of herself.

On the walls of the Egyptian temple at Deir el Bahari is the story of a great journey that was undertaken by the feminine monarch "to the land of punt" (Ages In Chaos, Velikovsky, page 127).

While historical accounts don't clearly identify where "punt" was, the temple accounts say it was "a blessed land" where "white men of a north-Semitic or Caucasian race" lived in a "glorious region of God's land."

A further clue is given in the temple reliefs where Hatshepsut described how, in this great journey, she finally reached "the myrrh-terraces" (JH Breasted, Ancient Records of Egypt, page 136). The scriptural corollary is in the Old Testament, where it says that the great king of Israel "...made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the Lord...." (II Chronicles 9:11).

This passage came from a period in Israel which the scholars tell us was about 500 years later than the inscriptions at Deir El Bahari. Not coincidentally, the accounts written in the Bible during this period in the history of Israel also tell the story of a great queen that came to visit the "glorious region of God's land."

That king was named Solomon, and the scriptures called his famous visitor The Queen of Sheba. How odd that there are no other accounts in the Bible of famous foreign queens that paid a royal visit to Israel, other than The Queen of Sheba. In fact, there are no other historical accounts in the Egyptian chronologies about a famous queen that went on a long journey to visit a grand foreign king other than Queen Hatshepsut, yet the obviously deceived scholars tell us Solomon & Hatshepsut were separated by -- you guessed it -- about 500 Years.

Immanuel Velikovsky and others have conclusively demonstrated that the Egyptian chronological king's lists and dynastic records are inaccurate -apparently through the error of duplicate or double name entries. This is prophetically significant as well.

Thus, either 400-700 years of history are inexplicably missing from the time of the Judges to the time of the kings in the Bible, or 400-700 years of what has been called "ghost history" has been added to the secular chronologies.

We've already shown the error goes back to at least the time of Joseph (who was indeed Imhotep in the Egyptian annals), and this coincided with the revolutionary power shift when the Egyptians sold themselves into slavery to the Pharaoh, so they could survive the horrendous famine.

"[The Egyptians said to Joseph] we will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle: there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands…buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh" (Genesis 47:18, 19).

The Scriptures suggest how historical timelines in Egypt were doubled – thus adding a chronological period ranging between 400 to 700 years to the Egyptian records. As noted in earlier chapters of the present work, certain dynasties with kings who had multiple names, were likely counted consecutively, rather than concentrically. These chronological historical errors would have been exacerbated by the many catastrophic episodes which impacted the earliest records.

The Scriptures further provide a broad outline indicating just why historical timelines in Egypt were doubled – thus adding a chronological period ranging between 400 to 700 years in the Egyptian records.

Before the great famine which brought Joseph/Imhotep to power in Egypt, the Pharaoh had the now well known dream of 7 fat cows and 7 lean cows; a dream which Joseph/Imhotep interpreted as a warning from God that a massive famine was coming. In the book of Genesis, the Pharaoh's dream was doubled.

"And for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice" (Genesis 41:32).

Christian Media has previously published several works where we find the concept of doubling is related to judgment. For example, the justice of the LORD decreed that when a slave was freed, it was recognized that his labor was worth double that of a hired servant.

"When thou sendest him away free from thee….he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee" (Deuteronomy 15:18).

In this regard, we should remember the following verses dealing with Israel's slavery in Egypt – a period which just happens to be just over 400 years.

"And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigour: And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage" (Exodus 1:13, 14).

When Israel sojourned in Egypt, they were there for 430 years, so the LORD may indeed have exacted an additional penalty from Egypt, by facilitating the insertion of the "ghost centuries" suggested by Velikovsky's Ages In Chaos series of writings. Moreover, the pattern consistently found Biblical events out of sync with secular history – and the time differential was routinely at least 400 years.

Furthermore, the prophetic principle of doubling an original infraction is actually recorded in Scripture. A good example of this is the punishing of Jerusalem, where the prophet Isaiah flatly states the ancient city has received double for her sins.

"Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem…that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins" (Isaiah 40:2).

This Spiritual formula is also found in the New Testament, where we find Babylon being judged. We also note that the verse in question also features a phenomenon that we call Twicespeak, where a phrase is mystically doubled, as the unusual phenomenon where a key aspect of the text is mentioned twice.

"Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen…Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which has filled fill to her double" (Revelation 18:6).

For more on how the concept of doubles is relevant to the Spiritual panorama which we see in studying prophecy, see the author's book The Double Day, and the CD set Double Double, Toil And Trouble.

Incidentally, the historical timeline eventually corrected itself towards the end of the Old Testament period, but the damage has already been done. The closer we move to the present, the more difficult it is to obscure the events; thus, it is the most ancient of accounts that are the most historically inaccurate, and so the Egyptian deception continues virtually unabated.

The Egyptian historical connection is only the beginning of a far deeper series of Spiritual similes and symbolic phenomenon. Readers who have studied the attempts by Lucifer to twist and distort the Bible itself through New Age Bible Versions (what we call Satanic Manuscripts) are aware that many corrupt Biblical manuscripts are connected in various ways to  Alexandria Egypt.

The ancient Egyptian Gnostics were a mysterious sect that was related to the mystical religious order that we know today as Freemasonry. Indeed, the entire New Age movement, and its teachings can be definitively traced to Egyptian religious practices. The metaphysical writings that function as New Age "scripture" are heavily focused on a series of Gnostic books known as the Nag Hammadi Library. One of these, the Gospel of the Egyptians, teaches that the true Saviour of mankind will actually be an Egyptian.

Our research into the Egyptian documents has also demonstrated that the Occult writings emanating out of Egypt in the Old Testament period actually introduce the doctrine now known as the Rapture. Incredibly, in Occult writings, penned before Jesus was born, we find the idea of an Egyptian Saviour figure who supernaturally evacuates his followers to a place of safety, before a great conflagration!

Furthermore, in prior efforts from Christian Media, we have shown that at least some of the so-called Christian "fathers" of the church actually quoted from these Occult writings! For more on the dark origin of the Rapture Cult, see the book The Culting of Christianity.

Returning to the sequential narrative, after Solomon married Makere (the Queen of Sheba), the Bible tells us Solomon's powerful influence led her to embrace the God of Israel. The Word of God tells us that Makere rejoiced at learning about the LORD.

"And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon's wisdom…she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom. Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the Lord loved Israel for ever, therefore made he  thee king, to do judgment and justice" (I Kings 10:4,9).

Unfortunately, this was not the case with the rest of Solomon's royal wives – but that story will have to wait for another installment of Escape From Planet Egypt.

– James Lloyd

To Be Continued

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