Our Sunday Messages

The Plagues of Egypt The Egyptian pantheon of gods Isis (natural world, funerals; cow head-dress) Ra (creator of life; cobra around a sun) Horus (king of the sky; bird-like) Set (chaos, storms, desert; jackal-like head) Anubis (corpses, soil of the Nile; dog head) Osiris (resurrection; green skin) In short, Animism Year: 1450 BC Place: palace near the Nile River, possibly Luxor. Thutmose III or Amonhotep II Event: After absence of 40 years, reappearance of Moses the Hebrew before Pharoah. (400 years ago Prime Minister Joseph served Pharoah, & his 11 brothers enjoyed privilege.) ‘Circumstances’: about two million Jews under forced labour (probably building grain storage houses) with no where to worship the God that they are forgetting. OPPRESSION. AND EGYPTIAN HATRED: Exodus 1:16 God does judge nations: Nahum (Ninevah). Obadiah (Edom). Jeremiah (Israel itself) Gog and Magog at Ar